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
Piepenburg, Williams, Schechtman and Martin Agree: The World Is Dramatically Shifting, Gold is Essential
Matthew Piepenburg joins Grant Williams, Andy Schectman and Jay Martin in the opening presentation at the recent Vancouver Resource Investment Conference to discuss the truly “tectonic shifts” in the...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 16, 2024
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Gold: How DC Screwed You, and Now Itself
The French poet, Arthur Rimbaud famously wrote that “Nothing is true.” Hmmm. Fairly sensational, no? Deciphering the nuance behind such poetic phrases is almost as difficult as deciphering the mean...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 11, 2024
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Prostituting Power at the Expense of the Many to Benefit the Few
In this brief yet refreshingly blunt discussion, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg joins David Lin at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. From Canada, Piepenburg fleshes out the longer...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 9, 2024
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Gold Getting the Last Laugh as Policy Makers Fail
In this brief yet substantive conversation with Charlotte McLeod of Investing News Network, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, bluntly answers the financial questions and concerns which politica...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 7, 2024
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The US Is Living on Borrowed Time
In late December, I published a final report on the themes of 2023 while looking ahead at their implications for the year to come. I repeated my claim that debt markets and debt levels made the futur...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 26, 2024
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More Golden (and Black-Gold) Proof: The Dollar is Totally Screwed
Ever since day-one of the predictably disastrous and politically myopic insanity of weaponizing the world reserve currency against a major power like Russia, we warned that the USD had reached an hist...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 7, 2024
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Is Democracy Being Outlawed?
In Part II of this two-part conversation with Michelle Makori of Kitco News, Matterhorn Asset Management Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, answers questions about crypto currencies, gold’s critical wealth...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 1, 2024
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Debt’s Toxic Ripple Effects: Gold Flowing Toward Historical Repricing
In Part I of this two-part conversation with Michelle Makori of Kitco News, Matterhorn Asset Management Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, looks at the key financial themes of 2023 and the critical trends t...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 29, 2023
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2024 Markets: The End of a Crappy Year, The Beginning of a Worse One
As my last report for 2023, I wanted to hit the big issues blunt in the face—from debt and sovereign bond markets to themes on the USD, inflation, risk markets and physical gold. This will not be sho...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 17, 2023
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Hope Dies, Gold Rises
The primary stages of grief include: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. When it comes to grieving over the slow demise of the American economy, sovereign IOU/USD and the a...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 3, 2023
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