GAbriel Bernardino has several ambitions ahead of him that he wants to be given to the supervisor he leads and one of them is the guarantee of greater independence in budgetary and financial terms. “We are completely independent in terms of regulation, we have the best independence regimes, but we are not well versed in the details of budgetary and financial independence”, he confesses to Expresso. He says that captivations (government cuts to the supervisor’s budgets and the funds they manage) are a story of the past, but he hopes to overcome issues such as the Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority (ASF) “being subject to the need for authorization from the Minister of Finance” to make acquisitions of services that were not possible to make in the year in which they were budgeted, and having to request the release of unspent funds in the following year. For Gabriel Bernardino, these types of questions “only generate additional entropy”. “I have spoken with the Government and I hope that this can be adjusted soon”, he adds.