Bruce Kelly

A former middle school and high school English teacher, Bruce Kelly started at InvestmentNews in 2000 as the brokerage reporter after a two-year stint at sister publication Pensions & Investments. He writes a bi-weekly, award winning column, On Advice, and covers the independent broker-dealer industry.

Bruce Kelly
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NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION DEC 01, 2009
Securities America advisers hawked private placements, suit claims

Financial advisers with Securities America Inc. continued to sell offerings of allegedly faulty private placements after an executive at the firm sounded the alarm bell about the deals last year, according to a recently filed lawsuit.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 29, 2009
Ex-Wall Street brokers choose new beat: NYPD

They used to ride desks and flog stocks, but now some Wall Street refugees are choosing to walk a beat and chase bad guys.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS NOV 29, 2009
As it sues Pac Life, LPL moves to reassure its reps

At the same time that LPL Holdings Inc. and the three broker-dealers it bought from Pacific Life Insurance Co. were filing suit against the insurer, LPL was reaching out to its advisers to reassure them that the dispute wouldn't affect their businesses.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 23, 2009
Ex-Wall Street brokers choose new beat: NYPD

They used to ride desks and flog stocks, but now some Wall Street refugees are choosing to walk a beat and chase bad guys.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION NOV 23, 2009
In B-D deals, it's impossible to know what lies beneath

The dispute between LPL Investment Holdings Inc. and Pacific Life Insurance Co. over liability for rogue brokers is a reminder that unseen risks can be part of any acquisition, no matter how well-vetted, according to lawyers and investment bankers.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION NOV 23, 2009
Pacific Life takes a punch at LPL over potentially millions in lawsuits

<a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=Topic&amp;keywordid=261&amp;keywordname=LPL%20Financial>LPL Investment Holdings Inc. </a>and Pacific Life Insurance Co. are staring each other down over which firm will have to pony up the potentially millions of dollars in claims stemming from fraud suits against a rogue broker from one of the three independent-contractor firms LPL acquired from Pac Life two years ago.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION NOV 23, 2009
Ex-GunnAllen, Ameriprise broker could serve 23 years in prison

A former GunnAllen Financial Inc. and Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. broker pleaded guilty this month to two federal charges, one of mail fraud and the other of filing a false tax return, and he faces up to 23 years in prison when he is sentenced in September.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 22, 2009
LPL suit: Pac Life ducking liability for rogue brokers

<a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=Topic&amp;keywordid=261&amp;keywordname=LPL%20Financial> LPL Holdings Inc. </a>and three broker-dealer subsidiaries have sued Pacific Life Insurance Co., claiming the latter is in breach of contract and trying to duck paying potentially millions of dollars of settlements and awards stemming from rogue brokers.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS NOV 22, 2009
National Planning grabs 65 reps and $750M from Main Street

National Planning Corp. is scooping up the representatives and assets of Main Street Securities LLC, which is closing down its broker-dealer operations to join NPC.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 18, 2009
88-year-old woman wins $1.1M claim against William Blair, ex-brokers

William Blair &amp; Co. LLC and two ex-brokers at the firm have been socked with a $1.1 million arbitration decision that centered on two brokers' setting up a phony e-mail address where they sent statements from the brokerage account of an 88-year-old widow.