Boe Pahari had little inkling of the storm he would be flying into as he landed at Sydney Airport on May 27, before he was swiftly escorted to a fortnight of hotel quarantine.

Not long after his release from the mandatory two-week lockdown on June 9, AMP would announce a new role for the previously London-based head of infrastructure equity – the new chief executive of AMP Capital, overseeing the $196 billion asset management arm of the 170-year-old wealth company.