Bruce Kelly

InvestmentNews

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"

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RIA NEWS JUN 09, 2013
B-D chief in $1.5M settlement with SEC over claims of misleading comp disclosure

Head of Commonwealth Capital Securities reaches $1.5M settlement with the SEC over claims of misleading compensation disclosure. And this comes five months after a Finra complaint over misuse of investor cash.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 09, 2013
Finra panel sets $18.5 million award against defunct B-D

MUTUAL FUNDS JUN 09, 2013
B-Ds pay $5.25M to settle charges

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 05, 2013
Job cuts at Advisor Group

Advisor Group, the IBD owned by AIG, laid off employees this week. Sources outside the company said the lion's share of the layoffs came from Woodbury Financial Services.

RIA NEWS JUN 02, 2013
Aperio Group

RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 02, 2013
As MetLife cuts, adviser ranks are thinning out fast

Insurer has axed 2,500 reps in the past year.

ALTERNATIVES JUN 02, 2013
American Realty strikes $2.2B deal for a traded REIT

Property company's buying binge rolls on; rebuffed in March by Cole

RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 02, 2013
Questions raised about Allied Beacon's financial health

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUN 01, 2013
Recruiting slows to a trickle at LPL; pickup months away

CEO Casady says strong markets keeping advisers put though firm's pipeline is building.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 30, 2013
Ex-LPL adviser charged with stealing $2M from clients

LPL finds itself in the headlines for the third time this week as a former adviser gets charged by the SEC for stealing $2 million from clients.