T. Rowe Price Active Core International Equity ETF

TACN

Market cap $17.7M

Economic dislocations create opportunities. While many market watchers are seriously concerned about the microshifts in markets and stocks, others may see the opportunities that emerge when oil prices spike.

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.

Active investing is drawing growing interest as investors look to spread their money beyond a handful of mega-cap technology stocks. Strategies that blend data-driven models with managers' judgment calls are gaining ground over purely passive approaches.

The active ETF market split along strategy lines in 2025, with discretionary equity funds gaining 3.3% market share while systematic equity funds lost 1.1%, according to Morningstar data shared by Ben Johnson, head of client solutions and asset management at the firm. The divergence shows not all active strategies performed equally, with the T.

It's no secret that foreign equities performed very well in 2025. The category benefitted from both existing trends outside the U.S. and tariff-related uncertainty, with U.S. investors flocking to ex-U.S. offerings.

T. Rowe Price added two new ETFs to its suite this week that innovate on the firm's existing ETF roster. The T. Rowe  Price Active Core U.S. Equity ETF (TACU) and the T.