GLDM: Leadership change

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. Effective September 28, 2026, WGC USA Asset Management Company, LLC, the sponsor of World Gold Trust and its series, SPDR® Gold MiniShares® Trust (the “Sponsor”), appointed Joan A. Binstock to the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of the Sponsor. Joan A. Binstock , age 72, has served as an Advisor at Lovell Minnick Partners, LLC since July 2018, where she is responsible for assisting the firm on deal and operational due diligence activities across all portfolio companies. In addition, she has been a member of the board of directors, Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund since October 2019, a director of the Brown Brothers Harriman US Mutual Funds since September 2019, a member of the board of directors and the Audit Chair of KKR Real Estate Select Trust, Inc., a closed-end management investment company that has elected to be treated as a real estate investment trust, since August 2020, a member of the board of directors of Confluence Technologies, Inc. since April 2023 and a member of the board of directors and Audit Chair of The 2023 ETF Series Trust since 2023. Ms. Binstock served as a director of SimCorp A/S from April 2018 to March 2023. Ms. Binstock was a Partner at Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC from 2000 to March 2018, where she served as the Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Ms. Binstock was the Chief Operating Officer at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management. Prior to that, she was a Principal and National Director of the Regulatory and Risk Management Practice at Ernst & Young LLP, the Chief Administrative Officer