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Prospectus | June 21, 2024

Schwab Funds®

Schwab Fundamental Index* Funds

	Schwab® Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund (formerly, Schwab® Fundamental US Large Company Index Fund)			SFLNX
	Schwab® Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund (formerly, Schwab® Fundamental US Small Company Index Fund)			SFSNX
	Schwab® Fundamental International Equity Index Fund (formerly, Schwab® Fundamental International Large Company Index Fund)			SFNNX
	Schwab® Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund (formerly, Schwab® Fundamental International Small Company Index Fund)			SFILX
	Schwab® Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund (formerly, Schwab® Fundamental Emerging Markets Large Company Index Fund)			SFENX

As with all mutual funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved these securities or passed on whether the information in this prospectus is adequate and accurate. Anyone who indicates otherwise is committing a federal crime.

SCHWAB is a registered trademark of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. FUNDAMENTAL INDEX is a registered trademark of Research Affiliates LLC.

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Schwab Fundamental Index Funds

	Fund Summaries
	Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund					1
	Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund					5
	Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund					9
	Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund					13
	Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund					17
	Fund Details					21
	Investment Objectives and More About Principal Risks					21
	Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund					21
	Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund					23
	Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund					25
	Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund					28
	Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund					32
	About the Funds					35
	Portfolio Holdings					35
	Financial Highlights					36
	Fund Management					41
	Investing in the Funds					43
	Investing Through a Financial Intermediary					43
	Investing Directly with the Funds					43
	Share Price					44
	Additional Policies Affecting Your Investment					44
	Distributions and Taxes					46

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Schwab® Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund
(formerly, Schwab® Fundamental US Large Company Index Fund)

Ticker Symbol:

SFLNX

Investment Objective

Fund Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the fund. You may pay other fees, such as brokerage commissions and other fees to financial intermediaries, which are not reflected in the table and Example below.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
			None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management fees			0.25
Other expenses			None
Total annual fund operating expenses			0.25

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those time periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.

Expenses on a $10,000 Investment
1 Year			3 Years			5 Years			10 Years
	$	26		$	80		$	141		$	318

Portfolio Turnover

The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in the annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 7% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

To pursue its goal, the fund generally invests in stocks that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Large Index†. The index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the large company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the largest U.S. companies by fundamental size. The top 87.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

It is the fund’s policy that, under normal circumstances, it will invest at least 90% of its net assets (including, for this purpose, any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks included in the index. The fund will notify its shareholders at least 60 days before changing this policy. The fund will generally seek to replicate the performance of the index by giving the same weight to a given stock as the index does. However, when the investment adviser believes it is in the best interest of the fund, such as to avoid purchasing odd-lots (i.e., purchasing less than the usual number of shares traded for a security), for tax considerations, or to address liquidity considerations with respect to a stock, the investment adviser may cause the fund’s weighting of a stock to be more or less than the index’s weighting of the stock. The fund may sell securities that are represented in the index in anticipation of their removal from the index, or buy securities that are not yet represented in the index in anticipation of their addition to the index.

†

Index ownership – The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Large Index (the Index) is a service mark of RAFI Indices, LLC or its affiliates (collectively, RAFI) and has been licensed for use by Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. The intellectual and other property rights to the Index are owned by or licensed to RAFI. The Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by RAFI, its agents or service providers (collectively, the RAFI Parties). The RAFI Parties: (i) make no representation or warranty as to the results to be obtained from the use of the Index or otherwise; and (ii) shall not be liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index. For full disclaimer, please see the fund’s statement of additional information.

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but the investment adviser anticipates will be added to the index or as necessary to reflect various corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), (b) other investment companies, and (c) derivatives, principally futures contracts. The fund may use futures contracts and other derivatives primarily to seek returns on the fund’s otherwise uninvested cash assets to help it better track the index. The fund may also invest in cash and cash equivalents, including money market funds, and may lend its securities to minimize the difference in performance that naturally exists between an index fund and its corresponding index.

The investment adviser seeks to achieve, over time, a correlation between the fund’s performance and that of the index, before fees and expenses, of 95% or better. However, there can be no guarantee that the fund will achieve a high degree of correlation with the index. A number of factors may affect the fund’s ability to achieve a high correlation with the index, including the degree to which the fund utilizes a sampling technique (which involves investing in a limited number of index securities which, when taken together, are expected to perform similarly to the index as a whole). The correlation between the performance of the fund and the index may also diverge due to transaction costs, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances, and differences between the fund’s portfolio and the index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the fund but not to the index.

The fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold more than 25% of its total assets) in a particular industry, group of industries or sector to approximately the same extent that the index is so concentrated.

Principal Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money. The fund’s principal risks include:

the fund’s performance may be below that of the index. Errors relating to the index may occur from time to time and may not be identified by the index provider for a period of time. In addition, market disruptions could cause delays in the index’s rebalancing schedule. Such errors and/or market disruptions may result in losses for the fund.

New Index Risk. The fund’s comparative index was recently constituted and has not previously been utilized for a registered fund, which may create additional risks for investing in the fund.

Market Capitalization Risk. Securities issued by companies of different market capitalizations tend to go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions. During a period when securities of a particular market capitalization fall behind other types of investments, the fund’s performance could be impacted.

Large-Cap Company Risk. Large-cap companies are generally more mature and the securities issued by these companies may not be able to reach the same levels of growth as the securities issued by small- or mid-cap companies.

Concentration Risk. To the extent that the fund’s or the index’s portfolio is concentrated in the securities of issuers in a particular market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class, the fund may be adversely affected by the performance of those securities, may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more vulnerable to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class.

Derivatives Risk. The fund’s use of derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments. The fund’s use of derivatives could reduce the fund’s performance, increase its volatility and cause the fund to lose more than the initial amount invested. In addition, investments in derivatives may involve leverage, which means a small percentage of assets invested in derivatives can have a disproportionately large impact on the fund.

Liquidity Risk. The fund may be unable to sell certain securities, such as illiquid securities, readily at a favorable time or price, or the fund may have to sell them at a loss.

Securities Lending Risk. Securities lending involves the risk of loss of rights in, or delay in recovery of, the loaned securities if the borrower fails to return the security loaned or becomes insolvent.

For more information on the risks of investing in the fund, please see the “Fund Details” section in the prospectus.

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Performance

The bar chart below shows how the fund’s investment results have varied from year to year, and the following table shows how the fund’s average annual total returns for various periods compared to that of one or more indices. The Russell 1000® Index serves as the fund’s regulatory index and provides a broad measure of market performance. The fund generally invests in securities that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Large Index. The fund does not seek to track the regulatory index. This information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. All figures assume distributions were reinvested. Keep in mind that future performance (both before and after taxes) may differ from past performance. For current performance information, please see
www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus.

Annual Total Returns (%) as of 12/31

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Best Quarter: 18.47% Q2 2020

Worst Quarter: (26.07%) Q1 2020
Year-to-date performance (before taxes) as of 3/31/24: 9.35%

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/23
	1 Year		5 Years		10 Years
Before taxes		18.15%		15.29%		10.85%
After taxes on distributions		17.61%		14.21%		9.52%
After taxes on distributions and sale of shares		11.10%		12.13%		8.50%
Comparative Indices (reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
Russell 1000® Index		26.53%		15.52%	11.80%
RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Large Index(1)		—		—	—
Russell RAFI US Large Company Index		18.37%		15.55%	11.14%
Fundamental US Large Spliced Index(2)		18.37%		15.55%	11.14%

(1)

Effective June 21, 2024, the fund changed its comparative index from the Russell RAFI US Large Company Index to the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Large Index in connection with a change to the fund’s investment objective and investment strategy to invest its assets in accordance with the index. The index has not been in operation for a full calendar year, and therefore has no performance data to present. Performance of the fund prior to June 21, 2024, is based on the fund’s investment strategy to track the previous index.

(2)

The Fundamental US Large Spliced Index is an internally calculated index comprised of the FTSE RAFI US 1000 Index from the inception of the fund until the close of business on October 18, 2012, the Russell RAFI US Large Company Index from October 19, 2012 until the close of business on June 21, 2024, and the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Large Index from June 22, 2024 forward.

Investment Adviser

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., dba Schwab Asset Management®

Portfolio Managers

Christopher Bliss, CFA, Managing Director and Head of Passive Equity Strategies, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Jeremy Brown, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2019.

Ferian Juwono, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2013.

Agnes Zau, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2023.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

The fund is open for business each day that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is open. If the NYSE is closed due to weather or other extenuating circumstances on a day it would typically be open for business, or the NYSE has an unscheduled early closing on a day it has opened for business, the fund reserves the right to treat such day as a business day and accept purchase and redemption orders and calculate its share price as of the normally scheduled close of regular trading on the NYSE for that day.

Investors may only invest in the fund through an account at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (Schwab) or another financial intermediary. When you place orders to purchase, exchange or redeem fund shares through an account at Schwab or another financial intermediary, you must follow Schwab’s or the other financial intermediary’s transaction procedures.

There is no minimum initial investment for the fund.

Tax Information

Dividends and capital gains distributions received from the fund will generally be taxable as ordinary income or capital gains, unless you are investing through an IRA, 401(k) or other tax-advantaged account (in which case you may be taxed later, upon withdrawal of your investment from such account).

Payments to Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase shares of the fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of

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fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

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Schwab® Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund
(formerly, Schwab® Fundamental US Small Company Index Fund)

Ticker Symbol:

SFSNX

Investment Objective

Fund Fees and Expenses

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
			None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management fees			0.25
Other expenses			None
Total annual fund operating expenses			0.25

Example

Expenses on a $10,000 Investment
1 Year			3 Years			5 Years			10 Years
	$	26		$	80		$	141		$	318

Portfolio Turnover

Principal Investment Strategies

To pursue its goal, the fund generally invests in stocks that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Small Index†. The index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the small company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the smallest U.S. companies by fundamental size. The bottom 12.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

†

Index ownership – The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Small Index (the Index) is a service mark of RAFI Indices, LLC or its affiliates (collectively, RAFI) and has been licensed for use by Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. The intellectual and other property rights to the Index are owned by or licensed to RAFI. The Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by RAFI, its agents or service providers (collectively, the RAFI Parties). The RAFI Parties: (i) make no representation or warranty as to the results to be obtained from the use of the Index or otherwise; and (ii) shall not be liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index. For full disclaimer, please see the fund’s statement of additional information.

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The fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold more than 25% of its total assets) in a particular industry, group of industries or sector to approximately the extent that the index the fund is designed to track is also so concentrated.

Principal Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money. The fund’s principal risks include:

In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index. Errors relating to the index may occur from time to time and may not be identified by the index provider for a period of time. In addition, market disruptions could cause delays in the index’s rebalancing schedule. Such errors and/or market disruptions may result in losses for the fund.

New Index Risk. The fund’s comparative index was recently constituted and has not previously been utilized for a registered fund, which may create additional risks for investing in the fund.

Small-Cap Company Risk. Securities issued by small-cap companies may be riskier than those issued by larger companies, and their prices may move sharply, especially during market upturns and downturns.

Liquidity Risk. The fund may be unable to sell certain securities, such as illiquid securities, readily at a favorable time or price, or the fund may have to sell them at a loss.

For more information on the risks of investing in the fund, please see the “Fund Details” section in the prospectus.

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Performance

The bar chart below shows how the fund’s investment results have varied from year to year, and the following table shows how the fund’s average annual total returns for various periods compared to that of one or more indices. The S&P 500® Index serves as the fund’s regulatory index and provides a broad measure of market performance. The fund generally invests in securities that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Small Index. The fund does not seek to track the regulatory index. This information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. All figures assume distributions were reinvested. Keep in mind that future performance (both before and after taxes) may differ from past performance. For current performance information, please see
www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus.

Annual Total Returns (%) as of 12/31

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Best Quarter: 30.57% Q4 2020

Worst Quarter: (35.51%) Q1 2020
Year-to-date performance (before taxes) as of 3/31/24: 3.45%

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/23
	1 Year		5 Years		10 Years
Before taxes		20.14%		12.60%		8.54%
After taxes on distributions		19.68%		11.22%		6.97%
After taxes on distributions and sale of shares		12.14%		9.86%		6.46%
Comparative Indices (reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
S&P 500® Index		26.29%		15.69%	12.03%
RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Small Index(1)		—		—	—
Russell RAFI US Small Company Index		20.33%		12.79%	8.76%
Fundamental US Small Spliced Index(2)		20.33%		12.79%	8.76%

(1)

Effective June 21, 2024, the fund changed its comparative index from the Russell RAFI US Small Company Index to the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Small Index in connection with a change to the fund’s investment objective and investment strategy to invest its assets in accordance with the index. The index has not been in operation for a full calendar year, and therefore has no performance data to present. Performance of the fund prior to June 21, 2024, is based on the fund’s investment strategy to track the previous index.

