Wall Street's Newest Giant: While its rivals were collapsing during the crash, this CEO's firm somehow thrived. Now, if only people could remember its name

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LAURENCE FINK DOESN'T look like a guy who controls $3 trillion. Bespectacled and balding, he comes across more like a shoe salesman, a job he once held in his parents' store, growing up in Van Nuys, Calif. But after college he traded his shoehorn for a career in finance, working his way up to a managing director position at First Boston. He and some friends would eventually create a new money-management shop in the late '80s, starting with almost $1 billion in assets and turning it into a growing but unassuming fixture on Wall Street.