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Larry Fink

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Larry Fink · Economics & Business

What

Co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager (over $10 trillion AUM); pioneer of the iShares ETF platform and bond-index era.

When

1952, United States

Where

United States

Founded
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Biography

Larry Fink is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager (over $10 trillion AUM); pioneer of the iShares ETF platform and bond-index era.

How & why

Laurence 'Larry' Fink is an American financier born in 1952 to a Jewish family in Los Angeles. In 1988 he co-founded BlackRock, which grew into the world's largest asset manager, overseeing more than ten trillion dollars in assets. He pioneered the iShares exchange-traded fund platform and the bond-index era, reshaping modern investment management.

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Source: Wikipedia (Laurence D. Fink)

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Co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager (over $10 trillion AUM); pioneer of the iShares ETF platform and bond-index era.

1952

Source: Wikipedia (Laurence D. Fink)