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ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares (SGOL) AUM exceeds $500M as Gold price reaches new highs (as of June 8th, 2010)

NEW YORK -- SGOL leads in growth among other physical gold exchange traded funds at 15% year to date:

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Gold price reaches new all-time highs in 3 major currencies: USD Gold price reaches $1250 Oz. Sterling Gold is now at a record high of £868 Oz and Euro Gold is also at a record high of ???050 Oz. All as of June 8, 2010

ETF Securities USA LLC (ETFS) announced today that the total assets under management of its ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares (SGOL) passed the $500 Million mark as of June 8, 2010. In the opinion of ETF Securities, recent flows into SGOL have largely been driven by investors???lack of confidence in paper currencies coupled with an increasingly uncertain economic outlook.

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The objective of the ETFS Gold Trust’s (SGOL) shares reflect the performance of the price of gold, less the Trust’s expenses. The Trust is open ended and is designed for investors who want a cost-effective (1) and convenient (2) way to invest in gold as well as diversify their precious metal holdings. SGOL has an expense ratio of 0.39% (3) per annum.

ETFS Gold Trust (SGOL) is backed by allocated gold bullion and stored in secure vaults in Switzerland by the Custodian, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., one of the world's leading Custodians for precious metals. The Shares represent an interest in physical gold owned by the Trust. The physical gold of the Trust is subject to minimal counterparty or credit risks, which contrasts with other offerings that achieve bullion exposure through the use of derivatives.

ETF Securities is the first US ETF Sponsor to provide investors with access to a full suite of precious metal ETFs. Investors can now trade physically backed gold, silver, platinum and palladium ETFs from the same provider. ETFS recently announced total assets under management in the four US physically backed products exceed $1.5B in AUM as of June 3, 2010.

The four precious metal ETFs have the following key features:

Commenting on this milestone for ETF Securities in the US, William Rhind, head of sales & marketing for ETFS Marketing LLC, stated:

“Reaching $500 million in such a short time is great news. SGOL caters to investors who want their physical gold vaulted in Switzerland. With gold making new highs in multiple currencies, I’m confident that SGOL can continue to appeal to investors.???

For more information please contact the US marketing agent, ETFS Marketing, at 212-918-4954, or visit our website:

The ETFS Gold Trust, ETFS Silver Trust, ETFS Palladium Trust and ETFS Platinum Trust is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 or a commodity pool for purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act. Shares of the Trusts are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds. These investments are not suitable for all investors. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.

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Enthusiasts aim to save motorcyclists

Motorcyclists have a shocking crash record. Hamilton Ulysses Club is trying to do something about it with a new mentoring programme.

Do you know what the pressure is on your motorbike tyres, how to adjust the chain or what about counter steering and those disappearing edges on corners?

It's standard knowledge motorcycle riders should be equipped with, according to Bruce Marx of Hamilton's branch of the Ulysses Club. But the long-time rider says he's often amazed at the lack of knowledge amongst some fellow motorcyclists.

"We had a gentleman who returned to riding five years ago on a new 1100cc machine which had just failed a WOF check because the front brake pots had seized," Marx says. "He told me that he never ever used his front brake. But on that model of bike 80 per cent of his stopping power was on the front wheel."

For Marx and his fellow Ulysses Club members, the fact that young riders and those returning to motorcycling after a long break featured disproportionately in crash statistics was motivation enough to establish, with the support of ACC, a mentoring service for these groups of riders.

Marx says he discovered a report commissioned by ACC into fatal motorcycle accidents that outlined the three categories of riders who featured.

"The inexperienced featured as the largest group," he says. "Then came the born-again riders and then lastly, what was left."

Marx says the last group appeared to follow the same pattern.

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"A history of offs, pushing the limits and numerous convictions for traffic and criminal offences. These riders would rather be seen dead than attend training days so I guess that's how we will see them. We decided no matter what we did they would kill themselves," he says soberly.

So targeting those with learners or restricted licences has become the aim for the club.

