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
In this latest clip, Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, reflects on the longer-term trajectory of physical gold, setting aside the noise of current headlines and market volatility to focus on the broader realities of debt and...
From the Founding Fathers to the great monetary thinkers of history, the message has remained unchanged: when money is no longer anchored to something real, it is ultimately debased.In this clip, Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ...
As the world once again finds itself navigating the fog of war alongside the distortions of a deeply imbalanced financial system, it is worth stepping back from the noise and focusing on the underlying realities.
History, as well as...
If you are new to gold, or if you are a speculator in gold (or even worse, a levered speculator in gold), you are likely asking yourselves what in the “H. E. double tooth-picks” just happened to gold? It lost over 9% in the futures market...
Private equity and private credit were once hailed as the most powerful engines of modern finance. But as the global credit cycle tightens and liquidity dries up, the cracks in these multi-trillion-dollar sectors are becoming increasingly...
War, oil and gold are making headlines of late for overlapping and independent reasons. Below, we avoid the guesswork, finger-pointing or sensationalism attendant to current headlines concerning Iran and stick to a theme which offers some...
Although I never expected to say this, if you are still wondering about gold’s future price direction, just ask the big banks… Emerging from a 2025 in which gold saw 53 all-time-highs and an annual move of 55%, some wondered if this was...
As headlines and pundits squabble about price moves in gold and silver, many “experts,” as usual, are missing the bigger picture of a historically unprecedented convergence of debt, credit, banking and currency risk hiding right behind the...
In this brief discussion from the recent Vancouver Resource Investment Conference 2026, Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, discusses the clear connection between the secular direction in precious metals pricing (despite inevitable...
In a candid discussion at the VRIC event in Vancouver last week, Matthew Piepenburg, Partner at VON GREYERZ, makes clear that the 2025 surge in precious metals is not speculation, but the consequence of a fiat monetary system under...
