Giles Hedley Dent

Giles Edward Hedley-Dent is a UK investment professional associated with Thesis Asset Management Limited, formerly Thesis Asset Management PLC. MarketScreener identifies him as a Client Director & Investment Manager at Thesis Asset Management PLC and says he specializes in SIPP portfolio management.

Companies House records show he served as a director of Thesis Asset Management Limited from 5 March 2003 until 1 May 2015. MarketScreener also lists him as having held the role of Director of Investments at Thesis Asset Management Ltd., with the position ending on 30 November 2016.

Before joining Thesis in 1997, MarketScreener reports that Hedley-Dent had experience at James Capel, Towry Law, and another solicitor investment manager. His LinkedIn profile lists Millfield School from 1963 to 1967 and states that he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 after articles with Spicer and Pegler, became a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1984, passed Stock Exchange Practice in May 1983 and Technique of Investment in May 1984, and holds the Chartered Insurance Institute Financial Planning Certificate from June 1983.

Thesis Asset Management is an FCA-authorised UK investment-management business. Its current website says it provides custody and trade execution services to UK investors and advisers; its LinkedIn company profile describes services for private clients, charities, pension funds, trusts, financial advisers, accountants, lawyers, and tax consultants.

• No verified public evidence was found that Hedley-Dent is currently active as a startup angel investor, seed investor, or venture investor.
• His documented focus is investment management for private-client and pension portfolios, especially SIPP portfolios.
• Thesis Asset Management’s publicly stated model is long-term discretionary and bespoke investment management rather than venture investing. The firm says it works with private investors and professional referrers and has “been investing on behalf of clients for over 40 years.”
• MarketScreener describes Thesis as “a risk-averse manager” focused on “superior risk adjusted long-term returns” through diversification and monitoring portfolios against strategic asset allocation parameters.