Alan E Robbins

Alan Robbins is a graduate of University of Cincinnati where he received an accounting degree. Following college, he spent 4 busy seasons with Price Waterhouse before transitioning to a different company as a Senior Internal Auditor which eventually became a management position that brought him to Saint Louis. Alan later realized he wanted to get into a sales role so he took a position as the Regional Sales Manager for a consumer food product company. In this role, Alan covered 34 markets in 22 states traveling 44 weeks out of the year. In 1986, he was offered a position as a National Sales Manager. He declined this offer as it would have required him to move to the east coast, which he did not want to do.

Following this decision, Alan did a self-evaluation and considered what he could do with the skills that he possesses. Knowing he was good with people and numbers, he looked into financial planning and services. He looked at all aspects of the industry and ultimately landed on Northwestern Mutual. Alan started with the Qualy Agency, which has since become the Hempstead Agency, in 1986 where he has spent the last 30 years growing his practice. During his 30 years, Alan led the fledgling Investment Department where he helped motivate and educate on how to include investments in financial planning from 1999-2011. He's also continued his dedication to lifelong learning earing the CLU, ChFC, RICP, CASL, and CFP Designations from the American College.

In addition to all of Alan's achievements, he was also elected as the President of the Financial Planning Association of Greater Saint Louis. As the FPA Chapter President, Alan supports high standards of professional competence, ethical conduct and clear, complete disclosure when serving clients. He is currently serving the first of his two year term.

Years of Experience

Representing Northwestern Mutual since 1987.

Education

University of Cincinnati - Accounting (Bachelor of Business Administration)

When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.

Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.

It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.