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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ALTERNATIVES MAR 28, 2012
Value of popular nontraded REIT hammered

ALTERNATIVES MAR 18, 2012
Pacific West is ordered to pony up $2.1M over TICs

RIA NEWS MAR 16, 2012
Ron Carson: I got the Muppet treatment from Goldman

Well-known wealth manager Ron Carson claims he recently got a first-hand look at how Wall Street treats clients. He wasn't impressed.

Still no payment in Capital Analysts Ponzi settlement as firm readies sale
RIA NEWS MAR 16, 2012
Still no payment in Capital Analysts Ponzi settlement as firm readies sale

The story of Kenneth Wayne McLeod -- and the Ponzi scheme he engineered -- reads more like a screenplay than real life. But to the victims of the con man, the bizarre tale must feel like a nightmare.

Why advisers should — or should not — invest in hedge funds
ALTERNATIVES MAR 15, 2012
Why advisers should — or should not — invest in hedge funds

Two investors square off over the value of these private funds

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 14, 2012
Lincoln to hit some RIAs with up to $20K in new fees

Lincoln Investment Planning Inc., a fast growing independent broker-dealer, is hitting its reps and advisers who run their own RIAs with a new, annual supervision and compliance fee of up to $20,000.

ALTERNATIVES MAR 13, 2012
TIC investments come back to bite

RIA NEWS MAR 12, 2012
So how much did First Allied go for?

Recent filing would seem to indicate acquirer paid at least $43M for the indie B-D

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