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 MAY 16, 2012
Savant hooks up with The Monitor Group in rare RIA merger

RETIREMENT PLANNING MAY 14, 2012
Advisers struggle with disputes over asset valuations

RIA NEWS MAY 13, 2012
MedCap president pleads guilty to huge private-placement fraud

RIA NEWS MAY 13, 2012
Star adviser parts ways with DeWaay, joins LPL

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 11, 2012
LPL on a recruiting roll - but the price is rising

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 11, 2012
Wirehouses luring talent at indie B-Ds

Desperate to reel in star brokers, the wirehouses are fishing more than ever in the unlikely and foreign waters of independent-contractor broker-dealers to hook their top representatives

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAY 09, 2012
B-D declares bankruptcy after $1.5M arb judgment

Largest nontraded REIT in SEC probe
ALTERNATIVES MAY 08, 2012
Largest nontraded REIT in SEC probe

More worries for REIT investors. Inland American, the largest nontraded property trust in the U.S., says the SEC is looking into, among other things, the trust's fees and administration.

RIA NEWS MAY 08, 2012
Pace of B-D shutdowns slowed in first quarter

Are the days of the small B-D numbered?
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 08, 2012
Are the days of the small B-D numbered?

Pace of shutdowns is slowing, but one in 10 firms open in 2007 are now gone