The objective of the Gold Trust is for the value to reflect, at any given time, the price of gold owned by the Gold Trust at that time, less the expenses and liabilities of the Gold Trust.

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The price is based on the market value of the underlying securities and includes cash and other assets and liabilities held by the trust.

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To make it work better, he thinks the Scottish trust will have to stop seeing properties as liabilities rather than opportunities.

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