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 in 2025? Tragically Predictable
Another year is ending, which means it’s time to look back in order to better look forward. For 2025, I see no other realistic option or scenario ahead other than a weaker dollar and rising gold. This...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 31, 2024
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The Financial Reset: Matthew Piepenburg on Gold’s Place in the New Economy
Matthew Piepenburg joins Miles Franklin principal, Andy Schechtman, in a spirited yet substantive conversation on gold’s place, role and direction in a rapidly changing political and geopolitical land...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 21, 2024
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Facts Matter: Why Trump Won
In a pre-election trip to DC and the Big Apple, it was clear to everyone with whom I spoke that, “Trump was never gonna win, period.” A month later, he won. These were pretty clever folks, so why were...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 15, 2024
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The “Gold vs. BTC” Debate is Pure Fluff
Piepenburg rolls up his sleeves with a blunt assessment of BTC’s so-called “digital gold” slogan, which, based on the very definitional elements of money and the mathematical elements of volatility, c...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 13, 2024
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What Trump is Facing – Separating Hype from Reality
In a no-holds-barred conversation, VON GREYERZ Partner Matthew Piepenburg sits down with David Lin to dissect the challenges and opportunities facing the incoming Trump administration.
Matthew Piepenburg / December 11, 2024
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Matthew Piepenburg & Grant Williams: Hard Truths About the Post-Election Economy
Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, closes out 2024 with a no-holds-barred conversation with Grant Williams of Things That Make You Go Hmmm. Together, they dive into the fallout of the post-Tr...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 4, 2024
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Gold In a Trump Era: Rock Still Beats Paper
Needless to say, Donald Trump recently won the US election, and as JFK Jr. said of this “impolitic” figure, a “revolution” is coming. Depending on one’s politics, such a “revolution” is either music...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 17, 2024
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There’s No “Optimizing” an Unspoken Debt Nightmare
In this pre-US-election interview, VON GREYERZ Partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Jeremy Szafron of Kitco News to address the many ignored “elephants” in the room regarding recession indic...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 7, 2024
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Who & What Are Killing the USA?
There Are Two Americas… This observation goes beyond the partisan divide of a polarized nation heading toward a polarized election. The deeper, irrevocable rift lies beyond left vs. right. Quite sim...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 27, 2024
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The Crystal Ball of Debt: Bubble Risk, Currency Debasement & War Drums
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins WTFinance to unpack the hard math and common sense ramifications of converging data points - from Chinese rate cuts and US markets to fiat money signals...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 17, 2024
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