Birta

birta pension fund is the fourth largest pension fund in iceland. our purpose is to ensure that pension benefits are available to our members, their surviving spouses and children in accordance with the fund's articles of association as well as the act on mandatory pension savings and the activities of pension funds. the fund was created by the merger of the pension funds sameinaði lífeyrissjóðurinn and stafir lífeyrissjóður in 2016. birta is an open pension fund, as well as an occupational pension fund for carpenters, chefs, electricians, engineers, mechanics, plumbers and many more tradesmen who have finished their journeyman's test. the fund is divided into two main departments, a mutual pension division and a private pension division. the mutual pension division offers constancy to fund members and their families in the face of unexpected traumas as well as sickness and old age. both divisions operate under the same board but are financially separate from each other. birta has s