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As usual, the nonlinearity of the return time series is a key point to accurately assess the risk of an asset, since the normality assumption is barely encountered in financial data. The basic idea to overcome the hypothesis testing lack of robustness on small time series is to merge several hypothesis tests to improve the final decision (i.e., the return time series is linear or not). Several aspects on the index\/decision fusion, such as the fusion topology, as well as the shared information by several hypothesis tests, have to be carefully investigated to design a robust decision process. This designed decision rule is applied to two databases of Hedge Fund price return (TASS and SP). In particular, the linearity assumption is generally accepted for the factorial model. However, funds having detected nonlinearity in their returns are generally correlated with exchange rates. 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