All services and consulting in the field of investments and financial placements, as well as market management, analysis and studies, research of investment opportunities, financial analysis of companies, structuring of financial transactions; promotion and monitoring of investments as well as any other service in the financial sector, excluding any financial transactions on behalf of third parties; acquisition and management of participations in all companies, excluding operations prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners; the company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland or abroad; it may acquire, hold and dispose of participations both in Switzerland and abroad; the company may not acquire any real estate participation in Switzerland, except in cases where the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners authorizes it.