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

Gold reflects the destruction of paper money

“The Matterhorn Interview – 31 Dec 2013: Egon von Greyerz” On the final day of the year we are publishing the interview that Lars Schall has just conducted with me in Zurich. We cove...

Egon von Greyerz / December 31, 2013

2014: A dangerous year – Greyerz

KWN interview 13 December 2013 – Egon von Greyerz “We are ending 2013 on what for most investors is a high note. Stock markets worldwide have had an excellent year. Investors feel generally bull...

Egon von Greyerz / December 17, 2013

Part Two: THE DOUBLE FACE OF GOLD – Dimitri Speck

“The Matterhorn Interview – 25 Nov 2013: Dimitri Speck – Part 2” In the second part of this exclusive video interview (18 mins) for Matterhorn Asset Management, independent fin...

Egon von Greyerz / November 28, 2013

Part One: The coordinated effort to suppress the gold price – Dimitri Speck

“The Matterhorn Interview – 25 Nov 2013: Dimitri Speck – Part 1” On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management Zurich, Lars Schall met up with Munich based quantitative market resea...

Egon von Greyerz / November 25, 2013

Jim Sinclair: Gold via 3500 to 50000

Jim Sinclair – Gold at $3,500 and $50,000 Very few people understand what is happening in the world economy better than Jim Sinclair. But there is absolutely no one who understands gold better t...

Egon von Greyerz / October 31, 2013

Hyperinflation and Gold’s parabolic rise

There is a ridiculous amount of time spent on what the Fed will do or won’t do or analysing the latest economic figures. Very few people use their own brain to figure out the obvious. And the ob...

Egon von Greyerz / October 27, 2013

US Debt limit has been abandoned

At last it is official. The US now has NO debt limit. After months of wrangling the US politicians decided that they couldn’t decide. So they decided to continue to ignore the debt limit like th...

Egon von Greyerz / October 19, 2013

Suppression of Gold will soon end

We have just seen another smash in gold and silver. The official manipulation is so blatant it is ridiculous. No one in their sane mind would sell massive quantities of gold and silver in a thin marke...

Egon von Greyerz / October 11, 2013

Gold is a Slam Dunk Buy

Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Gartman and a few others are now declaring that gold is a slam dunk sell. You wonder how these people can charge so much money for their advice. They are consistently wro...

Egon von Greyerz / October 10, 2013

QE to increase substantially

In my KWN interview on February 20, I discussed that with the US on life support, this was the wrong time to turn off the machine. A country with debt going up exponentially, real GDP and real wages g...

Egon von Greyerz / September 25, 2013