Bidtimes' ultimate goal is to invest in and provide advice to growing companies in the UK. Diminishing earnings and continual financial losses led the company to sell the entirety of its remaining freehold property investments in 2006 and 2007. The performance of its previous investments -- in publicly traded real estate investor Innobox, electronics manufacturer SRS Technology Group, and Blue Chip Casinos -- ultimately led to this strategic decision. Bidtimes is actively searching for businesses and scouting for a reverse takeover opportunity that will relaunch the company.

First Eagle Investment Management, LLC was founded in 1803 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan. First Eagle Investment Management, LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, corporations, foundations, endowments, major retirement programs, state or municipal government entities. It manages client-focused equity portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and foreign and domestic hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and alternative markets across the globe. The firm invests in value stocks of companies. It employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio.

Landmark Global Financial Corporation operates as an investment company. The company invests in companies that are participating in potentially high growth markets. Its portfolio includes companies in the fields of health, consumer marketing and media. Portfolio Investments The company, within the Investment Segment, also has an interest in various companies: Serica Energy Corporation is an international oil and gas exploration and production company with projects in various locales such as, Indonesia, the UK North Sea and Spain. Fifth Window Media, Inc. (FWMI) is in the process of developing an internet based advertising product. The company is a party to a letter of intent whereby the company would own a portion of FWMI and would provide management services. MedX Health Corp. is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures and distributes phototherapy devices that are FDA approved. The company also has 8% interest in Salumatics, Inc. Salumatics, Inc.: Salumatics, Inc. provides software and related services to the health care business, primarily in the area of health record management. Salumatics has resale agreements with major providers of Electronic Health Record software and also sells its own internally developed software.

FAF Advisors, Inc. is an asset management arm of U.S. Bank National Association. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. It also manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in value and growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. It employs a fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, Inc. FAF Advisors, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Founded in 1908, Baillie Gifford & Co. is one of the UK's leading investment management firms for individuals and institutions. The company manages a number of investment trusts, including the Monks Investment Trust, the Baillie Gifford Shai Nippon, and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Owned by 30 working partners, the firm's offerings include retirement and pension management services, charitable and family trusts, and other investment and savings plans. It has about $46 billion in assets under management. Its UK pension fund business consistently represents the company's largest segment, bringing in almost 50% of total sales.

Kobren Insight Management Inc. (KIM) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios and mutual funds. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm employs quantitative analysis for creating its portfolio. It also invests in external mutual funds that invest in real estate, high yield bonds, and inflation-linked bonds and employ merger arbitrage and long/short strategies. The firm employs a combination of in-house and external research to make its investments. Kobren Insight Management is based in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts with additional offices in Longboat Key, Florida and Lincoln, Nebraska. Kobren Insight Management, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of E*Trade Wealth Management, Inc.

The Goldfarb Corporation is an investment holding company. The Goldfarb Corporation Company’s operations reside entirely in Canada. Its long-term investments comprise long-term floating-rate notes (MAV 2) (formerly non-bank, asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP)), and are designated as held for trading. As of December 31, 2009, short-term investments consisted of redeemable guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) with original maturities of 365 days or less bearing interest at rates ranging 0.3% to 0.7%.

Chuan Hup Holdings Limited (“CHH”) was founded in 1970 as a tug and barge service provider for the PSA Corporation in Singapore. CHH subsequently developed a core competency in the provision of marine transportation services to the mining and energy sectors within the ASEAN region. In doing so, CHH established itself as one of the leading owners and operators of marine transport equipment to the resource industries. In addition, CHH also has investments in the property and electronics manufacturing services sectors.In the Financial Year ended 30 June 2003, CHH reorganized its marine business into two separate and distinct operations according to industry focus, namely, the offshore support services to the oil and gas industry (held under its then subsidiary CH Offshore Ltd) and marine logistics services and transportation of bulk aggregates. On 14 February 2005, CHH entered into an agreement with Habib Corporation Berhad, pursuant to which Habib Corporation Berhad would acquire from CHH the entire marine logistics business, 29.1% (out of the 52.8% held by CHH) of the issued shares of CH Offshore Ltd and 49.1% of the issued shares of PT Rig Tenders Indonesia held by CHH. On 30 September 2005, CHH completed the above transaction with Habib Corporation Berhad (now known as Scomi Marine Berhad) for SGD $485,621,190 and a 28.9% stake in Scomi Marine Berhad.

Invesco Ltd. (Invesco) is an independent global investment management company. Invesco provides a range of investment products for retail, institutional and high-net-worth clients worldwide. The Company has presence in the institutional and retail segments of the investment management industry in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with clients in more than 100 countries. Invesco offers multiple investment objectives within the range of asset classes and products that it manages. Its asset classes include money market, fixed income, balanced, equity and alternatives. Invesco is a provider of retail investment solutions to clients through its distribution channels, Invesco Aim in the United States., Invesco Trimark in Canada, Invesco Perpetual in the United Kingdom, Invesco in Europe and Asia, and Invesco PowerShares (for it exchange-traded fund (ETF) products). In May 2010, Invesco acquired Morgan Stanley's retail asset management business.

Augen Capital Corp., a merchant bank, specializes in financing of early-stage resource companies, as well as provision of tax-advantaged flow-through investments in resource sectors in Canada. Segments The company operates under two segments: Managed Products and Merchant Banking. The Managed Products (MP) segment consists of annual resource flow-through limited partnership offerings, and the Augen Resource Strategy mutual fund. The Merchant Banking (MB) segment consists of an investment portfolio of primarily emerging resource stocks. The MB segment provides financing and strategic management support to resource investee companies. Augen Resource Strategy Fund Augen Resource Strategy Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund corporation. The investment objective of the Fund is to provide long-term capital growth, by investing primarily in equity securities of senior and emerging Canadian resource companies. The Fund is also permitted to invest in fixed income and money market instruments. Merchant Banking Portfolios The company holds merchant banking portfolios directly in Augen Capital Corp. (Augen) and indirectly through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aumerco Limited, which primarily consist of listed Canadian resource companies whose principal business is resource exploration and development. Polar Bear Project: Augen established Polar Bear Exploration, Inc. (PBE), a private company, to acquire claims in the Hudson Bay/James Bay area of northern Ontario, south east of the coastal town of Pewanuck and south west of Polar Bear Provincial Park.

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