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Registered Rep.
July 16, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Schwab Profits Down for Q2 But Keeps Adding Breakaway Brokers Charles Schwab reported that its second quarter profit fell 31 percent, thanks to low interest rates and soft capital markets, but in the meantime the company has added 74 breakaway advisors to its RIA platform.   |
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Schwab Cuts Some Fees for 2009 In an effort to ease the financial pain of its registered investment advisors, Charles Schwab has announced a series of initiatives that will save them money. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2005
John Kador |
Charles Schwab Drops Service, Order Fees Charles Schwab Corp. has eliminated its remaining account service fees and its $3-per-order handling charge on equity trades. The decision affects about 650,000 Schwab account holders with balances below $25,000. |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Better Economic Times Ahead? Your Clients Don't Think So. Advisors seem more optimistic about the economy than their own clients, according to a recent survey. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
James J. Green |
Schwab To Sell U.S. Trust Unit Charles Schwab announced that it would sell its U.S. Trust unit to Bank of America for $3.3 billion in cash in a deal that should close in the second quarter of 2007, assuming it passes the necessary regulatory hurdles. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2010
Charles Paikert |
Schwab's Advisor Services Results Beg the Question: Has the Breakaway Brokerage Phenomenon Peaked? Has the great diaspora of breakaway brokers to Independence Land -- either independent b/ds or RIAs -- climaxed? |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Trading, Fees Lift Schwab Profits Higher Continued growth in client trading and fees helped drive profits at Charles Schwab Corp. to higher-than-expected levels for the first quarter. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Lee & Young |
Is Schwab's Latest Come-On Enough? Brokerage firm Charles Schwab & Co. is slashing commissions in a bid to win over the high-net-worth clients it so badly needs. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2009
Brooke Southall |
Schwab To RIAs: Expect Strong Service Despite Slowdown Despite a recent drop in share price, Schwab maintains that their long-term strategy is sound and will emerge as a winner from this credit crisis. |
Investment Advisor
February 2007
James J. Green |
Schwab to Bankroll Breakaway Brokers With advisor assets at $500 billion, the custodian will offer financing to big brokers going independent. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year. |
Registered Rep.
August 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab: Franchisees Can't Poach RIA Clients Advisors who are considering Charles Schwab's new independent branch program are being told they will have to abide by the company's contact policy. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
John Kador |
Schwab Does It Again Charles Schwab, the pioneering discount broker who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through protracted management struggles in the past two years, is beating the wirehouses at their own game. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Fido's RIA Unit Cuts Fees The average financial advisor has taken a big hit in production and therefore net income. But RIA custodians are turning that into something of a marketing tool. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
James J. Green |
Talk to Chuck Schwab the company began as a transaction service, then moved into mutual funds, but Schwab the man believes his greatest legacy was his ability to democratize investing, and to support the notion that people could get their advice from someone who did not have a conflict of interest. |
Registered Rep.
July 5, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Finds RIAs Posted Record 2010 Revenue, AUM Average profits surged 45 percent last year among registered investment advisors surveyed, but don't look for a repeat of this year. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Impact This! Schwabbies Descend Upon Vegas They didn't get to "Talk to Chuck," but attendees of the 2007 Schwab IMPACT conference did get a chance to talk to Walt Bettinger, president and chief operating officer, as well as Charles Goldman, executive vice president of Schwab Institutional in an afternoon Q&A session. |
Registered Rep.
September 14, 2009
Brooke Southall |
The Top 10 Things to Know on the Eve of Schwab IMPACT Though IMPACT events are similar from year to year, Schwab makes efforts to freshen them up. Here are some things to know headed in to Schwab's conference. |
Investment Advisor
January 2008 |
Back Office Deal A strategic deal between Charles Schwab and a back-office consulting firm will afford RIAs more outsourcing options. |
Registered Rep.
October 17, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Trading Revenue Spikes in Q3; Asset Revenue Flat Summer market volatility took its toll on Charles Schwab Corp.'s third-quarter results. |
Financial Advisor
December 2006
Andrew Gluck |
PMS Gridlock Portfolio management software is the heart of an advisory practice -- so why are there so few options? (Hint: look in the mirror.) |
Registered Rep.
