Happy New Year! We hope you had a nice Holiday season and break. Crane Data is ramping up preparations for its 2026 conference calendar. We hosted our latest "basic training" Money Fund University event a little over 2 weeks ago, and we're now getting ready for our next show, Bond Fund Symposium, which is March 19-20, 2026, in Boston, Mass. But our focus will soon shift to our big show, Crane's Money Fund Symposium, which will take place June 24-26, 2026 at The Hyatt Regency Jersey City, in Jersey City, NJ. The draft agenda for the largest gathering of money market fund managers and cash investors in the world is now available and registrations are now being taken. Money Fund Symposium attracts money fund managers, marketers and servicers, cash investors, money market securities dealers, issuers, and regulators. We review the MFS preliminary agenda, as well as Crane Data's other 2026 conferences, below.
Our Money Fund Symposium lineup kicks off on Wednesday, June 24 with a "Keynote: Money Funds Staying Hot in '26" featuring George Gatch of J.P. Morgan Asset Management (invited but not confirmed). The rest of the Day 1 Agenda includes: "Repo Review: RRP, FICC & Trading Platforms," with Dina Marchioni of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; "European, French & Global MMF Overview" with Laurie Brignac of Invesco and Alastair Sewell of Aviva Investors & Chair, IMMFA; and, a "Major Money Fund Issues 2026" panel with moderator Peter Crane of Crane Data, Deborah Cunningham of Federated Hermes, Kevin Gaffney of Fidelity Investments and John Tobin, of Dreyfus. The evening's reception is sponsored by J.P. Morgan.
Day 2 of Money Fund Symposium 2026 begins with "State of the Money Market Fund Industry," with Peter Crane of Crane Data; followed by a "Senior Portfolio Manager Perspectives" panel with moderator Robert Callagy of Moody’s Ratings, Doris Grillo of J.P. Morgan Asset Mgmt, Rob Sabatino of UBS A.M. and Nafis Smith of Vanguard. Next up is "Treasury & Government Money Fund Issues," with Mike Bird of Allspring Global Investments and Geoff Gibbs of DWS Group. The morning concludes with a "Muni & Tax Exempt Money Fund Update," featuring John Vetter of Fidelity, Cameron Ullyatt of Schwab Asset Mgmt, and David Elmquist of J.P. Morgan Securities.
The Afternoon of Day 2 (after a Dreyfus-sponsored lunch) features the segments: "Dealer's Choice: Supply, New Securities & CP" with moderator Dan LaRocco of Northern Trust, Robe Crowe of Citi Global Markets, Tyan Yun of J.P. Morgan Securities and Stewart Cutler of Barclays; "Treasury Clearing Issues, More Repo & T-Bills" with Travis Keltner of State Street, Nathaniel Wuerffel of BNY, and Tom Katzenbach of US Dept of Treasury; "Money Market & Ultra-Short ETFs" with Bob Cousart of BlackRock, Jon-Luc Dupuy of K&L Gates LLP, and Michael Masih of S&P Global Ratings; and "Stablecoin Reserves & Tokenized Money Funds" with Adam Ackermann of Paxos, Brenden Carroll of Dechert LLP, and Teresa Ho of J.P. Morgan Securities (The Day 2 reception is sponsored by Barclays.)
The third day of the Symposium features the sessions: "Strategists Speak ’26: Rates, More Repo, Supply" with Sam Earl of Barclays, Gennadiy Goldberg of TD Securities and Ian Lyngen of BMO Capital Markets; "Ultra-Shorts, LGIPs, SMAs & Alt-Cash Options" with Peter Gargiulo of Fitch Ratings, Marty Margolis of Public Funds Investment Institute and Jeffrey Rowe of PFM Asset Management; "Investors, Portals & Distribution Topics" with Speaker TBD and Vanessa McMichael of Wells Fargo Securities; and, "Money Fund Statistics, Technology & News" with Peter Crane.
Visit the Money Fund Symposium website at www.cranesmfsymposium.com for more details. Registration is $1,000, and discounted hotel reservations are available. We hope you'll join us in Jersey City this June! Note that some of our speakers have yet to confirm their participation, and the agenda is still in the process of being finalized, so watch for tweaks in coming weeks. E-mail us at info@cranedata.com to request the full brochure.
We're also making plans for our ninth annual ultra-short bond fund event, Bond Fund Symposium, which will take place March 19-20, 2026 in Boston, Mass. at the Hyatt Regency. Crane's Bond Fund Symposium offers a concentrated and affordable educational experience, as well as an excellent networking venue, for bond fund and fixed-income professionals. Registrations are now being accepted ($1,000) and sponsorship opportunities are available. See the latest agenda here and details here.
Portfolio managers, analysts, investors, issuers, service providers, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of bond funds and fixed-income investing will benefit from our comprehensive program. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Boston. We'd like to thank our past sponsors and exhibitors -- Wells Fargo Securities, Fitch Ratings, Fidelity Investments, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Allspring Global, S&P Global Ratings, StoneX, Invesco, BofA Securities, Northern Trust, Bloomberg Intelligence, Goldman Sachs, Federated, GLMX, Payden & Rygel, PIMCO and Dechert -- for their support. (We'd love to get some new ones!) E-mail us for more details.
Finally, mark your calendars for our next European Money Fund Symposium, which is scheduled for Sept. 24-25, 2026, in Paris, France, and for our next Crane's Money Fund University, which is scheduled for Greenwich, Conn., Dec. 17-18, 2026. Let us know if you'd like more details on any of our events, and we hope to see you in Boston in March, in Jersey City in June, in Paris in September or in Greenwich in December 2026. Thanks again for your patience and support in 2025 and we look forward to another great year in the money markets in 2026!
