TSCZ
T. Rowe Price Launches TSCZ Active Securitized Bond ETF With 0.20% Fee
T. Rowe Price has launched the T. Rowe Price Securitized Income ETF, trading under the ticker TSCZ, an actively managed bond fund targeting mortgage-backed, commercial mortgage-backed, and asset-backed securities at a 0.20% expense ratio, per a prospectus dated August 3, 2026. The fee undercuts most actively managed securitized peers, which typically charge between 0.30% and 0.50%, though it remains above passive aggregate bond index funds available for a few basis points. The fund arrives with the 10-year Treasury yield at 5.01% as of September 16, 2026, up from a February 2026 low of 3.97%, and with the 10-year minus 2-year Treasury spread compressed to 0.27% as of September 17, 2026, down from 0.52% a month earlier. As of September 18, 2026, TSCZ has only 10 trading days of price history, with shares last closing at $49.78 on September 17, 2026, and a one-week decline of 0.67% that the article characterizes as noise. The fund is positioned as a 3% to 7% satellite holding within a fixed-income sleeve rather than a core bond allocation, and the article notes that real evidence of the strategy's edge will not exist for another 18 to 24 months.