Exchange-traded product launches reach 1,159, passing 2025's full-year record

Exchange-traded product launches reached 1,159 year to date, 16 more than the 1,143 funds that debuted in all of 2025, according to ETF Trends. More than two months remain on the calendar.

The count measures how many products issuers brought to market; the article gives no aggregate asset total for the class. Its largest figure is a single fund's opening raise, and its smallest unit is one issuer's batch of new tickers.

State Street's new fund set a record $2.5 billion initial opening, which the report describes as demonstrating day-one institutional appetite. Corgi debuted 35 ETFs in a single drop, which the report says broke its records again. BlackRock launched a Nasdaq-100 ETF inside a suite designed to challenge the established giant QQQ, and Amplify added a dividend growth strategy.

Fixed income active management remains a core growth driver, per the report. T. Rowe Price launched an active emerging markets bond ETF, Franklin expanded into the CLO market, and Guggenheim reentered the ETF business with two income funds.

Thematics aimed at narrower targets. REX Shares launched a peptide ETF that looks beyond GLP-1 drugs, and Aura introduced a photonics index ETF targeting AI optics infrastructure. A VettaFi disclosure carried with the article names PEPT and PHOX as funds for which VettaFi is the index provider and receives a licensing fee, and states that it does not issue, sponsor, endorse or sell them.

Setting a full-year record with two months left speaks to issuance pace, not adoption. The article describes a handful of the 1,159 launches and gives no fee or asset figure for them, so it cannot show how many will still be gathering money a year from now.