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Prediction markets are gaining visibility across investment management. Platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket allow users to trade contracts tied to future events, including elections, economic releases, regulatory decisions, litigation outcomes and company-specific developments.

While prediction markets remain hard to allocate to directly, their clearest near-term use case for hedge funds may be informational rather than transactional. Prediction-market prices can offer continuously updated, market-implied probabilities for events such as elections, rate decisions, litigation outcomes, regulatory approvals, economic releases and corporate catalysts.

In fact, the most immediate issue may be employee personal trading. Even if a fund does not plan to trade prediction-market contracts for clients, employees may still want to trade them personally. What can look like sports betting, political betting or retail trading can raise more complex compliance issues when the underlying events touch public companies, regulatory decisions or public markets.

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