Advisory services in the fields of financial management, organization, and planning of private and institutional assets, as well as in the areas of banking strategy and investment, excluding any activity as a bank, securities dealer or asset manager. The company may also engage in any other activity that has a direct or indirect connection with these objectives; it may in particular establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts that are suitable for developing and expanding its purpose or are directly or indirectly related to it.