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Encyclopedia > Charles Schwab Corporation

The Charles Schwab Corporation NASDAQ: SCHW is the world's largest discount broker. It now offers the same traditional brokerage services with much lower commissions and fees. Schwab serves some 7.5 million individual and institutional clients from some 300 offices in the U.S. Traders can access its services via telephone, wireless device, and the Internet. Besides discount brokerage, the firm offers mutual funds, annuities, bond trading, and now mortgages through its Charles Schwab Bank. Other Schwab holdings include U.S. Trust, which provides asset management, and CyberTrader, a direct access broker. Image File history File links Charles_Schwab_logo. ... NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ...

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Management

CEO: Charles R. (Chuck) Schwab Charles R. Schwab (born 1937) is the founder and CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation. ...


Registered Investment Adviser Firms

Schwab's success depends heavily on the success of their independent investment adviser firms. In 2005, Schwab had roughly 5,200 independent advisers within its network. Most independent adviser firms are not affiliated with any brokerage firm, are not managed by a brokerage firm, and work independently from the brokerage firm, as adviser firms offer investment services to individuals or businesses. These adviser firms are generally regulated by state/local government or by the federal government and are also governed by the basic principles similar to that of a broker and yet different when rendering objective investment advice. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In 2000, Schwab's relationship with independent adviser firms evolved when some of these advisers migrated to competitors namely, T.D. Waterhouse. This article is about the year 2000. ... The Toronto-Dominion Bank (or TD Bank) offers a range of financial products and services. ...


In 2005, the headline of a newspaper for financial advisers read Schwab battles for wirehouse assets announced a new strategy of shifting more accounts from the brokerage firms and transitioning more brokers from the "brokerage world" into registered investment advisers. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Diversity

Charles Schwab received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the report. HRC logo The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is one of the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) equal rights organization in the United States. ... It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...


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Charles Schwab Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (332 words)
Schwab serves some 7.5 million individual and institutional clients from some 300 offices in the U.S. Traders can access its services via telephone, wireless device, and the Internet.
Schwab's success depends heavily on the success of their independent investment adviser firms.
Charles Schwab received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2004, the third year of the report.
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