> Brokerage customers keep ~10% of their assets in cash. The 200 basis point spread between cash in brokerage accounts and money market funds or insured bank accounts [...] is equivalent to a 20 bps asset management fee across the portfolio.
Could someone break this down a bit more? I'm trying to grok the point, but don't have the intuition. Where is the "200 basis point spread" coming from? Why is it equivalent to a 20 bps management fee?