(2)

The Fundamental US Small Spliced Index is an internally calculated index comprised of the FTSE RAFI U.S. Mid Small 1500 Index from the inception of the fund until the close of business on October 18, 2012, the Russell RAFI US

Small Company Index from October 19, 2012 until the close of business on June 21, 2024, and the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Small Index from June 22, 2024 forward.

Investment Adviser

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., dba Schwab Asset Management®

Portfolio Managers

Christopher Bliss, CFA, Managing Director and Head of Passive Equity Strategies, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Jeremy Brown, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2019.

Ferian Juwono, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2013.

Agnes Zau, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2023.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

There is no minimum initial investment for the fund.

Tax Information

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Payments to Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase shares of the fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the adviser and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

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Schwab® Fundamental International Equity Index Fund
(formerly, Schwab® Fundamental International Large Company Index Fund)

Ticker Symbol:

SFNNX

Investment Objective

Fund Fees and Expenses

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
			None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management fees			0.25
Other expenses			None
Total annual fund operating expenses			0.25

Example

Expenses on a $10,000 Investment
1 Year			3 Years			5 Years			10 Years
	$	26		$	80		$	141		$	318

Portfolio Turnover

Principal Investment Strategies

To pursue its goal, the fund generally invests in stocks that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Large Index†. The index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the large company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the developed ex U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the developed ex U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the largest developed ex U.S. companies by fundamental size. The top 87.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies, and their respective weights, included in the index are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

It is the fund’s policy that, under normal circumstances, it will invest at least 90% of its net assets (including, for this purpose, any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks included in the index, including depositary receipts representing securities of the index; which may be in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) and European Depositary Receipts (EDRs). The fund will notify its shareholders at least 60 days before changing this policy. The fund will generally seek to replicate the performance of the index by giving the same weight to a given stock as the index does. However, when the investment adviser believes it is in the best interest of the fund, such as to avoid purchasing odd-lots (i.e., purchasing less than the usual number of shares traded for a security), for tax considerations, or to address liquidity considerations with respect to a stock, the investment adviser may cause the fund’s weighting of a stock to be more or less than the index’s weighting of the stock. The fund may sell securities that are represented in the index in anticipation of their removal from the index, or buy securities that are not yet represented in the index in anticipation of their addition to the index. The fund does not hedge its exposure to foreign currencies. However, the fund may

†

Index ownership – The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Large Index (the Index) is a service mark of RAFI Indices, LLC or its affiliates (collectively, RAFI) and has been licensed for use by Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. The intellectual and other property rights to the Index are owned by or licensed to RAFI. The Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by RAFI, its agents or service providers (collectively, the RAFI Parties). The RAFI Parties: (i) make no representation or warranty as to the results to be obtained from the use of the Index or otherwise; and (ii) shall not be liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index. For full disclaimer, please see the fund’s statement of additional information.

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use forward contracts to lock in exchange rates for the portfolio securities purchased or sold, but awaiting settlement. These transactions establish a rate of exchange that can be expected to be received upon settlement of the securities.

Under normal circumstances, the fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in securities not included in the index. The principal types of these investments include, but are not limited to, those that the investment adviser believes will help the fund track the index, such as investments in (a) securities that are not represented in the index but the investment adviser anticipates will be added to the index or as necessary to reflect various corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), (b) other investment companies, and (c) derivatives, principally futures contracts. The fund may use futures contracts and other derivatives primarily to seek returns on the fund’s otherwise uninvested cash assets to help it better track the index. The fund may also invest in cash and cash equivalents, including money market funds, and may lend its securities to minimize the difference in performance that naturally exists between an index fund and its corresponding index.

Principal Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money. The fund’s principal risks include:

Equity Risk. The prices of equity securities rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual

companies, industries or the securities market as a whole. In addition, equity markets tend to move in cycles, which may cause stock prices to fall over short or extended periods of time.

Investment Style Risk. The fund is an index fund. Therefore, the fund follows the securities included in the index during upturns as well as downturns. Because of its indexing strategy, the fund does not take steps to reduce market exposure or to lessen the effects of a declining market. In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index. Errors relating to the index may occur from time to time and may not be identified by the index provider for a period of time. In addition, market disruptions could cause delays in the index’s rebalancing schedule. Such errors and/or market disruptions may result in losses for the fund.

New Index Risk. The fund’s comparative index was recently constituted and has not previously been utilized for a registered fund, which may create additional risks for investing in the fund.

Concentration Risk. To the extent that the fund’s or the index’s portfolio is concentrated in the securities of issuers in a particular market, industry, group of industries, sector, country or asset class, the fund may be adversely affected by the performance of those securities, may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more vulnerable to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector, country or asset class.

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investment objective or invest in accordance with its investment strategy. There is a risk that investments in securities denominated in, and/or receiving revenues in, foreign currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar. Foreign securities also include ADRs, GDRs, and EDRs, which may be less liquid than the underlying shares in their primary trading market, and GDRs, in particular, many of which are issued by companies in emerging markets, may be more volatile. To the extent the fund’s investments in a single country or a limited number of countries represent a large percentage of the fund’s assets, the fund’s performance may be adversely affected by the economic, political, regulatory, and social conditions in those countries, and the fund’s price may be more volatile than the price of a fund that is geographically diversified.

Liquidity Risk. The fund may be unable to sell certain securities, such as illiquid securities, readily at a favorable time or price, or the fund may have to sell them at a loss.

For more information on the risks of investing in the fund, please see the “Fund Details” section in the prospectus.

Performance

The bar chart below shows how the fund’s investment results have varied from year to year, and the following table shows how the fund’s average annual total returns for various periods compared to that of one or more indices. The MSCI EAFE Index serves as the fund’s regulatory index and provides a broad measure of market performance. The fund generally invests in securities that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Large Index. The fund does not seek to track the regulatory index. This information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. All figures assume distributions were reinvested. Keep in mind that future performance (both before and after taxes) may differ from past performance. For current performance information, please see
www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus.

Annual Total Returns (%) as of 12/31

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Best Quarter: 21.62% Q4 2020

Worst Quarter: (27.49%) Q1 2020
Year-to-date performance (before taxes) as of 3/31/24: 5.33%

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/23
	1 Year		5 Years		10 Years
Before taxes		19.92%		9.26%		4.80%
After taxes on distributions		19.19%		8.64%		4.20%
After taxes on distributions and sale of shares		12.62%		7.44%		3.84%
Comparative Indices (reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
MSCI EAFE Index (Net)(1)		18.24%		8.16%	4.28%
RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Large Index (Net)(1)(2)		—		—	—
Russell RAFI Developed ex US Large Company Index (Net)(1)		20.29%		9.40%	4.98%
Fundamental Developed ex US Large Spliced Index(1)(3)		20.29%		9.40%	4.98%

(1)

The net version of the index reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for expenses or other taxes.

(2)

Effective June 21, 2024, the fund changed its comparative index from the Russell RAFI Developed ex US Large Company Index (Net) to the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Large Index (Net) in connection with a change to the fund’s investment objective and investment strategy to invest its assets in accordance with the index. The index has not been in operation for a full calendar year, and therefore has no performance data to present. Performance of the fund prior to June 21, 2024, is based on the fund’s investment strategy to track the previous index.

(3)

The Fundamental Developed ex US Large Spliced Index is an internally calculated index comprised of the FTSE RAFI Developed ex-US 1000 Index from the inception of the fund until the close of business on October 18, 2012, the Russell RAFI Developed ex US Large Company Index (Net) from October 19, 2012 until the close of business on June 21, 2024, and the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Large Index (Net) from June 22, 2024 forward.

Investment Adviser

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., dba Schwab Asset Management®

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Portfolio Managers

Christopher Bliss, CFA, Managing Director and Head of Passive Equity Strategies, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Mariela Jobson, Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

Joselle Duncan, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

Jiwei Gu, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

David Rios, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

There is no minimum initial investment for the fund.

Tax Information

Payments to Financial Intermediaries

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Schwab® Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund
(formerly, Schwab® Fundamental International Small Company Index Fund)

Ticker Symbol:

SFILX

Investment Objective

Fund Fees and Expenses

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
			None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management fees			0.39
Other expenses			None
Total annual fund operating expenses			0.39

Example

Expenses on a $10,000 Investment
1 Year			3 Years			5 Years			10 Years
	$	40		$	125		$	219		$	493

Portfolio Turnover

Principal Investment Strategies

To pursue its goal, the fund generally invests in stocks that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index†. The index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the small company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the developed ex U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the developed ex U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the smallest developed ex U.S. companies by fundamental size. The bottom 12.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

It is the fund’s policy that, under normal circumstances, it will invest at least 90% of its net assets (including, for this purpose, any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks included in the index, including depositary receipts representing securities of the index; which may be in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) and European Depositary Receipts (EDRs). The fund will notify its shareholders at least 60 days before changing this policy. The fund will generally seek to replicate the performance of the index by giving the same weight to a given stock as the index does. However, when the investment adviser believes it is in the best interest of the fund, such as to avoid purchasing odd-lots (i.e., purchasing less than the usual number of shares traded for a security), for tax considerations, or to address liquidity considerations with respect to a stock, the investment adviser may cause the fund’s weighting of a stock to be more or less than the index’s weighting of the stock. The fund may sell securities that are represented in the index in anticipation of their removal from the index, or buy securities that are not yet represented in the index in anticipation of their addition to the index. The fund does not hedge its exposure to foreign currencies. However, the fund may

†

Index ownership – The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index (the Index) is a service mark of RAFI Indices, LLC or its affiliates (collectively, RAFI) and has been licensed for use by Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. The intellectual and other property rights to the Index are owned by or licensed to RAFI. The Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by RAFI, its agents or service providers (collectively, the RAFI Parties). The RAFI Parties: (i) make no representation or warranty as to the results to be obtained from the use of the Index or otherwise; and (ii) shall not be liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index. For full disclaimer, please see the fund’s statement of additional information.

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The fund will concentrate its investments (i.e., hold more than 25% of its assets) in a particular industry, group of industries or sector to approximately the extent that the index the fund is designed to track is also so concentrated.

Principal Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money. The fund’s principal risks include:

Equity Risk. The prices of equity securities rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual

companies, industries or the securities market as a whole. In addition, equity markets tend to move in cycles, which may cause stock prices to fall over short or extended periods of time.

Investment Style Risk. The fund is an index fund. Therefore, the fund follows the securities included in the index, which may include real estate investment trusts, during upturns as well as downturns. Because of its indexing strategy, the fund does not take steps to reduce market exposure or to lessen the effects of a declining market. In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index. Errors relating to the index may occur from time to time and may not be identified by the index provider for a period of time. In addition, market disruptions could cause delays in the index’s rebalancing schedule. Such errors and/or market disruptions may result in losses for the fund.

New Index Risk. The fund’s comparative index was recently constituted and has not previously been utilized for a registered fund, which may create additional risks for investing in the fund.

Concentration Risk. To the extent that the fund’s or the index’s portfolio is concentrated in the securities of issuers in a particular market, industry, group of industries, sector, country or asset class, the fund may be adversely affected by the performance of those securities, may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more vulnerable to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector, country or asset class.

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Liquidity Risk. The fund may be unable to sell certain securities, such as illiquid securities, readily at a favorable time or price, or the fund may have to sell them at a loss.

For more information on the risks of investing in the fund, please see the “Fund Details” section in the prospectus.

Performance

The bar chart below shows how the fund’s investment results have varied from year to year, and the following table shows how the fund’s average annual total returns for various periods compared to that of one or more indices. The MSCI EAFE Index serves as the fund’s regulatory index and provides a broad measure of market performance. The fund generally invests in securities that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index. The fund does not seek to track the regulatory index. This information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. All figures assume distributions were reinvested. Keep in mind that future performance (both before and after taxes) may differ from past performance. For current performance information, please see
www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus.

Annual Total Returns (%) as of 12/31

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Best Quarter: 18.33% Q2 2020

Worst Quarter: (28.91%) Q1 2020
Year-to-date performance (before taxes) as of 3/31/24: 1.41%

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/23
	1 Year		5 Years		10 Years
Before taxes		14.83%		6.64%		4.71%
After taxes on distributions		14.16%		5.85%		3.95%
After taxes on distributions and sale of shares		9.53%		5.29%		3.73%
Comparative Indices (reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
MSCI EAFE Index (Net)(1)		18.24%		8.16%	4.28%
RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index (Net)(1)(2)		—		—	—
Russell RAFI Developed ex US Small Company Index (Net)(1)		15.37%		7.00%	5.09%
Fundamental Developed ex US Small Spliced Index(1)(3)		15.37%		7.00%	5.09%

(1)

The net version of the index reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for expenses or other taxes.

