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Michael Wong
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Charles Schwab’s Pricing Changes Align With Recent Trends, But May Lower Profits For the Industry

Charles Schwab’s announcement that it is reducing trading commissions and its index mutual fund fees aligns with major trends in the financial services sector, but the profitability downside for the retail brokerage industry is much easier to imagine than the potential upside for Charles Schwab after making these moves. The company will now have the lowest trading commission among its close peers of $6.95 on equity and ETF trades. With trading revenue comprising only approximately 10% of the com...
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Charles Schwab Corporation

Charles Schwab is a savings and loan holding company. The company is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in wealth management, securities brokerage, banking, asset management, custody, and financial advisory services. The company provides financial services to individuals and institutional clients in two segments: Investor Services, which provides retail brokerage and banking services to individual investors and retirement plan services, as well as other corporate brokerage services, to businesses and their employees; and Advisor Services, which provides custodial, trading, banking and support services, as well as retirement business services to independent registered investment advisors and recordkeepers.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Michael Wong

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