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The Proposed Rules for Kalshi and Polymarket Are Backward

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By Aaron Brown
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Michael Selig took over the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in December promising clear rules for prediction markets such as Kalshi Inc. and Polymarket. The indictment of a soldier betting on the Nicolas Maduro raid and two pitchers accused of rigging the pitches people wager on have sharpened questions about the utility of these markets and their vulnerability to insider trading. What Selig’s agency proposed Wednesday was something else: A regime in which every contract listed is provisional.
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Polymarket’s Losers Are Discovering an Age-Old Truth

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By Aaron Brown
| VettaFi Advisor Perspectives Verified
Coverage of prediction platform Polymarket has recently converged on a single statistic, delivered with the cadence of a verdict: Most users lose money. The top 1% of accounts capture roughly three-quarters of the gains, while most traders since 2022 are underwater. These numbers are accurate — and meaningless. They describe a general property of retail derivatives venues and betting markets. Some 1.3% of daily fantasy sports players took 91% of the profits in 2015.
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The Bond ETF Sales Pitch Is Only Half the Story

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By Aaron Brown
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The bond ETF industry is approaching $3.5 trillion in assets globally, and the fund managers running these exchange-traded funds would like you to know that bonds are back. Yields are higher than they’ve been in a decade. Liquidity is deep. Active fixed-income ETFs pulled in more than $200 billion last year alone. The pitch, increasingly, is that bond ETFs are no longer a satellite holding to balance equity risk — they are the foundation of a modern portfolio. There’s a lot of truth to this.
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