to engage in financial advisory and financial engineering activities, including investment advice and the promotion of financial instruments such as collective investment schemes, within the limits of financial market regulation and excluding any wealth management and/or financial intermediary activities; the company may execute any advisory, research and analysis mandate in financial, commercial and collective investment matters in Switzerland and abroad. The company may carry out any commercial and financial transaction, directly or indirectly related to its purpose. It may register branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, as well as acquire, hold, manage and sell real estate, provided that the real estate assets located in Switzerland held indirectly must have an exclusively commercial use. The company may grant loans or any other form of financing to companies of the same group, as well as provide any type of security, for the direct or indirect benefit of companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the company's assets.