The company's purpose is to operate a real estate trust office, buying and selling, renting, managing and appraising properties, constructing buildings and exercising trust functions of all kinds. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire and finance such companies. Furthermore, the company may conduct all business that may be suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that is directly or indirectly related to it. The company may 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 on, or security assignments and transfers of, the company's assets, or by way of guarantees and sureties of all kinds, for consideration or not.