Crane Data's latest Money Fund Market Share rankings show asset declines for roughly half of U.S. money fund complexes in May as money market fund assets decreased by $9.7 billion, or 0.04%. Overall assets have fallen by $71.3 billion, or 2.6%, over the past 3 months, but over the past 12 months through May 31, they are up $113.0 billion, or 4.5%. The biggest gainer in May was J.P. Morgan, whose MMFs rose by $6.3 billion, or 2.7%. Western, Invesco, UBS, Fidelity, and HSBC also saw assets increase, rising by $3.8 billion, $2.5 billion, $1.5 billion, $1.5 billion, and $1.4 billion, respectively. (Our domestic U.S. "Family" rankings are available in our MFI XLS product, our global rankings are available in our MFI International product, and the combined "Family & Global Rankings" are available to Money Fund Wisdom subscribers.) We review these below, and we also look at money fund yields the past month, which rose slightly.
BlackRock, Invesco, Vanguard, First American, and Western had the largest money fund asset increases over the past 3 months, rising by $31.1 billion, $4.8B, $3.2B, $2.3B, and $1.5B, respectively. BlackRock was buoyed by its acquisition of BofA's money funds -- a deal which closed in April. Over the past year through May 31, 2016, BlackRock was the largest gainer (up $48.0B, or 23.5%), followed by Fidelity (up $47.9B, or 12.0%), Goldman Sachs (up $41.1B, or 27.6%), SSGA (up $15.8B, or 20.4%), and Vanguard (up $11.3B, or 6.5%).
Other asset gainers for the past year include: Northern (up $10.1B, 12.7%), Federated (up $8.3B, or 4.3%), Morgan Stanley ($6.9B, 5.9%), Schwab (up $6.6B, 4.3%), Invesco (up $5.4B, or 10.0%), and UBS (up $5.4B, 15.7%). The biggest decliners over 12 months include: Dreyfus (down $17.4B, or -10.6%), JP Morgan (down $12.2B, or -4.9%), Deutsche (down $7.5B, or -24.2%), and RBC (down $4.7B, or -32.0%).
Our latest domestic U.S. Money Fund Family Rankings show that Fidelity Investments remains the largest money fund manager with $446.0 billion, or 17.0% of all assets (up $1.5 billion in May, down $1.2B over 3 mos., and up $47.9B over 12 months. BlackRock is second with $252.2 billion, or 9.6% of assets (down $4.6B, up $31.1B, and up $48.0B for the past 1-month, 3-mos. and 12-mos., respectively). JPMorgan is third with $257.3 billion, or 9.0% market share (up $6.3B, down $1.4B, and down $12.2B for the past 1-month, 3-mos. and 12-mos., respectively). Federated Investors remained fourth with $201.9 billion, or 7.7% of assets (down $4.4B, down $12.7B, and up $8.3B). Goldman Sachs stayed in 5th place with $189.9 billion, or 7.2% of assets (down $4.7B, down $884M, and up $41.1B).
Vanguard held onto sixth place with $184.5 billion, or 7.0%, (up $928M, up $3.2B, and up $11.3B). Schwab ($160.5B, 6.1%) was in seventh place, followed by Dreyfus in eighth place with $147.4B (5.6%), Morgan Stanley was in ninth place with $123.5B (4.7%), and Wells Fargo was in tenth place with $107.7B (4.1%).
The eleventh through twentieth largest U.S. money fund managers (in order) include: SSGA ($93.5B, or 3.6%), Northern ($90.1B, or 3.4%), Invesco ($60.0B, or 2.3%), Western Asset ($44.7B, or 1.7%), First American ($41.7B, or 1.6%), UBS ($40.2B, or 1.5%), Franklin ($23.9B, or 0.9%), Deutsche ($23.6B, or 0.9%), American Funds ($16.2B, or 0.6%), and HSBC ($15.2B, or 0.6%). The 11th through 20th ranked managers are the same as last month, except: Western moved ahead of First American, Franklin moved ahead of Deutsche, and HSBC displaced T. Rowe Price from the top 20. Crane Data currently tracks 64 U.S. MMF managers, same as last month.
When European and "offshore" money fund assets -- those domiciled in places like Dublin, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands -- are included, the top 10 managers match the U.S. list, except for Goldman moving up to No. 4 (dropping Vanguard to 6) and SSGA breaking into the top 10. Also, J.P. Morgan moved back ahead of BlackRock as the second largest global money market fund manager after dropping to third in April.
Looking at the largest Global Money Fund Manager Rankings, the combined market share assets of our MFI XLS (domestic U.S.) and our MFI International ("offshore"), the largest money market fund families are: Fidelity ($454.1 billion), JPMorgan ($362.1 billion), BlackRock ($360.0 billion), Goldman Sachs ($276.6 billion), and Federated ($205.2 billion). Vanguard ($184.5B) was sixth, followed by Dreyfus/BNY Mellon ($172.1B), Schwab ($160.5B), Morgan Stanley ($145.3B), and SSGA ($116.0B), which round out the top 10. These totals include "offshore" US Dollar money funds, as well as Euro and Pound Sterling (GBP) funds converted into US dollar totals.
Finally, our June Money Fund Intelligence and MFI XLS show that yields were flat or inched higher in May across most Crane Indexes, except for Tax-Exempt, which jumped for the second straight month. The Crane Money Fund Average, which includes all taxable funds covered by Crane Data (currently 763), remained unchanged at 0.11% for the 7-Day Yield (annualized, net) Average, while the 30-Day Yield was also unchanged at 0.11%. The MFA's Gross 7-Day Yield was 0.43% (up 1 basis point), while the Gross 30-Day Yield was also 0.43% (unchanged).
Our Crane 100 Money Fund Index shows an average 7-Day (Net) Yield of 0.22 (up 1 basis point) and an average 30-Day Yield of 0.22% (up 1 basis point). The Crane 100 shows a Gross 7-Day Yield of 0.47% (up 1 basis point), and a Gross 30-Day Yield of 0.47% (unchanged). For the 12 month return through 5/31/16, our Crane MF Average returned 0.06% (up 1 basis point) and our Crane 100 returned 0.11% (up 1 basis point). The total number of funds, including taxable and tax-exempt, fell to 1,054, down 9 from last month. There are currently 763 taxable and 291 tax-exempt money funds.
Our Prime Institutional MF Index (7-day) yielded 0.26% (up 1 bp) as of May 31, while the Crane Govt Inst Index was 0.13% (unchanged) and the Treasury Inst Index was 0.10% (unchanged). Thus, the spread between Prime funds and Treasury funds is 16 basis points. The Crane Prime Retail Index yielded 0.08% (unchanged), while the Govt Retail Index yielded 0.03% (up 1 basis point) and the Treasury Retail Index was 0.02% (unchanged). The Crane Tax Exempt MF Index yielded 0.06% (up 1 bp).
The Gross 7-Day Yields for these indexes in May were: Prime Inst 0.55% (unchanged), Govt Inst 0.38% (up 1 bp), Treasury Inst 0.34% (unchanged), Prime Retail 0.50% (unchanged), Govt Retail 0.37% (unchanged), and Treasury Retail 0.31% (down 1 bp). Also, the Crane Tax Exempt Index jumped 4 basis points to 0.38%. The Crane 100 MF Index returned on average 0.02% for 1-month, 0.05% for 3-month, 0.08% for YTD, 0.11% for 1-year, 0.05% for 3-years (annualized), 0.05% for 5-years, and 1.10% for 10-years. (Contact us if you'd like to see our latest MFI XLS, Crane Indexes or Market Share report.)
