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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RIA NEWS JUL 22, 2012
AIG network seen as most likely buyer of Woodbury Financial

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 22, 2012
JHS Capital, ex-broker hit with $1.9M arb award

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 20, 2012
1,600 Woodbury reps await fate after Hartford purge

Woodbury Financial could pay advisers to stay despite not having buyer
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 19, 2012
Woodbury Financial could pay advisers to stay despite not having buyer

Woodbury Financial is said to be readying retention bonuses to preserve firm's value despite not having a buyer lined up

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 17, 2012
John Sykes' JHS Capital Advisors challenged by annual losses, handful of Finra arbitration claims

John Sykes' first broker-dealer holding company, GunnAllen Holdings, is out of business and his second, JHS Capital, has sustained significant losses and faces a handful of Finra arbitration claims. Bruce Kelly reports.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 15, 2012
A lack of interest

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 15, 2012
NFP back to buying practices with purchase of Fusion

Finra goes public with private-placement crackdown
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 13, 2012
Finra goes public with private-placement crackdown

Regulator names names in statement disclosing Reg D enforcement actions; Securities America on the list

RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2012
Wells Real Estate nixes controversial charge

In a move that should cheer shareholders, Wells Real Estate has decided against charging clients an internalization fee.

ALTERNATIVES JUN 27, 2012
Most nontraded REITs underperform market