AUTHORS

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.

LinkedIn | Email

Displaying 3504 results

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE APR 24, 2012

Ex-head of real estate trade group said she bilked investors

Renee Marie Brown faces 20 years in prison for hawking bogus bond fund

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 24, 2012

Former LPL rep sold TICs with 'tricks': Lawyer

Elderly couple awarded $1.4M for claim over tenant-in-common exchanges; were seeking $8M

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 22, 2012

LPL realigns management

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 19, 2012

LPL on a recruiting roll — but at a price

Hiring expenses rose as indie B-D attracted 408 net new advisers in past year; 'elevating our expectation'

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 19, 2012

Behind the management shake-up at LPL

Mark Casady reveals reasons for recent changes at indie B-D

RIA NEWS APR 18, 2012

Ex-LPL rep gets long spell in prison

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 18, 2012

LPL isn't only B-D that hits brokers with an affiliation fee

LPL Financial LLC isn't alone in charging registered representatives and financial advisers a flat fee for doing business with the firm

RIA NEWS APR 17, 2012

1,600 Woodbury reps await fate after Hartford purge

The dramatic reorganization at The Hartford leaves 1,600 reps at Woodbury Financial with a very uncertain future | <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20120321/FREE/120329977>Exit from the annuity business a shocker to advisers &raquo;</a>