Crane Data's latest monthly Money Fund Portfolio Holdings statistics will be sent out Wednesday, and we'll be writing our regular monthly update on the new September data for Thursday's News. But we also already uploaded a separate and broader Portfolio Holdings data set based on the SEC's Form N-MFP filings on Tuesday. (We continue to merge the two series, and the N-MFP version is now available via our Portfolio Holdings file listings to Money Fund Wisdom subscribers.) Our new N-MFP summary, with data as of August 31, includes holdings information from 988 money funds (down 1 from last month), representing assets of $7.701 trillion (up from $7.530 trillion a month ago). Prime MMFs rose to $1.193 trillion (up from $1.182 trillion), or 15.5% of the total. We review the new N-MFP data and we also look at our revised MMF expense data, which shows charged expenses were mostly flat and money fund revenues rose to $20.1 billion (annualized) in August.
Our latest Form N-MFP Summary for All Funds (taxable and tax-exempt) shows Treasuries and Repurchase Agreements (Repo) remain the largest types of portfolio holdings in money market funds. Treasury holdings in money market funds now total $3.146 trillion (up from $2.730 trillion), or 40.9% of all assets, while Repo holdings fell to $2.743 trillion (down from $2.976 trillion), or 35.6% of all holdings. Government Agency securities total $974.0 billion (down from $993.1 billion), or 12.6%. Holdings of Treasuries, Government agencies and Repo (almost all of which is backed by Treasuries and agencies) combined total $6.863 trillion, or a massive 89.1% of all holdings.
The Other category (primarily Time Deposits) totals $161.8 billion (down from $166.4 billion), or 2.1%, and Commercial Paper (CP) totals $331.7 billion (up from $324.0 billion), or 4.3% of all holdings. Certificates of Deposit (CDs) total $205.3 billion (up from $202.3 billion), 2.7%, and VRDNs account for $139.0 billion (up from $138.6 billion), or 1.8% of money fund securities.
Broken out into the SEC's more detailed categories, the CP totals were comprised of: $199.1 billion, or 2.6%, in Financial Company Commercial Paper; $95.8 billion, or 1.2%, in Asset Backed Commercial Paper; and $36.7 billion, or 0.5%, in Non-Financial Company Commercial Paper. The Repo totals were made up of: U.S. Treasury Repo ($1.730 trillion, or 22.5%), U.S. Govt Agency Repo ($889.8B, or 11.6%) and Other Repo ($122.7B, or 1.6%).
The N-MFP Holdings summary for the Prime Money Market Funds shows: CP holdings of $289.5 billion (up from $280.9 billion), or 24.3%; Repo holdings of $483.9 billion (down from $511.5 billion), or 40.6%; Treasury holdings of $107.8 billion (up from $76.2 billion), or 9.0%; CD holdings of $179.0 billion (up from $174.3 billion), or 15.0%; Other (primarily Time Deposits) holdings of $114.8 billion (down from $122.1 billion), or 9.6%; Government Agency holdings of $6.6 billion (up from $6.0 billion), or 0.6% and VRDN holdings of $11.2 billion (up from $10.7 billion), or 0.9%.
The SEC's more detailed categories show CP in Prime MMFs made up of: $179.7 billion (up from $172.6 billion), or 15.1%, in Financial Company Commercial Paper; $84.3 billion (up from $83.7 billion), or 7.1%, in Asset Backed Commercial Paper; and $25.5 billion (up from $24.7 billion), or 2.1%, in Non-Financial Company Commercial Paper. The Repo totals include: U.S. Treasury Repo ($224.9 billion, or 18.9%), U.S. Govt Agency Repo ($151.1 billion, or 12.7%), and Other Repo ($107.9 billion, or 9.0%).
In related news, money fund charged expense ratios (Exp%) were mostly flat in August. Our Crane 100 Money Fund Index and Crane Money Fund Average were 0.26% and 0.37%, respectively, as of August 31, 2025. Crane Data revises its monthly expense data and gross yield information after the SEC updates its latest Form N-MFP data the morning of the 6th business day of the new month. (They posted this info Tuesday morning, so we revised our monthly MFI XLS spreadsheet and historical craneindexes.xlsx averages file to reflect the latest expenses, gross yields, portfolio composition and maturity breakout.) Visit our "Content" page for the latest files.
Our Crane 100 Money Fund Index, a simple average of the 100 largest taxable money funds, shows an average charged expense ratio of 0.26%, unchanged from last month's level (also 18 bps higher than 12/31/21's 0.08%). The Crane Money Fund Average, a simple average of all taxable MMFs, showed a charged expense ratio of 0.37% as of August 31, 2025, unchanged from the month prior and slightly below the 0.40% at year-end 2019.
