Oct 21 (Reuters) - Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund $(ETF.AU)$, New York's SPDR Gold Trust , rose 0.46% on Friday from Thursday, while the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust , also rose 0.27% 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 28,570,288.8 Oct 18 28,440,397.6 Oct 17 129,891.2 0.46% -932,751.5

COMEX Gold Trust 12,125,121.9 Oct 18 12,102,457.1 Oct 17 22,664.7 0.19% -2,304,656.1

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

ZKB Physical Gold ** 5,140,402.0 Oct 11 5,140,402.0 Oct 11 -- -- 83,148.0

Sprott Physical Gold Trust 3,268,726.0 Oct 18 3,268,726.0 Oct 17 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 565,451.3 Oct 18 565,456.0 Oct 17 -4.6 0.00% 42,619.6

Total 59,808,634.7 59,656,083.3 152,551.3 0.26% -3,235,778.7

SILVER

iShares Silver Trust 474,760,611.5 Oct 18 473,483,926.3 Oct 17 1,276,685.2 0.27% 7,299,332.7

Sprott Physical Silver 178,409,785.0 Oct 18 178,409,785.0 Oct 17 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 89,121,952.0 Oct 11 89,121,952.0 Oct 11 -- -- -6,995,385.6

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

Total 848,793,262.1 847,516,576.9 1,276,685.2 0.15% 18,213,773.0

PLATINUM

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

ABSA - NewPlat ETF  399,115.8 Oct 18 399,119.5 Oct 17 -3.8 0.00% 46,629.2

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

ZKB Physical Platinum 457,823.4 Oct 11 457,823.4 Oct 11 -- -- -15,626.8

Total 2,212,613.9 2,212,617.6 -3.8 0.00% 53,029.8

PALLADIUM

InvestPalladium ETF # 2,989.0 Oct 18 2,988.7 Oct 17 0.2 0.01% -1,594.2

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 90,378.8 Oct 11 90,378.8 Oct 11 -- -- 25,137.7

ABSA - NewPalladium ETF **** 7,922.5 Oct 18 7,922.6 Oct 17 -0.1 0.00% -1,982.5

Total 236,631.1 236,630.9 0.1 0.00% -113,704.2

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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