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 Awakening as Tired Asset Bubbles Teeter
Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ AG, puts current market risk signals into the context of precious metals pricing in this engaging conversation with Paul Buitink at Reinvent Money. With gold...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 21, 2025
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Gold vs. An Openly Rigged & Failing Financial System
Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ AG, joins GoldRepublic Global’s Alexi Jordanov in Zurich, Switzerland. Here, we enjoy another refreshingly blunt look at the risks and opportunities for inve...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 19, 2025
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The Fed & Derivatives: How Complexity Hides Dishonesty
I often close public interviews with the recommendation that investors facing an increasingly complex, distorted and landmine-rich economic setting need to focus on being informed rather than emotiona...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 12, 2025
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Why the $150 Gold Moves Don’t Matter When Debt Keeps Rising
In this recent interview, Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, speaks with Elijah K. Johnson from Liberty and Finance about how much of the mainstream anxiety surrounding physical gold stems fr...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 2, 2025
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As Gold Run Begins & Stock Bubble Tires, Main Street Gets Smacked
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins David Lin in this extremely informative, fact-based and sober overview of the macro forces impacting the USD, US citizens, US markets and increasingly po...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 22, 2025
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The Real Drivers Behind Gold’s Relentless Rise
In this candid discussion, host Darrell Thomas sits down with Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, to cut through the noise surrounding the forces driving markets and gold’s relentless rise. To...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 16, 2025
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Policy Makers Are Not Your Friend
With global debt passing $300 trillion, fiat money needed to pay these burdens is being debased in plain yet often ignored sight. Such deliberate policy measures amount to legalised theft for those wh...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 12, 2025
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The Hidden History of Policy Theft & Skyrocketing Gold
As gold continues to rocket north with continuous all-time highs, some investors are still wondering, well… why? The answer has less to do with gold’s consistent physical and monetary properties, and...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 8, 2025
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Gold’s Honest Rise in a Setting of Dishonesty, Desperation & Debasement
In this latest reality check from VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, the conversation opens with a review of Powell’s latest (predictable) rate cut, and ends with a blunt recognition that the ve...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 28, 2025
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The 5 Arcs & 7 Cracks of Systemic Collapse
For centuries, philosophers have compared the great questions (and mysteries) of life to a circle. That is: To fully understand the circle, you must also recognize its arcs, and to fully understand th...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 21, 2025
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Blunt Talk on Corrupted Systems with Matthew Piepenburg & Farzin Irani (2/2)
In Part II of Matthew Piepenburg’s two-part conversation with Farzin Irani, the conversation turns more informally toward many of the rigged-to-fail signs and symptoms of an increasingly corrupt, cent...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 19, 2025
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Gold Eclipsing the Dollar – The Why, How & Who to Blame (1/2)
In Part 1 of this two-part conversation with Farzin Irani, Matthew Piepenburg offers further insights and context to gold’s evolving role in an ever-changing global landscape. Piepenburg opens with a...
Matthew Piepenburg / September 17, 2025
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