About Collins & Cate

Bobby M. Collins is an annuity education expert, with 30 years of experience helping retirees and those transitioning into retirement learn more about how to increase their income and reduce tax burdens.

He started Collins and Cate Retirement Income Professionals in 2002 to help find the best annuity product for the right person through individual meetings, often traveling over three hundred miles a day to personally meet with clients.

Some comprehensive retirement plans include three types of annuities as Fixed, Immediate, and Fixed Indexed. He also has experience in Roth IRAs, life insurance, 401Ks, 403Bs as well as defined benefit plans. He services the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, Denton County, Amarillo, North Texas, Abilene, and West Texas.

Education and Employment Background

Bobby M. Collins graduated from Iowa Park High in 1977. The very next day, he started his new job as a brakeman for Burlington Railroad and only a year later, he became conductor–one of the youngest in Texas. Bobby then joined the US Army and served for three years, serving mostly in Germany as a combat engineer, reaching the highest rank of E5. He used the GI Bill for college to educate himself for finance.

He then worked for TLC National Marketing Inc., where he started as an agent selling insurance products, quickly moving from an agent to manager, regional manager and then state manager and finally V.P of sales covering Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Bobby was then V.P. of Team Marketing in Wichita Falls, Texas, until 2001 when he decided to work for himself.

Bobby M. Collins is married to his wife Kari, has two children and two wonderful grandsons, and lives in Wichita Falls, Texas.