Schwab offers a comprehensive solution for your global investing needs

Investors and traders are increasingly looking to foreign markets to tap into an expanding global economy.
For portfolio diversification, and for potential growth.
To act on foreign moves as they happen, you need a way to trade foreign stocks online, directly in foreign markets. 

Introducing the Schwab Global Account–Which combines foreign market investing with the convenience and control of online trading.

Get direct online access through Schwab to twelve of the top-traded foreign markets in their local currencies.
View real time quotes for the stocks you're interested in. And when you are ready to trade, convert your cash into the local currency, then place the order. It's that simple.

View all your foreign market positions, transactions, and balances at a glance in their local currencies. Get multi-currency statements, too. You also get extensive research and commentary to help fuel your global investing strategy. 
Use the international stock screener to help find opportunities using over thirty different criteria, including rating, region, sector and more.

Evaluate over four thousand foreign stocks with Schwab equity ratings international and access foreign market research from Schwab and third parties. Schwab's team of global investing specialists is available to provide support from Sunday to Friday. 

Open an account today. Call 888-992-4685 now. Or visit schwab.com/global to get started.

Our mission is to help clients with anything related to foreign markets. Sometimes it's as simple as a client calling in to get a quote on a foreign security. They searched on the websites, he can't find anything available. So we're there to explain to him how he can go about doing that. We're are able to explain to clients that different markets have different requirements for placing trades. 

The mission of global investing isn't just to place orders or to accept trades. We want to educate. We want to talk about the benefits and the risks of international mutual funds or ETFs or even American depository receipts. All these products help clients diversify their portfolios and help them to reach their financial goals.

The individuals I work with on a global trading desk have had so much experience in trading with the foreign markets, and we like nothing better than to share that experience with our clients so they can be as effective as possible in their decision-making.

We really want them to understand that regardless of their asset size or if they trade ten times a year or once a year we are interested in them as our clients and as our investors.

One of the wonderful offers we have here a Schwab is our Schwab Global Account™. It gives clients access to twelve leading markets in the foreign world and they can hold eight different currencies in that account. One of the benefits is they can go online and trade live when those markets are open.

We have vast experience in all foreign markets as well as their products. We all have a passion for what we do and we like sharing  that passion with our clients. 

The value we offer doesn't just come with the quality of your trade, but it comes with the level of service that you can get.

At Charles Schwab I am a global investing specialist. My job in general is to help clients navigate the foreign markets. 
We work with any sort of client here at the global desk. We're just here to help them in achieving their financial goals.

So, I worked with a client who had been reading a pretty prestigious newspaper and he'd read about some securities that trade in Hong Kong, Australia and Canada. He had gone online and he tried to search for these companies and he was having some difficulty. So he called in asking, "How do I learn more about these companies?" We were able to use the resources on Schwab.com to actually find the Schwab equity rating reports. So I was able to take the time to review each individual report with him to make sure he understood what he was buying. We looked at three stocks he wanted to purchase. We reviewed the analyst ratings and the client called back and he wanted to make the trades. What we looked up was the liquidity on the different markets and where was the best market to send the trade to get the client the best overall price. He doesn't have to be placing a trade to call the global desk.

We're there to help educate clients, to explain things to clients, and although this client started off as a novice investor in the foreign markets, I can tell you now he's far from a novice investor. The number of conversations we've had, he's very competent in what he is doing and probably more competent than he knows.

To me, there is nothing more satisfying than having a client being able to call into a firm like ours and have a name that you can trust every time. And through the multiple conversations I've had with him, building that relationship and that trust is so important. It really gives me a good understanding of what they are trying to accomplish, which to me is the most important thing. 

I want to work with a firm that I can trust as an employee and I know clients want to work with a firm they can trust as a client. And I really am able to live up to that here at Charles Schwab.