Laurence D. Fink

Douglas Laurence " Larry " Fink ( born November 2, 1952 in Los Angeles ) is an American entrepreneur.

Life

Fink comes from a Jewish family and grew up in Van Nuys, California, on. He studied economics and political science at the University of California (UCLA ) in Los Angeles. After finishing his studies, he worked at the investment bank First Boston. In 1988 he was co-founder of the company BlackRock, which he chaired from 1998. Fink is married and has three children.

According to the news magazine " FOCUS" is Laurence Douglas Fink " the most powerful man on Wall Street," with "Black Rock" he's " in the middle of Manhattan, the greatest financial empire in the world created as a fortress made ​​of glass and marble ... Bigger than the German bank, Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan. Even greater than them all together. The financial group manages four trillion dollars. In numbers: 4,000,000,000,000 - equivalent to ten times the budget of the Federal Republic of Germany ".

Prizes and Awards (selection)

  • Woodrow Wilson Award, 2010
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