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Professor Stephen Brown's joint research on the link between a hedge fund manager's choice of vehicle and market performance is highlighted

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Excerpt from Institutional Investor -- "Although higher risk can sometimes lead to higher returns, the additional risks taken by sports car drivers “ultimately hurt their investors,” authors Stephen Brown, Yan Lu, Sugata Ray, and Melvyn Teo, who are all finance professors, wrote in the paper. They found that sports car owners delivered lower Sharpe ratios and alphas, and traded 'more frequently, actively, and unconventionally.'"

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