Kerry Anders is 22, works at her mother’s beauty clinic in North Queensland’s Tully – the rainfall capital of Australia – and is one of the investors who bought into buy now, pay later juggernaut Afterpay shares at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

She had only dabbled a little in shares previously, such as buying a miner. It was a punt started when she was recuperating from a car accident several years ago and her grandfather suggested she use the time to examine stocks.