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of Assets and Liabilities
−Removed: September 30, 2022 (unaudited) and June 30, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2022 (unaudited) and June 30, 2022
Amounts in 000’s of US$, except share and per share data
−Removed: September 30, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2022
June 30, 2022
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of Investments
−Removed: September 30, 2022 (unaudited) and June 30, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2022 (unaudited) and June 30, 2022
in 000’s of US$, except for ounces and percentages
−Removed: September 30, 2022 (unaudited)
−Removed: Ounces of gold
−Removed: % of Net Assets
+Added: December 31, 2022 (unaudited)
Total investment
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June 30, 2022
−Removed: Ounces of gold
−Removed: % of Net Assets
Total investment
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of Operations (Unaudited)
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021
+Added: the three and six months ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
Amounts in 000’s of US$, except per share data
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 (unaudited)
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 (unaudited)
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2021
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2021
Total expenses
Net investment loss
−Removed: Net realized and unrealized gains (losses)
+Added: Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)
Net realized gain (loss) from:
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of Changes in Net Assets (unaudited)
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021
+Added: the three and six months ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
Amounts in 000’s of US$
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2022 (unaudited)
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 (unaudited)
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2021
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2021
Net Assets – beginning of the period
−Removed: Creations of 0 and 2,850,000 shares respectively
+Added: Creation of 1,600,000 , 700,000 , 1,600,000 and 3,550,000 shares respectively
Redemptions of 2,400,000 , 10,400,000 , 7,500,000 and 10,700,000 shares respectively
Net investment loss
−Removed: Net realized gain (loss) gold bullion sold to pay expenses
+Added: Net realized gain (loss) from gold bullion sold to pay expenses
Net realized gain (loss) from gold bullion distributed for redemptions
3 unchanged sentences
Highlights (unaudited)
−Removed: the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021
+Added: the three and six months ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
Per Share Performance
−Removed: (for a Share outstanding throughout the entire period)
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
−Removed: Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
+Added: (for a Share outstanding throughout each period)
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2021
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2021
Net asset value per Share at beginning of period
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Net asset value per Share at end of period
−Removed: Total return ratio, at net asset value (2)
+Added: return ratio, at net asset value (2)
Net assets ($000’s)
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legal expenses.
−Removed: of period ended September 30, 2022, the fees payable to the Sponsor were $ 122,001 .
−Removed: As of the year ended June 30, 2022, the fees payable to the Sponsor were $ 143,857 .
+Added: of December 31, 2022, the fees payable to the Sponsor were $ 131,235 .
+Added: As of June 30, 2022, the fees payable to the Sponsor were $ 143,857 .
respect to expenses not otherwise assumed by the Sponsor, the Trustee will, at the direction of the Sponsor or in its own discretion,
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the smallest amounts of gold needed to pay these expenses in order to minimize the Trust’s holdings of assets other than gold.
−Removed: Other than the Sponsor’s Fee, the Trust had no expenses during the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: Other than the Sponsor’s Fee, the Trust had no expenses during the three and six months ended December 31, 2022 and 2021.
otherwise directed by the Sponsor, when selling gold the Trustee will endeavor to sell at the price established by the LBMA PM Gold Price.
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Sponsor has evaluated whether or not there are uncertain tax positions that require financial statement recognition and has determined
−Removed: that no reserves for uncertain tax positions are required as of September 30, 2022 and June 30, 2022.
−Removed: Sponsor evaluates tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Trust’s tax returns to determine
−Removed: whether the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained by the applicable tax authority.
−Removed: Tax positions not
−Removed: deemed to meet that threshold would be recorded as an expense in the current year.
−Removed: The Trust is required to analyze all open tax
−Removed: Open tax years are those years that are open for examination by the relevant income taxing authority.
−Removed: of September 30, 2022, the 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 tax years remain open for examination .
+Added: that no reserves for uncertain tax positions are required as of December 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022.
+Added: Sponsor evaluates tax positions taken or expected to be taken in the course of preparing the Trust’s tax returns to determine whether
+Added: the tax positions are “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained by the applicable tax authority.
+Added: Tax positions not deemed to
+Added: meet that threshold would be recorded as an expense in the current year.
+Added: The Trust is required to analyze all open tax years.
+Added: years are those years that are open for examination by the relevant income taxing authority.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, the 2022, 2021,
+Added: 2020 and 2019 tax years remain open for examination.
Emerging Growth Company qualification
−Removed: Trust is an “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS Act, and as such, is permitted to meet reduced public company
−Removed: reporting requirements.
+Added: of June 30, 2022, the Trust no longer qualifies as an emerging growth company.
Investment in gold
−Removed: in ounces of gold and their respective values for the period ended September 30, 2022:
+Added: in ounces of gold and their respective values for the six months ended December 31, 2022.
Schedule of Investment in Gold
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Change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)
−Removed: Ending balance as of September 30, 2022
+Added: Ending balance as of December 31, 2022
in ounces of gold and their respective values for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
60 unchanged sentences
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.