Exhibit (l)(xiv)

                               PURCHASE AGREEMENT

      Schwab Capital Trust, a Massachusetts business trust (the "Trust"), and
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., a California corporation ("Schwab"), hereby agree
as of June 27, 2003, as follows:

      1. The Trust hereby offers and Schwab hereby purchases 1 unit each of
beneficial interest of the Investor Shares and Select Shares of the Series V of
the Trust, representing interest in the Schwab Small-Cap Equity Fund (such unit
of beneficial interest being hereafter collectively known as the "Shares"), at a
price of $10.00 per Share. Schwab hereby acknowledges purchase of the Shares,
and the Trust hereby acknowledges receipt from Schwab of funds in the amount of
$20.00 for such series of the Trust in full payment for the Shares. It is
further agreed that no certificate for the Shares will be issued by the Trust.

      2. Schwab represents and warrants to the Trust that the Shares are being
acquired for investment purposes and not with a view to the distribution
thereof.

      3. The names "Schwab Capital Trust" and "Trustees of Schwab Capital Trust"
refer, respectively to the Trust created and the Trustees as Trustees but not
individually or personally, acting from time to time under an Agreement and
Declaration of Trust dated as of May 6, 1993, to which reference is hereby made
and a copy of which is on file at the Office of the Secretary of State of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and elsewhere as required by law, and to any and
all amendments thereto so filed or hereafter filed. The obligations of "Schwab
Capital Trust" entered into in the name or on behalf thereof by any of the
Trustees, representatives or agents are not made individually, but only in such
capacities, and are not binding upon any of the Trustees, Shareholders or
representatives of the Trust personally, but bind only the assets of the Trust,
and all persons dealing with any series of Shares of the Trust must look solely
to the assets for the Trust belonging to such series for the enforcement of any
claims against the Trust.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed day and year first written above.

Attest:                             SCHWAB CAPITAL TRUST


/s/ Jody Stuart                     By: /s/ Stephen B. Ward
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Jody Stuart                                 Stephen B. Ward
                                            SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND
                                            Chief Investment Officer

Attest:                             CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC.


/s/ Jody Stuart                     By: /s/ Randall W. Merk
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Jody Stuart                                 Randall W. Merk
                                            Executive Vice President