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Enter principal, annual yield rate, and days to quickly calculate expected returns for Alipay Yuebao
The '7-Day Annualized Yield' shown on the Yu'e Bao page (e.g., 1.50 means 1.50%). This rate is used to calculate the daily interest for estimating earnings.
Compound Interest: Daily earnings are automatically reinvested into the principal (closer to Yu'e Bao's actual mechanism). Simple Interest: Earnings are not added to the principal.
Please enter the principal, 7-day annualized yield, and holding days to estimate earnings.
Overview
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Yu’e Bao is an Alipay-linked Chinese cash-management service associated with money market funds. This calculator gives a mathematical estimate from values you enter: starting principal in yuan, an annualized yield percentage, and a number of days. It does not look up a current rate or connect to an account. That distinction matters if you are researching the product from the United States: use a rate from the specific fund information available to you, and keep the currency as yuan when interpreting the result. The Reserve Bank of Australia describes Yu’e Bao’s money-market-fund context and its relationship to Alipay in a historical overview.
The rate is treated as a constant annual percentage and converted to a daily rate using 365 days. You can choose compound interest, where each day’s theoretical earnings are added to the amount earning the next day, or simple interest, where earnings are calculated only on the original principal.
Daily rate = annualized yield (%) ÷ 100 ÷ 365
Daily estimate per 10,000 yuan = 10,000 × daily rate
Compound earnings = principal × (1 + daily rate)days − principal
Simple earnings = principal × daily rate × days
The output includes estimated total earnings, final amount (principal plus earnings), the first day’s earnings on the original principal, and a theoretical daily amount per 10,000 yuan. The per-10,000 figure is calculated from the entered annual rate; it is not a live published fund distribution.
Guide
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Enter the amount in yuan, such as 30,000. This is the starting balance used for both calculation modes.
Type the percentage as shown in the fund information. For example, enter 1.50 for 1.50%, not 0.015. The calculator divides the entered percentage by 100 during the calculation.
Enter the number of calendar days to model. Compound is selected initially; choose simple to exclude previously estimated earnings from later calculations.
Estimated total earnings are separate from the final amount. Change only the days or mode to compare assumptions while keeping the other inputs fixed. Amounts are displayed to two decimal places; the daily per-10,000 estimate is shown to four decimal places.
Use cases
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If money may be needed on either of two dates, enter the same principal and rate twice and change the holding days. The difference shows how the calculator’s assumed daily rate accumulates over the different periods.
Use the same inputs in compound and simple modes to see the effect of adding modeled earnings back into the balance. With 30,000 yuan, a constant 1.50% annual rate, and 60 days, compound earnings are about 74.06 yuan; simple earnings are about 73.97 yuan. These figures reproduce the calculator’s formulas and are not a fund performance quote.
Q&A
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Enter 1.50. The input is a percentage, so entering 0.015 represents 0.015% and produces a result one hundred times smaller.
No. It is derived from the annualized rate you enter using the calculator’s 365-day conversion. A fund’s reported daily distribution can use fund-specific data and may differ.
Compound mode includes each day’s modeled earnings in the base for later days. Simple mode always applies the daily rate to the original principal. The calculator holds the entered annualized rate constant in both modes.
Notes
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This is a formula-based estimate, not an account quote, return forecast, or investment recommendation. The annualized yield is supplied by you and assumed not to change during the period; the calculator does not fetch current fund data or model changing daily distributions, fees, taxes, purchase or redemption timing, or fund-specific settlement rules. Actual proceeds may differ, and an investment fund is not the same as an insured bank deposit. For general US information, Investor.gov explains that US money market mutual funds are not FDIC-insured and can lose value; that guidance does not establish the rules or protections for a particular Chinese fund. Check the applicable fund documents and local rules before making a financial decision.
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