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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RIA NEWS FEB 16, 2010
Its sale scuttled, AIG Advisor Group faces heavy lifting to rebuild network

Larry Roth, chief executive of the beleaguered AIG Advisor Group, thinks that within six months, the network of broker-dealers that is home to 6,000 registered representatives and financial advisers will be “hitting on all cylinders.”

RIA NEWS FEB 16, 2010
HighTower has lured advisers for months

In the months before it landed one of the biggest advisers on Wall Street, HighTower Securities LLC was already successfully recruiting other breakaway brokers.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE FEB 12, 2010
Hiked state oversight of RIAs will breed more Ponzis, say attorneys

Ponzi scam artists will have greater freedom to flourish if state regulators get expanded oversight of registered investment advisory firms, according to attorneys on a panel today at the annual Financial Services Institute conference in New Orleans.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE FEB 10, 2010
Securities America advisers called culpable in fraud

Securities America Inc. was tagged last month with a lawsuit from Massachusetts regulators alleging that the firm misled investors who were sold high-risk private placements.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT FEB 10, 2010
Finra fines Calif. broker-dealer $750K over sale of Reg D offerings

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE FEB 10, 2010
Adviser named in private-placement suit says he did nothing wrong

A Securities America adviser named last week in a class action said he had no way of knowing that securities he sold would later blow up.

RIA NEWS FEB 08, 2010
Krawcheck calls on Merrill's old guard

As part of her leadership role at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Sallie Krawcheck has shown clear deference to the firm's storied past and has assiduously worked the phones, reaching out to leading members of the firm's old guard, including former chief executives David Komansky and Daniel Tully.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE FEB 07, 2010
Sister sues brother and his brokerage — and wins $608K award

A sister who sued her brother and his brokerage firm won a $608,000 arbitration decision last month in a case that alleged, among other claims, churning of highly volatile stocks in the weeks leading up to the market collapse of September 2008.

RIA NEWS FEB 01, 2010
Nobel laureate at independent B-D? Markowitz joins Dallas firm

The father of modern portfolio theory plans to spend plenty of face time with advisers at 1st Global Capital

Shrinking ING may shed brokers, funds
RIA NEWS FEB 01, 2010
Shrinking ING may shed brokers, funds

A wrecking ball has hit ING Groep NV's global supermarket of financial services, whose many parts include a $600 billion global asset management business and a U.S broker-dealer network of 8,700 reps and advisers.