The purpose of the company is to acquire, hold, manage and sell direct and indirect participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds, primarily in the fields of financial services, data marketing, bioresearch, technological innovations, elderly care and health prevention. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, take over representations and engage in any business activity and conclude any type of contract that may be beneficial to the company's purpose or that is directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad. Excluded are transactions that are prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). The company is part of a group and may consider the interests of the group in pursuing its purpose. In particular, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements (including zero balancing), and provide collateral of any kind for the obligations of these parties, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind. This also applies without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, to the exclusion of the company's profit motive and with the assumption of cluster risks. The company's purpose exclusively includes activities that are not subject to authorization under Swiss financial market laws.