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Market Wrap With Moe Ansari Interviewing Juan Carlos Artigas of the World Gold Council
November 4, 2010
MR. MOE ANSARI: Welcome back, everyone, to Market Wrap. Im Moe Ansari, President of Compak
Asset Management. And youre tuned in, as youve been doing so for over two decades now. And
as always, you can call in and I will be more than happy to share with you my 34 years of
trading experience.
But for the next few minutes, hold your calls; we are going to go to our guest line, as we do every
day at this time of the day. And today, we have one of those topics that everybody wants to talk
about. It is gold, and we have Mr. Juan Carlos Artigas. He is the Investment Research Manager at
the World Gold Council in New York.
You have heard Natalie Dempster, she has been with the World Gold Council, and you heard her for
the last few years. She has moved to London, and Mr. Artigas is the one now who writes the Gold
Investment Digest. He is the author of the report.
The World Gold Council was founded in 1987. It was formed and funded by the worlds leading gold
mining companies with the aim of stimulating and maximizing the demand for gold. And I guess
theyve done a pretty good job, because there is a lot of demand for gold and holding gold. Mr.
Artigas, welcome to the broadcast.
MR. JUAN CARLOS ARTIGAS: Thank you, Moe. Thanks so much for having me.
MR. ANSARI: Juan Carlos, lets talk a little bit about in your latest gold investment newsletter
it takes a look at third quarter trends. What were the most notable trends during the last
quarter?
MR. ARTIGAS: Well, first of all, the gold price continues its upward trend during the third
quarter of 2010. It was in line with its quarterly average gain over the past five years,
reinforcing the view that golds appreciation appears steady and measured.
There are various factors that affect, in general, the performance of gold as an asset. We saw a
couple of those. About four factors, primarily, that were important drivers during these quarters,
during this last quarter. The first one: concerns over the health of economic growth in developed
countries and risks surrounding potential extensions and expansions of content reducing measures in
the U.S., UK and Japan obviously had a positive effect.
Second, official sector activity continued to be supportive as gold sales from European central
banks remain negligible, while emerging market central banks continued to increase their reserves
for gold.
Third, anecdotal evidence suggests that theres healthy activity into re-consumption, especially in
China and other parts of Asia.
Finally, usage of gold in electronics, such as the iPhone or the iPad and other electronic devices,
as well as other industrial applications remain a steady source of demand for the market.
MR. ANSARI: So, overall, we are seeing the demand continue going up. One of the reasons why a
lot of people that I talk to are talking about having gold in their portfolio, theyre worried
about the debasing of the currencies, the sort of race to the bottom, which has become the
policy in a lot of countries where they want to devalue their currency as quickly as possible.
People are looking at gold as an alternative currency.
Do you think that is one of the reasons why some of the people, especially in the developed world,
where the currencies are starting to drop, like the dollar, like some of the other currencies, they
are buying gold as a substitute currency?
MR. ARTIGAS: Yeah. I mean gold is definitely a hedge against currency risk and many investors
around the world use it that way. Its definitely one of the purposes. Beyond the
hedgingusing gold as a hedging vehicle against currency risk, in particular for U.S.
investors is going to be the dollaragainst concerns on the dollar.
But as you correctly pointed out, for Europeans they have also used it during the European
sovereign debt crisis as a currency hedge. Beyond using gold as that, investors have, more and
more, started to understand the very good qualities and characteristics that gold has as a
diversifier and also as a very efficient vehicle to manage risk effectively.
MR. ANSARI: So one more thing that I was reading, though, was an article, I believe it was in
the Financial Times yesterday, that I was looking at that. Its showing that for the first
time in about 20, 25 years, we are starting to see central banks buying gold where they were
selling gold. Is that really something that you do know about, that theyre buying instead of
selling? Why this turnaround in policy?
MR. ARTIGAS: Yeah, that is definitely a trend that has been developing. It just started to
develop over the past few years. Over the last year in particular, central banks as a whole
became net buyers of gold.
What does that mean? Well, traditionally, central banks, as a whole again, used to be net sellers
of gold, especially because European central banks were selling gold on a constant basis during
different quarters, during the 90s and the beginning of the decade in 2000 and before that as well.
But what weve seen now is that at the beginning of this decade, little by little, European central
banks started to sell less and less. As I mentioned before in one of the points on the trend that
we have observed in the Gold Investment Digest, is that central banks, sales from European central
banks are negligible.
On the other hand, emerging market central banks have started to acquire gold in some substantial
form in one way or another. And therefore, the net effect is that central banks as a whole, so if
you look at the whole central banks around the world, they have become net buyers. That has been
in place since the second quarter of 2009, basically, which tells you that, in particular, over the
last year, central banks have been net buyers of gold.
MR. ANSARI: Why are the central banks doing that? We got a report from Jeddah the other day,
from Saudi Arabia, that theyve doubled their gold reserves. We heard China has increased
their gold reserve. India has increased their gold reserve. Is there a concerted policy
shift that were seeing in these emerging markets to have more gold in their reserves instead
of dollars?
MR. ARTIGAS: Well, as any investor would, central banks also need to have diversified reserves.
One of the things that has happened is that Europeans, as a legacy of the gold standard, used
to have a lot of gold in their reserves and they started to offload part of that.
Now, emerging markets, on the other hand, used to have a lot of dollars in their reserves and they
are diversifying part of those reserves. They have been acquiring other currency-backed
securities. But they have also used gold as a way to diversify their reserves, which is what we
are observing now.
