September 20, 2014 Sir Ronald Cohen, chair of the UK Taskforce on Social Impact Investment, and Matt Bannick, Managing Partner of Mission Investors Exchange member Omidyar Network, penned an opinion piece, "Is Social Impact Investing the Next Venture Capital?", for Forbes.com, arguing in the affirmative.

The pair believe impact investing's growth can be "dramatically accelerate(d)" by "partnering with government to remove roadblocks." Citing extraordinary growth in venture capital investments in the mid-1970s after the U.S. government implemented policy changes, including "clarifications to ERISA's 'Prudent Man' rule that allowed pension funds to make VC investments and a safe harbor rule making it clear that VC managers wouldn't be considered plan fiduciaries," Cohen and Bannick argue that the U.S. government should now make impact investing-friendly policy changes.

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