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ABSTRACT Researcher started the study with statement of the problem as Investors in india and their awareness of investment process and opportunity philosophy of mutual fund. With reference to Equity mutual fund, Debt mutual fund and balanced mutual fund. This study deals with identifying the better performing equity midcap funds among the selected group of funds by considering various parameters to help the advisors suggest the investors in choice of their investment. This study driven with Need for the study of doing this work is to know about mutual funds and its functions. This helps to know in detail about mutual fund industry right from its inception stage, growth and future prospects and It also helps in understanding different schemes of mutual funds. Researcher has set an Objective for the study as to study the various schemes to invest from investor point of view, to compare the risk involved and the yield in each scheme and to study the price movement and variation involved in the scheme with respect to NIFTY index. The secondary data was obtained from various mutual fund schemes and investors magazine and websites. Yearly fact sheets of mutual fund companies are important source of secondary data. The data obtained is analyzed using mathematical models and present value method analysis.