Crane Data's latest monthly Money Fund Market Share rankings show assets were mostly higher among the largest U.S. money fund complexes in November. Money market fund assets increased $55.4 billion, or 1.1%, last month to $5.120 trillion. Assets increased by $79.2 billion, or 1.6%, over the past 3 months, and they've increased by $76.4 billion, or 1.5%, over the past 12 months. The largest increases among the 25 largest managers last month were seen by Schwab, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Invesco and Western, which grew assets by $17.7 billion, $16.1B, $8.2B, $6.9B and $5.5B, respectively. Large declines in November were seen by SSGA and BlackRock, which decreased by $13.4 billion and $6.9B, 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, and look at money fund yields, which jumped again in November, below.

Over the past year through Nov. 30, 2022, Schwab (up $107.2B, or 74.6%), American Funds (up $74.6B, or 54.5%), Goldman Sachs (up $49.7B, or 13.0%), Fidelity (up $49.6B, or 5.5%) and Invesco (up $42.3B, or 48.4%) were the largest gainers. Schwab, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Invesco and UBS had the largest asset increases over the past 3 months, rising by $57.5B, $52.1B, $30.8B, $15.9B and $12.9B, respectively. The largest decliners over 12 months were seen by: BlackRock (down $62.7B), JP Morgan (down $57.2B), Northern (down $53.7B), Morgan Stanley (down $48.6B) and Allspring (down $41.4B). The largest decliners over 3 months included: SSGA (down $32.9B), Morgan Stanley (down $18.0B), BlackRock (down $12.1B), JPMorgan (down $11.7B) and Northern (down $9.8B).

Our latest domestic U.S. Money Fund Family Rankings show that Fidelity Investments remains the largest money fund manager with $951.3 billion, or 18.6% of all assets. Fidelity was up $5.3B in November, up $30.8 billion over 3 mos., and up $49.6B over 12 months. BlackRock ranked second with $465.5 billion, or 9.1% market share (down $6.9B, down $12.1B and down $62.7B for the past 1-month, 3-mos. and 12-mos., respectively). Vanguard ranked in third place with $452.7 billion, or 8.8% of assets (up $1.2B, down $4.2B and down $3.3B). Goldman Sachs ranked fourth with $431.5 billion, or 8.4% market share (up $16.1B, up $52.1B and up $49.7B), while JPMorgan was the fifth largest MMF manager with $409.2 billion, or 8.0% of assets (up $359M, down $11.7B and down $57.2B for the past 1-month, 3-mos. and 12-mos.).

Federated Hermes was in sixth place with $337.6 billion, or 6.6% (up $3.3B, down $967M and up $4.9B), while Schwab was in seventh place with $251.0 billion, or 4.9% of assets (up $17.7B, up $57.5B and up $107.2B). Morgan Stanley ($244.3B, or 4.8%) was in eighth place (up $4.9B, down $18.0B and down $48.6B), followed by Dreyfus ($242.4B, or 4.7%; down $553M, down $3.8B and down $6.8B). American Funds was in 10th place ($211.4B, or 4.1%; unchanged, up $129M and up $74.6B).

The 11th through 20th-largest U.S. money fund managers (in order) include: SSGA ($158.3B, or 3.1%), Allspring (formerly Wells Fargo) ($151.6B, or 3.0%), Northern ($140.6B, or 2.7%), Invesco ($129.7B, or 2.5%), First American ($115.6B, or 2.3%), HSBC ($64.7B, or 1.3%), UBS ($62.9B, or 1.2%), T. Rowe Price ($50.6B, or 1.0%), DWS ($37.3B, or 0.7%) and Western ($31.8B, or 0.6%). Crane Data currently tracks 61 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 are the same as the domestic list, except: JPMorgan moves up to the No. 3 spot, Vanguard moves down to the No. 5 spot, Morgan Stanley moves up to the No. 7 spot, Dreyfus moves up to the No. 8 spot, and Schwab falls to the 9th spot. 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 ($961.2 billion), BlackRock ($686.7B), JP Morgan ($588.4B), Goldman Sachs ($569.6B) and Vanguard ($452.7B). Federated Hermes ($345.2B) was in sixth, Morgan Stanley ($306.6B) was seventh, followed by Dreyfus/BNY Mellon ($261.4B), Schwab ($251.0B) and American Funds ($211.4B), 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 December issue of our Money Fund Intelligence and MFI XLS, with data as of 11/30/22, shows that yields jumped again in November across the Crane Money Fund Indexes. The Crane Money Fund Average, which includes all taxable funds covered by Crane Data (currently 746), rose to 3.37% (up 59 bps) for the 7-Day Yield (annualized, net) Average, the 30-Day Yield increased to 3.25% (up 57 bps). The MFA's Gross 7-Day Yield rose to 3.71% (up 61 bps), and the Gross 30-Day Yield also moved up to 3.59% (up 61 bps). (Gross yields will be revised Thursday at noon, though, once we download the SEC's Form N-MFP data for 11/30/22.)

Our Crane 100 Money Fund Index shows an average 7-Day (Net) Yield of 3.57% (up 72 bps) and an average 30-Day Yield at 3.46% (up 67 bps). The Crane 100 shows a Gross 7-Day Yield of 3.73% (up 67 bps), and a Gross 30-Day Yield of 3.63% (up 63 bps). Our Prime Institutional MF Index (7-day) yielded 3.66% (up 72 bps) as of November 30. The Crane Govt Inst Index was at 3.37% (up 63 bps) and the Treasury Inst Index was at 3.46% (up 61 bps). Thus, the spread between Prime funds and Treasury funds is 20 basis points, and the spread between Prime funds and Govt funds is 29 basis points. The Crane Prime Retail Index yielded 3.50% (up 71 bps), while the Govt Retail Index was 3.05% (up 56 bps), the Treasury Retail Index was 3.28% (up 66 bps from the month prior). The Crane Tax Exempt MF Index yielded 1.49% (down 33 bps) as of November 30.

Gross 7-Day Yields for these indexes to end November were: Prime Inst 3.93% (up 70 bps), Govt Inst 3.63% (up 62 bps), Treasury Inst 3.73% (up 60 bps), Prime Retail 3.90% (up 66 bps), Govt Retail 3.53% (up 54 bps) and Treasury Retail 3.67% (up 61 bps). The Crane Tax Exempt Index dropped to 1.47% (down 20 bps). The Crane 100 MF Index returned on average 0.28% over 1-month, 0.70% over 3-months, 1.12% YTD, 1.12% over the past 1-year, 0.56% over 3-years (annualized), 1.06% over 5-years, and 0.62% over 10-years.

The total number of funds, including taxable and tax-exempt, rose by 5 in November to 889. There are currently 746 taxable funds, up 5 from the previous month, and 143 tax-exempt money funds (unchanged from last month). (Contact us if you'd like to see our latest MFI XLS, Crane Indexes or Market Share report.)

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