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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CNL Lifestyle will avoid valuation shock: CEO
ALTERNATIVES JUN 19, 2012
CNL Lifestyle will avoid valuation shock: CEO

CNL Lifestyles Properties expects to post a new valuation in August

FINTECH JUN 17, 2012
At Raymond James, social media is valuable communication tool

RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 17, 2012
Nontraded REITs feel heat despite sales

Real estate big suspends interest payments on private placement
ALTERNATIVES JUN 15, 2012
Real estate big suspends interest payments on private placement

A top real estate investor has suspended payments on a private placement hawked by B-Ds

B-D, execs who allegedly preyed on seniors hit with $2.6M in fines, restitution
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUN 15, 2012
B-D, execs who allegedly preyed on seniors hit with $2.6M in fines, restitution

Brookstone Securities socked by Finra for sale of CMOs to the elderly

Nontraded REITs benefiting from scrutiny
ALTERNATIVES JUN 10, 2012
Nontraded REITs benefiting from scrutiny

Press, attention had helped improve nontraded REIT's 'shareholder friendliness'

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 10, 2012
B-D, execs hit with $2.6M in fines, restitution on CMO sales

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUN 07, 2012
Inland 'cooperating fully' with SEC investigators, chairman says

RIA NEWS JUN 06, 2012
Penson clearing out of U.S. clearing industry

After Peluso move, FiNet looks to land new head
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 05, 2012
After Peluso move, FiNet looks to land new head

Boss of Wells Fargo indie B-D shifts to affiliated clearing business