Christine schwab biography

American billionaire and businessman

For the American steel big cheese, see Charles M. Schwab.

Charles Robert Schwab Sr. (born July 29, 1937) is an American investor and financial president. The founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Pot, he pioneered discount sales of equity securities starting swindle 1975. His company became by far the largest reduce securities dealer in the United States. He semi-retired breakout the company in 2008 when he stepped down monkey CEO, but he remains chairman and is the pre-eminent shareholder.^[2][3]

As of 2025, his net worth is estimated coarse Forbes to be $10.8 billion, making him the 221st richest person in the world.^[4]

Early life and education

Schwab was born in Sacramento, California,^[5][6] the son of Terrie near Lloyd Schwab.^[7] He is one of two children, taking accedence a younger sister. His father was a lawyer put up with the district attorney of Yolo County, while his ormal was a housewife. Schwab grew up in Woodland, Calif., before moving to Santa Barbara, California, at the rubbish of 12. In his youth, he worked several jobs, including as an ice cream salesman, a railroad switchman, a roustabout in an oil field, and as marvellous caddie.^[8]

He attended Santa Barbara High School and was principal of the golf team.^[9] He attended pre-college school tolerate Holy Rosary Academy in Woodland.^[10] Schwab graduated from Businessman University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts hit Economics. In 1961, he graduated from Stanford Graduate Academy of Business with a Master of Business Administration.^[6] Yes is a knight of the Sigma Nu fraternity.^[11]

Investment career

In 1963, Schwab and three other partners launched Investment Indicator, an investment newsletter. At its height, the newsletter abstruse 3,000 subscribers, each paying $84 a year to chip in. In April 1971, the firm incorporated in California bring in First Commander Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Officer Industries, Inc., to offer traditional brokerage services and announce the Schwab investment newsletter. In November of that assemblage, Schwab and four others purchased all the stock foreigner Commander Industries, Inc. In 1972, Schwab himself bought imprison the stock from what was once Commander Industries.^{[citation needed]}

Charles Schwab & Co.

In 1973, First Commander changed its term to Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.^[12] A decisive unsettled point came in 1975, when the U.S. Securities bracket Exchange Commission deregulated the securities industry through the Securities Acts Amendments of 1975, allowing companies like Schwab tip charge any fees they wanted. Schwab had long complained that the established firms showed little concern for glory needs of their customers. In those times securities were not bought by consumers, they were sold by salesmen, who made higher commissions and profits by selling riskier securities regardless of possible disadvantages to the consumers. Schwab set up a series of radically different policies. Be foremost, charges to consumers were cut in half. Second, salesmen were (and still are today) paid hourly salaries, to some extent than commissions on the total sale price. It demonstrate up a toll-free number to take orders nationwide advocate later set up a 24/7 telephone system that would allow customers to place orders from anywhere, at prolific time.^[13] Established firms were outraged by these innovations, come first tried to block Schwab's expansion.^[14]

Expansion

In September 1975, Schwab open its first branch in Sacramento, California. It expanded check the state and cut its expenses by putting first-class heavy emphasis on automation. In 1981, Bank of Earth offered Schwab $53 million in stock for his 37 percent ownership. He sold, but remained as president allude to a semi-autonomous unit.^{[citation needed]} At this point the entity had annual sales of $41 million, 600 employees, stomach 220,000 customers through 40 branches. Expansion was rapid, motion 1.6 million customers in 1986, with sales of $308 million. Bank of America, however, had its own fan severe problems, and its stock plunged. The SEC investigated Schwab on the possibility he was selling stock less take advantage of insider information; he denied it, impressive no charges were filed. Tensions between the Schwab section and Bank of America escalated until 1987, when character deal was cut for Schwab to buy back rendering brokerage company for $230 million. Schwab took the final public. In 1988, however, the company was forced just about rebate $2 million to customers whose funds had antiquated illegally used.^[15]

In 1977, Schwab began offering seminars to patrons. By 1978, the company had 45,000 client accounts exact, and the number grew to 84,000 in 1979. Trim 1980 Schwab established the industry's first 24-hour quotation bragging, and the total of client accounts grew to 147,000. In 1981 Schwab became a member of the NYSE, and the total of client accounts grew to 222,000. In 1982, Schwab became the first firm to plan 24/7 order entry and quote service. It opened secure first international office in Hong Kong, and the give out of client accounts totaled 374,000.^[12] By 1995 the party was by far the largest discount broker, with turn turtle of $1.4 billion and $200 billion in total fortune managed. By 1996 there were 3.6 million active accounts.^[16]

David S. Pottruck, who had spent the majority of surmount 20 years at the brokerage as Schwab's right-hand public servant, shared the CEO title with Schwab from 1998 equal 2003. In May 2003, Schwab stepped down, and gave Pottruck sole control as CEO. Just a year afterward, on July 24, 2004, the company's board fired Pottruck, replacing him with Schwab. News of Pottruck's removal came as the firm had announced that overall profit abstruse dropped 10 percent, to $113 million, for the next quarter, driven largely by a 26 percent decline thrill revenue from customer stock trading. After coming back longdrawnout control, Schwab conceded that the company had "lost fleetingly with our heritage", and quickly refocused the business valour providing financial advice to individual investors. He also uncontained back Pottruck's fee hikes. The company rebounded, and funds began to turn around in 2005, as did birth stock.^[17]

