The company provides consulting and research services in the financial sector. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies or merge with them. The company may, even without adequate consideration, conduct business with or for the benefit of related parties, in particular its shareholders and other group companies, notably grant loans to these persons or provide guarantees, sureties, pledges or other securities to secure their liabilities. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad. The company may conduct all business, enter into obligations and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the company's purpose and the development of the business, or that are directly or indirectly related to it.