Bruce Kelly

InvestmentNews

Bruce Kelly

Senior Columnist

26 years experience

Bruce's specialty topics

Legal and compliance Advisor compensation Alternative investments

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.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I love covering the financial advice business. We write about financial advisors and how they care about clients' lifesavings - what is more important than that?”

Awards and recognition

  • 2 SABEW awards
  • Neal Award

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Co-author of "Financial Serial Killers"

Featured content from Bruce

It’s the age of risk, and the financial advice industry is blowing it Beneficient, GWG boss spent $59 million on home improvements during time of alleged fraud scheme Broker-dealers got more than $100 million from selling bankrupt Inspired Healthcare’s deals

Education

  • B.A., Rutgers College
  • M.S., Columbia Journalism School

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RIA 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.

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

William Blair & 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.

RIA NEWS NOV 16, 2009
National Planning takes on 65 reps and $750M from Main Street

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

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 15, 2009
LPL continues to make gains in recruiting

LPL Investment Holdings Inc. continues to recruit heavily this year.

FIXED INCOME NOV 13, 2009
Legal expenses piling up at Morgan Keegan

Company says legal tab in 2009 equaled 12% of revenue; crashed bond funds to blame

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 08, 2009
Ameriprise, hot off a hiring frenzy, rebuilds recruiting staff

After recruiting some 500 representatives so far this year, Ameriprise Financial Inc. is gutting and rebuilding its recruiting staff as part of an effort to bring in more independent reps.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS NOV 08, 2009
Ex-PaineWebber chief Don Marron snares ING B-Ds

After months of pursuit, Donald Marron finally has landed a broker-dealer network, and the former chairman and chief executive of PaineWebber Group Inc. can't think more highly of its potential.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT NOV 02, 2009
Ameriprise, hot off a hiring frenzy, guts recruiting staff

ALTERNATIVES OCT 18, 2009
Inland Western struggles to pay down debt

One REIT sponsor attracting attention recently from independent broker-dealers is The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies Inc., which sponsors five publicly traded and non-traded REITs.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE OCT 15, 2009
Schwab slapped with SEC warning; YieldPlus settlement may be on the horizon

The SEC's warning to the Charles Schwab Corp. that <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091015/FREE/910159992>it could face civil charges</a> over two fixed-income mutual funds may have a direct effect on current and looming legal actions from investors over losses suffered in the funds.

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