The company's purpose is to provide asset management services of all kinds to private, professional and institutional clients in Switzerland and abroad. The company exercises the activities of asset management in the sense of the FINIG in Switzerland and is subject to the corresponding state supervision. Furthermore, the company may engage in the brokerage of transactions involving the acquisition and sale of financial instruments of all kinds. The company may operate worldwide. The company may enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable for promoting the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. It may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, sell, encumber, manage and utilize participations in companies, corporations, organizations, as well as real estate and intellectual property rights and similar assets. It may also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as grant guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.