Weekly MF Portfolio Holdings
Crane Data published its latest Weekly Money Fund Portfolio Holdings statistics and summary Thursday, which tracks a shifting subset of our monthly Portfolio Holdings collection. The latest cut, with data as of Friday, March 22, includes Holdings information from 75 money funds (up from 68), representing $1.252 trillion, compared to $1.237 trillion on March 15. That represents 38.8% of the $3.225 trillion in total money fund assets tracked by Crane Data. (For our latest monthly Money Fund Portfolio Holdings numbers, see our March 12 News, "March Money Fund Portfolio Holdings: Treasuries Rebound; CP, CDs Up.") Our latest Weekly MFPH Composition summary shows Government assets again dominated the holdings list with Repurchase Agreements (Repo) totaling $456.0 billion (declining from $470.2 billion on March 22), or 36.4% of holdings, Treasury debt totaling $386.3 billion (down from $412.9 billion), or 30.9%, and Government Agency securities totaling $229.8 billion (up from $209.8 billion), or 18.4%. Commercial Paper (CP) totaled $66.9 billion (up from $59.1 billion), or 5.3%, and Certificates of Deposit (CDs) totaled $53.4 billion (up from $49.1 billion), or 4.3%. A total of $34.2 billion, or 2.7%, was listed in the Other category (primarily Time Deposits) and VRDNs accounted for $25.1 billion, or 2.0%. The Ten Largest Issuers in our Weekly Holdings product include: the US Treasury with $386.3 billion (30.9% of total holdings), Federal Home Loan Bank with $165.2B (13.2%), RBC with $50.4B (4.0%), BNP Paribas with $49.5B (4.0%), Federal Farm Credit Bank with $48.4B (3.9%), JP Morgan with $34.9B (2.8%), Barclays PLC with $24.0B (1.9%), Wells Fargo with $23.6B (1.9%), Fixed Income Clearing Co. with $23.3B (1.9%), and Credit Agricole with $22.6B (1.8%). The Ten Largest Funds tracked in our latest Weekly Holdings update include: Fidelity Inv MM: Govt Port ($110.9 billion), BlackRock Lq FedFund ($92.1B), Wells Fargo Govt MMkt ($77.6B), Federated Govt Oblg ($75.0B), BlackRock Lq T-Fund ($66.9B), Morgan Stanley Inst Liq Govt ($57.5B), Fidelity Inv MM: MMkt Port ($55.5B), Dreyfus Govt Cash Mgmt ($54.4B), State Street Inst US Govt ($44.2B) and First American Govt Oblig ($43.5B). (Let us know if you'd like to see our latest domestic U.S. and/or "offshore" Weekly Portfolio Holdings collection and summary.)