(2)

Effective June 21, 2024, the fund changed its comparative index from the Russell RAFI Developed ex US Small Company Index (Net) to the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index (Net) in connection with a change to the fund’s investment objective and investment strategy to invest its assets in accordance with the index. The index has not been in operation for a full calendar year, and therefore has no performance data to present. Performance of the fund prior to June 21, 2024, is based on the fund’s investment strategy to track the previous index.

(3)

The Fundamental Developed ex US Small Spliced Index is an internally calculated index comprised of the FTSE RAFI Developed ex U.S. Mid Small 1500 Index from the inception of the fund until the close of business on October 18, 2012, the Russell RAFI Developed ex US Small Company Index (Net) from October 19, 2012 until the close of business on June 21, 2024, and the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index (Net) from June 22, 2024 forward.

Investment Adviser

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., dba Schwab Asset Management®

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Portfolio Managers

Christopher Bliss, CFA, Managing Director and Head of Passive Equity Strategies, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Mariela Jobson, Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

Joselle Duncan, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

Jiwei Gu, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

David Rios, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

There is no minimum initial investment for the fund.

Tax Information

Payments to Financial Intermediaries

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Schwab® Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund
(formerly, Schwab® Fundamental Emerging Markets Large Company Index Fund)

Ticker Symbol:

SFENX

Before you invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks. You can find the fund’s prospectus, Statement of Additional Information (SAI), reports to shareholders and other information about the fund online at www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus. You can also obtain this information at no cost by calling
1-866-414-6349 or by sending an email request to [email protected]. If you purchase or hold fund shares through a financial intermediary, the fund’s prospectus, SAI, reports to shareholders and other information about the fund are available from your financial intermediary.

The fund’s prospectus and SAI, both dated June 21, 2024, include a more detailed discussion of fund investment policies and the risks associated with various fund investments. The prospectus and SAI are incorporated by reference into the summary prospectus, making them legally a part of the summary prospectus.

Investment Objective

Fund Fees and Expenses

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
			None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a % of the value of your investment)
Management fees			0.39
Other expenses			None
Total annual fund operating expenses			0.39

Example

Expenses on a $10,000 Investment
1 Year			3 Years			5 Years			10 Years
	$	40		$	125		$	219		$	493

Portfolio Turnover

Principal Investment Strategies

To pursue its goal, the fund generally invests in stocks that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Emerging Markets Index†. The index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the large company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the emerging markets companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the emerging markets companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the largest emerging markets companies by fundamental size. The top 87.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective

†

Index ownership – The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Emerging Markets Index (the Index) is a service mark of RAFI Indices, LLC or its affiliates (collectively, RAFI) and has been licensed for use by Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. The intellectual and other property rights to the Index are owned by or licensed to RAFI. The Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund is not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by RAFI, its agents or service providers (collectively, the RAFI Parties). The RAFI Parties: (i) make no representation or warranty as to the results to be obtained from the use of the Index or otherwise; and (ii) shall not be liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index. For full disclaimer, please see the fund’s statement of additional information.

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weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

It is the fund’s policy that, under normal circumstances, it will invest at least 80% of its net assets (including, for this purpose, any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks included in the index, including depositary receipts representing securities of the index; which may be in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) and European Depositary Receipts (EDRs). The fund will notify its shareholders at least 60 days before changing this policy. The fund may sell securities that are represented in the index in anticipation of their removal from the index, or buy securities that are not yet represented in the index in anticipation of their addition to the index. The fund does not hedge its exposure to foreign currencies. However, the fund may use forward contracts to lock in exchange rates for the portfolio securities purchased or sold, but awaiting settlement. These transactions establish a rate of exchange that can be expected to be received upon settlement of the securities.

Under normal circumstances, the fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities not included in the index. The principal types of these investments include, but are not limited to, those that the investment adviser believes will help the fund track the index, such as investments in (a) securities that are not represented in the index but the investment adviser anticipates will be added to the index or as necessary to reflect various corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), (b) other investment companies, and (c) derivatives, principally futures contracts. The fund may use futures contracts and other derivatives primarily to (a) seek returns on the fund’s otherwise uninvested cash assets to help it better track the index and (b) obtain exposure substantially similar to that provided by certain securities included in the index which the fund may not be able to purchase or hold directly due to restrictions and/or regulations on investments in the applicable local markets. The fund may also invest in cash and cash equivalents, including money market funds, and may lend its securities to minimize the difference in performance that naturally exists between an index fund and its corresponding index.

Because it may not be possible or practicable to purchase all of the stocks in the index, the investment adviser seeks to track the total return of the index by using sampling techniques. Sampling techniques involve investing in a limited number of index securities which, when taken together, are expected to perform similarly to the index as a whole. These techniques are based on a variety of factors, including performance attributes, tax considerations, capitalization, dividend yield, price/earnings ratio, industry factors, risk factors and other characteristics. The fund generally expects that its portfolio will hold less than the total number of securities in the index, but reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the fund’s investment objective. The fund generally expects that its portfolio characteristics will be similar to those of the index.

The investment adviser seeks to achieve, over time, a correlation between the fund’s performance and that of the index, before fees

and expenses, of 95% or better. However, there can be no guarantee that the fund will achieve a high degree of correlation with the index. A number of factors may affect the fund’s ability to achieve a high correlation with the index, including the number of index securities held by the fund as part of the sampling techniques. The correlation between the performance of the fund and the index may also diverge due to transaction costs, asset valuations, corporate actions (such as mergers and spin-offs), timing variances, and differences between the fund’s portfolio and the index resulting from legal restrictions (such as diversification requirements) that apply to the fund but not to the index.

Principal Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money. The fund’s principal risks include:

New Index Risk. The fund’s comparative index was recently constituted and has not previously been utilized for a registered fund, which may create additional risks for investing in the fund.

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Concentration Risk. To the extent that the fund’s or the index’s portfolio is concentrated in the securities of issuers in a particular market, industry, group of industries, sector, country or asset class, the fund may be adversely affected by the performance of those securities, may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more vulnerable to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector, country or asset class.

Foreign Investment Risk. The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers involve certain risks that may be greater than those associated with investments in securities of U.S. issuers. These include risks of adverse changes in foreign economic, political, regulatory and other conditions; changes in currency exchange rates or exchange control regulations (including limitations on currency movements and exchanges); the imposition of economic sanctions or other government restrictions; differing accounting, auditing, financial reporting and legal standards and practices; differing securities market structures; and higher transaction costs. These risks may negatively impact the value or liquidity of the fund’s investments and could impair the fund’s ability to meet its investment objective or invest in accordance with its investment strategy. There is a risk that investments in securities denominated in, and/or receiving revenues in, foreign currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar. Foreign securities also include ADRs, GDRs and EDRs, which may be less liquid than the underlying shares in their primary trading market, and GDRs, in particular, many of which are issued by companies in emerging markets, may be more volatile. Foreign securities may also include investments in variable interest entities (VIEs) structures, which are created by China-based operating companies in jurisdictions outside of China to obtain indirect financing due to Chinese regulations that prohibit non-Chinese ownership of those companies. To the extent the fund’s investments in a single country or a limited number of countries represent a large percentage of the fund’s assets, the fund’s performance may be adversely affected by the economic, political, regulatory and social conditions in those countries, and the fund’s price may be more volatile than the price of a fund that is geographically diversified.

Emerging Markets Risk. Emerging market countries may be more likely to experience political turmoil or rapid changes in market or economic conditions than more developed countries. Emerging market countries often have less uniformity in accounting, auditing, financial reporting and recordkeeping requirements and greater risk associated with the custody of securities. In addition, the financial stability of issuers (including governments) in emerging

market countries may be more precarious than in developed countries. As a result, there may be an increased risk of illiquidity and price volatility associated with the fund’s investments in emerging market countries, which may be magnified by currency fluctuations relative to the U.S. dollar, and, at times, it may be difficult to value such investments.

Liquidity Risk. The fund may be unable to sell certain securities, such as illiquid securities, readily at a favorable time or price, or the fund may have to sell them at a loss.

Sampling Index Tracking Risk. The fund may not fully replicate the index and may hold securities not included in the index. As a result, the fund is subject to the risk that the investment adviser’s investment management strategy, the implementation of which is subject to a number of constraints, may not produce the intended results. Because the fund utilizes a sampling approach it may not track the return of the index as well as it would if the fund purchased all of the securities in the index.

For more information on the risks of investing in the fund, please see the “Fund Details” section in the prospectus.

Performance

The bar chart below shows how the fund’s investment results have varied from year to year, and the following table shows how the fund’s average annual total returns for various periods compared to that of one or more indices. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index serves as the fund’s regulatory index and provides a broad measure of market performance. The fund generally invests in securities that are included in the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Emerging Markets Index. The fund does not seek to track the regulatory index. This information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund. All figures assume distributions were reinvested. Keep in mind that future performance (both before and after taxes) may differ from past performance. For current performance information, please see
www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus.

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Annual Total Returns (%) as of 12/31

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Best Quarter: 21.76% Q4 2020

Worst Quarter: (30.98%) Q1 2020
Year-to-date performance (before taxes) as of 3/31/24: 2.59%

Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/23
	1 Year		5 Years		10 Years
Before taxes		14.89%		5.09%		3.21%
After taxes on distributions		13.48%		4.11%		2.52%
After taxes on distributions and sale of shares		9.66%		3.99%		2.56%
Comparative Indices (reflect no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)
MSCI Emerging Markets Index (Net)(1)		9.83%		3.69%	2.66%
RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Emerging Markets Index (Net)(1)(2)		—		—	—
Russell RAFI Emerging Markets Large Company Index (Net)(1)		15.90%		5.59%	3.86%
Fundamental Emerging Markets Spliced Index(1)(3)		15.90%		5.59%	3.86%

(1)

The net version of the index reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes, but reflects no deductions for expenses or other taxes.

(2)

Effective June 21, 2024, the fund changed its comparative index from the Russell RAFI Emerging Markets Large Company Index (Net) to the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Emerging Markets Index (Net) in connection with a change to the fund’s investment objective and investment strategy to invest its assets in accordance with the index. The index has not been in operation for a full calendar year, and therefore has no performance data to present. Performance of the fund prior to June 21, 2024, is based on the fund’s investment strategy to track the previous index.

(3)

The Fundamental Emerging Markets Spliced Index is an internally calculated index comprised of the FTSE RAFI Emerging Index from the inception of the fund until the close of business on October 18, 2012, the Russell RAFI Emerging Markets Large Company Index (Net) from October 19, 2012 until the close of business on June 21, 2024, and the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Emerging Markets Index (Net) from June 22, 2024 forward.

The after-tax figures reflect the highest individual federal income tax rates in effect during the period and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns depend on your individual tax situation. In addition, after-tax returns are not relevant if you hold your fund shares through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan, an individual retirement account (IRA) or other tax-advantaged account. In some cases, the return after taxes on distributions and sale of shares may exceed the fund’s other returns due to an assumed benefit from any losses on a sale of shares at the end of the measurement period.

Investment Adviser

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., dba Schwab Asset Management®

Portfolio Managers

Christopher Bliss, CFA, Managing Director and Head of Passive Equity Strategies, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Mariela Jobson, Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

Joselle Duncan, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

Jiwei Gu, CFA, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. She has managed the fund since 2024.

David Rios, Portfolio Manager, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the fund. He has managed the fund since 2017.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

There is no minimum initial investment for the fund.

Tax Information

Payments to Financial Intermediaries

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Fund Details

There can be no assurance that the funds will achieve their objectives. Except as explicitly described otherwise, the investment objectives, strategies and policies of each fund may be changed without shareholder approval.

The principal investment strategies and the main risks associated with investing in each fund are summarized in the fund summaries at the front of this prospectus. This section takes a more detailed look at some of the types of securities, the associated risks, and the various investment strategies that may be used in the day-to-day portfolio management of the funds, as described below. In addition to the particular types of securities and strategies that are described in this prospectus, each fund may use strategies that are not described herein in support of its overall investment goal. These additional strategies and the risks associated with them are described in the “Investment Strategies, Securities and Risks” section in the Statement of Additional Information (SAI).

Investment Objectives and More About Principal Risks

Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund

Investment Objective

The fund’s goal is to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of an index that measures the performance of large U.S. companies based on their fundamental size and weight. The fund’s investment objective is not fundamental and therefore may be changed by the fund’s board of trustees without shareholder approval.

Index

The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Large Index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the large company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the largest U.S. companies by fundamental size. The top 87.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. As of February 29, 2024, the index consisted of 727 constituent companies which had an average market capitalization of $440 billion (the market capitalization of the constituent companies ranged from $158 million to $3,074 billion). The index is owned by RAFI Indices, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research Affiliates Global Holdings, LLC. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

More Information About Principal Investment Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money.

