The company's purpose is to provide financial services, specifically the acceptance and transmission of orders relating to financial instruments, the bringing together of investors and capital raisers, investment advice and all other activities related to the distribution of financial instruments, as well as activities in the field of advertising and marketing for financial instruments. Activities that require a license as a bank, securities firm, fund management company, manager of collective assets, trustee or asset manager are explicitly excluded from the company's purpose. The company may acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad, establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, acquire participations in Swiss and foreign companies, establish subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company directly or indirectly.