# Prof. Jim Liew on the ability of hedge funds to outperform the market as a whole

1 Faculty News June 28, 2012 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030601.jpg?itok=GeJte3i1)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg Businessweek](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-28/john-paulsons-very-bad-year#p3) -- "'Clearly, the bigger you get, the harder it is to generate alpha,' says [Jim Liew](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jim-liew), a professor of hedge fund strategies at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

[Read more](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-28/john-paulsons-very-bad-year#p3)