Market Risk. Financial markets rise and fall in response to a variety of factors, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably. Markets may be impacted by economic, political, regulatory and other conditions, including economic sanctions and other government actions. In addition, the occurrence of global events, such as war, terrorism, environmental disasters, natural disasters and epidemics, may also negatively affect the financial markets. These events could reduce consumer demand or economic output; result in market closures, changes in interest rates, inflation/deflation, travel restrictions or quarantines; and significantly adversely impact the economy. Governmental and quasi-governmental authorities and regulators throughout the world have in the past often responded to serious economic disruptions with a variety of significant fiscal and monetary policy changes which could have an unexpected impact on financial markets and the fund’s investments. As with any investment whose performance is tied to these markets, the value of an investment in the fund will fluctuate, which means that an investor could lose money over short or long periods.

Equity Risk. The prices of equity securities rise and fall daily. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, industries or the securities market as a whole. Individual companies may report poor results or be negatively affected by industry and/or economic trends and developments. The prices of securities issued by such companies may suffer a decline in response. Governmental action, including the imposition of trade embargoes or tariffs, may also impact individual companies or markets as a whole. In addition, equity markets tend to move in cycles, which may cause stock prices to fall over short or extended periods of time.

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on the basis of investor protection, limitations or differences in the quality of financial reporting or other oversight mechanisms. Therefore, the fund will follow the securities in the index without consideration of these factors. In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index.

At times the segment of the markets represented by the index may underperform other market segments. A significant percentage of the index may be composed of securities in a single industry or sector of the economy. If the fund is focused in an industry or sector, it may present more risks than if it were broadly diversified over numerous industries and sectors of the economy. Because of the way the index is composed, the index may perform differently or worse than an index that is based solely on market capitalization.

Index-Related Risk. The index provider does not provide any warranty as to the timeliness, accuracy or completeness of any data relating to the index. Errors relating to the index, including index data, computations and/or construction, may occur from time to time and may not be identified by the index provider for a period of time or at all. Losses resulting from index errors may be borne by the fund and its shareholders. In addition, there can be no guarantee that the index will operate as intended during volatile market conditions or over the course of a full market cycle.

In addition, market disruptions could cause delays in the index’s rebalancing schedule which may result in the index and, in turn, the fund experiencing returns different than those that would have been achieved under a normal rebalancing schedule.

Market Capitalization Risk. Securities issued by companies of different market capitalizations tend to go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions. In addition, there may be less trading volume in securities issued by mid- and small-cap companies than those issued by larger companies and, as a result, trading volatility may have a greater impact on the value of securities of mid- and small-cap companies. Securities issued by large-cap companies, on the other hand, may not be able to attain the high growth rates of some mid- and small-cap companies. During a period when securities of a particular market capitalization fall behind other types of investments, the fund’s performance could be impacted.

Large-Cap Company Risk. Large-cap companies are generally more mature than smaller companies. They also may have fewer new market opportunities for their products or services, may focus resources on maintaining their market share, and may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges. As a result, the securities issued by these companies may not be able to reach the same levels of growth as the securities issued by small- or mid-cap companies.

Tracking Error Risk. As an index fund, the fund seeks to track the performance of the index, although it may not be successful in doing so. The divergence between the performance of the fund and the index, positive or negative, is called “tracking error.” Tracking error can be caused by many factors and it may be significant. For example, the fund may not invest in certain securities in the index, match the securities’ weighting to the index, or the fund may invest in securities not in the index, due to regulatory, operational, custodial or liquidity constraints; corporate transactions; asset valuations; transaction costs and timing; tax considerations; and index rebalancing, which may result in tracking error. The fund may attempt to offset the effects of not being invested in certain index securities by making substitute investments, but these efforts may not be successful. In certain circumstances, the fund may value individual securities based on fair value prices developed using methods approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees. To the extent the fund calculates its net asset value (NAV) based on fair value prices, the fund’s performance may diverge from the index. In addition, cash flows into and out of the fund, operating expenses and trading costs all affect the ability of the fund to match the performance of the index, because the index does not have to manage cash flows and does not incur any costs.

Derivatives Risk. The fund may use derivatives to enhance returns or hedge against market declines. Examples of derivatives are options, futures, options on futures and swaps. An option is the right to buy or sell an instrument at a specific price before a specific date. A future is an agreement to buy or sell a financial instrument at a specific price on a specific day. A swap is an agreement whereby two parties agree to exchange payment streams calculated in relation to a rate, index, instrument or certain securities and a predetermined amount. The fund’s use of derivatives that are subject to regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) could cause the fund to become a commodity pool, which would require the fund to comply with certain CFTC rules.

The fund’s use of derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments. Certain of these risks, such as liquidity risk, market risk and operational risk, are discussed elsewhere in this prospectus. The fund’s use of derivatives is also subject to lack of availability risk, credit risk, leverage risk, valuation risk, correlation risk and tax risk. Lack of availability risk is the risk that suitable derivative transactions may not be available in all circumstances for risk management or other purposes. Credit risk is the risk that the counterparty to a derivatives transaction may not fulfill its obligations. Leverage risk is the risk that a small percentage of assets invested in derivatives can have a disproportionately large impact on the fund. Valuation risk is the risk that a particular derivative may be valued incorrectly. Correlation risk is the risk that changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index. Tax risk is the risk that the use of derivatives may cause the fund to realize higher amounts of short-term capital gains. The fund’s use of derivatives could reduce the fund’s performance, increase the fund’s volatility, and could cause the fund to lose more than the initial amount invested. The fund’s use of derivatives also could create a risk of counterparty default under certain transactions, risks that the fund would need to liquidate portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so in order to meet margin and payment obligations, and legal risks relating to insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of a counterparty, or legality or enforceability of a contract.

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Liquidity Risk. Liquidity risk exists when particular investments may be difficult to purchase, sell or value, especially during stressed market conditions. The market for certain investments may become illiquid due to specific adverse changes in the conditions of a particular issuer or under adverse market or economic conditions independent of the issuer. In such cases, the fund, due to limitations on investments in illiquid securities and the difficulty in readily purchasing and selling such securities at favorable times or prices, may decline in value, experience lower returns and/or be unable to achieve its desired level of exposure to a certain issuer or sector. Further, transactions in illiquid securities may entail transaction costs that are higher than those for transactions in liquid securities. Liquidity risk also includes the risk that market conditions or large shareholder redemptions, which may occur rapidly or unexpectedly, may impact the ability of the fund to meet redemption requests within the required time period. In order to meet such redemption requests, the fund may be forced to sell securities at inopportune times or prices.

Securities Lending Risk. The fund may lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers, and other financial institutions provided a number of conditions are satisfied, including that the loan is fully collateralized. When the fund lends portfolio securities, its investment performance will continue to reflect changes in the value of the securities loaned, and the fund will also receive a fee or interest on the collateral. Securities lending involves the risk of loss of rights in, or delay in recovery of, the loaned securities if the borrower fails to return the security loaned or becomes insolvent. The fund will also bear the risk of any decline in value of securities acquired with cash collateral. The fund may pay lending fees to a party arranging the loan.

Operational Risk. The fund is exposed to operational risk arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or system failures. The fund seeks to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures believed to be reasonably designed to address these risks. However, these controls and procedures cannot address every possible risk and may not fully mitigate the risks that they are intended to address.

Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund

Investment Objective

The fund’s goal is to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of an index that measures the performance of small U.S. companies based on their fundamental size and weight. The fund’s investment objective is not fundamental and therefore may be changed by the fund’s board of trustees without shareholder approval.

Index

The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity US Small Index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the small company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the smallest U.S. companies by fundamental size. The bottom 12.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. As of February 29, 2024, the index consisted of 950 constituent companies which had an average market capitalization of $6 billion (the market capitalization of the constituent companies ranged from $21 million to $158 billion). The index is owned by RAFI Indices, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research Affiliates Global Holdings, LLC. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

More Information About Principal Investment Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money.

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Investment Style Risk. The fund is an index fund. Therefore, the fund follows the securities included in the index, which may include real estate investment trusts, during upturns as well as downturns. Because of its indexing strategy, the fund does not take steps to reduce market exposure or to lessen the effects of a declining market, even though these securities may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions. The index does not weigh securities on the basis of investor protection, limitations or differences in the quality of financial reporting or other oversight mechanisms. Therefore, the fund will follow the securities in the index without consideration of these factors. In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index.

Small-Cap Company Risk. Small-cap companies may be more vulnerable to adverse business or economic events than larger, more established companies and their securities may be riskier than those issued by larger companies. The value of securities issued by small-cap companies may be based in substantial part on future expectations rather than current achievements and their prices may move sharply, especially during market upturns and downturns. In addition, small-cap companies may have limited financial resources, management experience, product lines and markets, and their securities may trade less frequently and in more limited volumes than the securities of larger companies. Further, small-cap companies may have less publicly available information and such information may be inaccurate or incomplete.

Real Estate Investment Risk. Although the fund does not invest directly in real estate, due to the composition of the index, the fund may have exposure to securities of real estate investment trusts (REITs). Equity REITs may be affected by changes in the value of the underlying properties owned by the trusts. Further, REITs are dependent upon specialized management skills and may have their investments in relatively few properties, or in a small geographic area or a single property type. REITs are also subject to heavy cash flow dependency, defaults by borrowers and self-liquidation. The value of a REIT will also rise and fall in response to the creditworthiness of the issuer. In particular, the value of these securities may be affected by changes in interest rates. In addition, REITs could possibly fail to qualify for tax free pass-through of income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or to maintain their exemptions from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The failure of a company to qualify as a REIT under federal tax law may have adverse consequences to the fund. The above factors may also adversely affect a borrower’s or a lessee’s ability to meet its obligations to the REIT. In the event of a default by a borrower or lessee, the REIT may experience delays in enforcing its rights as a mortgagee or lessor and may incur substantial costs associated with protecting its investments. In addition, REITs have their own expenses, and the fund will bear a proportionate share of those expenses. Further, dividends paid by REITs are taxed as ordinary income and generally do not qualify for the preferential rate applicable to qualified dividend income. REITs may be more volatile and/or more illiquid than other types of securities.

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tracking error. The fund may attempt to offset the effects of not being invested in certain index securities by making substitute investments, but these efforts may not be successful. In certain circumstances, the fund may value individual securities based on fair value prices developed using methods approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees. To the extent the fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the fund’s performance may diverge from the index. In addition, cash flows into and out of the fund, operating expenses and trading costs all affect the ability of the fund to match the performance of the index, because the index does not have to manage cash flows and does not incur any costs.

Derivatives Risk. The fund may use derivatives to enhance returns or hedge against market declines. Examples of derivatives are options, futures, options on futures and swaps. An option is the right to buy or sell an instrument at a specific price before a specific date. A future is an agreement to buy or sell a financial instrument at a specific price on a specific day. A swap is an agreement whereby two parties agree to exchange payment streams calculated in relation to a rate, index, instrument or certain securities and a predetermined amount. The fund’s use of derivatives that are subject to regulation by the CFTC could cause the fund to become a commodity pool, which would require the fund to comply with certain CFTC rules.

Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund

Investment Objective

The fund’s goal is to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of an index that measures the performance of large non-U.S. developed market companies based on their fundamental size and weight. The fund’s investment objective is not fundamental and therefore may be changed by the fund’s board of trustees without shareholder approval.

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Index

The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Large Index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the large company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the developed ex U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the developed ex U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the largest developed ex U.S. companies by fundamental size. The top 87.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. As of February 29, 2024, the index consisted of 922 constituent companies which had an average market capitalization of $73 billion (the market capitalization of the constituent companies ranged from $53 million to $531 billion). The index is owned by RAFI Indices, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research Affiliates Global Holdings, LLC. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

More Information About Principal Investment Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money.

Investment Style Risk. The fund is an index fund. Therefore, the fund follows the securities included in the index during upturns as well as downturns. Because of its indexing strategy, the fund does not take steps to reduce market exposure or to lessen the effects of a declining market, even though these stocks may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions. The index does not weigh securities on the basis of investor protection, limitations or differences in the quality of financial reporting or other oversight mechanisms. Therefore, the fund will follow the securities in the index without consideration of these factors. In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index.

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Tracking Error Risk. As an index fund, the fund seeks to track the performance of the index, although it may not be successful in doing so. The divergence between the performance of the fund and the index, positive or negative, is called “tracking error.” Tracking error can be caused by many factors and it may be significant. For example, the fund may not invest in certain securities in the index, match the securities’ weighting to the index, or the fund may invest in securities not in the index, due to regulatory, operational, custodial or liquidity constraints; corporate transactions; asset valuations; transaction costs and timing; tax considerations; and index rebalancing, which may result in tracking error. In addition, the fund may not invest in issuers located in certain countries due to these considerations. The fund may attempt to offset the effects of not being invested in certain index securities by making substitute investments, but these efforts may not be successful. In certain circumstances, the fund may value individual securities based on fair value prices developed using methods approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees. To the extent the fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the fund’s performance may diverge from the index. In addition, cash flows into and out of the fund, operating expenses and trading costs all affect the ability of the fund to match the performance of the index, because the index does not have to manage cash flows and does not incur any costs. Tracking error may also be impacted by timing differences in currency conversions between the fund and the index and by the fund’s use of fair valuation.

