Charles Schwab Corp. The Group's principal activities are to provide security brokerage, banking and related financial services. Its activities are carried out through three segments: Investor Services segment provides retail brokerage and banking services to individual investors. Institutional segment provides custodial, trading, technology, practice ... More

Charles Schwab Corp. The Group's principal activities are to provide security brokerage, banking and related financial services. Its activities are carried out through three segments: Investor Services segment provides retail brokerage and banking services to individual investors. Institutional segment provides custodial, trading, technology, practice management, and other support services to independent investment advisors (IAs). The Corporate and Retirement Services segment provides retirement plan services for employers and employees, as well as support services for plan administrators. As of 31-Dec-2008, it has $1.137 trillion in client assets, 7.4 million active brokerage accounts, 1.4 million corporate retirement plan participants and 447,000 banking accounts. It operates in the United States, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong with 306 domestic branch offices in 45 states.