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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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

Star adviser parts ways with DeWaay, joins LPL
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 05, 2012
Star adviser parts ways with DeWaay, joins LPL

It's another big win for LPL, as star adviser Erin Botsford leaves DeWaay Financial and hooks up with the big indie B-D

Rocked by recent fine, Brookstone ceases operations
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 04, 2012
Rocked by recent fine, Brookstone ceases operations

Indie B-D Brookstone Securities ceased operations last night, just weeks after a Finra panel ordered it to pay $2.6M in fines and restitution for selling CMOs to seniors. Sources claim the brokerage's reps were not paid today.