Crane Data's latest Money Fund Market Share rankings show assets were mostly higher among the largest U.S. money fund complexes in March. Money market fund assets jumped $151.0 billion, or 3.2%, last month to $4.932 trillion. Assets have increased by $209.7 billion, or 4.4%, over the past 3 months, and they've increased by $123.0 billion, or 2.4%, over the past 12 months through March 31, 2021. The biggest increases among the 25 largest managers last month were seen by BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Federated Hermes, JP Morgan and First American, which grew assets by $61.7 billion, $32.3B, $14.4B, $12.4B and $12.3B, respectively. The largest declines in assets in March were seen by Fidelity, Wells Fargo, Invesco, Schwab and DWS, which decreased by $8.6 billion, $6.1B, $5.1B, $4.0B and $802M, respectively. Our domestic U.S. "Family" rankings are available in our MFI XLS product, our global rankings are available in our MFI International product. The combined "Family & Global Rankings" are available to Money Fund Wisdom subscribers. We review the latest market share totals below, and we also look at money fund yields in March.
Over the past year through March 31, 2021, BlackRock (up $56.3B, or 12.3%), Vanguard (up $43.2B, or 9.1%), Morgan Stanley (up $40.7B, or 17.9%), Wells Fargo (up $32.6B, or 17.4%), Dreyfus (up $30.7B, or 14.9%), JP Morgan (up $29.7B, or 6.2%) and First American (up $24.9B, or 23.1%) were the largest gainers. These complexes were followed by T Rowe Price (up $12.6B, or 31.8%), Northern (up $11.7B, or 6.7%) and HSBC (up $6.1B, or 15.4%). BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Dreyfus and Morgan Stanley had the largest asset increases over the past 3 months, rising by $84.7B, $46.0B, $30.6B, $22.2B and $20.6B, respectively. The largest decliners over 3 months included: Schwab (down $12.5B, or -7.2%), Fidelity (down $8.8B, or -1.0%), Wells Fargo (down $5.4B, or -2.7%), DWS (down $3.9B, or -11.5%) and Federated Hermes (down $2.6B, or -0.8%).
Our latest domestic U.S. Money Fund Family Rankings show that Fidelity Investments remains the largest money fund manager with $897.1 billion, or 18.2% of all assets. Fidelity was down $8.6 billion in March, down $8.8 billion over 3 mos., and down $56.0B over 12 months. BlackRock ranked second with $522.1 billion, or 10.6% market share (up $61.7B, up $84.7B and up $56.3B for the past 1-month, 3-mos. and 12-mos., respectively). Vanguard dropped to third with $494.0 billion, or 10.0% market share (up $9.7B, up $1.3B and up $43.2B). JP Morgan ranked fourth with $459.4 billion, or 9.3% of assets (up $12.4B, up $46.0B and up $29.7B for the past 1-month, 3-mos. and 12-mos.), while Goldman Sachs took fifth place with $345.5 billion, or 7.0% of assets (up $32.3B, up $30.6B and down $6.6B).
Federated Hermes was in sixth place with $337.4 billion, or 6.8% of assets (up $14.4 billion, down $2.6B and down $46.1B), while Morgan Stanley was in seventh place with $244.4 billion, or 5.0% (up $638M, up $20.6B and up $40.7B). Dreyfus ($217.6B, or 4.4%) was in eighth place (down $433M, up $22.2B and up $30.7B), followed by Wells Fargo ($193.3B, or 3.9%, down $6.1B, down $5.4B and up $32.6B). Northern was in 10th place ($167.5B, or 3.4%; up $5.7B, up $3.1B and up $11.7B).
The 11th through 20th-largest U.S. money fund managers (in order) include: Schwab ($160.9B, or 3.3%), SSGA ($149.4B, or 3.0%), American Funds ($145.3B, or 2.9%), First American ($129.4B, or 2.6%), Invesco ($71.6B, or 1.5%), UBS ($55.0B, or 1.1%), T Rowe Price ($48.2B, or 1.0%), HSBC ($44.5B, or 0.9%), Western ($32.7B, or 0.7%) and DWS ($29.8B, or 0.6%). Crane Data currently tracks 65 U.S. MMF managers, unchanged from last month.
When European and "offshore" money fund assets -- those domiciled in places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands -- are included, the top 10 managers appear as Fidelity, BlackRock, JP Morgan, Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, Federated Hermes, Morgan Stanley, Dreyfus/BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo and Northern. Global Money Fund Manager Rankings include the combined market share assets of our MFI XLS (domestic U.S.) and our MFI International ("offshore") products.
The largest Global money market fund families include: Fidelity ($909.4 billion), BlackRock ($707.2B), JP Morgan ($668.0B), Vanguard ($494.0B) and Goldman Sachs ($466.1B). Federated Hermes ($348.0B) was sixth, Morgan Stanley ($295.3B) was in seventh, followed by Dreyfus ($241.4B), Wells Fargo ($194.3B) and Northern ($192.3B) which round out the top 10. These totals include "offshore" U.S. Dollar money funds, as well as Euro and Pound Sterling (GBP) funds converted into U.S. dollar totals.
The April issue of our Money Fund Intelligence and MFI XLS, with data as of 3/31/21, shows that yields were flat in March for almost all of our Crane Money Fund Indexes. The Crane Money Fund Average, which includes all taxable funds covered by Crane Data (currently 736), was flat at 0.02% for the 7-Day Yield (annualized, net) Average, the 30-Day Yield was also unchanged at 0.02%. The MFA's Gross 7-Day Yield was unchanged at 0.12%, the Gross 30-Day Yield was also unchanged at 0.12%.
Our Crane 100 Money Fund Index shows an average 7-Day (Net) Yield of 0.02% (unch) and an average 30-Day Yield also unchanged at 0.02%. The Crane 100 shows a Gross 7-Day Yield of 0.12% (unch), and a Gross 30-Day Yield of 0.12% (unch). Our Prime Institutional MF Index (7-day) yielded 0.04% (up a basis point) as of March 31, while the Crane Govt Inst Index was unchanged at 0.02, and the Treasury Inst Index was also unchanged at 0.02%. Thus, the spread between Prime funds and Treasury funds is 2 basis points, and the spread between Prime funds and Govt funds is 2 basis points. The Crane Prime Retail Index yielded 0.02% (unch), while the Govt Retail Index was 0.01% (unch), the Treasury Retail Index was also 0.01% (unchanged from the month prior). The Crane Tax Exempt MF Index yielded 0.01% (unch) in March.
Gross 7-Day Yields for these indexes in February were: Prime Inst 0.18% (up a basis point), Govt Inst 0.09% (unch), Treasury Inst 0.09% (unch), Prime Retail 0.19% (unch), Govt Retail 0.08% (unch) and Treasury Retail 0.08% (unch). The Crane Tax Exempt Index was unchanged at 0.12%. The Crane 100 MF Index returned on average 0.00% over 1-month, 0.00% over 3-months, 0.00% YTD, 0.09% over the past 1-year, 1.26% over 3-years (annualized), 1.00% over 5-years, and 0.52% over 10-years.
The total number of funds, including taxable and tax-exempt, was down 9 at 902. There are currently 736 taxable funds, down 7 from the previous month, and 166 tax-exempt money funds (down 2 from last month). (Contact us if you'd like to see our latest MFI XLS, Crane Indexes or Market Share report.
