The company's purpose is to carry out, for its own account or that of third parties, investment, purchase, sale, brokerage, management, administration, operation, leasing, study, administration, appraisal, management, financing, promotion, construction, renovation, transformation, and enhancement of real and personal property, excluding all operations prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (LFAIE); as well as fiduciary operations and any operation related to these branches of activity and its corporate purpose in Switzerland and abroad. The company may provide advisory and asset management services to institutional and private clients; in the management of portfolios of securities or financial derivatives; in the receipt and transmission of orders on financial markets, relating to securities or financial derivatives, for the account of third parties and its own account. The company may grant loans or any other form of financing to its shareholders or to third parties as well as provide securities of all kinds, directly or indirectly for the benefit of its shareholders or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees or pledges. The company may also create branches or subsidiaries, in Switzerland or abroad; acquire, hold, dispose of and manage interests in any industrial, commercial or financial enterprises; found, acquire or finance businesses, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts likely to develop its purpose or directly or indirectly related thereto.