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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MAKING SENSE OF COMEX INSANITY

We certainly live in interesting times. Yet be you bear or bull, left or right, optimist, cynic or pessimist, one would be hard pressed to pretend that anything is, well, normal.

Matthew Piepenburg / March 20, 2021

Wisdom & Warnings from the Commodity Market

In our own recent reports (and frankly any report) addressing the topic of precious metals, we confronted inflation topics, including, its many tailwinds. One critical tailwind for rising inflation i...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 18, 2021

Gold vs. Bitcoin

Getting Ready for Gold’s Golden Era

Worried about gold sentiment? Don’t be. The mainstream view of gold right now is an open yawn, and sentiment indicators for this precious metal are now at 3-year lows despite the gold highs of last Au...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 15, 2021

Rigged to Fail—From Musk to Powell

For quite some time we have been warning about the rising shark fin of rising yields and rates. As of this writing, one can almost hear John Williams’ orchestral theme song to Jaws ringing in the ear...

Matthew Piepenburg / March 12, 2021