financial investment advisory, management, research, and consultation services, namely underwriting and participating in the underwriting of primary and secondary issues for corporations, public utilities, governments, municipalities, partnerships, trusts and issuers trading and dealing in bonds, debentures, stocks, shares and other securities; trading negotiating and placing of treasury bills and related money market transactions; underwriting, distributing and trading, either as principal or agent, of securities, namely options and commodities of all kinds; advising and assisting corporate acquisitions, mergers, amalgamations, divestitures and general corporate activities; providing financial advisory services to corporate and government borrowers; providing advisory management and supervisory financial services for private and corporate investors; providing financial services for real estate owners and developers; arranging short and long-term financing for real estate projects of all types; providing custodial and money management services; financial services, namely fee-based brokerage accounts and daily index to track the performance of the preferred share market