Foreign Investment Risk. The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers involve certain risks that may be greater than those associated with investments in securities of U.S. issuers. These include risks of adverse changes in foreign economic, political, regulatory and other conditions; changes in currency exchange rates or exchange control regulations (including limitations on currency movements and exchanges); differing accounting, auditing, financial reporting and legal standards and practices; differing securities market structures; and higher transaction costs. In certain countries, legal remedies available to investors may be more limited than those available with respect to investments in the U.S. These risks may negatively impact the value or liquidity of the fund’s investments and could impair the fund’s ability to meet its investment objective or invest in accordance with its investment strategy. In addition, the fund’s investments in foreign securities may be subject to economic sanctions or other government restrictions, including trade tariffs, embargoes or limitations on trade which could have a significant impact on a country’s markets overall as well as global economies or markets. There also is the risk that the cost of buying, selling, and holding foreign securities, including brokerage, tax, and custody costs, may be higher than those involved in domestic transactions. The securities of some foreign companies may be less liquid and, at times, more volatile than securities of comparable U.S. companies. The fund may also experience more rapid or extreme changes in value as compared to a fund that invests solely in securities of U.S. companies because the securities markets of many foreign countries are relatively small, with a limited number of companies representing a small number of industries. To the extent the fund’s investments in a single country or a limited number of countries represent a large percentage of the fund’s assets, the fund’s performance may be adversely affected by the economic, political, regulatory and social conditions in those countries, and the fund’s price may be more volatile than the price of a fund that is geographically diversified.

Depositary Receipt Risk. Foreign securities also include ADRs, which are U.S. dollar-denominated receipts representing shares of foreign-based corporations. ADRs are issued by U.S. banks or trust companies and entitle the holder to all dividends and capital gains that are paid out on the underlying foreign shares. Foreign securities also include GDRs, which are similar to ADRs, but are shares of foreign-based corporations generally issued by international banks in one or more markets around the world. In addition, foreign securities include EDRs, which are similar to GDRs, but are shares of foreign-based corporations generally issued by European banks that trade on exchanges outside of the bank’s home country. Investment in ADRs, GDRs and EDRs may be less liquid than the underlying shares in their primary trading market and GDRs, many of which are issued by companies in emerging markets, may be more volatile.

Variable Interest Entities Risk. The fund may gain exposure to certain operating companies in China through legal structures known as variable interest entities (VIEs). In China, ownership of companies in certain sectors by non-Chinese individuals and entities (including U.S. persons and entities, such as the fund) is prohibited. To facilitate indirect non-Chinese investment, many China-based operating companies have created VIE structures. In a VIE structure, a China-based operating company will establish an entity outside of China that will enter into service and other contracts with the China-based operating company. Shares of the entities established outside of China are often listed and traded on an exchange. Non-Chinese investors (such as the fund) hold equity interests in the entities established outside of China rather than directly in the China-based operating companies. This arrangement allows U.S. investors to obtain economic exposure to the China-based operating company through contractual means rather than through formal equity ownership. An investment in a VIE structure subjects the fund to the risks associated with the underlying China-based operating company. In addition, the fund may be exposed to certain associated risks, including the risks that: the Chinese government could subject the China-based operating company to penalties, revocation of business and operating licenses or forfeiture of ownership interests; the Chinese government may outlaw the VIE structure, which could cause an uncertain negative impact to existing investors in the VIE structure; the contracts underlying the VIE structure may not be enforced by Chinese courts; and shareholders of the China-based operating company may leverage the VIE structure to their benefit and to the detriment of the investors in the VIE structure. If these actions were to occur, the market value of the fund’s investments in the VIE structure would likely fall, causing investment losses, which could be substantial, for the fund.

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Currency Risk. The fund’s investments in securities denominated in, and/or receiving revenues in, foreign currencies, will subject the fund to the risk that those currencies will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar. In either event, the dollar value of an investment in the fund would be adversely affected. Currency exchange rates may fluctuate in response to factors extrinsic to that country’s economy, which makes the forecasting of currency market movements extremely difficult. Currency rates in foreign countries may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time for a number of reasons, including changes in interest rates; intervention (or failure to intervene) by U.S. or foreign governments, central banks or supranational entities such as the International Monetary Fund; or by the imposition of currency controls or other political developments in the United States or abroad. These can result in losses to the fund if it is unable to deliver or receive currency or monies in settlement of obligations. Forward contracts on foreign currencies are not traded on exchanges; rather, a bank or dealer will act as agent or as principal in order to make or take future delivery of a specified lot of a particular currency for the fund’s account. The fund is subject to the risk of a counterparty’s failure, inability or refusal to perform with respect to such contracts.

Derivatives Risk. The fund may use derivatives to enhance returns or hedge against market declines. Examples of derivatives are options, futures, options on futures and swaps. An option is the right to buy or sell an instrument at a specific price before a specific date. A future is an agreement to buy or sell a financial instrument at a specific price on a specific day. A swap is an agreement whereby two parties agree to exchange payment streams calculated in relation to a rate, index, instrument or certain securities and a predetermined amount. The fund’s use of derivatives that are subject to regulation by the CFTC could cause the fund to become a commodity pool, which would require the fund to comply with certain CFTC rules.

Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund

Investment Objective

The fund’s goal is to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of an index that measures the performance of small non-U.S. developed market companies based on their fundamental size and weight. The fund’s investment objective is not fundamental and therefore may be changed by the fund’s board of trustees without shareholder approval.

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Index

The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Developed ex US Small Index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the small company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the developed ex U.S. companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the developed ex U.S. companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the smallest developed ex U.S. companies by fundamental size. The bottom 12.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. As of February 29, 2024, the index consisted of 1,715 constituent companies which had an average market capitalization of $4 billion (the market capitalization of the constituent companies ranged from $26 million to $98 billion). The index is owned by RAFI Indices, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research Affiliates Global Holdings, LLC. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

More Information About Principal Investment Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money.

Investment Style Risk. The fund is an index fund. Therefore, the fund follows the securities included in the index, which may include real estate investment trusts, during upturns as well as downturns. Because of its indexing strategy, the fund does not take steps to reduce market exposure or to lessen the effects of a declining market, even though these securities may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions. The index does not weigh securities on the basis of investor protection, limitations or differences in the quality of financial reporting or other oversight mechanisms. Therefore, the fund will follow the securities in the index without consideration of these factors. In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index.

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Tracking Error Risk. As an index fund, the fund seeks to track the performance of the index, although it may not be successful in doing so. The divergence between the performance of the fund and the index, positive or negative, is called “tracking error.” Tracking error can be caused by many factors and it may be significant. For example, the fund may not invest in certain securities in the index, match the securities’ weighting to the index, or the fund may invest in securities not in the index, due to regulatory, operational, custodial or liquidity constraints; corporate transactions; asset valuations; transaction costs and timing; tax considerations; and index rebalancing, which may result in tracking error. In addition, the fund may not invest in issuers located in certain countries due to these considerations. The fund may attempt to offset the effects of not being invested in certain index securities by making substitute investments, but these efforts may not be successful. In certain circumstances, the fund may value individual securities based on fair value prices developed using methods approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees. To the extent the fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the fund’s performance may diverge from the index. In addition, cash flows into and out of the fund, operating expenses and trading costs all affect the ability of the fund to match the performance of the index, because the index does not have to manage cash flows and does not incur any costs. Tracking error may also be impacted by timing differences in currency conversions between the fund and the index and by the fund’s use of fair valuation.

Foreign Investment Risk. The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers involve certain risks that may be greater than those associated with investments in securities of U.S. issuers. These include risks of adverse changes in foreign economic, political, regulatory and other conditions; changes in currency exchange rates or exchange control regulations (including limitations on currency movements and exchanges); differing accounting, auditing, financial reporting and legal standards and practices; differing securities market structures; and higher transaction costs. In certain countries, legal remedies available to investors may be more limited than those available with respect to investments in the U.S. These risks may negatively impact the value or liquidity of the fund’s investments and could impair the fund’s ability to meet its investment objective or invest in accordance with its investment strategy. In addition, the fund’s investments in foreign securities may be subject to economic sanctions or other government restrictions, including trade tariffs, embargoes or limitations on trade which could have a significant impact on a country’s markets overall as well as global economies or markets. There also is the risk that the cost of buying, selling, and holding foreign securities, including brokerage, tax, and custody costs, may be higher than those involved in domestic transactions. The securities of some foreign companies may be less liquid and, at times, more volatile than securities of comparable U.S. companies. The fund may also experience more rapid or extreme changes in value as compared to a fund that invests solely in securities of U.S. companies because the securities markets of many foreign countries are relatively small, with a limited number of companies representing a small number of industries. To the extent the fund’s investments in a single country or a limited number of countries represent a large percentage of the fund’s assets, the fund’s performance may be adversely affected by the economic, political, regulatory and social conditions in those countries, and the fund’s price may be more volatile than the price of a fund that is geographically diversified.

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Derivatives Risk. The fund may use derivatives to enhance returns or hedge against market declines. Examples of derivatives are options, futures, options on futures and swaps. An option is the right to buy or sell an instrument at a specific price before a specific date. A future is an agreement to buy or sell a financial instrument at a specific price on a specific day. A swap is an agreement whereby two parties agree to exchange payment streams calculated in relation to a rate, index, instrument or certain securities and a predetermined amount. The fund’s use of derivatives that are subject to regulation by the CFTC could cause the fund to become a commodity pool, which would require the fund to comply with certain CFTC rules.

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lending involves the risk of loss of rights in, or delay in recovery of, the loaned securities if the borrower fails to return the security loaned or becomes insolvent. The fund will also bear the risk of any decline in value of securities acquired with cash collateral. The fund may pay lending fees to a party arranging the loan.

Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund

Investment Objective

The fund’s goal is to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of an index that measures the performance of large sized companies, based on their fundamental size and weight, in emerging market countries. The fund’s investment objective is not fundamental and therefore may be changed by the fund’s board of trustees without shareholder approval.

Index

The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Emerging Markets Index selects, ranks, and weights securities by fundamental measures of company size – adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks – rather than market capitalization. The index measures the performance of the large company size segment by fundamental overall company scores (scores), which are created using as the universe the emerging markets companies in the RAFI Global Equity Investable Universe (the parent universe). Securities are grouped in order of decreasing score and each company receives a weight based on its percentage of the total scores of the emerging markets companies within the parent universe. The index is comprised of the largest emerging markets companies by fundamental size. The top 87.5% of the companies by cumulative fundamental score are included in the index. The companies included in the index, and their respective weights, are determined annually and are implemented using a partial quarterly reconstitution methodology in which the index is split into four equal segments and each segment is rebalanced on a rolling quarterly basis. As of February 29, 2024, the index consisted of 345 constituent companies which had an average market capitalization of $88 billion (the market capitalization of the constituent companies ranged from $65 million to $2,045 billion). The index is owned by RAFI Indices, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research Affiliates Global Holdings, LLC. The method of calculating the components of the index is subject to change.

More Information About Principal Investment Risks

The fund is subject to risks, any of which could cause an investor to lose money.

Investment Style Risk. The fund is an index fund. Therefore, the fund follows the securities included in the index during upturns as well as downturns. Because of its indexing strategy, the fund does not take steps to reduce market exposure or to lessen the effects of a declining market, even though these stocks may go in and out of favor based on market and economic conditions. The index does not weigh securities on the basis of investor protection, limitations or differences in the quality of financial reporting or other oversight mechanisms. Therefore, the fund will follow the securities in the index without consideration of these factors. In addition, because of the fund’s expenses, the fund’s performance may be below that of the index.

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Tracking Error Risk. As an index fund, the fund seeks to track the performance of the index, although it may not be successful in doing so. The divergence between the performance of the fund and the index, positive or negative, is called “tracking error.” Tracking error can be caused by many factors and it may be significant. For example, the fund may not invest in certain securities in the index, match the securities’ weighting to the index, or the fund may invest in securities not in the index, due to regulatory, operational, custodial or liquidity constraints; corporate transactions; asset valuations; transaction costs and timing; tax considerations; and index rebalancing, which may result in tracking error. In addition, the fund may not invest in issuers located in certain countries due to these considerations. The fund may attempt to offset the effects of not being invested in certain index securities by making substitute investments, but these efforts may not be successful. In certain circumstances, the fund may value individual securities based on fair value prices developed using methods approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees. To the extent the fund calculates its NAV based on fair value prices, the fund’s performance may diverge from the index. In addition, cash flows into and out of the fund, operating expenses and trading costs all affect the ability of the fund to match the performance of the index, because the index does not have to manage cash flows and does not incur any costs. Tracking error may also be impacted by timing differences in currency conversions between the fund and the index and by the fund’s use of fair valuation.

