Schwab To Cut Fee on U.S. Large-Cap ETF
November 10 2015 - 2:50PM
Dow Jones News
Charles Schwab Corp. said it plans to trim the expenses on its
$4.9 billion Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF to 0.03% to bring it in line
with a fee cut BlackRock Inc. announced earlier Tuesday on its
competing iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF.
The fee cut on the Schwab exchange-traded fund is just
one-hundredth of a percentage point, but it is significant as
companies fight for the mantle of low-cost leader.
Schwab hasn't yet filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and gave no time frame for its fee cut. "Our intention
has always been to be the price leader in the ETF space, and we're
going to maintain that," a spokesman for Schwab said.
These are the lowest costs among U.S. ETFs with the exception of
one fund that is temporarily waiving charges, according to Thomson
Reuters Lipper. BlackRock's iShares Treasury Floating Rate Bond ETF
currently has no expenses as the company is waiving its usual 0.15%
fee, Lipper said.
BlackRock, the largest global provider of ETFs, Tuesday cut its
fees on seven of its iShares ETFs, a move that brought annual
expenses to just 0.03% of assets on the $2.7 billion iShares Core
S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF, down from 0.07%. "With today's
changes, we are providing investors with broader and more
diversified exposures at competitive prices," said Ruth Weiss, head
of U.S. iShares product team at BlackRock, in a news release.
Before the planned change announced by Schwab Tuesday, that
company had two ETFs with management fees of 0.04%, according to
Thomson Reuters Lipper. There are several ETFs, including at least
one from Schwab and several from the Vanguard Group at 0.05%, the
data firm said.
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