The company's purpose is to acquire, hold and sell participations in other companies. The company can acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad. It can also provide financing for its own account or for third-party account, as well as enter into guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties. The company can provide financial services to its direct and indirect shareholders and other affiliated companies, in particular grant loans or other financing and provide collateral of all kinds for their liabilities, including by way of pledges or security assignments and transfers of the company's assets, or by way of guarantees and sureties of all kinds, against payment or not.