The company's purpose is: to acquire and manage participations in companies or corporations of all kinds, industrial, commercial and financial, in Switzerland and abroad; to carry out financing, control and consulting activities in favor of the companies and corporations in which it participates and to provide guarantees for them; all real estate transactions, namely the acquisition, sale, exchange, rental, management, development and promotion of all real estate, excluding operations subject to the LFAIE (for full purpose see articles of association).