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title: Due Dilly Podcast - Vaccines, Elections, (un)Certainty, and a Collapsing VIX
description: In this episode, Nyle Bayer discusses the November MTD performance of equities and fixed income as well as current economic conditions with Joe Mallen, Chief Investment Officer, and Jason Van Thiel, D
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# [Due Dilly Podcast - Vaccines, Elections, (un)Certainty, and a Collapsing VIX](https://heliosdriven.com/podcast/due-dilly-podcast-vaccines-elections-uncertainty-and-a-collapsing-vix)

 Written by [Team Helios](https://heliosdriven.com/podcast/author/teamhelios) | Nov 13, 2020 8:00:00 AM

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In this episode, Nyle Bayer discusses the November MTD performance of equities and fixed income as well as current economic conditions with Joe Mallen, Chief Investment Officer, and Jason Van Thiel, Director of Research for Helios Quantitative Research.

Helios Quantitative Research influences over 700 Financial Advisors and $30 billion in assets by creating, implementing, and monitoring quantitative asset allocation strategies. **Questions covered:** **Equities**

- What can we expect from the future?
- Does a COVID Vaccine signal an end for all of the stay-at-home stocks?
- Why is volatility falling off a cliff?

**Fixed Income**

- Should we be expecting any sort of stalemate when it comes to relief packages?

**Economy**

- What will be the best sector and industry plays under a new administration?
- What are the leading economic indicators telling us?

**Random Question(s)**

- What have we been watching?

**Charts Mentioned**

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