[Larry] Fink was born on November 2, 1952.[5][6] He grew up in a Jewish family[7] in Van Nuys, California, where his Jewish mother was an English professor and his Jewish father owned a ″–Jewish–″ shoe store.[3] He earned a BA in Political Science from UCLA in 1974.[6] Fink is also a member of Kappa Beta Phi.[8] He then received an MBA in Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management in 1976.[6][9]