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Summary:

"May 1, 1975 - Despite predictions of calamity and chaos from the high-priced, well-entrenched brokerage industry, the SEC formally abolishes fixed brokerage commission rates. In San Francisco, thousands of miles from Wall Street both literally and figuratively, a one-office firm triumphantly offers no sales commission brokers providing conflict-free discount brokerage services to all investors." "The rest is history. Over the past quarter-century, Charles Schwab & Co. has grown to become one of the world's largest and most influential financial institutions, holding over $850 billion in client assets in nearly eight million active accounts. Charles Schwab himself has become synonymous with the brokerage industry." "But who is Charles Schwab? And how did his unique combination of deeply felt values, disgust over the mistreatment of investors by traditional brokerage firms, and never-say-die moxie make him one of the most beloved - and accomplished - figures in the history of American finance?" --Book Jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Leveling the Playing Field
• May Day
• Opening Investment
• Building the Brand
• Innovation
• Branchland
• Advice and Advisors
• Profiles in Crisis
• Forsaken IPO
• Birthright
• Market Crash
• Margin Call
• Earthquake
• OneSource
• Heart Attack
• eSchwab
• Custodian of Uneasy Dreams
• Balance of Power
• Schwab Mythology
• Unfinished Business

• Epilogue: Schwab Account
• Charles Schwab & Co. Timeline
• Charles R. Schwab's Employment Agreement.

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Author/Creator:

Kador, John

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Charles Schwab: how one company beat Wall Street and reinvented the brokerage industry [by Kador, J.]

Subjects:

Charles Schwab Corporation — History

Schwab, Charles

Stockbrokers — New York (State) — New York — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HG4928.5 .K336 2002eb

ISBNs:

9780471434313 (electronic bk.)
0471434310 (electronic bk.)
0471224073 [Invalid]
9780471224075 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

66471436

Other Control Numbers:

EBC469545 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp2417280