.Charles Schwab Chief Executive Officer Walt Bettinger is retiring from his duty at the end of December after 16 years leading the stock broker company, the company revealed Tuesday.Bettinger is going to be actually substituted on Jan. 1, 2025, through Charles Schwab President Rick Wurster. Bettinger will certainly stay as the co-chair of Schwab's board.Stock Graph IconStock graph iconCharles Schwab, 5 yearsIn a statement, Bettinger presented his 65th birthday party next year as a cause to step aside and also praised the choice of Wurster." The Schwab Panel's thoughtful and also self-displined approach to sequence planning assists make this change smooth. Rick Wurster and I have worked together everyday for greater than eight years. I possess total peace of mind in his management, as well as I am thrilled that the Schwab Panel of Supervisors has chosen him as my successor," the claim said.In a job interview on CNBC's "Squawk Container," Wurster indicated that there would certainly certainly not be actually any quick modification in technique along with the CEO handoff." I do not presume there are going to be a shift in the sense that our team're mosting likely to continue what our company've been actually performing, which is actually provide for our customers and also please all of them," Wurster said.Since Bettinger managed in 2008, the company's client properties have actually increased to $9.74 mountain coming from $1.14 trillion, as well as client stock broker accounts have actually increased to much more than 43 million from far fewer than 10 million. This development is due partially to Schwab's achievement of TD Ameritrade, which enclosed 2020. Bettinger pointed out on "Squawk Box" that the combination of Ameritrade was actually completed earlier this year and was another factor that he thought this was a happy times to step apart from the CEO role.Schwab's stock has actually gone up about 150% throughout Bettinger's tenure, which began during the financial situation, however it has underperformed the wider market over recent 2 years." I usually point out that very few CEOs halve their business's sell rate in the 1st 90 times, however that was pretty much what I walked into in the financial dilemma," Bettinger stated on "Squawk Carton." Allotments of Schwab were down around 1% in early morning investing Tuesday.