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
STOCKS NO BID – GOLD NO OFFER
It is not difficult to understand Cassandra’s enormous frustration. She was given the gift of accurately predicting important events and her curse was that no one would believe her. Some of us are cer...
Egon von Greyerz / July 25, 2019
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CONFIDENCE AND EUPHORIA WILL TURN TO FEAR & DESPAIR
Investors today have Hobson’s Choice. But they still don’t understand the options open to them. Thomas Hobson had a livery stable of 40 horses in Cambridge in the 16th-17th centuries. But customers on...
Egon von Greyerz / July 18, 2019
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GOLD IS FOR FREEDOM AND BENEFIT
Lemmings have a herd mentality. But following the crowd, can have grave consequences like falling off a cliff and drowning in the ocean. Many investors have the same instinct. They follow the crowd an...
Egon von Greyerz / July 11, 2019
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SWISS BANK LOSES CLIENT’S GOLD
Don’t let your bank hold your gold. They might not find it. A gold investor told us recently that his Swiss bank had moved the client’s gold from the bank’s safe to a private vault in the name of the...
Egon von Greyerz / July 4, 2019
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GOLD PRICE SIGNALS NEXT GLOBAL CRISIS
Finally it happened although it took 6 long years to break through The Gold Maginot Line at $1,350!
This resistance was a lot stronger than the original French one in WW II since i...
Egon von Greyerz / June 27, 2019
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I JUST WON A $1 MILLION DOLLAR WAGER ON GOLD!
At the beginning of last week, I was challenged with a wager on the gold price. The individual, who called me a “gold pumper”, wanted to bet $1 million on the gold price going below $1,000 before it r...
Egon von Greyerz / June 20, 2019
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GOLD MAGINOT LINE BROKEN – TIME TO BUY INSURANCE
The breakout in gold and silver that we have been patiently waiting for is now starting. The long term up move in the precious metals, which have been pausing since 2011, is now resuming. We can with...
Egon von Greyerz / June 14, 2019
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BRITS – GOLD MORE LIKELY TO SAVE YOU THAN ATLAS
Will Atlas save the world? Global debt of $250 trillion can neither be serviced nor ever repaid. More likely, it will continue to grow exponentially until the world financial system collapses under th...
Egon von Greyerz / May 30, 2019
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WITHOUT GOLD THE WEALTHY WILL BE WIPED OUT
The massive explosion of wealth in the world could be a sign of general prosperity but that is certainly very far from the truth. The printed money and credit expansion has only benefited a very small...
Egon von Greyerz / May 24, 2019
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COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE GUARANTEES SOCIALISM
How can a small clique of gold owners holding less than 0.5% of world financial assets be right? They are clearly a minuscule minority of obstinate goldbugs and contrarians who are living in the past....
Egon von Greyerz / May 17, 2019
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