John Kador

Can you name the Street's largest asset gatherer last year? Was it Merrill? Smith Barney? No, the title went to Charles Schwab. The pioneering discount broker, who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through...

In a nod to the smaller investors who gave the firm its early success, Charles Schwab Corp. has eliminated its remaining account service fees and its $3-per-order handling charge on equity trades.

Suspended from the ceiling in Chuck Schwab's corner office high above the financial district of San Francisco is a mobile whose delicate parts sway in response to the slightest breeze or environmental change. Beneath...

Imagine a business designed specifically to help increase the size of client accounts but one whose best success stories end in a customer outgrowing the firm and departing for a rival. This, more or less, was the...

Last December, when Paul O'Neill resigned as treasury secretary, the rumor mill churned out a number of potential nominees including one Charles Schwab. John Snow of CSX got the nod, but the mere prospect of Mr...

Charles Schwab: How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the Brokerage Industry is the first full-length book about Schwab by an independent writer. In the book, author John Kador describes a company that is...