Consider the following information regarding the performance of a money manager in a recent month. The table represents the actual return of each sector of the managers portfolio in column 1, the fraction of the portfolio allocated to each sector in column 2, the benchmark or neutral sector allocations in column 3, and the returns of sector indices in column 4.

What was the contribution of security selection to relative performance? If all the cash were invested in stocks, would the contribution to security selection from stocks increase or decrease?

Actual Return 2.4% Actual Weight 0.2 Benchmark Weight 0.3 Equity Index Return 2.9% (S&P 500) 1.2 (Barclay's Aggregate) 0.8 Bonds 1 0.2 0.2 Cash 0.7 0.6 0.5 Actual Return 2.4% Actual Weight 0.2 Benchmark Weight 0.3 Equity Index Return 2.9% (S&P 500) 1.2 (Barclay's Aggregate) 0.8 Bonds 1 0.2 0.2 Cash 0.7 0.6 0.5