Presença de centrais e sindicatos no mercado financeiro: criação e gestão de fundos de pensão

O texto aborda o interesse de sindicatos e centrais sindicais pela criação e gestão de fundos de pensão no Brasil, durante o governo Lula, apontando as justificativas e crenças criadas pelos sindicalistas engajados nessa estratégia. Conclui que até o momento atual (fim do governo Lula), os fundos sindicais não foram efetivamente consolidados pelo governo, mas que sindicalistas ocupam postoschaves no mercado financeiro e na gestão de fundos de pensão de patrocínio público, tais como Previ e Petros, infl uenciando direta e indiretamente nas configurações precisas do capitalismo contemporâneo brasileiro.

A crise financeira de 2008: os discursos e as estratégias do governo e dos fundos de pensão

This article focuses on the financial crisis beginning in 2008. Drawing on the work of Lebaron (2010; 2011) and (Grün 2010), the study seeks to grasp the cognitive dimension of the crisis through the discourses produced (and reproduced) by members of the Brazilian government involved in controlling the crisis and by the pension fund sector and its strategies. The method was based on analysis of documents produced by the pension fund sector and the Lula Administration in 2008 and the spinoffs of the discourses and strategies. The text indicates the construction of a discourse emphasizing the importance of state regulation (as opposed to market self-regulation) and the central role of pension funds during the process, since they partially abandoned government bonds and migrated to productive investment, in alliance with the private equity sector, especially in financing construction works under the Growth Acceleration Program.