Purchase, sale, rental, brokerage and management of properties as well as trust transactions of all kinds, acquisition and disposal of participations in companies of any kind; can centrally manage these companies, finance them, broker transactions for them or conclude them in their name and for their account, trade in goods of all kinds, including import and export, advise on economic and corporate matters, arrange and grant financing in Switzerland and abroad, conduct trust transactions of all kinds, acquire patents and other intangible rights, grant licenses, acquire and dispose of plots of land and properties, establish subsidiaries and set up branch offices, participate in other companies, acquire, encumber, dispose of and manage real estate, arrange financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, and provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.