T. Rowe Price Active Core U.S. Equity ETF

TACU

Market cap $14.9M

Building a portfolio from scratch, or looking to refresh one that needs an overhaul? Core funds provide the bedrock upon which overall portfolios are constructed.

Small-cap stocks are drawing renewed attention from T. Rowe Price as the firm's 2026 midyear outlook signals a broad shift in market leadership away from the largest technology companies.

Active equity ETFs posted double-digit returns in April. Conflicting signals from the Federal Reserve and a fracture in global oil alliances created an environment where stock selection matters.

Cash is king, as they say. For many investors, holding cash in money market funds has offered strong yields.

T. Rowe Price is leveraging three decades of private equity experience to give active ETF investors access to companies at the core of artificial intelligence, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks, according to Christopher Murphy, head of ETF specialists at the firm. In an interview at the Exchange conference in Las Vegas, Murphy said the T.

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.

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.