Oct 4 (Reuters) - Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund $(ETF.AU)$, New York's SPDR Gold Trust , rose 0.30% on Thursday from Wednesday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust , fell 0.38% during the same period.

Exchange-traded funds, the most widely recognized type of ETP, back each security issued with physical stocks of a given commodity, creating a product they say is free from counterparty risk.

Name New Holdings Date Prev Holdings Prev Abs Change % chg YTD Abs

GOLD $(OZ)$ (OZ) (OZ) Change (OZ)

SPDR Gold Trust 28,209,436.0 Oct 03 28,126,278.5 Oct 02 83,157.4 0.30% -1,293,604.3

COMEX Gold Trust 11,961,736.0 Oct 03 11,918,290.9 Oct 02 43,445.1 0.36% -2,468,041.9

ETF Securities gold (ex-US) 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 9,293,742.4 Nov 30 -- -- -300,230.4

ZKB Physical Gold ** 5,174,056.8 Sep 27 5,174,056.8 Sep 27 -- -- 116,802.8

Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,268,726.0 Oct 03 3,268,726.0 Oct 02 0.0 0.00% 118,571.0

ETFS Physical Swiss Gold 844,902.3 Jan 06 844,902.3 Jan 06 -- -- 57,520.6

ABSA - NewGold ETF 566,448.2 Oct 03 566,452.9 Oct 02 -4.6 0.00% 43,616.5

Total 59,319,047.7 59,192,449.8 126,597.9 0.21% -3,725,365.7

SILVER

iShares Silver Trust 465,777,398.7 Oct 03 467,555,997.6 Oct 02 -1,778,598.9 -0.38% -1,683,880.1

Sprott Physical Silver 178,409,785.0 Oct 03 178,409,785.0 Oct 02 0.0 0.00% 7,879,736.0

ETF Securities silver ex-US 100,389,761.6 Nov 30 100,389,761.6 Nov 30 -- -- 27,135,104.7

ZKB Physical Silver 90,049,179.6 Sep 27 90,049,179.6 Sep 27 -- -- -6,068,158.0

ETFS Physical Silver Shares 6,111,152.0 Mar 20 6,111,152.0 Mar 20 -- -- -17,105,014.8

Total 840,737,276.9 842,515,875.8 -1,778,598.9 -0.21% 10,157,787.8

PLATINUM

ETFS Physical Platinum Shares 738,343.9 Mar 20 738,343.9 Mar 20 -- -- -10,582.1

ABSA - NewPlat ETF  394,386.1 Oct 03 394,389.9 Oct 02 -3.7 0.00% 41,899.6

ETF Securities platinum ex-US 617,330.8 Nov 30 617,330.8 Nov 30 -- -- 32,609.5

ZKB Physical Platinum 4,63,020.8 Sep 27 463,020.8 Sep 27 -- -- -10,429.3

Total 2,213,081.7 2,213,085.4 -3.7 0.00% 53,497.7

PALLADIUM

InvestPalladium ETF # 2,994.3 Oct 03 2,995.2 Oct 02 -0.8 -0.03% -1,588.9

ETFS Physical Palladium Shares 23,425.8 Mar 20 23,425.8 Mar 20 -- -- -134,305.6

ETF Securities palladium ex-US 111,915.0 Nov 30 111,915.0 Nov 30 -- -- -959.5

ZKB Physical Palladium 90,411.0 Sep 27 90,411.0 Sep 27 -- -- 25,169.9

ABSA - NewPalladium ETF **** 7,923.6 Oct 03 7,923.7 Oct 02 -0.1 0.00% -1,981.4

Total 236,669.7 236,670.6 -0.9 0.00% -113,665.5

The figures above are those reported to Reuters by the organizations involved by telephone or email on the date shown, or those that are publicly available on their websites.

** ZKB physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium funds are fully backed by physical precious metal and investors are entitled to physical delivery of them.

*** Shareholders in the GAM Gold fund can elect to hold "A class" shares, which are fully backed by physical gold. Investors in that class are entitled to physical delivery of the precious metal. Investors may also elect to hold "AX" class shares, which are fully backed by physical gold. Investors in that class are not entitled to physical delivery of the precious metal.

**** Absa Capital's NewPalladium Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) was listed on March 27, 2014 and is fully backed with South African palladium.

# Standard Bank's AfricaPalladium ETF, South Africa's first listed palladium exchange traded fund, debuted on March 24, 2014. ((((For help: Click "Contact Us" in your desk top, click here HELP or call 1-800-738-8377 for Reuters Products and +1-888-463-3383 for Thomson products)) ))

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