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
THE FACTS & NUMBERS OF 2020, THE GOLDEN FUTURE OF 2021
As we say goodbye to 2020 and look toward 2021, the key numbers on my screen and mind have nothing to do with dates yet everything to do with this: 14. 14 is the number of trillions by which the aggre...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 6, 2021
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GOLD VS. TWILIGHT ZONES, PERFECT STORMS AND FAIRY TALES
It should and will come as no surprise that fundamentals like valuation basics and sane credit levels have left the building (and securities markets) for some time. Today, we literally invest (i.e. b...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 2, 2021
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SMALL BUSINESS EXTINCTION, WALKING DEAD BONDS & GOLDEN SOLUTIONS
Regardless of one’s views as to the most realistic means of balancing human risk with economic risk, all would agree that COVID has both revealed and accelerated critical (and pre-existing) fissures i...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 23, 2020
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NEO-FEUDALISM AND DYING CAPITALISM
American exceptionalism, as current COVID and capitalism disasters confirm, has morphed into a distortion that resembles more of a comorbidity than a guiding light. Despite a prior reputation for lea...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 14, 2020
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GOLD: FIRE INSURANCE FOR CURRENCIES ALREADY BURNING TO THE GROUND
After an extraordinary rally, gold recently entered an anticipated correction phase, which both math and history suggest is about to re-enter a continued trend dramatically upward.
Matthew Piepenburg / December 11, 2020
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GOLDEN ADVICE: BET AGAINST THE “EXPERTS”
Successful investing, from Baron Rothschild to Benjamin Graham, inevitably overlaps with contrarian investing. In short: Cooler minds avoid the madness of crowds. This is true regardless of strategy...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 3, 2020
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THE MADNESS OF CROWDS, THE SANITY OF GOLD
Crowds, like sheep, are only as safe as the shepherds who guide them. If the shepherd is mad, so too is the crowd. Today, central bank shepherds are leading the vast majority of investors over a cur...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 12, 2020
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