Every quarter, Registered Rep.'s “The Puzzler” offers a real-world puzzle and its solution, plus a contest for readers. The brainteasers are often real questions used by corporations to test the mental...
Registered Rep. presents the third installment of our brainteaser, The Puzzler (thanks, Car Talk). Every other month (or so), The Puzzler offers a real-world puzzle and its solution. Many are real brainteasers used by...
Registered Rep. presents the second installment of our newest feature, The Puzzler. Each month, the puzzle page will offer a real-world puzzle and its solution. This page will also feature a separate puzzle contest...
Be thankful you already have a job. Job interviews at many large companies feature brainteasers and puzzles that test the problem-solving skills of an applicant. When a job is on the line, these puzzles can be...
Can you name the Street's largest asset gatherer last year? Was it Merrill? Smith Barney? No, the title went to Charles Schwab. The pioneering discount broker, who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through...
In a nod to the smaller investors who gave the firm its early success, Charles Schwab Corp. has eliminated its remaining account service fees and its $3-per-order handling charge on equity trades.
Suspended from the ceiling in Chuck Schwab's corner office high above the financial district of San Francisco is a mobile whose delicate parts sway in response to the slightest breeze or environmental change. Beneath...
Imagine a business designed specifically to help increase the size of client accounts but one whose best success stories end in a customer outgrowing the firm and departing for a rival. This, more or less, was the...
Last December, when Paul O'Neill resigned as treasury secretary, the rumor mill churned out a number of potential nominees including one Charles Schwab. John Snow of CSX got the nod, but the mere prospect of Mr...
Charles Schwab: How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the Brokerage Industry is the first full-length book about Schwab by an independent writer. In the book, author John Kador describes a company that is...