Mumbai, April 8: Yubi Group announced the appointment of Amol Potdar as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of its investment solutions business. Potdar will enable and empower wealth managers, independent financial advisors (IFAs), and mutual fund distributors (MFDs) to deliver fixed-income and investment products to their end clients through the company’s full-stack investment platform.
India’s corporate bond market has grown from ₹17.5 trillion in FY15 to ₹53.6 trillion in FY25, compounding at approximately 12 per cent annually [SEBI, 2025]. FY25 recorded the highest-ever fresh issuances at ₹9.9 trillion, and in the first nine months of FY26, debt instruments accounted for over 63 per cent of total resource mobilisation from India’s primary market [SEBI, FY26]. Corporate bonds now represent 15–16 per cent of the country’s GDP [RBI, March 2025], yet the market’s potential remains deeply underleveraged, particularly for the wealth distributor and the advisor-led client.
India’s wealth creation story accelerates this urgency. The country’s HNI population, approximately 850,000 in 2024, is projected to nearly double to 1.65 million by 2027 [Knight Frank Wealth Report, 2025]. UHNIs, those with net worth exceeding $30 million, numbered 13,600 in 2024 and are projected to grow by 50 per cent by 2028. As of March 2026, India recorded 229 billionaires on the Forbes list, its highest ever, with nearly 20 per cent of Indian millionaires now under the age of 40. Wealth creation is expanding well beyond metros into cities like Pune, Jaipur, and Hyderabad, and AIF commitments have exceeded ₹15.05 lakh crore as of late 2025 [SEBI]. The challenge is not appetite. It is infrastructure.
SEBI’s regulatory reforms have addressed one critical barrier: reducing minimum bond investment thresholds from ₹10 lakh to ₹10,000 and mandating exchange-based settlement through the Request for Quote platform [SEBI OBPP Circular, November 2023]. The question now is who builds the distribution infrastructure to translate that access into outcomes at scale.
Yubi’s fixed-income and investment distribution business is built to answer that question. Potdar will lead this business, providing wealth managers, IFAs, MFDs, and family offices with institutional-grade access to fixed-income products, research, and settlement tools. In FY26, Yubi facilitated over ₹45,000 crore in bonds across primary and secondary issuances, enabling advisors and distributors to serve their clients with the depth and rigour previously available only to the largest institutions.
Separately, Aspero, Yubi’s independently operated, SEBI-regulated OBPP, allows retail investors to invest directly in bonds from as little as ₹10,000. The two operations serve different regulatory and commercial mandates and are managed independently in accordance with SEBI guidelines.
Potdar brings over 25 years of experience scaling high-performance distribution networks across India’s financial services landscape. As National Sales Head at FundsIndia, he built and led a team of 150+ relationship managers, establishing governance frameworks and execution discipline across the country’s digital distribution infrastructure. Prior to that, he held multiple senior leadership roles at NJ Group, one of India’s most respected IFA platforms, where he played a central role in scaling their national distribution footprint.
“India’s debt markets are at a genuine inflection point: not because demand was absent, but because the infrastructure to serve it at scale did not exist. For too long, access to high-quality fixed-income products has been determined by who you bank with, not the quality of the opportunity. Regulatory reform has changed the conditions; the responsibility now falls on platforms like ours to deliver on that access, equitably and at the scale the market deserves. Amol has spent 25 years building disciplined distribution engines that translate infrastructure into outcomes for advisors and their clients. His appointment is central to how we fulfil that responsibility.” Gaurav Kumar, Founder and CEO, Yubi Group
“What has held India’s fixed-income distribution back is not appetite: it is the absence of the right tools, the right access, and the right operating model. Wealth managers, IFAs, and family offices have long needed an infrastructure partner that brings institutional-grade bond access with the operational rigour to match. Yubi has built exactly that for the advisor-led market. My focus is on strengthening on-ground execution, expanding our IFA and MFD partnerships, and building the distribution architecture that helps advisors serve their clients better across every fixed-income product.”Amol Potdar, Chief Operating Officer, Investment Solutions, Yubi
The investment solutions arm serves wealth managers, IFAs, MFDs, and family offices across a comprehensive product suite that includes corporate bonds, fixed deposits, state development loans (SDLs), mutual funds, alternative investment funds (AIFs), and insurance.
The business combines institutional-grade bond access with a practitioner tool suite: an earnings dashboard, dedicated relationship manager support, fully digital onboarding, and a built-in marketing and branded content studio. AI-powered execution and goal-based assistance allow advisors to translate client goals, whether education, retirement, marriage, or wealth preservation, into structured portfolios with minimal friction.
With a growing national branch network spanning Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities and a business purpose-built for scale, Yubi’s investment solutions business is positioned as the definitive infrastructure partner for India’s next generation of fixed-income distribution.
