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.
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Gold: Solid Solution for Desperate Times
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, sits down with the TDLR’s David Lin at the recent VRIC event in Vancouver, Canada to make sense of the financial and geopolitical year ahead. Piepenburg explai...
Matthew Piepenburg / February 3, 2025
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BTC: Desperate Times Require Centralized Measures
Just three years ago, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the current White House’s Donald Trump openly declared that BTC was a scam. Fast-forward to today, and the Trump administration is promising a BTC “str...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 26, 2025
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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: How Trump Won the Election
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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