Bruce Kelly

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Bruce Kelly

Senior Columnist

26 years experience

Bruce's specialty topics

Legal and compliance Advisor compensation Alternative investments

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.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I love covering the financial advice business. We write about financial advisors and how they care about clients' lifesavings - what is more important than that?”

Awards and recognition

  • 2 SABEW awards
  • Neal Award

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Co-author of "Financial Serial Killers"

Featured content from Bruce

It’s the age of risk, and the financial advice industry is blowing it Beneficient, GWG boss spent $59 million on home improvements during time of alleged fraud scheme Broker-dealers got more than $100 million from selling bankrupt Inspired Healthcare’s deals

Education

  • B.A., Rutgers College
  • M.S., Columbia Journalism School

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INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 22, 2014
Advisor Group names compliance chief McGinnis CEO to replace Roth

Joins Cetera CEO Valerie Brown in ranks of women running top broker-dealer networks.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 22, 2014
Roth splits Advisor Group to join Schorsch's B-D

Larry Roth splits Advisor Group to join Nick Schorsch's B-D, marking the latest step in American Realty Capital's expansion beyond nontraded REITs. Bruce Kelly has the story.

RIA NEWS APR 18, 2014
Officers at Big Three private placement shop indicted

Four top officials of DBSI — one of the big-three private placement firms — have been charged with fraud. Bruce Kelly supplies the details.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 18, 2014
B-Ds get mixed results in ruling over failed real estate deal

Independent broker-dealer Berthel Fisher & Co. Financial Services Inc. scored a victory this month in an arbitration over an investor seeking $934,000 in restitution for investing in a real estate deal involving an office building in Minnesota.

ALTERNATIVES APR 15, 2014
Securities America focus of second state nontraded-REIT inquiry

B-D that was part of Massachusetts settlement is now facing questions from Pennsylvania

RIA NEWS APR 14, 2014
Derek Bruton: I'll be back

Former LPL executive says taking time off to recharge.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 14, 2014
Superstar adviser DeWaay in 'survival mode,' says forensic accountant

That's how a forensic accountant described the financial condition of superstar adviser Don DeWaay, who today agreed to a $3M settlement with investors.

RIA NEWS APR 13, 2014
Record keeper DST getting into the clearing business

Firm hires Craig Gordon, former head of clearing at RBC Capital, to lead the effort.

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.

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