World Gold Trust
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 5, 2025.
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Dec 31, 2024 · Filed Feb 5, 2025
What changed in Management’s Discussion and Analysis?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2024-06-30; filed 2024-08-06.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2024-12-31; filed 2025-02-05.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
Compared 25 previous paragraphs and 25 current paragraphs.
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Tables are not compared: 4 previous and 4 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.
A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.
Reworded paragraphs (4)
Previous wording
Inspectorate International Limited (“Inspectorate”) conducts two counts each year of the gold bullion held on behalf of the Trust at the vaults of the Custodians. A complete bar count is conducted once per year and coincides with the Trust’s financial year end at September 30th. On October 2, 2023, Inspectorate completed the annual full count of the Trust’s gold bullion held by ICBC. The second count is a random sample count and is conducted at a date which falls within the same financial year and was conducted most recently at JPMorgan's London Vault on March 18, 2024, and at ICBC's London vault on March 11, 2024. The results can be found onwww.spdrgoldshares.com. The Sponsor generally visits the vaults of the Custodians twice a year as part of its due diligence procedures.
Current wording
Bureau Veritas Commodities UK Ltd. (formerly Inspectorate International Limited) ("Bureau Veritas") conducts two counts each year of the gold bullion held on behalf of GLDM at the vaults of the Custodians. A complete bar count is conducted once per year and coincides with the Trust’s financial year end at September 30th. On September 30, 2024, Bureau Veritas concluded the annual full count of the Trust’s gold bullion held by JPMorgan at its London vault. The second count is a random sample count and is conducted at a date which falls within the same financial year and was conducted most recently at ICBC's London vault on March 11, 2024 and at JPMorgan's London vault on March 18, 2024. JPMorgan does not hold any gold on behalf of GLDM at its New York or Zurich vaults. The results can be found onwww.spdrgoldshares.com. The Sponsor generally visits the vaults of the Custodians twice a year as part of its due diligence procedures.
Previous wording
In the three months ended June 30, 2024, 16,300,000 Shares (163 Creation Units) were created in exchange for 323,174.4 ounces of gold, 15,400,000 Shares (154 Creation Units) were redeemed in exchange for 305,329.8 ounces of gold and 771.5 ounces of gold were sold to pay Sponsor fees. For accounting purposes, GLDM reflects creations and redemptions on the date of receipt of a notification of a creation but does not issue Shares until the requisite amount of gold is received. Upon a redemption, GLDM delivers gold upon receipt of Shares. These creations were completed in the normal course of business.
Current wording
In the three months ended December 31, 2024, 18,800,000 Shares (188 Creation Units) were created in exchange for 372,526.5 ounces of gold, 15,600,000 Shares (156 Creation Units) were redeemed in exchange for 309,117.8 ounces of gold and 862.5 ounces of gold were sold to pay Sponsor fees. For accounting purposes, GLDM reflects creations and redemptions on the date of receipt of a notification of a creation but does not issue Shares until the requisite amount of gold is received. Upon a redemption, GLDM delivers gold upon receipt of Shares. These creations and redemptions were completed in the normal course of business.
Previous wording
At June 30, 2024, the amount of gold owned by GLDM and held by the Custodians was 3,172,941.6 ounces, 100% of which is allocated gold in the form of London Good Delivery gold bars with a market value of $7,395,809,568 based on the LBMA Gold Price PM on June 30, 2024 (cost —$5,853,745,617).
Current wording
At December 31, 2024, the amount of gold owned by GLDM and held by the Custodians was 3,518,147.3 ounces, 100% of which is allocated gold in the form of London Good Delivery gold bars with a market value of $9,185,354,827 based on the LBMA Gold Price PM on December 31, 2024 (cost —$6,986,462,214).
Previous wording
At September 30, 2023, the amount of gold owned by GLDM and held by the Custodians was 3,089,983.5 ounces, 100% of which is allocated gold in the form of London Good Delivery gold bars with a market value of $5,779,814,053 based on the LBMA Gold Price PM on September 30, 2023 (cost — $5,453,079,469).
Current wording
At September 30, 2024, the amount of gold owned by GLDM and held by the Custodians was 3,483,344.7 ounces, 100% of which is allocated gold in the form of London Good Delivery gold bars with a market value of $9,161,022,521.0 based on the LBMA Gold Price PM on September 30, 2024 (cost — $6,671,767,835).