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
“CONTROLLED” YIELDS ARE CURVING TOWARD GOLD
Regardless of one’s politics, most would agree that extremely complex issues are typically given extremely misleading titles. Not all those of the extreme left, for example, are all that “woke” and no...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 12, 2021
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FROM PITCH FORKS TO TRADING APPS: THE NATIVES ARE GETTING RESTLESS
Mark Twain once quipped that a lie can travel around the world faster than it takes the truth to put its boots on. But now the truth behind years and years of open lies masquerading as fiscal or monet...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 10, 2021
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ENDING TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS, RETURNING TO GOLD
Breaking Up is Hard to Do - In markets, as in love, it’s obviously hard to let go of something familiar yet clearly not working; but as all sober romantics eventually discover: Toxic relationsh...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 8, 2021
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Gold: Anklage und Verteidigung & Bitcoin
Die meisten Juristen eint die Fähigkeit, zwei Seiten eines Falls in Betracht zu ziehen, ungeachtet der ersten persönlichen Einschätzung.
Matthew Piepenburg / February 3, 2021
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF DEBT, THE MATH OF PRECIOUS METALS
Market insights often come from unexpected sources. One of Harvard’s most beloved and popular professors, for example, was not an economist, but the brilliant (and thus controversial) campus philosoph...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 29, 2021
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GOLD’S PROSECUTORS, DEFENDERS & BITCOIN
Most law graduates share a capacity to argue two-sides of any case, regardless of their own primary conviction. When it comes to gold, my verdict as to its ultimate price direction (upwards) and its h...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 25, 2021
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HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF
For anyone inside or outside of the U.S., it goes without saying that things are indeed heating up in the land of the free. President Trump faces an unprecedented second impeachment just days before...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 18, 2021
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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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