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Mutual Funds & Investing Basics

Free tools and simple yardsticks for everyday investors: how to analyse a mutual fund, what AMFI’s flow data really says, and ideas like earnings yield.

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Anyone Can Analyze a Mutual Fund: Here’s How, for Free

You can analyse any Indian mutual fund for free on AMFI's Fund Performance page, which lists every fund in a category with its benchmark, riskometer, NAV, returns and size. Pick the category that fits your goal, compare Regular and Direct plans, look at returns over several periods, and always measure the fund against its Total Return benchmark.

September 21, 2026
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Mutual Fund Inflows Are “at a High” Say Headlines. The AMFI Data Says This

AMFI's free monthly data shows equity mutual funds took in net money in 67 of the 69 months from January 2021 to September 2026, while equity folios roughly tripled. Debt funds swing sharply, especially at quarter-ends, which muddies the totals, so headlines about record inflows are best checked category by category.

Oct 15, 2026
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Earnings Yield vs Bond Yield: A 5.3% US Bond Equals a P/E of 18.87

Earnings yield is the P/E ratio turned upside down: 1 ÷ P/E, so a P/E of 20 is a 5% earnings yield. By the same maths, a bond yielding about 5.3% matches a P/E of about 18.87, which gives you a yardstick for comparing stocks with safe bonds: one input, not a buy or sell signal.

Oct 3, 2026
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Green Stocks Explained: A Simple Guide to India’s Clean Energy Shares

A green stock is a share in a company whose business helps the world use cleaner energy: clean power, storage and grids, clean transport or resource care. There is no single official list, and because these businesses cost a lot to build and often borrow heavily, check debt, interest cover, power contracts and cash flow rather than relying on the P/E ratio.

Sep 21, 2026