The company's purpose is to buy and sell securities and manage them as a principal, as well as to arrange financing; it can acquire, manage and sell other assets. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries, participate in other companies, hold and manage participations in such companies, acquire, encumber, manage and sell real estate, market patents, licenses and other intellectual property rights, provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose.