T. Rowe Price QM US Bond ETF

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August 2026 was a blockbuster month for ETF acquisitions. As Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at VettaFi, recently highlighted, the ETF industry is firing on all cylinders, attracting massive inflows and racing toward a potential new record.

Last week ended with a major event, the Fed's annual Jackson Hole conference. The conference arrived amid a confluence of factors, from new Fed Chair Warsh's new approach to Fed signaling to the war in Iran and, most importantly, the specter of inflation.

I spent the last two weeks in Australia hanging out with kangaroos and koalas. However, the ETF market didn't take a vacation while I was away.

Media headlines have spent much of this year focused on the big news, from the Middle East conflict to AI risk to drama at the Fed. It can be easy, then, to miss a potentially more consequential story flying under the radar.

An end to the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict appears to finally be set. As the dust settles, however, investors now turn to an uncertain second half of 2026.

T Rowe Price has long been viewed as a leading active manager known for its fundamental research. Six years ago they entered the ETF market and have continued to successfully grow their lineup.

In a notable milestone, T. Rowe Price now holds ten ETFs with $1 billion in AUM.

In my former life as a mutual fund analyst, T. Rowe Price was always a staple of my research.

The Fed will announce yet another decision on rates this week, with markets largely expecting the central bank to stand pat. While the Fed could buck those expectations, rates will likely not shift more than 25 basis points (bps) if at all.

Low-cost active ETFs succeeded at nearly double the rate of their expensive counterparts over the past decade, according to Morningstar's year-end 2025 Active/Passive Barometer report, underscoring how fees remain the primary hurdle for active managers attempting to outpace index funds.