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HOW LONG WAS GALLEON TRADING ON INSIDER INFORMATION?

Reader DanH was nice enough to forward us a recent copy of Galleon Groups performance going back to 1992.  It turns out that the fund was Madoff-like in its performance.  These guys just couldn’t lose.  Whether the market was up or down they cranked out 25% returns like they were printing money.  It makes you wonder just how long these guys were trading on insider information?

I have run the risk adjusted returns on hundreds if not thousands of portfolios throughout my career and I have never seen numbers like these.  NEVER.  There is virtually ZERO downside volatility in these figures.  Their largest one month drawdown was -6.19%!*  That is simply unheard of for a portfolio with such high returns.  Gauging from the returns I would be willing to bet the insider trading was going on for most of Galleon’s existence and was likely much more rampant than currently reported:

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* Correction – Galleon’s worst month listed here was a -8.54% decline in October of 1997.   In other notes, it’s interesting to see that Galleon posted just 5 months of 4%+ declines in a total of 186 months listed.  Unbelievable.

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