The company's purpose is to provide services in Switzerland and abroad in the fields of business consulting, investment support, and brokerage and trading activities. Furthermore, the company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, hold, manage and sell participations in domestic and foreign companies, as well as acquire, rent or lease, hold, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad. The company may provide services to other affiliated companies, grant loans or other financing, and provide collateral of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges, security assignments or security transfers of the company's assets, or by way of guarantees and sureties of any kind, against payment or not. The company may conduct all other commercial, financial or other business activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose.