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’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

VON GREYERZ_ Blunt Talk on Corrupted Systems

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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Dollar Debates & Gold’s Winning End-Game

Whatever one thinks of the United States (economically, morally, militarily or politically), we can all agree that its dollar exerts tremendous influence (and controversy) over a rapidly changing worl...

Matthew Piepenburg / September 14, 2025

Markets, AI & The Great Dumbing

With a NASDAQ and S&P 500 (narrowly driven by seven, mega-cap monopoly powers) enjoying a seemingly immortal ride North, all feels eerily normalized in the land of Wall Street Oz. Surfing the S&am...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 31, 2025

Can the Global Financial System Avoid Implosion?

VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, joins Tom Bodrovics of Palisades Gold to dissect the reality, hype and risk behind the latest headlines as to gold revaluation, stablecoin legislation and the...

Matthew Piepenburg / August 28, 2025

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VON GREYERZ_Failing Paper Money, Rising War Risk & Open (Not-So “Genuis”) Centralization

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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VON GREYERZ_Tariffs & Gold Revaluation Won’t Stop a Systemic Reckoning

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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