Foreign Investment Risk. The fund’s investments in securities of foreign issuers involve certain risks that may be greater than those associated with investments in securities of U.S. issuers. These include risks of adverse changes in foreign economic, political, regulatory and other conditions; changes in currency exchange rates or exchange control regulations (including limitations on currency movements and exchanges); differing accounting, auditing, financial reporting and legal standards and practices; differing securities market structures; and higher transaction costs. In certain countries, legal remedies available to investors may be more limited than those available with respect to investments in the U.S. These risks may negatively impact the value or liquidity of the fund’s investments and could impair the fund’s ability to meet its investment objective or invest in accordance with its investment strategy. In addition, the fund’s investments in foreign securities may be subject to economic sanctions or other government restrictions, including trade tariffs, embargoes or limitations on trade which could have a significant impact on a country’s markets overall as well as global economies or markets. There also is the risk that the cost of buying, selling, and holding foreign securities, including brokerage, tax, and custody costs, may be higher than those involved in domestic transactions. The securities of some foreign companies may be less liquid and, at times, more volatile than securities of comparable U.S. companies. The fund may also experience more rapid or extreme changes in value as compared to a fund that invests solely in securities of U.S. companies because the securities markets of many foreign countries are relatively small, with a limited number of companies representing a small number of industries. To the extent the fund’s investments in a single country or a limited number of countries represent a large percentage of the fund’s assets, the fund’s performance may be adversely affected by the economic, political, regulatory and social conditions in those countries, and the fund’s price may be more volatile than the price of a fund that is geographically diversified.

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EDRs, which are similar to GDRs, but are shares of foreign-based corporations generally issued by European banks that trade on exchanges outside of the bank’s home country. Investment in ADRs, GDRs and EDRs may be less liquid than the underlying shares in their primary trading market and GDRs, many of which are issued by companies in emerging markets, may be more volatile.

Emerging Markets Risk. The risks of foreign investments apply to, and may be heightened in connection with, investments in emerging market countries or securities of issuers that conduct their business in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may be more likely to experience political turmoil or rapid changes in market or economic conditions than more developed countries. Emerging market countries often have less uniformity in accounting, auditing, financial reporting and recordkeeping requirements and greater risk associated with the custody of securities. It is sometimes difficult to obtain and enforce court judgments in such countries. Material information about a company in an emerging market country may be unavailable or unreliable, and U.S. regulators may be unable to enforce a company’s regulatory obligations. There is often a greater potential for nationalization, expropriation, confiscatory taxation, government regulation, social instability or diplomatic developments (including war) in emerging market countries, which could adversely affect the economies of, or investments in securities of issuers located in, such countries. In addition, emerging markets are substantially smaller than developed markets, and the financial stability of issuers (including governments) in emerging market countries may be more precarious than in developed countries. As a result, there will tend to be an increased risk of illiquidity and price volatility associated with the fund’s investments in emerging market countries which may be magnified by currency fluctuations relative to the U.S. dollar, and, at times, it may be difficult to value such investments.

Derivatives Risk. The fund may use derivatives to enhance returns or hedge against market declines. Examples of derivatives are options, futures, options on futures and swaps. An option is the right to buy or sell an instrument at a specific price before a specific date. A future is an agreement to buy or sell a financial instrument at a specific price on a specific day. A swap is an agreement whereby two parties agree to exchange payment streams calculated in relation to a rate, index, instrument or certain securities and a predetermined amount. The fund’s use of derivatives that are subject to regulation by the CFTC could cause the fund to become a commodity pool, which would require the fund to comply with certain CFTC rules.

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the fund to realize higher amounts of short-term capital gains. The fund’s use of derivatives could reduce the fund’s performance, increase the fund’s volatility, and could cause the fund to lose more than the initial amount invested. The fund’s use of derivatives also could create a risk of counterparty default under certain transactions, risks that the fund would need to liquidate portfolio positions when it may not be advantageous to do so in order to meet margin and payment obligations, and legal risks relating to insufficient documentation, insufficient capacity or authority of a counterparty, or legality or enforceability of a contract.

About the Funds

The funds in this prospectus are index funds and share the same basic investment strategy: each of the funds tracks a RAFITM Fundamental High Liquidity Index which is based on the “Fundamental Index” methodology. This strategy distinguishes an index fund from an “actively managed” fund. Instead of choosing investments for the fund based on portfolio management’s judgment, an index is used to determine which securities the fund should own.

In contrast to most equity indices, which generally are based on market capitalization, the RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Index Series selects and weights stocks according to fundamental measures of company size: adjusted sales, retained operating cash flow, and dividends plus buybacks. The RAFI Fundamental High Liquidity Index Series determines constituent weights annually in March. The weights are then implemented using a quarterly reconstitution methodology that rebalances four equal segments on a rolling quarterly basis.

Because the composition of an index tends to be comparatively stable, index funds historically have shown low portfolio turnover compared to actively managed funds.

The funds are designed for long-term investors. Their performance will fluctuate over time and, as with all investments, future performance may differ from past performance.

Portfolio Holdings

The funds may make various types of portfolio securities information available to shareholders. The funds post a detailed list of the securities held by each fund at www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus (under “Portfolio Holdings”) as of month end. This list is generally posted approximately 15-20 days after the end of the month and remains posted for at least six months. The funds also post in the fund summary section of the funds’ website and on fund fact sheets certain summary portfolio attributes, including top ten holdings, approximately 5-25 days after the end of the calendar quarter or month. The funds may exclude any portion of these portfolio holdings from publication when deemed in the best interest of a fund. Further information regarding the funds’ policy and procedures on the disclosure of portfolio holdings is available in the SAI.

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Financial Highlights

This section provides further details about each fund’s financial history for the past five years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. “Total return” shows the percentage that an investor in a fund would have earned or lost during a given period, assuming all distributions were reinvested. The information for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2019 has been audited by the funds’ prior independent registered public accounting firm. The information for the fiscal years ended October 31, 2020 through October 31, 2023 has been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP (Deloitte). Deloitte’s full report is included in each fund’s annual report (see back cover).

Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund

	11/1/22– 10/31/23			11/1/21– 10/31/22			11/1/20– 10/31/21			11/1/19– 10/31/20			11/1/18– 10/31/19
Per-Share Data
Net asset value at beginning of period		$	21.19		$	23.19		$	16.28		$	17.56		$	17.47
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)(1)			0.45			0.43			0.39			0.42			0.42
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)			0.49			(1.33)			7.64			(0.75)			1.08
Total from investment operations			0.94			(0.90)			8.03			(0.33)			1.50
Less distributions:
Distributions from net investment income			(0.44)			(0.40)			(0.44)			(0.43)			(0.42)
Distributions from net realized gains			—			(0.70)			(0.68)			(0.52)			(0.99)
Total distributions			(0.44)			(1.10)			(1.12)			(0.95)			(1.41)
Net asset value at end of period		$	21.69		$	21.19		$	23.19		$	16.28		$	17.56
Total return			4.48%			(4.18%)			51.33%			(2.33%)			10.56%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Ratios to average net assets:
Total expenses			0.25%(2)			0.25%(2)			0.25%			0.25%			0.25%
Net investment income (loss)			2.05%			1.95%			1.87%			2.57%			2.53%
Portfolio turnover rate			7%(3)			13%(3)			16%(3)			13%			20%
Net assets, end of period (x 1,000,000)		$	6,836		$	6,460		$	6,821		$	4,547		$	5,237

(1)

Calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

(2)

Ratio includes less than 0.005% of non-routine proxy expenses.

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Portfolio turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions.

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Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund

	11/1/22– 10/31/23			11/1/21– 10/31/22			11/1/20– 10/31/21			11/1/19– 10/31/20			11/1/18– 10/31/19
Per-Share Data
Net asset value at beginning of period		$	15.22		$	19.32		$	11.97		$	13.85		$	14.68
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)(1)			0.23			0.22			0.18			0.17			0.20
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)			(0.67)			(2.17)			7.38			(1.53)			0.32
Total from investment operations			(0.44)			(1.95)			7.56			(1.36)			0.52
Less distributions:
Distributions from net investment income			(0.17)			(0.24)			(0.21)			(0.20)			(0.22)
Distributions from net realized gains			(0.81)			(1.91)			—			(0.32)			(1.13)
Total distributions			(0.98)			(2.15)			(0.21)			(0.52)			(1.35)
Net asset value at end of period		$	13.80		$	15.22		$	19.32		$	11.97		$	13.85
Total return			(3.04%)			(11.37%)			63.73%			(10.42%)			5.61%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Ratios to average net assets:
Total expenses			0.25%			0.25%(2)			0.25%			0.25%			0.25%
Net investment income (loss)			1.56%			1.35%			1.02%			1.43%			1.50%
Portfolio turnover rate			22%(3)			35%(3)			36%(3)			28%			34%
Net assets, end of period (x 1,000,000)		$	1,524		$	1,631		$	1,945		$	1,394		$	1,908

(1)

Calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

(2)

Ratio includes less than 0.005% of non-routine proxy expenses.

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Portfolio turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions.

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Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund

	11/1/22– 10/31/23			11/1/21– 10/31/22			11/1/20– 10/31/21			11/1/19– 10/31/20			11/1/18– 10/31/19
Per-Share Data
Net asset value at beginning of period		$	8.41		$	10.56		$	7.51		$	8.98		$	8.69
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)(1)			0.33			0.34			0.31			0.21			0.30
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)			1.11			(2.10)			2.96			(1.35)			0.27
Total from investment operations			1.44			(1.76)			3.27			(1.14)			0.57
Less distributions:
Distributions from net investment income			(0.26)			(0.39)			(0.22)			(0.33)			(0.28)
Net asset value at end of period		$	9.59		$	8.41		$	10.56		$	7.51		$	8.98
Total return			17.40%			(17.25%)			44.03%			(13.29%)			7.04%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Ratios to average net assets:
Total expenses			0.25%(2)			0.25%(2)			0.25%			0.25%			0.25%
Net investment income (loss)			3.40%			3.56%			3.10%			2.60%			3.51%
Portfolio turnover rate			15%			13%			21%			14%			28%
Net assets, end of period (x 1,000,000)		$	2,085		$	1,565		$	1,406		$	966		$	1,327

(1)

Calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

(2)

Ratio includes less than 0.005% of non-routine proxy expenses.

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Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund

	11/1/22– 10/31/23			11/1/21– 10/31/22			11/1/20– 10/31/21			11/1/19– 10/31/20			11/1/18– 10/31/19
Per-Share Data
Net asset value at beginning of period		$	10.66		$	15.42		$	11.46		$	12.57		$	12.67
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)(1)			0.30			0.30			0.27			0.22			0.29
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)			0.95			(4.21)			3.96			(0.97)			0.25
Total from investment operations			1.25			(3.91)			4.23			(0.75)			0.54
Less distributions:
Distributions from net investment income			(0.23)			(0.41)			(0.27)			(0.36)			(0.30)
Distributions from net realized gains			(0.33)			(0.44)			—			—			(0.34)
Total distributions			(0.56)			(0.85)			(0.27)			(0.36)			(0.64)
Net asset value at end of period		$	11.35		$	10.66		$	15.42		$	11.46		$	12.57
Total return			11.76%			(26.61%)			37.25%			(6.28%)			5.13%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Ratios to average net assets:
Total expenses			0.39%			0.39%(2)			0.39%			0.39%			0.39%
Net investment income (loss)			2.48%			2.37%			1.84%			1.89%			2.44%
Portfolio turnover rate			23%			36%			35%			25%			38%
Net assets, end of period (x 1,000)		$	524,292		$	530,184		$	708,349		$	576,948		$	775,258

(1)

Calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

(2)

Ratio includes less than 0.005% of non-routine proxy expenses.

