Bennelong Long Short Equity Management (BLSEM) is a boutique, market neutral asset manager, managing investments on behalf of both fund-of-funds and private investors. It was founded as a joint venture with Bennelong Funds Management in 2002. BLSEM is led by Portfolio Manager Sam Shepherd, supported by Head of Research, Sam Taylor and a highly experienced team of analysts. The team, which has a successful track record with more than 12 years of strong performance history, invests in long and short large capitalisation Australian shares (primarily S&P/ASX 100).