ETFs and mutual funds
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be a powerful solution as they combine the trading flexibility of stocks with the diversification benefits of a professionally managed investment. Through Schwab, you have access to a wide range of U.S. exchange-listed ETFs, backed by insights, expertise, and ongoing support from our trading professionals.
Streamline portfolios at a potentially lower cost—without sacrificing diversification or liquidity
ETFs offer built-in advantages that can help meet a variety of client needs, including:
- Market exposure and diversification—ETFs provide an easy way to gain diversified exposure within a specific asset class without purchasing individual securities.
- Transparency—To provide timely clarity into the specific investments held, most ETFs track publicly available indexes and managers generally report their holdings daily.
- Potential tax efficiency—Their unique creation and redemption process may reduce the number of taxable events distributed to shareholders.
- Low expense ratios—Because they generally track indexes and do not actively select securities, many ETFs have comparatively low expense ratios relative to actively managed investments.
Research, monitor, and compare ETFs
Through Schwab, you can access more than 5,000 ETFs online. Developed by experts at The Schwab Center for Financial Research and updated semi-annually, the Schwab ETF Select List® makes it easier for you to find the right ETFs based on your clients' investment needs and goals. Picked primarily for low cost of ownership, this ETF list, with over 75 categories, has been screened to ensure a basic standard of liquidity, viability, and structural stability.
Schwab offers dynamic online tools to research, compare, and monitor ETFs. Our Advisor Services Trading team can assist with trading strategies, complex trade execution, and block trade transactions.
Access low-cost Schwab ETFs
Schwab Asset Management® is one of the nation's largest asset managers and one of the largest providers of ETFs.1 Schwab ETFs can help you build diversified portfolios while simplifying and potentially lowering the cost of investing for your clients.
Over 95% of Schwab market cap index ETFs have expenses lower than 0.10%, with an asset-weighted average total expense ratio of just 0.04%.2
Schwab Asset Management is able to offer ETFs with the broad market access and diverse choices that clients seek with some of the lowest expenses in the industry.
For advisors who want to complement traditional market-cap index and actively managed strategies, Schwab Asset Management offers Fundamental Index® ETFs. Fundamental Index provides investors access to a straightforward, innovative indexing approach that is non-price-weighted, seeking to deliver excess return versus a traditional market cap–weighted index.
Mutual funds at Schwab
Mutual funds continue to be the core of many Schwab client portfolios, offering cost-effective access to a wide range of professional affiliated and third-party investment managers and both passive and active investment strategies.
To help you meet your clients' ever-evolving needs, you'll have access to mutual funds in all major investment disciplines, asset classes, and commission structures including:
- Institutional share classes, some available without a transaction fee
- Mutual funds and other no transaction fee funds through Schwab's Mutual Fund OneSource® service
- Schwab Advisor Services™-level funds and share classes at lower-than-usual investment minimums
- Specific funds or share classes that are added when possible to support your growing business needs
- Institutional No Transaction Fee Funds offer featuring over 2,200 no transaction fee funds from more than 70 asset managers.3
Access Schwab Funds
As an industry provider of index investments for more than 30 years, Schwab Asset Management offers a range of passive and active mutual funds, in addition to access to sub-advised mutual funds. We believe all investors, no matter how much they have to invest, should have access to the same low-cost Schwab funds—with no minimums.
For advisors who want to complement traditional market-cap index and actively managed funds, Schwab Asset Management offers Fundamental Index strategies. In 2007, Schwab Asset Management partnered with Research Affiliates to deliver investment options based on the Research Affiliates Fundamental Index strategy. Today Schwab Asset Management offers 12 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds that track indexes which follow the Fundamental Index methodology, providing investors access to a straightforward, innovative indexing approach that offers a complement to traditional market cap–weighted and actively managed strategies.
Schwab Asset Management also offers fixed income mutual funds actively managed by experienced portfolio managers. These tax-exempt mutual funds benefit from extensive credit research.
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1. Lipper as of June 30, 2026. Schwab Asset Management is the 5th largest provider of ETFs.
2. Morningstar Direct as of March 31, 2026.
3. Not all mutual funds from an asset manager may be available as INTF funds. The full list of available INTF funds can be found here.
Investors in mutual funds and ETFs should consider carefully information contained in the prospectus, or if available, the summary prospectus, including investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses. You can view and download a prospectus by visiting www.schwabassetmanagement.com/prospectus. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
Investment returns will fluctuate and are subject to market volatility, so that an investor's shares, when redeemed or sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Shares of ETFs are not individually redeemable directly with the ETF. Shares of ETFs are bought and sold at market price, which may be higher or lower than the net asset value (NAV).
Schwab may receive compensation from sponsors or issuers of third-party exchange-traded products (ETPs)—including exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded notes (ETNs)—or from their affiliates, advisers, or service providers for administrative and shareholder services, including platform technology and infrastructure, trading and transactional support, shareholder communications, educational resources, and data and reporting.
Compensation arrangements are established individually with each sponsor and will be implemented as providers join the program. The amount, structure, and timing of the compensation vary by agreement and may include flat fees, asset-based fees on the value of ETP assets held at Schwab, or other negotiated fee structures. Compensation agreements may differ across sponsors and products.
Schwab does not receive these platform-related payments from Schwab-sponsored ETFs.
Additional information about Schwab's financial and other relationships with ETFs is available here: Schwab's Financial and Other Relationships.
Schwab is a registered trademark of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Fundamental Index is a registered trademark of Research Affiliates, LLC.
There can be no assurance that the Fundamental Index methodologies will achieve their desired outcomes. Each investing strategy brings with it its own set of unique risks and benefits.
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC) receives remuneration from fund companies in the Mutual Fund OneSource® service for recordkeeping and shareholder services, and other administrative services. Schwab also may receive remuneration from transaction fee fund companies for certain administrative services.
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC) receives remuneration from fund companies participating in the institutional no transaction fee (INTF) platform for recordkeeping and shareholder services, and other administrative services. Schwab receives greater remuneration on institutional share classes that participate in INTF than institutional share classes that are available with a transaction fee. Institutional NTF funds may be available on the retail platform with a transaction fee.
Trades in no load funds available through Mutual Fund OneSource® service [including Schwab Funds], as well as certain other funds, are available without transaction fees. For each of these trade orders placed through a broker, a $25 service charge applies. Schwab's short-term redemption fee of $49.95 will be charged on redemption of funds purchased through Schwab's Mutual Fund OneSource service [and certain other funds with no transaction fee] and held for 90 days or less. Schwab reserves the right to exempt certain funds from this fee, including Schwab Funds®, which may charge a separate redemption fee, and funds that accommodate short-term trading. Funds are also subject to management fees and expenses.
Schwab Asset Management® is the dba name for Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., the investment adviser for Schwab Funds and Schwab ETFs. Schwab Funds are distributed by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (Schwab) Member SIPC. Schwab ETFs are distributed by SEI Investments Distribution Co. (SIDCO). Schwab Asset Management and Schwab are separate but affiliated companies and subsidiaries of The Charles Schwab Corporation and are not affiliated with SIDCO.