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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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

MedCap-selling broker charged with fraud
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAY 08, 2012
MedCap-selling broker charged with fraud

A Colorado man faces nine counts of securities fraud related to the sale of Medical Capital notes

Exec at broker-breaking MedCap to be sentenced for fraud
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAY 06, 2012
Exec at broker-breaking MedCap to be sentenced for fraud

Ponzi scheme wiped out almost $1B in investor money