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Filed Pursuant To Rule 433
Registration No. 333-158105
November 19, 2009
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DATE
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11/18/2009 |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
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CNBC |
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National |
PROGRAM
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Squawk On The Street |
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT
MARK HAINES, co-anchor:
All righty (sic), here we go with the opening bells here at the big board, the World Gold Counsel.
ERIN BURNETT, co-anchor:
Oh, does that mean theres gold bugs running around?
HAINES: Yep. And State Street Global Advisers celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Spider
Gold Trust, ticker GLD. Well speak to the World Gold Counsel chairman and managing director of
State Street Global Advisors in a few minutes.
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(Unrelated Material)
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BURNETT: Gold continues to show off its luster, hovering at record high prices ofof well over
$1100 an ounce today, $1150.20 cents. At the same time, investor appetite for gold has been rising
and rising and rising. And thanks to an ETF breakthrough five years ago today, people have been
able to invest in gold who never were before. Were talking about individual investors. For more
on this, lets go down to our own Bob Pisani; hes got two special guests. And they must have
Popeye arms to be able to carry those bars around.
BOB PISANI reporting:
Were pumping, pumping gold. This is a standard London gold bar. 400 ounces, about 25 pounds,
right? Its about $450,000. And were going to be talking about that. This is the first
commodity ETF at GLD; it was the first gold ETF. It revolutionized commodity investing. Lets
talk to our guests here. Ian Telferhes chairman of the World Gold Council and chairman of Gold
Corp. as well. And of course here Jim Ross from State Street. When I first did this five years
ago they came down on the floor. The World Gold Council didnt even want to be interviewed; they
were so concerned about various SEC regulations.
Mr. JIM ROSS (Senior Managing Director, State Street global Advisors): Yes, yes.
PISANI: You remember Jim was here on that. Ian, things have changed a lot in the last five years,
havent they?
Mr. IAN TELFER (Chairman, World Gold Council): Thats correct, yeah. Its become a huge success.
Its now got $40 billion worth of gold in it. Thats the second largest ETF in the world. And,
yes, were
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very proud of it now.
PISANI: Its not only the second largest ETF in the world; its the sixth largest holder of gold
in the world. There is more gold being held in the GLD than China has in its own reserves, than
Switzerland has, Jim.
Mr. ROSS: Yes, it is. Now, its been a fantastic story for investors who wanted the opportunity
to invest in gold and found it difficult in the physical form, and to be able to securitize it into
100 percent physically backed gold bars in a vault in London has been fantastic.
PISANI: Now, the one thing that I keep getting asked, Ian, by investors all the time is if I buy
the GLD, do I actually buy gold, do I actually hold real gold, and my answer is yes. Can you
explain why? And exactly, where is the gold being held?
Mr. TELFER: Certainly, yes. When you buy the GLD, you do own the gold. The gold is stored in
London in a warehouse with everybody elses gold. We dont lend it. We dont rent it. Wewe
keep it there. And it is yours. But you cannot go physically to collect your own gold.
PISANI: Thats right, you cant take physical delivery. You know, theres a lot of people who
were saying this GLD, these ETFs and commodity ETFs, theyre great for investors but theyre
contributing to a bubble in commodities, Jim. What do you say when people make that argument?
Mr. ROSS: Well, GLD just to be clear is 8 percent of the gold production in the world. So its
not really taking that much out of the demand side. Its a really positive story. It really has
allowed investors to be able to express a view on gold. And historically, that had been a huge
challenge before this product came to market five years ago.
PISANI: So Ian, theres a lot of arguments now that golds only going to go up to value. You guys
have been putting out statements to gold business that gold production is actually declining, that
the amount of gold you can get out of the ground is declining. That prices are only going to go up
because demand is going up. Is there something really behind this argument or is this something
just that the gold people are putting out at this point?
Mr. TELFER: No, there is something behind this argument. If you look at the gold production of
the top seven or eight gold producers, more than half of them, their productions declining now
going forward. Its tougher to find, and its tougher to mine.
PISANI: OK, so heres the tough question. Youre on Gold Corp. too...
Mr. TELFER: Right.
PISANI: ...as the chairman of a big gold company, and youre chairman of the World Gold Council...
Mr. TELFER: Right.
PISANI: ...if I want to own gold, should I own a gold company or should I own physical gold?
Mr. TELFER: Well, of course, I would say you own both.
PISANI: Oh, jeez.
Mr. TELFER: You should own both. Over time, sometimes the metal out performs the shares and other
times the shares out performs the metal. So to have a balanced portfolio with the safeguard of
gold, I would say own both.
PISANI: You know, Jim, they often say that gold is not correlated to other assets. Actually, the
lack of correlation was pretty good last year...
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Mr. ROSS: Yeah.
PISANI: ...it was one of the very few asset investmentsassets that didnt correlate well to the
rest of the market. Do you feel confident that willwill continue in the near future or will gold
simply go back to being the sort of nothing investment?
Mr. ROSS: Well, I think if you go back and look at historical trends on it, its always been a
non-correlated asset to the equity market. And I think thatswhen we talk to investors who want
towant to place, you know, investment in gold, their thinking is they want something that doesnt
correlate with the market. Theres no question there will be times when gold will go up; there
will be times when gold will go down. It is still an asset that, you know, has ups and downs in
it. But for the most part, its a diversifier in your portfolio and investors are really looking
for diversity and I think you saw that play out last year.
PISANI: Are there going to be other ways, Jim, to invest in commodities? Will we see more
commodity ETFs out there or have we sort of gotten about as creative as were going to get?
Mr. ROSS: I think theres always more creativity in our business, Bob. I think you will see more
over time; I think the challenge is to bring something as pure as GLD is difficult because you
cant always have everything physically backed.
PISANI: Ian Telfer, Jim Ross, five years, congratulations.
Mr. ROSS: Thanks.
PISANI: Thanks for being with us.
Mr. TELFER: Thanks, Bob.
Mr. ROSS: My pleasure.
PISANI: And please take this back. This is not easy. All right, Mark and Erin, back to you.
Mr. ROSS: Great, thank you very
BURNETT: You just gave back a gold bar? Are you crazy?
HAINES: $450,000 worth?
BURNETT: Wow.
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SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the
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