Todd C. Ahlsten
Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager
Todd Ahlsten is the Chief Investment Officer and the lead Portfolio Manager of the
Parnassus Equity Income Fund. He joined Parnassus Investments in 1995 as a Research
Analyst and was previously a Parnassus research intern. In 1998, Mr. Ahlsten was
promoted to Director of Research and subsequently became Portfolio Manager of the
Parnassus Equity Income Fund in 2001. He became Chief Investment Officer in 2008.
Mr. Ahlsten received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University
of California, Berkeley with an emphasis in finance and accounting.
Benjamin E. Allen
Director of Research, Portfolio Manager
Benjamin Allen is the Director of Research and a Portfolio Manager of the Parnassus
Equity Income Fund. He joined Parnassus Investments in 2005 as a Senior Research
Analyst and was previously a Parnassus research intern. Prior to joining the firm,
Mr. Allen worked at Morgan Stanley in New York, first as an Investment Banking Analyst
and later in the firm’s venture capital group. Raised in Massachusetts, he is an
alumnus of the Boston Latin School. Mr. Allen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna
cum laude from Georgetown University with a bachelor's degree in government, and
completed the general course in philosophy at the London School of Economics. Mr.
Allen received his master's degree in business administration from the University
of California, Berkeley.