In a move designed to shore up the confidence of Congress, Wall Street and D.C. residents, the District’s trusted principal money manager has agreed to serve five more years under an Adrian Fenty administration, the city’s presumptive next mayor announced Monday.

Since his initial appointment by Mayor Anthony Williams in 2000, Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi has supervised the District’s economic boom, keeping a close eye on the bottom line to ensure no return to the catastrophic financial days of old. On Friday, Fenty asked him to stay through 2012.