acquisition, management and long-term holding, on its own account or as a trustee, of direct or indirect interests in other companies, Swiss or foreign, with the specification that the company may only hold interests in Switzerland in real estate companies with exclusively commercial use; provision of services in the field of supervision, management and administrative support to other companies and enterprises of the group to which the company belongs; granting loans or any other form of financing to companies of the same group, as well as providing guarantees of any kind, for the direct or indirect benefit of companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the company's assets (cf. articles of association for full purpose).