Goldman’s Special Situations Unit Produced 9% of 2007 Revenue

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Special Situations Group, a secretive unit that invests the firm’s own money, generated 9 percent of companywide revenue in 2007, an internal document shows.

The group, known as SSG, produced $4.1 billion that year, and $3.79 billion in 2006, then 10 percent of the firm’s total, according to a document prepared for a managing director meeting on Jan. 10, 2008. In both years, the unit contributed the most revenue to the firm’s biggest division, generating more than currency and interest-rate trading combined, it shows.