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abrdn Precious Metals Basket ETF Trust – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 3/1/21, at 10:18am ET   ·   For:  12/31/20   ·   Accession #:  1387131-21-2995   ·   File #:  1-34917

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 3/01/21  Aberdeen Standard Precious Me… Tr 10-K       12/31/20   34:3.6M                                   Quality EDGAR So… LLC/FA

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-K        Annual Report                                       HTML    784K 
 2: EX-23.1     Consent of Kpmg LLP                                 HTML     12K 
 3: EX-31.1     Chief Executive Officer's Certificate               HTML     15K 
 4: EX-31.2     Chief Financial Officer's Certificate               HTML     15K 
 5: EX-32.1     Chief Executive Officer's Certificate               HTML     13K 
 6: EX-32.2     Chief Financial Officer's Certificate               HTML     13K 
13: R1          Cover                                               HTML     75K 
14: R2          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     44K 
15: R3          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     31K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
16: R4          Schedules of Investments                            HTML     43K 
17: R5          Statements of Operations                            HTML     44K 
18: R6          Statements of Changes in Net Assets                 HTML     36K 
19: R7          Financial Highlights                                HTML     31K 
20: R8          Organization                                        HTML     16K 
21: R9          Significant Accounting Policies                     HTML     84K 
22: R10         Related Parties                                     HTML     16K 
23: R11         Concentration of Risk                               HTML     15K 
24: R12         Indemnification                                     HTML     15K 
25: R13         Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)          HTML     97K 
26: R14         Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)            HTML     57K 
27: R15         Organization (Details Narrative)                    HTML     14K 
28: R16         The categorization of the Trust?s assets is as      HTML     16K 
                shown below (Details)                                            
29: R17         Changes in ounces of Bullion and their respective   HTML     58K 
                values for the years ended December 31, 2020 and                 
                2019 are set out below (Details)                                 
30: R18         Significant Accounting Policies (Details            HTML     37K 
                Narrative)                                                       
32: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     50K 
12: XML         XBRL Instance -- gltr-10k_123120_htm                 XML    416K 
31: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     36K 
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10: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- gltr-20201231_lab                     XML    319K 
11: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- gltr-20201231_pre              XML    240K 
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33: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               99±   134K 
34: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001387131-21-002995-xbrl      Zip    459K

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