The company aims to establish, acquire and hold participations, as well as support and dispose of companies, direct or indirect capital investments in real estate and properties, their development, acquisition, holding and sale, and/or participation in real estate companies and the associated generation of income and/or capital gains, as well as the purchase, sale and holding of participations in other companies, their management and financing. It can make investments in private or listed individual companies as well as in other investment vehicles, and establish subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. It can also provide financing for its own account or for third-party account, as well as enter into guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties. The company can acquire, hold, license and exploit brands, patents, industrial property rights and know-how, other intellectual property rights such as invention patents, industrial designs and models, and factory and trade marks.