The company's purpose is to provide strategic consulting and support to domestic and foreign financial intermediaries in relation to the development and expansion of their global distribution activities and related activities. The company does not engage in activities that fall within the scope of the Federal Act on Banks and Savings Banks, the Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading, the Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes, and the Federal Act on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. The company may establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, and sell real estate and intellectual property rights. The company may also engage in all commercial, financial, and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company may provide direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such shareholders have a direct or indirect interest, whether through loans and/or other financing. The company may grant security of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including by way of pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind, or by way of offset obligations, whether for consideration or not, even if such financing, security, or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such shareholders have a direct or indirect interest.