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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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.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 03, 2010
Solov: B-Ds bully clients in arbitration

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