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Aberdeen Standard Platinum ETF Trust – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/18 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 2/28/19, at 5:08pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/18   ·   Accession #:  1460235-19-3   ·   File #:  1-34590

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

 2/28/19  Aberdeen Standard Platinum ETF Tr 10-K       12/31/18   34:2.6M

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-K        Annual Report                                       HTML    616K 
 2: EX-10.4B    Material Contract                                   HTML     26K 
 3: EX-23.1     Consent of Experts or Counsel                       HTML     14K 
 4: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 5: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 6: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
 7: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
14: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     47K 
15: R2          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     31K 
16: R3          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     29K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
17: R4          Schedules of Investments                            HTML     39K 
18: R5          Statements of Operations                            HTML     41K 
19: R6          Statements of Changes in Net Assets                 HTML     39K 
20: R7          Financial Highlights                                HTML     34K 
21: R8          Organization                                        HTML     18K 
22: R9          Significant Accounting Policies                     HTML    104K 
23: R10         Related Parties                                     HTML     15K 
24: R11         Concentration Of Risk                               HTML     15K 
25: R12         Indemnification                                     HTML     15K 
26: R13         Significant Accounting Policies (Policy)            HTML    122K 
27: R14         Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)            HTML     75K 
28: R15         Organization (Details)                              HTML     14K 
29: R16         Significant Accounting Policies (Narrative)         HTML     29K 
                (Details)                                                        
30: R17         Significant Accounting Policies (Categorization Of  HTML     16K 
                The Trust's Assets) (Details)                                    
31: R18         Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of        HTML     35K 
                Investment In Platinum) (Details)                                
33: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     47K 
32: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     26K 
 8: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- pplt-20181231                       XML    376K 
10: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- pplt-20181231_cal               XML     36K 
11: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- pplt-20181231_def                XML     37K 
12: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- pplt-20181231_lab                     XML    245K 
13: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- pplt-20181231_pre              XML    177K 
 9: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- pplt-20181231                         XSD     59K 
34: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001460235-19-000003-xbrl      Zip     43K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — pplt-20181231_def

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