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
Record Debt Levels Ruin Capitalism & Democracy
Matthew Piepenburg joins Jesse Day of Commodity Culture in a candid conversation on the myriad financial, geopolitical & social forces shaping the future.
Matthew Piepenburg / September 29, 2024
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From Inflation to War Drums: A Template of Debt Madness
Watch another refreshingly candid discussion of deteriorating financial, social and geopolitical conditions in the U.S. and abroad.
Matthew Piepenburg / September 24, 2024
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A Global Snapshot: The Stupid, the Broken & the Evil
As a polarized U.S. marches toward a political, financial, and perhaps even military crossroads in the closing months 2024, many feel what George Lukas might otherwise describe as a “disturbance in th...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 20, 2024
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How to Hedge Anti-Heroes?
Left, right or center, our policy makers - from parliaments and executive branches to central banks and think tanks - have taken the world closer to war, immigration disasters, infrastructure failures...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 8, 2024
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Why Gold Shines In Dark Times
Get an exclusive seat to this condensed version of a two-part interview between VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, and Gary Bohm of Metals & Miners. Piepenburg squarely addresses some of the...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 21, 2024
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Golden Question: Is Democracy Dying?
Is democracy dying? Pride Cometh Before the Fall Many years ago, the American political scientist, Francis Fukuyama, prematurely declared the victory both of liberal democracy and free-market capitali...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 18, 2024
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From Biden to Bonds: Unmasking a Template of Lies
Political opinions are almost as vast as financial opinions—from bull to bear, or left to right. But there are differences, no? Political opinions, unlike market evaluations, for example, more often l...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 4, 2024
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The New Abnormal: Social Unrest, Market Volatility & Currency Debasement
In his latest conversation with the David Lin, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses US political volatility (post-assassination attempt, pre-Biden drop out) and social unrest, with speci...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 25, 2024
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Is the USD Really Too Big to Fail?
Between politics (driven by self rather than public servants), markets (driven by debt rather than profits) and currencies (diluted by over-creation rather than chaperoned by a real asset), it is fair...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 14, 2024
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Why Gold Is Intentionally Misunderstood
In this compelling conversation with Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold, VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, bluntly dissects the empirical realities from the main stream fantasies regarding the ris...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 10, 2024
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