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

What Gold Volatility, Stanley Fischer, and CBDC Can Tell Us About What Lies Ahead

Recent movements in gold markets, comments by former Vice Chair of the Fed Stanley Fischer, and moves toward Central Bank Digital Currencies show a glimpse into the minds of central bankers and offer...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 9, 2021

The Latest Lie from on-High: An “Independent Federal Reserve”

The Federal Reserve, we are told, is "independent" from political pressures and forces. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Fed is increasingly another branch of the White house, and our econ...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 30, 2021

The Death of Truth & the Rise of Centralized Government Control

Centralized government control has resulted in distortion of the reality of our economy and our future. Conditions will further unravel as the truth continues to be suppressed.

Matthew Piepenburg / July 25, 2021

Wells Fargo Liquidity Crisis

Liquidity Crisis: Wells Fargo & Repo Markets Sound Alarms

Recent news of Wells Fargo suspending personal lines of credit and continued volatility in the repo market portend a coming liquidity crisis. In an era when deep cracks in the financial system are ban...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 16, 2021

Gold Storage in Banks? Think Again.

For informed investors who have successfully traversed the tired Bitcoin vs. Gold debate and recognized the critical importance of owning physical (as opposed to paper/ETF) gold as an obvious antidote...

Matthew Piepenburg / July 12, 2021

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

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

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

“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

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