By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) - Schwab Asset Management on Monday said it cut fees on the Schwab High-Yield Bond ETF (SCYB) and the Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF, ...
By Suzanne McGee - Schwab Asset Management on Monday said it cut fees on the Schwab High-Yield Bond ETF and the Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF, which offers exposure to inflation-protectedBy Suzanne McGee
- Schwab Asset Management on Monday said it cut fees on the Schwab High-Yield Bond ETF and the Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF, which offers exposure to inflation-protected Treasury securities, to just three basis points, or 0.03%, to attract investors.Schwab's high-yield bond offering, launched earlier this year, competes head-to-head with products like the SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF . State Street slashed fees on ten SPDR ETFs in August, including that high-yield bond product.
"Investors continue to consistently rank the expense ratio at the top of the list of the factors they consider most important in owning an ETF," said David Botset, managing director of equity product management and innovation at Schwab."As we get into the low single digits, it's getting more challenging," Bostet added. U.S. equity ETFs that 10 or 15 years ago cost an investor as much as 0.50% to own now have fees of a tenth of that, or even less, he said.
Schwab doesn't want these low-cost ETFs to end up as loss leaders for the company's array of asset management products, Bostet said."We're confident we can still achieve a level of profitability" from scale, recouping in volume what is lost on pricing. Schwab has nearly $300 billion in ETF assets under management, out of more than $920 billion managed by Schwab Asset Management overall.
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