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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INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS OCT 19, 2010
Securities America seeks to have B-Ds subpoenaed over private placements

In a highly unusual legal maneuver in its battle with Massachusetts securities regulators, Securities America Inc. is requesting that other broker-dealers that sold the private-placement investments of Medical Capital Holdings be issued subpoenas — a move designed demonstrate that Securities America met industry standards when 400 of its affiliated brokers sold close to $700 million of now worthless MedCap notes to clients.

B-D socked with first arbitration award over tainted Reg D offering
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 19, 2010
B-D socked with first arbitration award over tainted Reg D offering

Finra tells Peak Securities to pay $400K to settle a claim over a private placement sale for Medical Capital. The kicker: hundreds more complaints loom as irate investors look to recoup losses from questionable Reg D offerings

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 18, 2010
No end in sight to arbitration bonanza

Were three awards totaling $25.1M in past two months a coincidence? Some attorneys don't think so

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 17, 2010
Ex-Ameriprise manager: I got fired for flagging violations

Ameriprise slaps some wealthy clients with new fees
RIA NEWS OCT 15, 2010
Ameriprise slaps some wealthy clients with new fees

Ameriprise Financial Inc. next year will begin imposing annual fees of up to $80 on the brokerage accounts of many of its wealthy customers — a move likely to irk the firm's advisers and registered representatives.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 14, 2010
Lincoln Financial hit with hefty arbitration award over selling away

Finra panel ruled that the B-D was 'negligent in not preventing' the outside business activities of a former broker

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 14, 2010
B-Ds bullying clients to settle arbitration cases: Regulator

Broker-dealers are browbeating clients to settle arbitration cases by inundating them with requests for discovery information, according to a top state securities regulator.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 10, 2010
J.R. Ewing hits a gusher: $11.5M arbitration award

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 06, 2010
SEC should impose uniform fiduciary standard: NASAA

Despite the protests of life insurance agents and broker-dealers, the Securities and Exchange Commission should decide in favor of a uniform fiduciary standard for all investment professionals, according to the new head of the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS OCT 06, 2010
Arbitrators: B-Ds kept brokers in the dark on private deals

From giants such as Citigroup Inc. to small broker-dealers such as Pacific West Securities Inc., brokerage firms have kept their representatives in the dark about problematic details in investments.