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August 17, 2010 at 08:00 PM
Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade have released their trading and asset figures for July with both firms showing higher net assets but lower average daily trading volume.
At San Francisco-based Schwab, net new assets entering the company from new and existing clients totaled $6.2 billion last month. Total client assets were $1.421 trillion as of July 31, up 11% from July 2009 and up 4% from June 2010.
Schwab had $5.5 billion in net new assets in June 2010 and $5.6 billion in July 2009. “July’s figure of $6.2 billion in relatively consistent with the prior month …” said spokesperson Greg Gable in a phone interview.”
Omaha, Neb.-based TD Ameritrade reported that it had roughly $340.1 billion in total client assets as of July 31, an increase of 21% from the same year-ago period and a jump of 5% from June 2010. (It does not release net new assets on a monthly basis.)
For the past three quarters, TD Ameritrade’s net new assets have topped the $27.9 billion in net new assets it reported for the full fiscal-year 2009, according to spokesperson Kim Hillyer. (The company does not release net new assets on a monthly basis.)
“We had record net new assets in fiscal 2009 and should do so again in fiscal 2010,” Hillyer said in a phone interview. “We continue to be very pleased with our asset gathering and where it is going.”
Schwab reported that its clients’ daily average trading volume was 365,300 in July 2010, down 1% from July 2009 and flat to June 2010, while TD Ameritrade’s average was 327,000 client trades per day, a drop of 12% from July 2009 and down 3% from June 2010.
Schwab’s Gable says trading levels in June and July are down from April and May, when average daily trading volume hit 440,000 and 512,000 respectively. While the lower levels are to be expected for summer months, “It shows there is still some investor activity, even a surprising amount,” he said.
