The company's purpose is to acquire, establish and hold foreign subsidiaries, which are particularly active in asset management abroad. The company can acquire and hold participations in other companies abroad. The company can acquire, hold, manage, exploit and sell real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad. The company can carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that appear to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It can grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, as well as direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans or other financing, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including through pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not, even if such financing or security is in the exclusive interest of companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved.