Other Information
−Removed: During the period covered
−Removed: by this Quarterly Report, none of the individuals responsible for overseeing the business and operations of the Trust adopted , modified
−Removed: or terminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (as such terms are defined in Item 408 of Regulation
+Added: During the period covered by this Quarterly Report,
+Added: none of the individuals responsible for overseeing the business and operations of the Trust adopted , modified or terminated a “Rule
+Added: 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” (as such terms are defined in Item 408 of Regulation
S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended).
13 unchanged sentences
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).
−Removed: # The information in Exhibit
−Removed: 32 shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange
−Removed: Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the
−Removed: Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act (including this report), unless the Company specifically incorporates the foregoing
−Removed: information into those documents by reference.
+Added: The information in Exhibit 32 shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act (including this report), unless the Company specifically incorporates the foregoing information into those documents by reference.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
3 unchanged sentences
Sponsor of the VanEck Merk Gold ETF
−Removed: December 6, 2024
/s/ Axel Merk
1 unchanged sentence
(Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer)
−Removed: * The Registrant is a trust and
−Removed: the person is signing in his capacities as officers of Merk Investments LLC, the Sponsor of the Registrant.
+Added: The Registrant is a trust and the person is signing in his capacities as officers of Merk Investments LLC, the Sponsor of the Registrant.
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.