Matthew Piepenburg
Partner Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001Thereafter, 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
Basel III and Gold: The Trillion-Dollar Question
June 28th has come and gone, which means the much-anticipated Basel III “macro prudential regulation” to make so-called “safe” banks “safer” has officially kicked off in the European Union (as it will...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 1, 2021
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One Mad Market & Six Cold Reality-Checks
Fact checking politicos, headlines and central bankers is one thing. Putting their “facts” into context is another. Toward that end, it’s critical to place so-called “economic growth,” Treasury market...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 21, 2021
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Translating Yellen-Speak into Golden-Speak
Given the increasingly politicized interplay (cancer) of central bank policy and so-called free market price discovery, it’s becoming increasingly more important to track the actions of central banker...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 14, 2021
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“Transitory” Inflation? — Sublime Yet Ridiculous
History is a funny thing, almost as funny as human nature. The policy makers, including their latest meme of “transitory inflation,” are no exception to such psychological tragi-comedy. In short, we d...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 7, 2021
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Gold’s Middle Finger to Lying Currencies
Sensationalism, like central bankers and policy makers, has many faces, views and voices. This may explain why so many want to hold their ears, hug their knees and beg the heavens for a beacon of guid...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 30, 2021
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Pick Your Fed Poison: Tanking Markets or Fatal Inflation?
Below we look at the dark corner in which the Fed has placed themselves and investors: A one-way path toward tanking markets or crippling inflation. Alas: Pick your poison. For us, the antidote is as...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 24, 2021
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Bitcoin vs. Gold: A Tired Debate
We’ve written elsewhere about the ironic over-use of logic to justify otherwise illogical biases. As Swiss-based precious metals professionals who see physical gold and silver as currency protection...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 17, 2021
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Keep It Simple: Gold vs. a Mad World
Psychologists, poets and philosophers have written for centuries that many who have eyes refuse to see, and many who can think, refuse to think clearly--all for the simple reason that some truths, lik...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 10, 2021
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Gold is Laughing at Powell
Recently, my colleague, Egon von Greyerz, and I had some unabashed yet blunt fun calling out the staggering levels of open hypocrisy and policy desperation unleashed by former Fed Chairman, Alan Green...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 1, 2021
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Patient Zero of the Bubble Pandemic: Alan Greenspan
Below, we consider two well-known names in modern markets, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, and current value investing legend, Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO Investment Strategies. Years ago,...
Matthew Piepenburg / April 24, 2021
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