The company's purpose is to provide all services and advice, in particular in the field of risk management, as well as all investment operations, the purchase, sale, transfer and holding of participations of all kinds and all financial products, in Switzerland and abroad. The company may: carry out any financial, commercial or industrial activity, movable or immovable (except for operations prohibited by the LFAIE), directly or indirectly related to its purpose; create branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad; participate in all companies having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose; grant loans or guarantees to shareholders, subsidiaries, parent companies, sister companies or third parties, if it promotes its interests or those of the group of companies to which it belongs; carry out any cash pooling activity for the account of the group to which it belongs.