Matthew Piepenburg

Partner

Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001.

Thereafter, he began investing his own and other HNW family funds into alternative investment vehicles while operating as a General Counsel, CIO and later Managing Director of a single and multi-family office. Matthew worked closely as well with Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund platform in building a multi-strat/multi-manager fund to better manage risk in a market backdrop of extreme central bank intervention/support. The conviction that precious metals provides the most reliable and longer-term protection against potential systemic risk led Matt to join VON GREYERZ.

The author of the Amazon No#1 Release, Rigged to Fail, Matt is fluent in French, German and English; he is a graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA) and the University of Michigan (JD). Along with Egon von Greyerz, Matthew is the co-author of Gold Matters, which offers an extensive examination of gold as an historically-confirmed wealth-preservation asset.

Insights & Articles

Dark Forces, Plain Speak, Brighter Gold & The Fed’s Sick End Game

As usual, the end game will boil down to yield curve controls and more money printing, which means more currency debasement and a central bank system that secretly (and historically) favors inflation...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 22, 2022

Gold vs. An Openly Failing/Changing World

As central bankers play checkers on a global debt chessboard, we see below how policy hypocrisy, worsening monetary options, failed diplomacy, tanking bonds, rising rates, debt addiction, mismanaged s...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 13, 2022

Sanctions Spur a Massive Decline in Western Hegemony as the World De-Dollarizes

Matthew Piepenburg, sits down with Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold Radio to discuss the seismic shifts in the global financial system now emerging in the wake of Russian sanctions and the implications...

Matthew Piepenburg / April 1, 2022

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How the West Was Lost: A Faltering World Reserve Currency

Debt destroys nations, financial systems, markets, and currencies. Always and every time. The inflationary financial system is now failing because its debt levels have rendered it impotent to grow eco...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 30, 2022

Why Gold Will Rise — The Financial System Has Changed

As the world focused keenly on Ukraine, few noticed the extent and magnitude to which the entire world financial system changed overnight. The consequences of this titanic shift are difficult to overs...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 16, 2022

Ukraine War Headlines: Tough Talk + Real Math = Bad Options

Taken as a whole, all the chest puffing—from Boris to Biden—ignore the colder realities of the USD’s teetering reserve status, oil market realism (and inflation), Sino-Russian chess skills and record-...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 2, 2022

Swiss Safety in a World of Market Bubbles, Distorted Currencies and Global Saber Rattling

As geo-political fires burn around the world, we are reminded of the importance of safety and stability in the jurisdictions of gold investment. If private gold holdings are subject to political whim...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 1, 2022

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