Filed Pursuant To Rule 433
Registration No. 333-158105
November 19, 2009
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11/18/2009 |
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Internet () |
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National |
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Fox Business Video |
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT
LIZ CLAMAN, host:
Five years ago, the first US gold ETF, exchange traded fund, launched on the New York Stock
Exchange. You may know it. You may own it. Its the GLD. Today, we see gold hitting record
highs and billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson making a big bet on gold with plans to launch
a new gold fund. Is there even more growth ahead for gold? Were bringing in Ian Telfer; hes
the chairman of the World Gold Council.
And with himwe thought it was gonna be two, but you guys had to outdo yourself and bring in five
gold bars.
Mr. IAN TELFER (World Gold Council): Right.
CLAMAN: And a few security guys with it. Whats this worth right now?
Mr. TELFER: Thats worth a little over $2 million.
CLAMAN: $2 million?
Mr. TELFER: Right.
CLAMAN: Can I touch it?
Mr. TELFER: Certainly.
CLAMAN: Ahhhh. This is really nice. So heavy. Solid gold bars. How many ounces? Ive seen
different levels but how many ounces in a gold bar?
Mr. TELFER: Theres four-hundred ounces in each bar.
CLAMAN: OK. And lets talk about those ounces. Right now we are looking at gold at record highs.
Mr. TELFER: Right.
CLAMAN: What do you think is really driving the price of gold right now? And you guys having
really brought the first ETFthe first GLD to market. Looking at how that has taken off, what do
you think about gold prices right now?
Mr. TELFER: Well, were very happy to see gold at over $1,100. For some of us in the business
its been a long wait. But what I think is happening right now is people are looking at gold as an
asset class, not as another commodity. And with all the trouble theyve had in their portfolios
over the past year,
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theyve seen how gold has held up through that crisis right from start to finish and more and more
people are making it a permanent part of their portfolios.
CLAMAN: But I guess the question is why suddenly now, over the past couple of months, have we seen
this ramped up? Is it because weve printed so much money that people perceive that well see
inflation somewhere down the road, and that this is a hedge against that? But we dont see that
now.
Mr. TELFER: No, you dont see the inflation yet. But, typically, in the past when governments
have printed money, the inflation finally comes. I think people have seen the cycle before and now
theyre building up their gold hedge for the future.
CLAMAN: A Credit Suisse analyst, as we were talking about earlier, said that if you were to look
at the price of gold at which a dollar would be fully gold-backed, because we used to be on the
gold standard, were not anymore, but if we were to have that same metric back once again then gold
per ounce could go as high as $6,300 an ounce. Do you agree with that?
Mr. TELFER: Well, thats a mathematically calculated number. That would back up the US currency
with gold behind every dollar.
CLAMAN: (Unintelligible) analyst. Not Credit Suisse, but
Mr. TELFER: So thats a derived number, $6,000. Thats what gold would have to go to if the
United States went back on the Gold Standard. I think itd be a great idea, both for the gold
business and for the US economy. History has shown that when money is backed by gold the economy
does very well. I dont think its gonna happen, though.
CLAMAN: Yeah, probably not. Not as this stage of the game.
Looking at this metal here and how people buy it, do you find that people are now more eager now to
buy the physical metal, such as a gold bar or coins?
Mr. TELFER: Theres a mix. A lot of people are buying coins and bars, and hoarding them and
taking them home, et cetera. But a lot more people are interested in things like the ETF. Because
when you take physical possession of gold, when you go to sell that gold, you have to have a
(unintelligible) to make sure that nothings happened to it while you owned it.
Whereas with the ETF you own the gold, its in a vault in London, you can trade it, you can sell it
whenever you want, so theres people going down both roads.
CLAMAN: And there are 400 ounces in these gold barsIm just going to tilt it.
Theyre probablyyou know what? Its almost too heavy to tilt. How much does this weigh?
Mr. TELFER: About 35 pounds.
CLAMAN: Uuugh. Its too heavy. Ahh. OK, I did it. I couldnt even take this if I wanted to.
You cant sit there and just lift that up.
Thank you very much. Good to see you.
Mr. TELFER: My pleasure.
CLAMAN: Come back again with the gold bars.
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Ian Telfer is the chairman of World Gold Council. Thank you, gentlemen.
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