A IS CORRECT. POSITIVE VALUE ADDED IS GENERATED BY OVERWEIGHTING SE...

1. A is correct. Positive value added is generated by overweighting securities that have returns

greater than the benchmark and underweighting securities that have returns less than the

benchmark. Performance attribution systems can decompose the value added into multiple

sources. The most common decomposition is between value added due to asset allocation and

value added due to security selection. Fund A overweighted the equity class ( 66% versus

60%) which performed better than the bond class, and the equity portion of Fund A

outperformed the equity benchmark (15.0% versus 7.0%). Section 2. LO.a.