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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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES APR 10, 2014
Nontraded business development company plans to list on NYSE on April 16

FS Investments also will increase its monthly cash distribution rate.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES APR 10, 2014
Inland American offers limited liquidity event through tender offer

Inland American offers shareholders a way to cash out, but place limits on the buyback and values shares at no more than $6.50 a share.

NEWS RIAS APR 10, 2014
Southwest Securities could be sold to big shareholder

The parent company of Southwest Securities, SWS Group, received $7-a-share offer from Hilltop Holdings. The offer was a 16% premium to the stock's closing price on Thursday. Bruce Kelly has the story.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 04, 2014
Finra arbitration panel tags Signator Investors for $1.6 million in selling-away case

Three clients of former broker at Hancock unit receive award for losses in failed land deals.

INVESTING FIXED INCOME APR 04, 2014
UBS Puerto Rico faces 'Whopper' of a problem over muni bond funds

The woes stemming from UBS AG's unit in Puerto Rico over the sale of local, closed-end municipal bond funds have landed squarely in the lap of UBS brokers and financial advisers in the island commonwealth.

INVESTING FIXED INCOME APR 04, 2014
UBS offers to repurchase Puerto Rico muni bond funds, plaintiff's attorneys say

A unit of UBS AG has offered to repurchase shares of moribund, closed-end municipal bond funds invested in Puerto Rico muni securities from a select number of clients, according to plaintiff's attorneys. Bruce Kelly reports.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS APR 04, 2014
John Hancock to go with Signator Investors name for broker-dealer

Move designed to create distance between investment creation and distribution.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES APR 01, 2014
Schorsch's stock rising

Shares of company nontraded REIT czar is using to build a B-D empire have more than doubled since beginning of December .

NEWS RIAS MAR 27, 2014
Envestnet gets a lot of love from advisers and the Street

Investment advisers are flocking to the asset management and technology company and it's become a market darling. The stock is up 178% over the last year.

INVESTING EMERGING MARKETS MAR 21, 2014
Finra freezes new arbitration cases in Puerto Rico

Finra freezes new arbitration cases in Puerto Rico as a flood of claims sends the regulator scrambling to find more arbitrators. Bruce Kelly has the story.