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
Failing Paper Money, Rising War Risk & Open (Not-so “Genius”) Centralization (Part 2/2)
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Matthew Piepenburg / August 22, 2025
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Tariffs & Gold Revaluation Won’t Stop a Systemic Reckoning (Part 1/2)
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Michelle Makori of The Real Story in part one of a thorough, two-part assessment of the key macro themes impacting global currency, debt and precious met...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 20, 2025
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August 15, 1971 – The Beginning of the End for US Hegemony
Fifty-four years ago (August 15, 1971), Nixon took the USD off its gold standard, thereby officially putting the final nail in the Constitutionally mandated concept of US money. But hey, at least the...
Matthew Piepenburg / August 17, 2025
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Gold vs. the Stablecoin-CBDC Ruse
Are stablecoins just CBDC by another name? The answer is essentially: Yes. Below we discuss the recent passage of the Genuis Act, the USA’s first national cryptocurrency legislation and address why th...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 23, 2025
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Consensus-Think vs. Intelligent Thinking
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Jan Willhoft of Axino Capital in a translated discussion of strategies and assessments essential to preparing for systemic shifts now impacting global fi...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 21, 2025
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Gold Revaluation: Trump’s Red Button Option?
Could a gold revaluation be on Trump’s mind? Below, we consider the options facing a debt-sick America. A Bug Racing for a Windshield As we’ve been warning for years, the US and USD are a bug rapidly...
Matthew Piepenburg / July 13, 2025
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Too Late to Buy Gold? Not Even Close…
Many are wondering if it’s too late to buy gold, that gold has peaked, and they have missed their opportunity. We hope the below series of facts, figures and common-sense reality-checks will put such...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 30, 2025
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Gold: The Only True Asset in A Broken Global System
Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, joins VRIC Media founder, Jay Martin, in a compelling conversation about the revolutionary shifts happening in the global financial system—the ramification...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 24, 2025
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Revolutionary Change = Revolutionary Mess & Rising Gold
Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ, joins Thoughtful Money’s Adam Taggart to underscore, in no uncertain terms, that every headline thread—from markets, inflation/deflation and credit risk to...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 19, 2025
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GOLD: The Global Financial System’s Lie Detector?
Is gold calling out a broken global financial system? One Big…Lie? Earlier this year, I was asked to give my most “heretic” opinion about the global financial system. This was an unusual yet bold ques...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 16, 2025
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Gold Shines as Private Equity Goes Dark
Is private equity (PE) going dark? And what does this have to do with gold? In fact, the answers are becoming harder to ignore. Understanding gold’s rise in the context of macro-economic forces—i.e.,...
Matthew Piepenburg / June 5, 2025
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America First – Policy or Fantasy? Analysing the Tariff “Pivot”
Recently, Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, joined Paul Buitink to deliver a compelling analysis of the ever-changing tariff headlines and policy pivots, examining whether the US-China tarif...
Matthew Piepenburg / May 21, 2025
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