The company's purpose is to buy and sell securities and other participation and value rights. The purchase and sale, development and rental of properties, as well as the conduct of commercial and financial transactions of all kinds. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, assume representations, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that may be suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may also provide direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide collateral of all kinds for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries), including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing (zero balancing). This also applies to preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks.