Matthew Piepenberg

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). His widely respected reports on macro conditions and the changing behaviour of risk assets are published regularly at SignalsMatter.com.

Matthew Piepenberg Articles

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 emotional.
Together, they examine the underlying drivers – from mounting sovereign debt and shifts in monetary policy to central bank gold accumulation and the weakening foundations of the global monetary system.
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 more to do with historical human –and...
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 very system which central banks are...
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 the arcs, you must see the circle.
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.
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 world.
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.
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 metals markets – from tariff dynamics and...
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 Constitution can still serve as a nice...

Gold is still being mined and refined at the rate of almost 2,600 tonnes per year.

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