July 20, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Back to the Future? Courage has never been in short supply at Schwab. The company was founded in the 1970s by Charles R. Schwab, and now he's back at the helm. But the task of reinvention is not a simple one. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Apologizes Over Sales Pitch to Advisor Clients Schwab found itself apologizing for violating its own policy of pitching portfolio products to retirement plan sponsors who were clients of retail financial advisors and turnkey asset management programs that have custodial relations with the firm. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2011
Evan Niu |
Chuck Talks to Profits Charles Schwab puts up a solid quarter and keeps waiting for rates to rise. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
James J. Green |
Schwab Smoothes the Road to Independence Schwab Institutional announces a multipronged platform -- with some existing planks, and some newly laid ones -- to ease the transition process for its brokers who wish to become registered independent advisors. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2010
Kristen French |
Fidelity Makes Trade Pricing Uniform For RIA And Retail Clients Fidelity's RIA custody division, Institutional Wealth Services, said it was cutting fees for U.S. equity and options trades. It also began offering commission-free online trades for its iShares ETFs and Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index Tracking Fund. |
Investment Advisor
July 2006 |
Upgrades Pershing LLC announced healthy growth in the number of RIAs custodying client assets and trust accounts through its Pershing Advisor Solutions unit... Charles Schwab & Co. announced June 14 a broad reduction and simplification of pricing for its retail... etc. |
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab RIA Unit Sees "Consistent" Growth Schwab Advisor Services is signing up advisor assets at a pace that tracks its historical average. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Schwabbing the Decks Is a commission war on tap between the discount brokers? Charles Schwab said today it plans to lower its commission fees in a bid to "appeal to the broadest range of investors possible." |
Registered Rep.
March 23, 2015
Ryan W. Neal |
Schwab Reveals Intelligent Portfolios For Advisors Schwab is making the technology the backbone of an account management tool for registered investment advisors. |
Registered Rep.
October 29, 2009
Kristen French |
RJFS Raises RIA minimums, LPL Pulls Past RJ in RIA Assets Raymond James is raising minimums for new RIAs who want to custody assets on its RJFS-IAD platform from $30 million to $50 million. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
How to Fix Schwab A former employee offers advice on how to fix the former financial powerhouse. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2010
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Waiting for "Intelligent Integration" This spring, Schwab Advisor Services announced the launch of "Project C"-an ambitious technology initiative designed to deliver high-quality, integrated solutions to advisors. |
Registered Rep.
April 30, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Says It's Going On Offense -- As If It Weren't Already The company is preparing to go on the "offense" to gain market share -- both in terms of winning client assets and recruiting breakaway brokers. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice. |
Financial Advisor
January 2004
Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Robert F. Keane |
Changes at the Top for RIA Units at Fidelity and Schwab At a time when growth in the RIA channel has been robust to say the least, the two largest custodians have announced executive changes and restructuring of their units serving RIAs. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2011
Andrew Bond |
Charles Schwab Sitting Pretty The discount broker enjoys a strong quarter. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Schwab's Summer Doldrums Summer may be starting to sizzle, but Charles Schwab delivered another dose of tepid news today. The online broker said that a variety of current trends have left it unlikely to beat estimates for its coming second quarter |
Registered Rep.
July 18, 2011
Jerry Gleason |
Schwab Gained Advisor Assets in Q2 Investor taste for trading fell off in the second quarter, but assets at Schwab Advisor Services continued to climb. |
Registered Rep.
August 30, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Schwab Buys ETF Firm Schwab paid $150 million in cash and stock for the company, which fits into Schwab's longer-term strategy of expanding its ETF offerings. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Marion Asnes |
Flying High Thoughts by Jim McCool, executive vice president and head of institutional services at Schwab, talks about back office focus, trust, and service. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Sydney LeBlanc |
Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
James J. Green |
A President For Schwab Walt Bettinger, a longtime Schwab executive, has been named president and COO of the company, effective immediately, raising speculation that he will succeed founder Charles Schwab as CEO. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Chucked! If Charles Schwab cannot soon deliver on its goal of reaching all kinds of customers, then perhaps the board will insist on another change, this time moving the company back to its model of the 1990s, when Schwab was clearly a discount broker. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
RIA M&A Hits Record in 2010, More To Come In 2011 Registered investment advisory firms were furiously busy getting hitched last year: they did the highest number of merger and acquisition deals recorded in at least seven years. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
Brokerage Fees: Low or High? It can be a little more complicated than you might expect to find the best brokerage for yourself. You can get poorer if you're not rich enough. |
Registered Rep.
November 13, 2015
Ryan W. Neal |
Despite Volatility, Advisor Confidence High The market volatility in the third quarter wasn't enough to shake advisor optimism. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
Institutional Unit Is Schwab's Bright Spot With the job cuts, branch closings and refocusing currently under way at Charles Schwab & Co., there's one area that seems to be safe. Schwab's Institutional unit isn't going anywhere. |
Registered Rep.
November 25, 2008 |
Fido Poaches Schwab RIA Executive Fidelity Investments negotiates a contract with the former head of Schwab's advisor business. |