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Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund

	11/1/22– 10/31/23			11/1/21– 10/31/22			11/1/20– 10/31/21			11/1/19– 10/31/20			11/1/18– 10/31/19
Per-Share Data
Net asset value at beginning of period		$	7.35		$	10.24		$	7.51		$	9.25		$	8.60
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)(1)			0.39			0.52			0.36			0.27			0.35
Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)			0.71			(2.96)			2.63			(1.65)			0.54
Total from investment operations			1.10			(2.44)			2.99			(1.38)			0.89
Less distributions:
Distributions from net investment income			(0.43)			(0.45)			(0.26)			(0.36)			(0.24)
Net asset value at end of period		$	8.02		$	7.35		$	10.24		$	7.51		$	9.25
Total return			15.14%			(24.86%)			40.39%			(15.68%)			10.73%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Ratios to average net assets:
Total expenses			0.39%			0.39%(2)			0.39%			0.39%			0.39%
Net investment income (loss)			4.75%			5.83%			3.75%			3.32%			3.93%
Portfolio turnover rate			20%			24%			32%			32%			38%
Net assets, end of period (x 1,000)		$	695,445		$	604,159		$	707,652		$	550,134		$	670,910

(1)

Calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

(2)

Ratio includes less than 0.005% of non-routine proxy expenses.

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Fund Management

The investment adviser for the funds is Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc., dba Schwab Asset Management, 211 Main Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. The investment adviser was founded in 1989 and as of April 30, 2024, managed approximately $1.1 trillion in assets.

The investment adviser oversees the asset management and administration of the funds. As compensation for these services, the investment adviser receives a management fee from each fund. For the 12 months ended October 31, 2023, these fees were 0.25% for the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund, 0.25% for the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund, 0.25% for the Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund, 0.39% for the Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund, and 0.39% for the Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund. These figures, which are expressed as a percentage of each fund’s average daily net assets, represent the actual amounts paid.

Pursuant to an Amended and Restated Investment Advisory and Administration Agreement (Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement) between the investment adviser and each fund, the investment adviser pays the operating expenses of each fund, excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, taxes, any brokerage expenses, and extraordinary or non-routine expenses.

A discussion regarding the basis for the Board of Trustees’ approval of each fund’s Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement is available in each fund’s 2023 annual report which covers the period November 1, 2022 through October 31, 2023.

Christopher Bliss, CFA, Managing Director and Head of Passive Equity Strategies for Schwab Asset Management. Mr. Bliss is responsible for overseeing the investment process, portfolio management of investment strategies for passive equity Schwab Funds and Schwab ETFs, and Schwab Personalized Indexing™ separately managed accounts. Before joining Schwab in 2016, Mr. Bliss spent 12 years at BlackRock (formerly Barclays Global Investors) managing and leading institutional index teams, most recently as a managing director and the head of the Americas institutional index team. In this role, Mr. Bliss was responsible for overseeing a team of portfolio managers managing domestic, developed international and emerging markets index strategies. Prior to BlackRock, he worked as an equity analyst and portfolio manager for Harris Bretall and before that, as a research analyst for JP Morgan.

Jeremy Brown, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager for Schwab Asset Management, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund and Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund. Prior to joining Schwab in 2017, Mr. Brown spent six years with ALPS Advisors, Inc. in Denver, most recently as a senior analyst on the ETF portfolio management and research team where he performed portfolio management, trading and analytics/research functions for ALPS ETFs and passive funds. Additionally, Mr. Brown led a number of investment research, commentary, industry trend analysis, and sales and marketing support initiatives.

Mariela Jobson, Senior Portfolio Manager for Schwab Asset Management, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund, Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund, and Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund. Prior to joining Schwab in 2023, Ms. Jobson worked at BlackRock Investments (formerly Barclays Global Investors) for 16 years as a senior portfolio manager and a team lead, where she managed all aspects of iShares exchange traded funds in global equity, preferred equity, and commodities. Most recently, she was responsible for leading a team of portfolio managers who managed domestic, developed, emerging and frontier markets covering market-cap, factor, ESG and thematic index strategies. Prior to BlackRock, she also worked as an associate equity analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities and as an equity research analyst at ING Investments.

Ferian Juwono, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager for Schwab Asset Management, is responsible for the oversight and day-to-day co-management of the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund and Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund. Prior to joining Schwab in 2010, Mr. Juwono worked at BlackRock (formerly Barclays Global Investors) where he spent more than three years as a portfolio manager, managing equity index funds for institutional clients, and two years as a senior business analyst. Prior to that, Mr. Juwono worked for more than four years as a senior financial analyst with Union Bank of California.

Joselle Duncan, CFA, Portfolio Manager for Schwab Asset Management, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund, Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund, and Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund. Prior to joining Schwab in 2022, Ms. Duncan worked at BlackRock, Inc. (formerly Barclays Global Investors) for over 20 years as a vice president and portfolio manager focused on international ETFs. Before that, she held several positions at BlackRock including portfolio manager for institutional and mutual funds, securities lending trader, and securities lending product specialist.

Jiwei Gu, CFA, Portfolio Manager for Schwab Asset Management, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund, Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund, and Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund. Ms. Gu joined the portfolio management team as an associate portfolio manager in 2018. Prior to joining Schwab, she spent four years at CoBank, most recently as an enterprise risk analyst performing bank-level loan portfolio credit risk analysis, data analytics, and risk management methodology research. Before that, Ms. Gu worked in commercial credit underwriting and capital markets supporting lending activities.

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David Rios, Portfolio Manager for Schwab Asset Management, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund, Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund, and Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund. Prior to this role, Mr. Rios was an associate portfolio manager on the equity index strategies team for four years. His first role with Schwab Asset Management was as a trade operations specialist. Prior to joining Schwab in 2008, Mr. Rios was a senior fund accountant at Investors Bank & Trust (subsequently acquired by State Street Corporation).

Agnes Zau, CFA, Portfolio Manager for Schwab Asset Management, is responsible for the day-to-day co-management of the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index Fund and Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company Index Fund. Prior to joining Schwab in 2018, Ms. Zau was at BlackRock for three years, most recently as a multi-asset portfolio investment consultant where she advised institutional clients on asset allocation and strategy, constructed risk decomposition and portfolio optimization, and conducted scenario analyses for the core multi-asset target risk strategies. She spent the preceding three years as a derivatives specialist at Mellon Capital.

Additional information about the portfolio managers’ compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers and the portfolio managers’ ownership of securities in each fund is available in the SAI.

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Investing in the Funds

In this section, you will find information on buying, selling and exchanging shares. Investors may only invest in the funds through an intermediary by placing orders through your brokerage account at Schwab or an account with another broker/dealer, investment adviser, 401(k) plan, employee benefit plan, administrator, bank, or other financial intermediary (intermediary) that is authorized to accept orders on behalf of a fund (intermediary orders). You also will see how to choose a distribution option for your investment. Helpful information on taxes is included as well.

The funds generally are not registered for sale in jurisdictions outside the United States and are intended for purchase by persons residing in the United States. A person is considered resident in the United States if at the time of the investment (i) the account has an address of record in the United States or a U.S. territory (including APO/FPO/DPO) and (ii) all account owners are resident in the United States or a U.S. territory and have a valid U.S. taxpayer identification number. If an existing account is updated to reflect a non-U.S. address, the account may be restricted from making additional investments.

Investing Through a Financial Intermediary

Placing Orders Through Your Intermediary

When you place orders through Schwab or another intermediary, you are not placing your orders directly with the funds, and you must follow Schwab’s or the other intermediary’s transaction procedures. Your intermediary may impose different or additional conditions than the funds on purchases, redemptions and exchanges of fund shares. These differences may include initial, subsequent and maintenance investment requirements, exchange policies, fund choices, cut-off times for investment and trading restrictions. Your intermediary may independently establish and charge its customers transaction fees, account fees and other fees in addition to the fees charged by the funds, and the intermediary may require its customers to pay a commission when transacting in fund shares. These additional fees will vary between intermediaries and may vary over time and would increase the cost of your investment and lower investment returns. You should consult your intermediary directly for information regarding these conditions and fees. The funds are not responsible for the failure of your intermediary to carry out its responsibilities.

Only certain intermediaries are authorized to accept orders on behalf of a fund. If your fund shares are no longer held by an authorized intermediary, a fund may impose restrictions on your ability to manage or maintain your shares. For example, you will not be able to place orders to purchase additional shares. To remove these restrictions, you may move your shares to Schwab or another intermediary that is authorized to accept fund orders.

Buying, Selling and Exchanging Shares Through an Intermediary

To purchase, redeem or exchange shares held in your Schwab account or in your account at another intermediary, you must place your orders with the intermediary that holds your shares. You may not purchase, redeem or exchange shares held in your intermediary account directly with a fund.

When selling or exchanging shares, you should be aware of the following fund policies:

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For accounts held through a financial intermediary, each fund typically expects to pay sale proceeds to the financial intermediary for payment to redeeming shareholders within two business days following receipt of a shareholder redemption order; however, each fund may take up to seven days to pay sale proceeds.

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Each fund reserves the right to honor redemptions in liquid portfolio securities instead of cash when your redemptions over a 90-day period exceed $250,000 or 1% of the fund’s assets, whichever is less. You may incur transaction expenses and taxable gains in converting these securities to cash. In addition, a redemption in liquid portfolio securities would be treated as a taxable event for you and may result in the recognition of gain or loss for federal income tax purposes.

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Exchange orders are limited to Schwab Funds (that are not Sweep Investments®) and must meet the minimum investment and other requirements for the fund and share class, if applicable, into which you are exchanging.

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You should obtain and read the prospectus for the fund into which you are exchanging prior to placing your order.

Investing Directly with the Funds

Placing Direct Orders

Investors generally may not purchase shares directly from the funds’ transfer agent, BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (US) Inc. The funds reserve the right to accept direct purchases from certain eligible shareholders (Eligible Shareholders) and to suspend the privilege of directly purchasing additional shares of the funds at any time.

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Financial intermediaries and Eligible Shareholders may contact the transfer agent by telephone at 1-877-332-2371.

Share Price

The funds are open for business each day that the NYSE is open. Each fund calculates its share price each business day as of the close of the NYSE (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time). If the NYSE is closed due to weather or other extenuating circumstances on a day it would typically be open for business, or the NYSE has an unscheduled early closing on a day it has opened for business, the funds reserve the right to treat such day as a business day and accept purchase and redemption orders and calculate their share prices as of the normally scheduled close of regular trading on the NYSE for that day. A fund’s share price is its NAV per share, which is the fund’s net assets divided by the number of its shares outstanding. Orders received by a fund in good order at or prior to the close of the fund (generally 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time) will be executed at the next share price calculated that day.

If you place an order through your Schwab account or an account at another intermediary, please consult with your intermediary to determine when your order will be executed. Generally, you will receive the share price next calculated after the fund receives your order from your intermediary. However, some intermediaries, such as Schwab, may arrange with the fund for you to receive the share price next calculated after your intermediary has received your order. Some intermediaries may require that they receive orders prior to a specified cut-off time.

The funds’ portfolio securities are valued using market quotations or official closing prices if they are readily available. In cases where market quotations are not readily available or the investment adviser deems them unreliable, a fund’s portfolio securities are valued based on fair values developed following procedures approved by the fund’s Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees has designated the investment adviser as the valuation designee (Valuation Designee) for the funds to perform the fair value determination relating to all fund investments.

Shareholders of Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund, Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund, and Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund should be aware that because foreign markets are often open on weekends and other days when the fund is closed, the value of the fund’s portfolio may change on days when it is not possible to buy or sell shares of the fund.

Additional Policies Affecting Your Investment

Each Fund Reserves Certain Rights, Including the Following:

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To materially modify or terminate the exchange privilege upon 60 days’ written notice to shareholders.

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To change or waive a fund’s investment minimums.

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To suspend the right to sell shares back to the fund, and delay sending proceeds, during times when trading on the NYSE is restricted or halted, or otherwise as permitted by the SEC.

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To withdraw or suspend any part of the offering made by this prospectus.

Minimum Investment

None

Options for Fund Distributions

Choose an option for fund distributions. When placing orders through an intermediary, you will select from the options for fund distributions provided by your intermediary. You should consult with your financial intermediary to discuss available options.

Payments by the Investment Adviser or its Affiliates

The investment adviser or its affiliates make payments out of their own resources, or provide products and services at a discount, to certain brokerage firms, banks, insurance companies, retirement plan service providers and other financial intermediaries that perform shareholder, recordkeeping, sub-accounting and other administrative services in connection with investments in fund shares. The investment adviser or its affiliates also make payments out of their own resources, or provide products and services at a discount, to certain financial intermediaries in connection with certain activities or services which may facilitate, directly or indirectly, investment in the funds. These payments may relate to marketing and/or fund promotion activities and presentations, educational training programs, conferences, the development and support of technology platforms and/or reporting systems, data analytics and support, or making shares of the funds available to their customers. These payments, which may be significant, are paid by the investment adviser or its affiliates out of their own resources and not from the assets of the funds.

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Payments to a financial intermediary may create potential conflicts of interest between the intermediary and its clients as the payments may provide such intermediary with an incentive to favor sales of shares of the funds over other investment options they make available to their customers. Please see the SAI for additional information.

