The company's purpose is the acquisition, holding, management, enhancement, and alienation of interests in all financial, commercial, industrial, or real estate companies and enterprises, in Switzerland and abroad, as well as the financing, granting of guarantees, control, and advisory services in favor of the companies and enterprises in which it participates, and, in general, the performance of all operations directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may create branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies pursuing identical or analogous purposes, or acquire them.