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

How the Fed Played Us—And Cornered Themselves as Recession Signs Mount

As inflation worsens, high-profile traders like Bill Ackman call on the Federal Reserve to raise rates and rein-in rising prices. The truth, however, is more dire: The Fed is cornered. Uncle Sam is fl...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 11, 2021

How Long Can Lies & Control Supplant Reality & Free Markets?

Around every corner, increasingly artificial markets are precariously propped up with lies, deceit, and outright control from central banks, governments, and the elite. Systems approach a critical bre...

Matthew Piepenburg / November 8, 2021

Gold: Chomping at the Bit for a Surge

Compared to the wild swings of commodities and cryptocurrencies, gold's performance over the last year has been a bit tame. Patient gold investors know, however, we have seen this race play out time a...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 29, 2021

Are We Headed for Recession? Signposts and Realism

With inflation surging, shortages crippling the world, and business outlook tanking, it's time to ask whether we are headed for recession. All the signs point to a resounding answer of YES, but what w...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 22, 2021

Distraction as Policy While Our Economic Rome Burns

Is Biden the president that played his fiddle while the US burned? As shortages, stagflation, and wealth inequality wreak havoc on an already divided United States, lawmakers focus on vaccine mandates...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 13, 2021

Hidden Bankruptcy: The Reality Behind Uncle Sam’s Inflated Bar Tab

With each day bringing new signs of inflation and rates becoming more deeply negative, it's time to confront reality: The US is declaring a hidden bankruptcy. Its debts cannot be serviced, and markets...

Matthew Piepenburg / October 1, 2021

Matthew Piepenburg: A New Currency System is Emerging

Is a new currency system emerging? Debt to GDP ratios are exploding globally, and inflation and wealth inequality have reached a point of crisis. Is the fed running out of options? Perhaps not. In thi...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 27, 2021

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