Policy Regarding Short-Term or Excessive Trading

The funds are intended for long-term investment and not for short-term or excessive trading (collectively market timing). Market timing may adversely impact the funds’ performance by disrupting the efficient management of the funds, increasing fund transaction costs and taxes, causing the funds to maintain higher cash balances, and diluting the value of the funds’ shares.

To discourage market timing, the funds’ Board of Trustees has adopted policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to reduce the risk of market timing by fund shareholders. Each fund seeks to deter market timing through several methods. These methods may include fair value pricing and trade activity monitoring. Fair value pricing is discussed more thoroughly in the subsequent pages of this prospectus and is considered an element of the funds’ policy regarding short-term or excessive trading. Trade activity monitoring is risk based and seeks to identify patterns of activity in amounts that might be detrimental to the funds. Certain trading activity will not be treated as short-term or excessive trading, such as transactions involving in-kind purchases or redemptions of shares of a fund.

The funds and their service providers maintain risk-based surveillance procedures designed to detect market timing in fund shares in amounts that might be detrimental to the fund. Under these procedures, the funds have requested that service providers to the funds monitor transactional activity in amounts and frequency determined by each fund to be significant to the fund and in a pattern of activity that potentially could be detrimental to the fund. Generally, excessive trading activity in a fund is measured by the number of roundtrip transactions in a shareholder’s account. A roundtrip transaction occurs when a shareholder completes a purchase of shares and then sells the same fund’s shares (including exchanges). If an investor engages in multiple roundtrips in a fund within a 60-day period or the fund, in its sole discretion based on these or other factors, determines that a shareholder has engaged in market timing, it may refuse to process future purchases or exchanges into such fund by that shareholder for a period of 90 days. Subsequent violations within a 12-month period will be evaluated to determine whether a permanent block is appropriate. These procedures may be modified from time to time as appropriate to improve the detection of market timing and to comply with applicable laws.

If trades are effected through a financial intermediary, each fund or its service providers will work with the intermediary to monitor possible market timing activity. The funds reserve the right to request that the intermediary provide certain shareholder transaction information to the funds and may require the intermediary to restrict the shareholder from future purchases or exchanges in the funds. Transactions by fund shareholders investing through intermediaries may also be subject to the restrictions of the intermediary’s own frequent trading policies, which may differ from those of the funds. Each fund may defer to an intermediary’s frequent trading policies with respect to those shareholders who invest in the fund through such intermediary if the fund determines that the intermediary’s frequent trading policies are reasonably designed to deter transactional activity in amounts and frequency that are deemed to be significant to the fund and in a pattern of activity that potentially could be detrimental to the fund. Shareholders should consult with their intermediary to determine if additional frequent trading restrictions apply to their fund transactions. A fund’s ability to impose restrictions with respect to accounts traded through particular intermediaries may vary depending on the systems’ capabilities, applicable contractual and legal restrictions and cooperation of those intermediaries.

Although these methods are designed to discourage market timing, there can be no guarantee that the funds will be able to identify and restrict investors that engage in such activities. In addition, some of these methods are inherently subjective and involve judgment in their application. Each fund and its service providers seek to make these judgments and applications uniformly and in a manner that they believe is consistent with interests of the fund’s long-term shareholders. The funds may amend these policies and procedures without prior notice in response to changing regulatory requirements or to enhance the effectiveness of the program.

The funds reserve the right to restrict, reject or cancel within a reasonable time, without prior notice, any purchase or exchange order for any reason.

Fair Value Pricing

The Board of Trustees has approved procedures to fair value the funds’ securities when market prices are not “readily available” or are unreliable. For example, a fund may fair value a security when a security is de-listed or its trading is halted or suspended; when a security’s primary pricing source is unable or unwilling to provide a price; when a security’s primary trading market is closed during regular domestic market hours; or when a security’s value is materially affected by events occurring after the close of the security’s primary trading market.

By fair valuing securities whose prices may have been affected by events occurring after the close of trading of the security’s primary trading market, the funds seek to establish prices that investors might expect to realize upon the current sales of these securities. This methodology is designed to deter “arbitrage” by market timers, who seek to exploit delays between the change in the value of a fund’s portfolio holdings and the net asset value of its shares. The Valuation Designee’s policies and procedures, which govern the selection and application of methodologies for determining the fair value of fund investments, seek to ensure that the prices at which the funds’ shares are purchased and redeemed are fair and do not result in dilution of shareholder interest or other harm to shareholders.

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The Valuation Designee makes fair value determinations in good faith and in accordance with the fair value procedures approved by the Board of Trustees. Due to the subjective and variable nature of fair value pricing, there can be no assurance that a fund could obtain the fair value assigned to the security upon the sale of such security.

Methods to Meet Redemptions

Under normal market conditions, each fund expects to meet redemption orders by using holdings of cash/cash equivalents or by the sale of portfolio investments. In unusual or stressed market conditions or as the investment adviser determines appropriate, each fund may borrow through the fund’s bank lines of credit or through the fund’s interfund lending facility to meet redemption requests. Each fund may also utilize its custodian overdraft facility to meet redemptions, if necessary. As noted above, each fund also reserves the right to honor redemptions in liquid portfolio securities instead of cash when your redemptions over a 90-day period exceed $250,000 or 1% of the fund’s assets, whichever is less. You may be subject to market risk and you may incur transaction expenses and taxable gains in converting the securities to cash. In addition, a redemption in liquid portfolio securities would be treated as a taxable event for you and may result in the recognition of gain or loss for federal income tax purposes.

Large Shareholder Redemptions

Certain accounts or Schwab affiliates may from time to time own (beneficially or of record) or control a significant percentage of a fund’s shares. Redemptions by these shareholders of their holdings in a fund or large redemptions by several shareholders may impact the fund’s liquidity and NAV. These redemptions may also force a fund to sell securities, which may negatively impact the fund’s brokerage costs and accelerate the realization of taxable income if sales of securities result in capital gains or other income (which particularly would impact shareholders who do not hold their fund shares in an IRA, 401(k) plan or other tax-advantaged investment plan).

Customer Identification and Verification and Anti-Money Laundering Program

Customer identification and verification is part of each fund’s overall obligation to deter money laundering under federal law. Each fund has adopted an Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Program designed to prevent the fund from being used for money laundering or the financing of terrorist activities. In this regard, the funds reserve the right to (i) refuse, cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order; (ii) freeze any account and/or suspend account services; or (iii) involuntarily close your account in cases of threatening conduct or suspected fraudulent or illegal activity. These actions will be taken when, in the sole discretion of fund management, they are deemed to be in the best interest of a fund or in cases when a fund is requested or compelled to do so by governmental or law enforcement authority. If your account is closed at the request of governmental or law enforcement authority, you may not receive proceeds of the redemption if a fund is required to withhold such proceeds.

Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. When you open your account, you will have to provide your name, address, date of birth, identification number and other information that will allow your financial intermediary to identify you. This information is subject to verification to ensure the identity of all persons opening an account.

Your financial intermediary is required by law to reject your new account application if the required identifying information is not provided. Your financial intermediary may contact you in an attempt to collect any missing information required on the application, and your application may be rejected if they are unable to obtain this information. In certain instances, your financial intermediary is required to collect documents that will be used solely to establish and verify your identity.

Each fund reserves the right to close and/or liquidate your account at the then-current day’s price if the fund or your financial intermediary is unable to verify your identity. As a result, you may be subject to a gain or loss on fund shares and will be subject to corresponding tax consequences.

Distributions and Taxes

Any investment in a fund typically involves several tax considerations. The information below is meant as a general summary for U.S. citizens and residents. Please see the SAI for additional information. Because each person’s tax situation is different, you should consult your tax advisor about the tax implications of your investment in a fund. You also can visit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website at www.irs.gov.

As a shareholder, you are entitled to your share of the dividends and gains a fund earns. Every year, each fund distributes to its shareholders substantially all of its net investment income and net capital gains, if any. To receive a dividend distribution, you must be a registered shareholder on the date that dividends are declared. Dividend distributions are paid to shareholders on the payable date. These distributions typically are paid in December to all shareholders of record. During the fourth quarter of the year, typically in early November, an estimate of each fund’s capital gains distribution, if any, may be made available on the fund’s website: www.schwabassetmanagement.com.

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Unless you are investing through an IRA, 401(k) or other tax-advantaged retirement or savings account, your fund distributions generally have tax consequences. Each fund’s net investment income and short-term capital gains are distributed as dividends and will be taxable as ordinary income or qualified dividend income. Other capital gains distributions are taxable as long-term capital gains, regardless of how long you have held your shares in a fund. The maximum individual rate applicable to “qualified dividend income” and long-term capital gains is generally either 15% or 20%, depending on whether the individual’s income exceeds certain threshold amounts. Distributions generally are taxable in the tax year in which they are declared, whether you reinvest them or take them in cash.

Generally, any sale or exchange of your shares is a taxable event. For tax purposes, an exchange of your shares for shares of another Schwab Fund is treated the same as a sale. A sale may result in a capital gain or loss for you. The gain or loss generally will be treated as short term if you held the shares for one year or less, long term if you held the shares longer. The maximum individual rate applicable to long-term capital gains is generally either 15% or 20%, depending on whether the individual’s income exceeds certain threshold amounts. Any loss realized upon a taxable disposition of shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term, rather than short-term, to the extent of any long-term capital gains distributions received (or deemed received) by you with respect to the shares. All or a portion of any loss realized upon a taxable disposition of shares will be disallowed if you purchase other substantially identical shares within 30 days before or after the disposition. In such a case, the basis of the newly purchased shares will be adjusted to reflect the disallowed loss.

An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gains distributions received from a fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of fund shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount.

Shareholders in the Schwab Fundamental International Equity Index Fund, Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity Index Fund, and Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund may have additional tax considerations as a result of foreign tax payments made by the funds. Typically, these payments will reduce the funds’ dividends but if eligible, the funds may elect for these payments to be included in your taxable income. In such event, you may be able to claim a tax credit or deduction for your portion of foreign taxes paid by the fund.

At the beginning of every year, the funds provide shareholders with information detailing the tax status of any distributions a fund paid during the previous calendar year. Schwab customers also receive information on distributions and transactions in their monthly account statements.

Prior to January 1, 2012, when shareholders sold fund shares from a taxable account, they typically received information on their tax forms that calculated their gain or loss using the average cost method. This information was not previously reported to the IRS, and shareholders had the option of calculating gains or losses using an alternative IRS permitted method. However, in accordance with legislation passed by Congress in 2008, each fund reports cost basis information to the IRS for shares purchased on or after January 1, 2012 and sold thereafter. Shareholders elect their preferred cost basis method; however, in the absence of an election, a fund will use an average cost basis method. Please consult your tax adviser to determine the appropriate cost basis method for your particular tax situation and to learn more about how the new cost basis reporting laws apply to you and your investments, including investments made prior to January 1, 2012 and sold thereafter.

A fund may be required to withhold U.S. federal income tax on all taxable distributions and redemption proceeds payable to shareholders if the shareholders fail to provide the funds with their correct taxpayer identification number or to make required certifications, or if they have been notified by the IRS that they are subject to backup withholding. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld may be credited against U.S. federal income tax liability.

Foreign shareholders may be subject to different U.S. federal income tax treatment, including withholding tax at the rate of 30% (unless a lower treaty rate applies) on amounts treated as ordinary dividends from the funds, as discussed in more detail in the SAI. Furthermore, each fund is required to withhold U.S. tax (at a 30% rate) on payments of taxable dividends made to certain non-U.S. entities that fail to comply (or be deemed compliant) with extensive reporting and withholding requirements designed to inform the U.S. Department of the Treasury of U.S.-owned foreign investment accounts. Shareholders may be requested to provide additional information to the funds to enable the funds to determine whether withholding is required.

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Prospectus | June 21, 2024

Schwab Fundamental Index Funds

To Learn More

This prospectus contains important information on the funds and should be read and kept for reference. You also can obtain more information from the following sources:

Annual and semiannual reports, which are sent to current fund investors, contain more information about the funds’ holdings and detailed financial information about the funds. Annual reports also contain information from the funds’ manager(s) about strategies, recent market conditions and trends and their impact on fund performance during the funds’ last fiscal period.

The Statement of Additional Information (SAI) includes a more detailed discussion of investment policies and the risks associated with various investments. The SAI is incorporated by reference into the prospectus, making it legally part of the prospectus.

For a free copy of any of these documents or to request other information or ask questions about the funds, call Schwab Funds at 1-877-824-5615. In addition, you may visit the Schwab Funds’ website at www.schwabassetmanagement.com/schwabfunds_prospectus for a free copy of a prospectus, SAI or an annual or semiannual report.

The SAI, the funds’ annual and semiannual reports and other related materials are available from the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov). You can obtain copies of this information, after paying a duplicating fee, by sending a request by e-mail to [email protected].

	SEC File Number
	Schwab Capital Trust 811‑07704			REG37409-21