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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REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JAN 22, 2010
Finra slaps discount broker with triple damages in rare elder-abuse award

In a rarity, an arbitrator last month cited elder abuse in tripling the damages a discount securities firm must pay a 95-year-old client.

RIA NEWS JAN 22, 2010
UBS' topped-up recruiting package lags plans at MSSB, Merrill Lynch

UBS Wealth Management Americas is beefing up its recruiting package in the chase for elite financial advisers, but the deal falls short of those recently offered by two top rivals.

RIA NEWS JAN 21, 2010
Does LPL's filing reveal an unspoken truth about indie B-Ds?

When it comes to controlling client assets, LPL Investment Holdings Inc.'s recent IPO registration offers clear proof that the remaining four wirehouse broker-dealers still dwarf the more diverse galaxy of independent broker-dealers.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Broker-dealer industry revenue down 10%

The independent broker-dealer industry took a giant step backward last year, with the largest 25 firms collectively reporting a 10.3% drop in gross revenue.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Who - or what - killed GunnAllen Financial?

As the stock market was climbing to its historical peak in late summer 2007, GunnAllen Financial Inc. executives told people that the firm was working to put the worst elements from its brief, intense past of breakneck growth behind it.

GunnAllen's top-producers bolt for a new broker-dealer
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
GunnAllen's top-producers bolt for a new broker-dealer

The biggest-producing branch of dead-in-the water GunnAllen Financial Inc. is heading to a new independent broker-dealer, Aegis Capital Corp.

Finra shuts down GunnAllen
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Finra shuts down GunnAllen

Embattled firm said to be in net capital violation after eleventh-hour effort failed to raise fresh funds

Six broker-dealers subpoenaed over private placements
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Six broker-dealers subpoenaed over private placements

Massachusetts widens the net in its ongoing probe of private placements gone bad.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 21, 2010
GunnAllen founders jumping to rival broker-dealer in wake of firm's collapse

After watching the fall of GunnAllen Financial Inc. become official this morning, the firm's founders —Donald James “Jay” Gunn and Richard Allen Frueh —are apparently moving to a rival broker-dealer.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 08, 2010
Finra investigating Wells Fargo for possible Reg S-P violations

Finra is investigating Wells Fargo Advisors LLC to determine whether the firm of 16,000 advisers violated rules that protect private client information.