The purpose of the company is to acquire and manage as well as hold participations in other companies. Furthermore, the company aims to invest in real estate and financial instruments, including but not limited to public and private stocks, bonds, options, futures, and money market funds. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, utilize, manage, and sell properties and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and perform all legal transactions that may be necessary or suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. In addition, the company may participate directly or indirectly in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies or by providing guarantees, sureties, or other securities of any kind for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are granted free of charge.