Schwab Core Bond ETF

SCCR

Market cap $1.07B

Bond ETFs drew massive inflows in 2025 as yields stayed attractive. Active funds like JBND could balance income and growth in 2026.

For most investors, the iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF is the gold standard of bond investing, and constitutes the entirety of many investors' bond allocations. The Schwab Core Bond ETF aims to provide a better, more informed allocation to bonds than AGG. It does this with an increased allocation to municipal bonds, longer effective duration, and active selection of corporate bonds.

At the time I'm writing this, the volatility index (VIX) closely watched by many investors is trading above 25, a key level many in the market attribute to heightened investor uncertainty.

D.J. Tierney discusses the launch of the firm's Core Bond ETF (SCCR). He talks about what the ETF holds, the active management cost, and why investors might be interested. “Investors are voting with their dollars,” he says to describe the growing popularity of active management.

Schwab Asset Management has launched its second active fixed income ETF, the Schwab Core Bond ETF (SCCR). This marks a significant step in Schwab's expansion into the actively managed bond ETF space, following the success of its first offering, the Schwab Ultra-Short Income ETF (SCUS), which debuted last year.

WESTLAKE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schwab Asset Management®, the asset management arm of The Charles Schwab Corporation, announced that today is the first day of trading of the Schwab Core Bond ETF (NYSE Arca: SCCR). It's Schwab Asset Management's second actively managed fixed income ETF and is designed based on the investment process used for the Wasmer Schroeder Core Bond Separately Managed Account (SMA) strategy. 1 The Schwab Core Bond ETF seeks to provide total return while generating income.