The company's purpose is to market and distribute financial products, including the marketing, promotion and distribution of financial products in Switzerland or abroad, providing ancillary services and offering advisory and management services related to investments in financial products and related advisory services for customers and group companies, including direct or indirect shareholders of the company and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, carrying out related commercial activities, including the acquisition, management and disposal of securities, participations and shares in companies or other legal entities. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide collateral of any kind, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or guarantees, enter into guarantees or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of the company or these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing. All of this may be done by the company without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks. The company may engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that appear suitable to promote the company's purpose or are related thereto.