b'That egalitarian culture appealed to John Will. HeTHE BACHE FAMILYspent time in the army and worked in banks beforeCONNECTIONselling life insurance for the Co-operative Insurance Company (CIC). He joined GMA in 1986 after Allan asked him about becoming the branch manager Kym Bache joined MGA in 1984. His son, at a new office in Loxton, on the Murray River.Liam, and daughter-in-law, Dayna, are MGA brokers today. Liam was initially a motor I could see they were just young guys. We were allmechanic. Then I asked him to join me in the in our early 30s. I could sense that they were goingbusiness to see if he liked it. After working somewhere, and I wanted to be part of it, so thatsas an assistant broker in the Clare office, what happened, says John, who worked for MGA until his retirement in 2017. His son Ben took overLiam learned more about the industry at the Loxton office and runs it with partner MatthewWesfarmers before returning to MGA in 2015 Hutchinson today. to help with his dads portfolio. The family connection continued when Dayna joined the Almost all of the Loxton branch clients werebusiness, first as a training and compliance farmers, and most were fruit growers. John Willofficer and then as a broker alongside Liam enjoyed working with clients. He felt he could and Kym. Kym says his clients love thatmake a real difference in peoples businesses 41and livelihoods. a second generation of Baches is handling their business. My farming clients like The fruit-growing industry often lurches from onethat its staying in the family. Most of their problem to another. The farms might be doing okaybusinesses are handed down from generation for a while, but it is a marginal existence. Youre at theto generation. They appreciate that wevewhim of the weather, the economy and other factors. got family in the business.I was happy to help where I could.'