GLD SPDR Gold Trust

About SPDR Gold Trust

Street Tracks Gold Shares offer investors a new, innovative, relatively cost efficient and secure way to access the gold market. Gold Shares are intended to offer investors a means of participating in the gold bullion market without the necessity of taking physical delivery of gold, & to buy and sell that interest through the trading of a security on a regulated stock exchange. The introduction of Gold Shares is intended to lower many of the barriers, such as access, custody, and transaction costs, that have prevented some investors from investing in gold. Gold Shares represent fractional, undivided beneficial ownership interests in the Trust, the sole assets of which are gold bullion, from time to time, cash. Gold Shares are intended to lower a large number of the barriers preventing investors from using gold as an asset allocation and trading tool. These barriers have included the logistics of buying, storing & insuring gold.