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
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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The Fatal Effects of Debt: Rising Gold & Silver
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Nomi Prins with Ted Butler of VRIC Media to separate facts from fiction as to the key themes facing the global financial system, namely: US recession ind...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 3, 2024
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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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