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Aberdeen Standard Gold ETF Trust – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/17 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 11/6/17, at 9:57am ET   ·   For:  9/30/17   ·   Accession #:  1450923-17-24   ·   File #:  1-34441

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

11/06/17  Aberdeen Standard Gold ETF Trust  10-Q        9/30/17   33:2M

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

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    249K 
 2: EX-4.2      Instrument Defining the Rights of Security Holders  HTML    202K 
 3: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 4: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 5: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     15K 
 6: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
13: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     32K 
14: R2          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     28K 
15: R3          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     27K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
16: R4          Schedules of Investments                            HTML     37K 
17: R5          Statements of Operations                            HTML     38K 
18: R6          Statements of Changes in Net Assets                 HTML     38K 
19: R7          Financial Highlights                                HTML     34K 
20: R8          Organization                                        HTML     18K 
21: R9          Significant Accounting Policies                     HTML    106K 
22: R10         Related Parties                                     HTML     15K 
23: R11         Concentration Of Risk                               HTML     15K 
24: R12         Indemnification                                     HTML     15K 
25: R13         Significant Accounting Policies (Policy)            HTML    123K 
26: R14         Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)            HTML     75K 
27: R15         Organization (Details)                              HTML     13K 
28: R16         Significant Accounting Policies (Narrative)         HTML     30K 
                (Details)                                                        
29: R17         Significant Accounting Policies (Categorization Of  HTML     16K 
                The Trust's Assets) (Details)                                    
30: R18         Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of        HTML     35K 
                Investment In Gold) (Details)                                    
32: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     46K 
31: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     26K 
 7: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- sgol-20170930                       XML    395K 
 9: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- sgol-20170930_cal               XML     35K 
10: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- sgol-20170930_def                XML     36K 
11: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- sgol-20170930_lab                     XML    239K 
12: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- sgol-20170930_pre              XML    170K 
 8: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- sgol-20170930                         XSD     59K 
33: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001450923-17-000024-xbrl      Zip     42K

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