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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SEC upping the ante with new, more sophisticated technology: Schapiro
FINTECH MAR 08, 2012
SEC upping the ante with new, more sophisticated technology: Schapiro

The Securities and Exchange Commission is continuing to beef up and streamline its technology, adding new systems to track and catch fraudsters and other financial miscreants.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 08, 2012
LPL is gunning for hotshot reps

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAR 06, 2012
Ex-LPL rep gets long spell in prison for defrauding longtime customers

Kravitz took funds out of clients' accounts, put the cash in his own account; sentenced to 41 months in jail

Uncle Stan must pay Uncle Sam a whopping $10M fine
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAR 05, 2012
Uncle Stan must pay Uncle Sam a whopping $10M fine

Federal judge hits founder of Brookstreet with huge penalty for hawking risky securities to retirees; defunct firm once had 500 reps

ALTERNATIVES MAR 04, 2012
Ex-real estate group head guilty of fraud

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAR 04, 2012
Broker charged with fraud in MedCap sales

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 04, 2012
Ex-GunnAllen boss sets sights on small B-Ds

WIREHOUSES FEB 28, 2012
'Wall Street' sequel taps brokerage executive to bring '80s back to life

The door from the trading floor to the chief executive's office opens, and before it can close, the voice of a broker working the phones is heard, using a line that could have been lifted from the Shearson Lehman playbook of the go-go 1980s.

MedCap co-founder faces tax evasion charges
RIA NEWS FEB 27, 2012
MedCap co-founder faces tax evasion charges

One of the founders of Medical Capital Holdings Inc., the issuer of tainted private placements that have devastated dozens of broker-dealers, faces five counts of failing to file a federal income tax return.

American Realty again tries to take control of real estate investment trust
ALTERNATIVES FEB 21, 2012
American Realty again tries to take control of real estate investment trust

American Realty Capital has fired a second salvo in a hostile takeover bid for Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II Inc., a non-traded real estate investment trust that is in flux.