MR. ANSARI: One of the reports I was looking atwere talking to Mr. Juan Carlos Artigas. He
is the investment research manager at the World Gold Council in New York. Talking about New
York, one of the largest holders of gold in the world is the New York Fed.
There was a report the other day that they hold about 266 million ounces of gold somewhere in one
of the vaults in New York, or somewhere there. But there was a surprising report. The last time
they put out this report was in 2004. They put this report out every few years.
It showed that 60 countries in the world had all their gold reserves held in New York. But now
that number is down to 36, where only 36 of the worlds countries are having their gold reserves
held in New York.
Why this shift? That countries are moving this gold out, or was this something that it was not
really held, as the report said, that these countries really didnt have their gold but it was
other stuff and they counted it as gold? But is there really a shift that countries are moving
their gold out of the United States and moving it back into other places?
MR. ARTIGAS: Well, no, I havent seen that report and Im not really sure what the report says.
So I couldnt really comment directly on that. What I can tell you is that, going back to
some of the points that we make in the Gold Investment Digest.
MR. ANSARI: Right.
MR. ARTIGAS: It has been very consistent and apparent that many emerging market central banks
continue that trend of little by little acquiring more gold because of the need of
diversification within their reserves.
MR. ANSARI: Mr. Artigas, lets talk a little bit about price trends. On your second page of the
Gold Investment Digest, and this is a great report. Its about 20 pages or so17, Im
looking at it, 19. Yeah. Its a wealth of information about the gold market.
What is your prediction? Lets move forward. There are some who predict gold will hit $2,000 an
ounce in the next couple of years, just going back to the levels that was in 1980, adjusted for
inflation, somewhere between $1,800 and $1,900 would be equivalent in todays dollars. Do you
think gold has a chance of going up to those levels?
MR. ARTIGAS: Well, the World Gold Council does not forecast future price levels. However, what
I can tell you is that there is ample scope for continued robust growth in the gold market
when you look at the demand and the supply dynamics that rule that market.
You have a lot of consumption, for example, for jewelry going to China, to India, to emerging
market nations which are obviously growing. They have recovered better and faster than developed
economies from the recent recession. So that remains obviously in place.
There are still a lot of macro economic issues that make gold an attractive investment from many
respects. In the long run, India calling gold as a diversifier and as a vehicle to manage risk
effectively is very much in place. Theres a steady source from industrial demand. So all those
dynamics are very positive.
MR. ANSARI: So you think the dynamics are there right now as far as the fundamentals around the
world for the gold prices to continue moving higher from where they are. Thats what you say
in your price trends page also, on page two.
MR. ARTIGAS: Correct. I think the fundamentals of supply and demand are supportive of the gold
market. The other aspect that we just talked about were central banks. Central banks, as we
noted, were traditional net sellers. Therefore, they were part of the supply side of the
story. Now they have moved into the demand side of the story, right? Which even from the
mere perspective of them having very small sales, that takes away supply. Again, its
supportive of these dynamics.
MR. ANSARI: What is the supply/demand picture right now as far as gold goes? Is there more
production than theres demand? Or is there an off take where we are seeing more demand
coming into the market that is not meetingthe supply is not meeting all the demand?
MR. ARTIGAS: Youve seen in many countries demand outpacing supply. China would be an example.
MR. ANSARI: Right.
MR. ARTIGAS: We have quarterly reports that focus in particular on supply and demand. For the
next quarter itll be released about mid-November, November 17th.
MR. ANSARI: Okay.
MR. ARTIGAS: You can see some of those trends there. However, just to put it into perspective,
in many respects demand has been very strong. For example, supply coming from mine production
has not really increased and actually it has remained from constant to slightly lower relative
to levels observed at the beginning of the decade.
So that hasnt really increased much in terms of tonnage, yet you still have a lot of healthy
activity coming from the demand side. Then you have in regard from central banks is, again, not
coming into the market as a form of supply but rather as demand.
MR. ANSARI: Juan Carlos, if you could also send that report to us when you do release it on the
17th and Ill go ahead and supply it to all of our listeners also, so we can get this
information out to as many people as we can.
I do appreciate your time today, bringing us up to date where the gold market stands, what is going
on from a global perspective, and bringing us all the update from the World Gold Council. Thanks
again for being with us today on Market Wrap.
MR. ARTIGAS: Thank you, Moe.
MR. ANSARI: That is Mr. Juan Carlos Artigas. Hes the Investment Research Manager at the World
Gold Council based in New York.
Juan Carlos has been kind enough to provide us his latest report. Its the Gold Investment Digest.
A lot of information. It shows price trends, investment trends, market and economic influences,
gold market trends and key data.
It talks about the supply and demand, whats going on in emerging markets, the commodity
performance, the price volatility, exchange traded funds, GLD, gold futures, bars and coins, OCC
market, lease rates, whats going on with them.
Then it talks about the market and economic influences that are affecting the market. Its chock
full of information. If you want information on gold, this is the global perspective put out by
the World Gold Council.
If you want it, Ill send you a free copy. But you have to make the call, 1-800-388-9700, for your
free copy of the Gold Investment Digest. 1-800-388-9700. If youd like to call, call right now for
the free report from the World Gold Council, the Gold Investment Digest.
Stay tuned. You are listening to the daily edition of Market Wrap.
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