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title: Trump Signs ETF Research Provision Bill
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# [Trump Signs ETF Research Provision Bill](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/trump-signs-etf-research-provision-bill)

 Written by [John D'Antona](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/author/jdantona) | Oct 18, 2017 1:27:12 PM

Broker-dealers will soon be able to offer investors research on exchange-traded funds, just like for plain equities or fixed-income securities.

President Trump last Friday signed S. 327, the Fair Access to Investment Research Act of 2017, into law, allowing broker-dealers to provide research reports to clients on exchanged-traded funds.

The Senate passed the measure in early September. In introducing the legislation, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., explained that “securities laws provide legal protections for broker-dealers to provide research reports for several asset classes such as listed stocks and corporate debt — but not for ETFs.”

The Fair Access to Investment Research Act creates “parity in the law by allowing broker-dealers to publish public research reports on ETFs, which millions of households invest in,” Heller added.

Ben Johnson, Morningstar’s director of global ETF research, told ThinkAdvisor in a Monday phone interview that the law “puts ETFs on equal footing with other securities,” with broker-dealers “allowed to publish research now” on ETFs.

“The more intelligent people you have looking at these securities, the better it is for investors,” Johnson added.

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