Allspring Exchange-Traded Funds Trust – Allspring Broad Market Core Bond ETF is a diversified, actively managed exchange-traded fund that seeks total return through income and capital appreciation by investing principally in a broad, high-quality, liquid fixed-income portfolio. Trading on NYSE Arca under the ticker AFIX, the Fund provides intermediate core-bond exposure and is benchmarked against the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. Its investment portfolio includes U.S. Treasury and government-related securities; agency mortgage-backed and other mortgage-related securities; asset-backed securities; commercial mortgage-backed securities; investment-grade corporate bonds; municipal securities; and other U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-income instruments. The Fund emphasizes broad diversification, liquidity, credit quality and interest-rate-risk management, and makes monthly income distributions. Galliard Capital Management, an Allspring Global Investments affiliate, serves as investment adviser and applies its institutional broad-market core fixed-income strategy to security selection, sector allocation, duration positioning and risk management. The Fund targets individual investors, financial advisers and institutions seeking actively managed core fixed-income exposure through an exchange-traded structure. Allspring Exchange-Traded Funds Trust is organized in Delaware and is administered from Charlotte, North Carolina; AFIX commenced operations on December 4, 2024. In its principal recent strategic development, Allspring Global Investments launched AFIX on December 5, 2024 as one of its first active ETFs, alongside the Allspring Core Plus ETF and Allspring Income Plus ETF, bringing an established institutional fixed-income strategy to the ETF market. As of September 2026, AFIX reported approximately $198.7 million in fund assets, a 0.20% expense ratio, 581 holdings and a 4.78% 30-day SEC yield; the Fund’s strategy allocates at least 65% of assets to aggregate-bond sectors and may allocate up to 35% to additional “plus” sectors.