Because hedge funds are not sold to the public or retail investors, the funds and their managers have historically not been subject to the same restrictions that govern other funds and investment fund managers with regard to how the fund may be structured and how strategies and techniques are employed.

Because investments in hedge funds can add diversification to investment portfolios, investors may use them as a tool to reduce their overall portfolio risk exposures.

Because of these regulatory restrictions on ownership, hedge funds have been exempted from mandatory registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which is generally intended to regulate investment funds sold to retail investors.

Because Sections 3 ( c ) 1 and 3 ( c ) 7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 prohibit hedge funds from making public offerings, funds must sell their securities in accordance with the private offering rules under the Securities Act of 1933.

Because of its abundance of sharp thorns, the plant is often used as a security hedge.

Because of its dense growth and prickly nature, goat-apple is used as a hedge and living barrier for containing livestock.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

Because of the large amounts of funds that move through the Reserve Banks every day, the System has policies and procedures to limit the risk to the Reserve Banks from a depository institution's failure to make or settle its payments.

Because of severe budget constraints, most of the funds for NEAP operations come from international sources, including official institutions such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and numerous international nongovernmental organizations.

Because the party caucus leaders in California's legislature also control the party's legislative campaign funds, the leaders wield tremendous power over their caucus members.

Because Binet did not have any formalized graduate study in psychology, he did not hold a professorship with a prestigious institution where students and funds would be sure to perpetuate his work ( Siegler, 1992 ).

Because index funds are passive investments, the turnovers are lower than actively managed funds.

Because funds were extremely limited every effort was made to use already available equipment.

Because all of the employees covered by that mandate were " in a substantial if informal sense, ' working for the city ,' " Boston was considered to be simply favoring its own residents through the expenditures of municipal funds.

Because private equity firms are continuously in the process of raising, investing and distributing their private equity funds, capital raised can often be the easiest to measure.

Because one certain family may find very few opportunities for sufficient housing or find themselves without adequate funds for a house of their own, they may be forced to live in crowded conditions.

Because all funds must compute an expense ratio using the same methodology, it allows investors to compare costs across funds.

Because he could not fully trust all of his troops, and some of the better troops had recently been reassigned to others, cavalry were placed in towns along the route, citing as a pretext the expected delivery of treasury funds going to Paris.

Because a fund may run out of capital prior to the end of its life, larger venture capital firms usually have several overlapping funds at the same time ; doing so lets the larger firm keep specialists in all stages of the development of firms almost constantly engaged.

The source the money appeared to be South America .” Donlon went on to say “ Because of its size, we thought it appropriate to ask if the funds belonged to the Holy See .” When contacted for an answer, Dr Alibrandi “ quickly answered ‘ no ’ and that they belonged to ‘ family ’.

`` Because, Fred, it could do him no good.

Because the FLRW metric assumes a uniform distribution of mass and energy, it applies to our Universe only on large scales — local concentrations of matter such as our galaxy are gravitationally bound and as such do not experience the large-scale expansion of space.

Because society needs people to do computing well, we must think of computing not only as a profession but also as a discipline.

Because a server usually does not know how a document is encoded — especially if documents are created on different platforms or in different regions — many servers simply do not include a reference to the "" in the header, thus avoiding making false promises.

Because of this, many countries do not consider white chocolate as chocolate at all.

Because Judaism focuses on this life, many questions to do with survival and conflict ( such as the classic moral dilemma of two people in a desert with only enough water for one to survive ) were analysed in great depth by the rabbis within the Talmud, in the attempt to understand the principles a godly person should draw upon in such a circumstance.

Because a rotating frame is an example of a non-inertial reference frame, Newton's laws of motion do not accurately describe the dynamics within the rotating frame.

Because reported AIDS cases in Africa and other parts of the developing world include a larger proportion of people who do not belong to Duesberg's preferred risk groups of drug addicts and male homosexuals, Duesberg writes on his website that " There are no risk groups in Africa, like drug addicts and homosexuals ," However, many studies have addressed the issue of risk groups in Africa and concluded that the risk of AIDS is not equally distributed.

Because diesels do not have fuel in the cylinder before combustion is initiated, more than one bar ( 100 kPa ) of air can be loaded in the cylinder without preignition.

Because the variety of interpretation is virtually limitless, not only for different people but for the same person over time, readers do well to avoid making claims of objectivity or superiority.

Because intellectual and religious freedom are important values for the Disciples of Christ, the colleges, universities, and seminaries founded by its congregations do not seek to indoctrinate students or faculty with a sectarian point of view.

Because most of these viruses do not appear to be related or are only distantly related to known viruses additional taxa will be created for these.

Because of their lack of hydrogen-bond-donating ability, esters do not self-associate.

Because Chatham's emeralds do not have any water and contain traces of vanadate, molybdenum and vanadium, a lithium vanadate flux process is probably involved.

Because times of sunset and sunrise, unlike the phenomenon described in preceding paragraphs, vary with an observer's geographic location ( longitude and latitude ), these dates likewise depend on location and do not exist for locations sufficiently close to the Equator.

Because rock units, other than muds, do not significantly change in volume, this is accomplished in two primary ways: through faulting and folding.

Because people do not want to hold notes which may become valueless, they want to spend them.

Because he is severely wounded in the competition and because Cedric refuses to have anything to do with him, Ivanhoe is taken into the care of Rebecca, the beautiful daughter of Isaac, who is a skilled healer.

Because these forms do not show inflammation, they are classified as myopathies and not myositis types.

Because they do not display inflammation as a primary symptom, they may in fact be similar, but different diseases to sporadic inclusion body myositis.

Because the ions have masses comparable to those of the target atoms, they knock the target atoms out of place more than electron beams do.

Because of this, " to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket " ().

Because only two or three keyframes over the span of a second do not create the illusion of movement, the remaining frames are filled with inbetweens.

Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar that had the same number of days in each year would, over time, drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track.