General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> September 24, 2002
Kenneth S. Abramowitz, Managing Director of The Carlyle Group,
joined the firm in March 2001 as a Managing Director in the
Healthcare Group based in New York. Prior to joining Carlyle, he
spent 23 years as an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. where
he covered the medical supply, hospital management and HMO
industries, after which he was an EGS Securities healthcare fund
manager for five months. He was voted top hospital supply and/or
service analyst on the Institutional Investor All-America
Research Team 14 out of 19 years since 1980 and made the team for
both healthcare services and medical supplies for nine out of 12
years since 1987. Mr. Abramowitz earned a BA from Columbia
University in 1972 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in
1976. During the past 10 years, Mr. Abramowitz has published
several notable studies on the healthcare sector and has also
published numerous articles. Profile
over the past year?
Mr. Abramowitz: Carlyle is one of the world's largest private
equity investment companies with $14 billion of
