Vanguard and Charles Schwab are popular brokerages for their low costs, ETF and mutual fund availability, and research qualities. Here's how the two compare to one another.

Charles Schwab typically requires a $1,000 initial minimum deposit for IRAs, but it can be waived if you agree to make automatic monthly contributions of $100 or more.

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Vanguard, Fidelity and Schwab are three of the biggest players in the brokerage space, offering a wide range of investment and banking products. In fact, you can open just about any type of ...

This means Schwab must do more sampling, commonly called "optimization" by the index fund industry. For example, the Vanguard U.S. fund holds 3,295 stocks, while the Schwab fund holds 1,925 stocks.

Compare Charles Schwab and Vanguard based on commissions, fees, research, ease-of-use, platform and other features.

The Vanguard fund holds 3,295 stocks, while the Schwab fund holds 1,925 stocks. Pollackov did confirm that Schwab's fund had some negative tracking error, but said it was less than 0.10 percent ...

Schwab decided to compete in that arena and introduced a very respectable group of ETFs that also have very low expense ratios. In this piece I'm running a comparison on the international ETF ...

Vanguard can route trades to international stock markets, but that comes with the cost of a $50 fee in addition to a commission on every trade. Charles Schwab doesn't offer the ability to trade ...

Schwab’s short-term Treasury fund undercuts Vanguard on price, as do its Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, real estate and small-company stock funds. BlackRock presents a more complicated ...

Vanguard accounts can carry a $20 maintenance fee known as an annual "account service fee," which it charges customers who don't have at least $10,000 invested in its mutual funds or ETFs.

Charles Schwab would like to say they have Vanguard ETFs in their sights, but that would require a very powerful telescope. It isn’t realistic to compare the two ETF providers yet because ...