Paul Lohrey

iShares Gold Trust is an investment vehicle, which engages in owning gold transferred to the trust in exchange for shares issued by the trust. Its activities include issuing baskets of shares in exchange for the gold deposited with the custodian as consideration; selling gold as necessary to cover the sponsor?s fee, trust expenses not assumed by the sponsor and other liabilities; and delivering gold in exchange for baskets surrendered for redemption. The company was founded on January 21, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

iShares Commodity Optimized Trust operates as a exchange traded fund. It’s objective seeks to track the results of a fully collateralized investment in futures contracts on an index composed of a diversified group of commodities futures which attempts to minimize contango and maximize backwardation. The company was founded on December 7, 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in New York, NY. Shannon Ghia has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

iShares Gold Trust Micro engages in owning gold transferred to the trust in exchange for shares issued by the trust. Its objective is to reflect generally the performance of the price of gold. The company was founded in February 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.