He says "apart from the basic skills courses, these riders were often left to their own devices and more by good luck than anything else survived. The cost of training from a professional was often beyond the reach of many."

Marx points out they are not offering training to riders, but mentoring from experienced riders who have years of accident free motoring.

"It is more guidance," he says. "We endeavour to ride in every condition; rain, fog, open road and heavy city traffic. A lot wa tches-f of time is spent on slow riding in a large car park."

And the group has organised a long dead-end road with a braking area marked out.

Mentoring is provided on a one-to-one basis and can usually bring about marked improvements in rider safety.

Over the last five years the group has mentored more than 100 riders of varying degrees of experience.

"On our frequent riding courses, the instructors have remarked that those riders who have been mentored are in the top 75 per cent of skilled riders compared to the remaining riders," Marx says.

The focus of ACC campaigns turned some time back from educating motorists to look out for motorcycles to training motorcyclists to take more responsibility for their own safety, Marx says.

"The mentoring we offer is free and is part of us helping to achieve that."

For contact details for Hamilton Ulysses Club: Bruce Marx, ph 07 855 6671, or John Turkington, ph 07 853 6102

* Transport Ministry statistics show in the 12 months to the end of May 2010 there were 50 motorcyclists killed on our roads and 1369 injured.

Of those the largest age group represented in the fatalities were aged between 35-44 years with 18 deaths. The highest number injured was 407 15-24 year olds with 12 deaths in this age group.

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England's Sunday worst nightmare

Byline: Dave Kidd

WHEN you have followed the fortunes of England's football and cricket teams for many years, there are always plenty of low moments. But for a one-off hour few could compete with 1.30pm to 2.30pm last Sunday.

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England aiming to add to first triumph

Paul Collingwood has led England to a piece of cricket history and is already planning some more from his "scary" team in the near future, writes David Clough.

Sunday's seven-wicket trouncing of Australia at Kensington Oval gave England their first International Cricket Council tournament triumph in 35 years of trying.

However, after winning the World Twenty20, Collingwood made it clear he has his sights set on the type of lasting success that defines a truly outstanding team.

He said: "We're not going to get carried away. We're going to savour the moment and enjoy it, because we deserve to, but good teams kick on and that's exactly what we'll Algeria get drilled into the guys. We've got a lot more potential as well, that's the scary part about it. We can go even further."

Collingwood cited player of the tournament Kevin Pietersen's welter of runs, new opening pair Craig Kieswetter and Michael Lumb and the bowling unit as the pillars of England's success.

He said: "The bowlers have done a fantastic job. No team has really got hold of us. A lot of credit goes to them for their thought processes and the execution of plans have been absolutely spot-on."

A Test series against wa tches-s Bangladesh starts next week for some of the Twenty20 squad, with one-day internationals on the agenda against the same opposition and Australia this summer before a sub- Continental World Cup and then the Ashes next winter.

Collingwood added: "I'm sure we'll get our feet back on the ground in a few days' time and keep working hard.

"Straussy [Andrew Strauss] comes back as captain and we'll get his team ethos and ideas. That's been a big part of this victory as well, what [coach] Andy Flower and Andrew Strauss have done over the past year. They've got the team pointing in the right direction.

"There are guys who've come in and made a name for themselves, like Kiesy and Lumby at the top of the order. Yards [left-arm spinner Michael Yardy] has done a fantastic job for us as well. These are guys nobody would have known when they came into this tournament."

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Emotions run deep for fun-loving Watson during playoff triumph

CROMWELL -- Bubba Watson's mood changed from one instant to the next, from happy-go-lucky quipster to tearful, then thankful, and all shades of real in between. Watson is an unusually popular PGA Tour player, despite having never won in five years before striking it rich at the Travelers Championship Sunday with a two-hole playoff victory over Scott Verplank and Corey Pavin.

Part of it stems from the fact he's pure testosterone off the tee, averaging a PGA Tour-leading 304.5 yards per drive. He hit one 396 yards on the 72nd hole Sunday. Take away the aid of the cart path on the drive and it probably wasn't an inch over 375 yards.

