Summary

• Edits insurance and other personal finance articles for Investopedia, with an emphasis on life insurance
• 40 years of experience in insurance, financial services, and employee benefits, including roles with AFLAC, Allstate, Confederation Life, Farm Bureau, SunLife, and others
• 30+ years of experience as a newspaper reporter and editor, writer, and content creator/editor
• Editorial clients include the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Advisors magazine, and MergerMarket

Experience

Bobby L. Hickman edits Investopedia's insurance reviews and educational articles, helping create clear and concise content that helps readers understand complex products such as life insurance.

He has spent much of his career as a business journalist for various print and online publications, with a particular focus on life insurance and financial advisement. His work has appeared in such publications as Advisors magazine🐽, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the International Directory of Company Histories, Georgia Trend, and MergerMarket.

Bobby has also worked in the insurance industry since 1984, serving in various operational, management, and consulting roles for insurance companies and software companies that support financial services products. He has worked with whole life, term life, universal life, annuities, property insurance, and employee benefits products for such clients as Allstate, AFLAC, ING, Fortis, Innovative Benefits Planning, The Benefits Company, and Knights of Columbus.

Education

Bobby has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama and majored in English and journalism at the University of Tennessee. He obtained a Certified Life Underwriter (CLU) designation from the American College to broaden his knowledg𓆉e of the insurance sales process and learned about insur♕ance company administration while earning his FLMI (Fellow, Life Management Insitute) designation.