A choice of funds that offer taxable or tax-free income
Low initial investments starting at $2,500
Considered less volatile than individual stocks or stock funds, and can help reduce your portfolio’s overall volatility.
Designed for next-business-day liquidity and are actively bought and sold like other mutual funds.
No fees for buying or selling
Principal investment strategies
To pursue its goal, the fund invests in high-quality short-term
money market investments issued by U.S. and foreign issuers,
such as:
• commercial paper, including asset-backed commercial paper
• promissory notes
• certificates of deposit and time deposits
• variable- and floating-rate debt securities
• bank notes and bankers’ acceptances
• repurchase agreements
• obligations that are issued by the U.S. government, its agencies
or instrumentalities, including obligations that are not fully
guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury, such as those issued by Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac (U.S. government securities)
All of these investments will be denominated in U.S. dollars,
including those that are issued by foreign issuers. Obligations that
are issued by private issuers that are guaranteed as to principal or
interest by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities are
considered U.S. government securities under the rules that govern
money market funds. Certain of the fund’s securities are subject to
credit or liquidity enhancements, which are designed to provide
incremental levels of creditworthiness or liquidity.
The fund may engage in repurchase agreement transactions that are
collateralized by cash or U.S. government securities. In addition, the
fund may engage in repurchase agreement transactions that are
collateralized by money market instruments, debt securities, loan
participations or other securities, including equity securities and
securities that are rated below investment grade or their unrated
equivalents as determined by the investment adviser.
In choosing securities, the fund’s manager seeks to maximize
current income within the limits of the fund’s investment objective
and credit, maturity and diversification policies. Some of these
Schwab Cash Reserves™ 1
policies may be stricter than the federal regulations that apply to all
money funds.
The investment adviser’s credit research department analyzes and
monitors the securities that the fund owns or is considering buying.
The manager may adjust the fund’s holdings or its average maturity
based on actual or anticipated changes in interest rates or credit
quality. To preserve its investors’ capital, the fund seeks to maintain
a stable $1.00 share price by operating, on or before October 14,
2016, as a “retail money market fund,” as such term is defined or
interpreted under the rules governing money market funds.