Schwab Is Back With First ETF Since 2013

  • Company plans large-cap stock fund based on in-house index
  • ‘Force to be reckoned with,’ Schwab now 5th-largest issuer

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It’s been a long time coming, but Charles Schwab Corp. is shaking up the exchange-traded fund industry once again with plans for its first new offering in four years.

Charles Schwab Investment Management, the brokerage’s money-managing arm, is seeking approval for a stock ETF that would track a proprietary index of the 1,000 largest U.S. companies, according to regulatory filingsBloomberg Terminal.