But he also has the "it" quality, which we'll describe as a visible love of the game. He's competing against guys that are so intense, week after week, that it's almost a felony to act like you're having fun out on the course.

He doesn't chirp quite like Fuzzy Zoeller used to, but there's no masking his enjoyment. He won't pretend, for macho sake, that he's not nervous when he is. "That putt I made for par to win," he said, "I don't remember taking the putter back. I just remember that one arm went one way and the other arm went the other way and somehow it went straight in the hole." On the previous putt, a 40-footer or so, he said he couldn't breath.

He has a laugh-out-loud self deprecating sense of humor that is nearly extinct in the bitter-beer-face of the rank and file PGA Tour player. "My dad taught me everything I know ... though it's not very much," he cracked.

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And his emotional side was raw when talking about his dad's battle with cancer and how doctors

See Solomon, C3 recently were concerned his wife Angie had a brain tumor. Watson broke down as he relayed that story, tried to talk through it, failed at first, and then started to get his voice back.

"You know, I've never had a lesson," said Watson - a trait we find so refreshing in the midst of all the hysteria over who the next swing coach for Tiger Woods will be. "My dad, he took me to the golf course when I was six years old and he just told me he was going to be in the woods looking for his ball. He told me to take this 9 iron and beat it down the fairway. And now look at me, after beating a 9-iron on the fairway, coming from Bagdad, Florida, I never dreamed this."

His voice was straining again. "Hopefully people see that I'm enjoying the game and like to cut up and have fun. You know what, this is a job, but why be bored at your job? Why not have fun with it."

Pavin, a player with touch and feel and personality, too, talked about Watson's love of the game as well, saying that "What I love about the way he plays the game, is that he doesn't care what it looks like. He just goes out and plays by feel. I think that's the way golf is meant to be played. There's a lot of guys who play mechanically, too, which is fine. But it's fun to watch somebody who plays just from his natural ability and feels his way around the golf course."

As enjoyable as it was to see Watson break into the winner's circle, when we reflect back on the 2010 Travelers, the wonderful theater it created was more a case of Justin Rose and Ben Curtis squirreling the tournament away than any one of the three playoff golfers winning the tournament.

The way Rose and Curtis performed, scared and ineffectual, you would have thought it was Tiger Woods chasing the leaders instead of a 50-year-old guy with a foot out on the Champions Tour, another who's not far behind, and a Tour non-winner in five years.

All Rose needed to do was shoot a 1-over-par 71 to win the Championship, and Curtis didn't need much better. A 68, 2-under- par, would have gotten it done for Curtis on a course in which it took minus-2 to make the cut. Collectively, the final pairing was 7 over par.

"When I think back, shooting 4-under (66) ... there's no way that wins," said Watson, who began the day six shots off the lead. "Let's be realistic about it. For us three guys to get in a playoff ... it's weird. No way we could have expected that."

In fact, no one from the final three groups got a sniff of the playoffs.

In its own, understated way, the TPC-River Highlands emerged as a winner when the PGA Tour's shortest hitter, Pavin, and longest hitter, Watson, tied for the 72 hole-lead. Usually a course will play to either a long hitter's strength or a shot-maker's strength, but the TPC allows both to excel.

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"A course doesn't have to be any length in particular, but when you get the longest player on Tour and the shortest player on Tour contending to win a golf tournament, I think that's a very good sign for an ideal golf course," said Pavin.

Verplank, slightly below average in driving distance, agreed, that the TPC is a "good tournament track. It's not the U.S. Open, but it's not supposed to be," he said. "It's a lot more exciting when guys are making eagles and birdies - and then if a guy has a wreck on one of the last holes, it makes it even more exciting."

The beauty of the TPC is that there are train wrecks lurking on the back nine. The 15th swallowed up Justin Rose whole when he yanked his drive into the water and it got worse from there. And the 17th, the signature hole, nearly wrecked havoc with Watson, who drove into the fairway bunker on 17, and then, needing some shot- making excellence to find the green, hit a miserable second shot into the lake and took double bogey.

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