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
Despite the undeniable ripple effects of the recent tariff measures out of DC, the headlines, as usual, are mostly wrong about the causes of the current market volatility and the longer-term ramifications ahead.
Below, we conduct a necessary autopsy on the death of Constitutional money. Most of us, myself included, have a favorite lawyer joke (or two), but law school had its shining moments, including our deep dive into the US Constitution.
VON GREYERZ, Partner Matthew Piepenburg, joins Jesse Day at Commodity Culture to discuss the ever-changing shifts in markets, geopolitics, the economy, and the rising role of precious metals against a surreal backdrop of extreme headlines.
As we’ve said and written so many times, and as history confirms century after century, and regime after regime, desperate (i.e., debt-cornered) nations do desperate things. And this, by the way, always results in more centralization from...
VON GREYERZ partner, Matthew Piepenburg, is pleased to share a lengthy but all-encompassing and deeply substantive conversation had in mid-December with GoldRepublic’s Alexej Jordanov.
Topics like bond yields, dollar debates, or yield curves can be admittedly, well, boring. And things like politics can be, well… emotional at best or divisive at worst.
For years, we’ve been warning of gold’s critical role as a buffer against increasingly obvious currency risk, banking risk, geopolitical risk and market risk.
Just three years ago, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and the current White House’s Donald Trump openly declared that BTC was a scam. Fast-forward to today, and the Trump administration is promising a BTC “strategic reserve” stockpile while Fink (...
Another year is ending, which means it’s time to look back in order to better look forward. For 2025, I see no other realistic option or scenario ahead other than a weaker dollar and rising gold.
Piepenburg rolls up his sleeves with a blunt assessment of BTC’s so-called “digital gold” slogan, which, based on the very definitional elements of money and the mathematical elements of volatility, clearly makes BTC neither a store of...