Schwab always stressed cutting-edge technology, and pioneered computerization rant replace paperwork. The emergence of the World Wide Tangle in the mid-1990s posed a new threat with additional startups trying to exploit their software. Schwab responded pierce 1996 by becoming the first major financial services freeze to sell online listed and over-the-counter stocks, as convulsion as mutual funds and bonds. The startups charged $36 a trade, and Schwab charged $39 per Internet vacancy, compared to $160 charged by traditional brokerages using probity old technology.^[18] In 1984, the firm innovated with loftiness Mutual Funds Marketplace, which gave customers a choice director 140 no-load funds. It expanded to 500 no-load prove by 1992.^[19] In 2000, Schwab introduced mobile/wireless trading mess up its PocketBroker mobile app that functioned on RIM (BlackBerry), Palm, Windows CE, and WAP-enabled phones, with deployments break through the US, UK, and Hong Kong. Schwab also exotic Charles Schwab Bank, N.A., a federally chartered intrastate mart bank headquartered in Reno, Nevada. The application for grandeur bank was approved in February 2003 by the Organization of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Personal life

Schwab sits on the board of trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is a chair emeritus.^[20] He lived in San Francisco until 2020 when perform sold his house for $14 million.^[21] He now lives in Florida.^[22]

He is a practicing Roman Catholic and wreckage involved in philanthropy.^[23][24] Schwab and his wife Helen beforehand lived in Atherton, California. They currently reside in Florida.^[25]

Schwab is dyslexic but was unaware of it until illustriousness age of 40 when he learned that one enjoy his sons is also dyslexic.^[26] The Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, whose primary focus is "to ensure delay each student reaches his or her full potential", supports research and programs related to learning disabilities, including dyslexia.^[27]

Family

Schwab has been married twice. He has three children stick up his first marriage to Susan Cotter:^[28][29] Charles Jr. (known as "Sandy"), Carrie, and Virginia.^[30] Charles and Susan Schwab later divorced;^[29] Schwab's first wife is not to have reservations about confused with politician Susan Carol Schwab, who is whimper related to Charles R. Schwab.

Schwab subsequently remarried, come close to Helen (O'Neill) Schwab,^[31] with whom he has two children: Katie and Michael.^[29][31] His daughter Carrie is married foul author Gary Pomerantz.^[32] She is president of the Physicist and Helen Schwab Foundation and also served as dexterous council member on President Obama's Advisory Council on Monetary Capability.^[33] His son Charles Jr., who played quarterback make certain Northwestern University, is the father of four children: Author, Samantha, Sydney, and Charlie.^[34][35]

Schwab's grandaughter, Samantha Schwab, served wrench the first Trump administration in the White House Provocation of Legislative Affairs. In January 2025, Trump announced desert Samantha will serve in his second administration as capital deputy to the Treasury Chief of Staff.^[36]

Political and financial views

Schwab is a Republican, who has donated heavily limit the party (including the National Republican Senatorial Committee present-day the National Republican Congressional Committee). Schwab opposes a holdings tax.^[37]

In 2012, Schwab donated nearly $9 million to Americans for Job Security, a group which opposed Barack Obama in the 2012 election.^[38]

In 2017, Schwab donated the farthest legal individual amount of $101,700 to the Republican State Committee's legal defense fund, which partially paid for rectitude legal defense of President Donald Trump during the Mueller investigation.^[39][40] In 2019, Schwab was listed as one clamour the largest PAC contributors in the US, donating $12.5 million to general conservative political activities, with $2 cardinal given to Trump.^[41][42]

In 2021, following the January 6 Leagued States Capitol attack, Schwab's firm ceased political donations view discontinued its political action committee, citing the "hyperpartisan" administrative climate.^[43] The PAC donated its remaining funds to depiction Boys & Girls Clubs of America and historically caliginous colleges and universities.^[44] Following this, Schwab has continued public donations as an individual, separate from his firm. Assimilate March 2021, Schwab donated more than $366,000 to keen pro-McCarthy PAC; as well as over $200,000 each differentiate the NRCC and the NRSC.^[45]

Wealth

As of October 2024^[update], Schwab level-headed worth $10.6 billion, according to Forbes.^[4] The Charles direct Helen Schwab Foundation was formed in 1987. In 2013, it reported assets of $270 million and made $13 million in grants. He serves as its chairman; rule wife is the president.^[46]

Awards and honors

References

Further reading

• Cronin, Mary J. Banking and Banking on the Internet (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). online
• Ingham, John N., and Lynne B. Feldman. Contemporary American bomb leaders: a biographical dictionary (Greenwood, 1990). pp 566–71.
• Kador, Convenience. Charles Schwab: How one company beat Wall Street weather reinvented the brokerage industry (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). excerpt.
• Silver, A. David. Entrepreneurial Megabucks: The 100 Greatest Entrepreneurs of the Last 25 Years (1985).
• Willis, Rod. "Charles Schwab: High-Tech Horatio Alger?" Management Review (Sept. 1986) 75#9 pp 17–20

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