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 MAY 21, 2013
LPL set to settle with Finra over e-mail tracking

Broker-dealer works to enhance systems to get over latest compliance hurdle.

RIA NEWS MAY 19, 2013
B-D chief misused funds, Finra charges

FINTECH MAY 19, 2013
Heading off hack attacks

The tale of one firm and one adviser, Mark Reed, shows in stark relief how financial advisers are on the front lines protecting their clients from cybercrime. Bruce Kelly has the story.

Securities America is back on track
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 16, 2013
Securities America is back on track

B-D adds 'superbranch' but with thin annual production levels.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 14, 2013
Legal fallout, competition dog NFP as it seeks to go private

Start-up Lion Street in position to poach NFP reps and advisers.

RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 14, 2013
IPA sets valuation guidelines

ALTERNATIVES MAY 14, 2013
W.P Carey Inc. goes public

RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 14, 2013
Nontraded REIT rules roiled by appraisal issue

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 12, 2013
Deal to go private knotted for NFP

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 12, 2013
Attracting new blood a challenge