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
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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US Money Supply: More Lies from On High
Upton Sinclair famously observed that, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” After decades navigating among Wall Street sell-side...
Matthew Piepenburg / April 19, 2021
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Banking Risk—The Real Killer Virus
When it comes to the topic of banking risk, well…one can only lean back in a chair, sigh and say: “Where to begin?”
Matthew Piepenburg / April 10, 2021
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Gold Rises as Financial Faith Weakens
In recent weeks, I’ve authored many reports pointing toward the certainty of both current as well as rising inflation ahead, which, of course, is favorable to the long-term price direction in gold. Th...
Matthew Piepenburg / April 4, 2021
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Things That Make Me Go Hmmm: Inflation, Crypto, Command Economies and Gold.
Over the years I’ve written almost ad nauseum about the crazy I see (and saw) around me as a fund manager, family office principal and individual investor. The list includes
Matthew Piepenburg / March 27, 2021
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TITANISCHER GRADMESSER FÜR DIE STEILE ZUKUNFT VON GOLD
Wer sich in dieser allgemeinen Phase der Marktdämmerung über das wahnhafte Verhalten bestimmter Aktientitel aufregt, handelt in etwa so wie ein Titanic-Passagier, der sich wegen der Dessert-Auswahl au...
Matthew Piepenburg / March 23, 2021
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