Schwab Charitable

• This DAF Has Open Architecture

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  August 7, 2009

  Schwab Charitable expands the investment choices for its donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts and adds asset allocation tools. The result: open architecture.

• Microfinance: Guaranteed

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  July 1, 2009

  Super-affluent philanthropists are able to put their assets to work in ways that those with more modest wealth perhaps cannot even envisage. Earlier this year, Schwab...

• Accounts That Keep On Giving

  By Robert Scott Martin  |  January 1, 2009

  More advisors are talking about philanthropy these days, but it's still an open secret that the clients are often the ones who have to get...

• CHARITABLE LEANINGS

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2008

  It may be mid-December, but there is still time for clients to establish a private charitable foundation or donor-advised fund in 2008 and receive a...

• Eight out of 10 advisors say they lack necessary charitable giving expertise

  By Staff Writer  |  May 28, 2008

  A recent survey from Schwab Charitable on charitable giving found: Wealthy Americans give 8 - 10 percent of annual income to charity, compared with 2...

• Give, Wisely

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2007

  No one need be extremely wealthy anymore to participate in charitable giving through donor advised funds (DAFs), but they can be, and some participants have...

• Sowing Good Works

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2006

  Philanthropy is very trendy right now. Think of Warren Buffett's decision to give away around $37 billion worth of his hard-earned Berkshire Hathaway stock to...