Six funds launched in August.

In today’s low-yield environment, real estate is in high demand, delivering steady income and solid returns, while attracting lots of capital to the asset class.

As home to some of the world’s fastest-growing city economies, Africa, with its rapid rates of urbanisation and burgeoning middle classes, is now firmly on the radar of an ever-growing list of multinational corporations, hotel operators and property investors.

It’s coming. Everyone knows it — but not when, what will cause it, or how bad it will be. “It” is the next downturn, of course.

A combination of factors has propelled  private debt to the forefront of investors’ wish lists, particularly across Europe.

The recent volatility in the UK property market (following the referendum vote in that country on 23 June to leave the European Union) and subsequent — albeit modest — downgrades to euro zone economic growth have underscored the importance of investment diversification.