Egon von Greyerz
Founder and Chairman Born with dual Swiss/Swedish citizenship, Egon's education was mainly in Sweden.Egon von Greyerz began his professional life in Geneva as a banker and thereafter spent 17 years as the Finance Director and Executive Vice-Chairman of Dixons Group Plc. During that time, Dixons expanded from a small photographic retailer to a FTSE 100 company and the largest consumer electronics retailer in the UK.
During the 1990s, Egon von Greyerz became actively involved with financial investment activities including mergers and acquisitions and asset allocation consultancy for private family funds. This led to the creation of VON GREYERZ as an asset management company based on wealth preservation principles.
VON GREYERZ is now the world’s leading company for direct investor ownership of physical gold and silver outside the banking system. Our vaults include the biggest and safest gold vault in the world, located in the Swiss Alps. Clients include High Net Worth Individuals, Family Offices, Pension Funds, Investment Funds and Trusts in over 90 countries.
Egon von Greyerz makes regular media appearances and speaks at investment conferences around the world. He also publishes articles on precious metals, the world economy and wealth preservation.
Insights & Articles
BANK VAULTED GOLD: GONE WHEN NEEDED MOST
Institutional investors are increasingly adding gold to their portfolios as a currency and inflation hedge. Those, however, who chose ETF’s for such an allocation face massive delivery risk of the ass...
Egon von Greyerz / June 1, 2021
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EXPONENTIALITY LEADS TO FINALITY
As technological developments and markets go parabolic, we observe many market “experts”, even intelligent ones, forecasting that we are now in an exponential economic era. Thus many believe that this...
Egon von Greyerz / May 26, 2021
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EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE
“Everything is on fire” - Heraclitus (535-475 BC)
What Heraclitus meant was that the world is in a constant state of flux. But the...
Egon von Greyerz / May 19, 2021
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GOLD vs $200 TRILLION COUNTERFEITED MONEY
“O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to fiat money, it carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.” ― Euripides &...
Egon von Greyerz / May 12, 2021
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BIDEN’S MMT – MORE MONEY THEORY
The number one objective of a US president is to be reelected. To achieve that, it is not enough to be good looking or to speak well. No, the only way to be reelected is to buy votes. The price of v...
Egon von Greyerz / May 5, 2021
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GOLD TAILWINDS, FED HOT AIR AND SILVER’S INEVITABLE RISE
In this 19-minute MAMChat, Matterhorn Asset Management principals Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg address critical data points related to precious metal price conditions. Specifically, they di...
Egon von Greyerz / May 4, 2021
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FED HEADS LOSE THEIR HEAD
Read my lips: No New Taxes” Bush Sr said in his acceptance speech for his nomination in 1988 when he promised no tax rises. As most politicians, he didn’t keep his...
Egon von Greyerz / April 28, 2021
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EVERY PHYSICAL SILVER OUNCE HAS BEEN SOLD UP TO 1000X
The silver price is today half of the January 1980 level. That was the peak at $50 which silver reached again 31 years later in 2011. But alas, the bullion banks, aided by the BIS (Bank for Internati...
Egon von Greyerz / April 21, 2021
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THE $2.3 QUADRILLION GLOBAL DEBT TIMEBOMB
Credit Suisse is hours from collapse and the consequences could be a systemic failure of the financial system. Disappointingly, my dream last night stopped there. So...
Egon von Greyerz / April 16, 2021
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ABSOLUTE MAYHEM IS COMING
MAM founder, Egon von Greyerz, sits down with Silver Bullion TV to discuss a wide range of current topics, from the global response to the COVID pandemic and the paradox of balancing human safety agai...
Egon von Greyerz / April 9, 2021
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