Bruce Kelly

Bruce is Senior Columnist for InvestmentNews, a leading publication for financial advisors and the wealth management industry.

An award-winning journalist, Bruce’s career at InvestmentNews began in 2000, two years after the launch of the newspaper. He has covered the brokerage industry ever since, focusing on financial advisors’ pay, the products they sell, and the firms on and off Wall Street where they work.

His reporting in the financial crisis 2008 and thereafter shed light on the many shortcomings of the financial advice industry, from weak regulation to the collapse of many broker-dealers.

Bruce writes an award-winning column, On Advice, and his daily breaking news reports give clarity and insight into what’s happening behind closed doors at the largest brokerage firms in the country.

Before becoming a journalist, Bruce taught middle school and high school English in Manhattan and Caracas, Venezuela, for a decade. He is the co-author of a 2010 book, “Financial Serial Killers,” and has two children.

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INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 10, 2014
Raymond James reports strong quarter in private-client group

Pretax income up 44%, while revenue climbed 12%.

ALTERNATIVES APR 10, 2014
Nontraded business development company plans to list on NYSE on April 16

FS Investments also will increase its monthly cash distribution rate.

ALTERNATIVES APR 10, 2014
Inland American offers limited liquidity event through tender offer

Inland American offers shareholders a way to cash out, but place limits on the buyback and values shares at no more than $6.50 a share.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 10, 2014
Southwest Securities could be sold to big shareholder

The parent company of Southwest Securities, SWS Group, received $7-a-share offer from Hilltop Holdings. The offer was a 16% premium to the stock's closing price on Thursday. Bruce Kelly has the story.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE APR 04, 2014
Finra arbitration panel tags Signator Investors for $1.6 million in selling-away case

Three clients of former broker at Hancock unit receive award for losses in failed land deals.

FIXED INCOME APR 04, 2014
UBS Puerto Rico faces 'Whopper' of a problem over muni bond funds

The woes stemming from UBS AG's unit in Puerto Rico over the sale of local, closed-end municipal bond funds have landed squarely in the lap of UBS brokers and financial advisers in the island commonwealth.

FIXED INCOME APR 04, 2014
UBS offers to repurchase Puerto Rico muni bond funds, plaintiff's attorneys say

A unit of UBS AG has offered to repurchase shares of moribund, closed-end municipal bond funds invested in Puerto Rico muni securities from a select number of clients, according to plaintiff's attorneys. Bruce Kelly reports.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 04, 2014
John Hancock to go with Signator Investors name for broker-dealer

Move designed to create distance between investment creation and distribution.

ALTERNATIVES APR 01, 2014
Schorsch's stock rising

Shares of company nontraded REIT czar is using to build a B-D empire have more than doubled since beginning of December .

FINTECH MAR 27, 2014
Envestnet gets a lot of love from advisers and the Street

Investment advisers are flocking to the asset management and technology company and it's become a market darling. The stock is up 178% over the last year.