A new trade association is working to garner insurance agent and financial support in its quest for passage of the optional federal charter.

The two-month-old group, Agents for Change, put together by the Washington media firm of Bonner and Associates, with seed funding from the financial Services Roundtable, has approximately 200 members.

"What we're all about is the optional federal charter and trying to make that happen," said Robert Poli, chairman of Agents for Change, an independent agent himself, adding, "it made all the sense in the world to me."

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