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
Putting any kind of bow on the current headlines to conveniently explain or “wrap up” recent events in Venezuela would be a fool’s errand. The extraordinary mix, as well as polarized views, as to the personalities, policies, economics,...
The latest VRIC Media interview with Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ AG, delivers a sober and unflinching assessment of why record gold and silver prices are not the cause of today’s instability, but a clear symptom of it.
Looking back on 2025, Piepenburg gives proper weight to the year’s headline economic events, including record-high gold and silver prices, but argues that these headlines pale in comparison to the real drivers behind precious metal moves...
It’s that time of year again to put everything somehow together. But looking back on the knowns of 2025 as we prepare for the inevitable unknowns of 2026, there is little need for the wringing of hands.
As we approach the end of 2025, we are seeing, yet again, certain familiar and simple patterns which can serve as potential lighthouses for those endeavoring to navigate so much admitted fog.
Matthew Piepenburg, partner at VON GREYERZ AG, joins Liberty & Finance’s Elijah Johnson to put a number of key headlines (from “peak gold” and banking risk to inflationary theft) into clearer perspective.
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 investors navigating a global financial...
Markets are many things, but in simplest terms, they are a paradox. By this, I mean they are incredibly and intentionally complex, which makes them a kind of exclusive environment managed, allegedly at least, by cadres of well-versed...
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.
