Matthew Piepenburg
Partner Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001Thereafter, 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
2023: The ABC’s of CBDC, the Great Reset(s) & MORE Centralized Control
When broken, debt-soaked “developed economies” suffering from years of fantasy money printing to “solve” fatally rising debt levels collide with history-blind and economically-ignorant policy makers,...
Matthew Piepenburg / January 4, 2023
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History Lesson: Trust Gold Rather than Sovereigns
History (whether on battle fields or sports fields) is riddled with tragi-comical examples of human blundering (and hubris) in the face of otherwise obvious and self-inflicted risk—you know: The final...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 21, 2022
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Matthew Piepenburg & Grant Williams: Gold’s Future in the Backdrop of a Systemic Failure in Financial “Leadership”
Matterhorn Asset Management (MAM) principal, Matthew Piepenburg, sits down in Zurich with MAM advisor, Grant Williams, in a brief (18-min) yet compelling exchange of ideas as to how and where the tide...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 12, 2022
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Titanic Currency Destruction: How Central Banks Ruined Money
It’s hard to imagine how we ever got to this obvious consequence of too much debt and too much artificial, centralized “capitalism.” Were policy makers sinister (i.e., intentionally creating a red ca...
Matthew Piepenburg / December 7, 2022
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Gold’s Climb Amidst Wisdom’s Decline
The media-ignored levels of open fraud and inflationary currency debasement which passes daily for monetary policy (namely monetizing trillions of sovereign debt with trillions of mouse-clicked Dollar...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 23, 2022
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POLO METAPHORS, BOND FAILS AND GOLD’S PRICE DIRECTION
From polo to hockey—it’s a known fact that the best players think three moves ahead. Sadly, the same can’t be said of our financial elites… But as playing conditions deteriorate across the bond, sto...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 9, 2022
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CREDIT MARKETS—THE FATAL SHARK RISING FROM THE DEEP
The yield on the 10Y UST is known by most investors to represent the real cost of capital/borrowing. In short, it is the most important yield in the world, as it prices the cost of the world’s reserv...
Matthew Piepenburg / November 4, 2022
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US Financial and Political Leadership: An Embarrassing Shadow of its Former Self
In this brief yet engaging discussion with Jim Lewis and Ivan Bayoukhi of Wall Street Silver, Matthew Piepenburg, addresses further evidence of the U.S. Fed’s undeniable distortion of basic capitalism...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 27, 2022
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How an Illiquid Dollar Ruins the World
Over the years, we have written and reported a great deal about the US Dollar and the ironic mix (as well as danger) of its over-creation yet simultaneous lack of liquidity. This illiquid Dollar, a...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 19, 2022
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THE FED’S STRONG USD POLICY: A RECIPE FOR SYSTEMIC IMPLOSION
From Main Street USA to the village corners and central banks of Europe, Japan and elsewhere, the Fed’s strong USD policy is backfiring—big time. Just ask the Brits… Having spent years creating the i...
Matthew Piepenburg / October 3, 2022
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