Biggest differences between market neutral and MM?

Trying to understand how a market neutral fund's strategy would be different from the MM pod groups.

I have an interview with a market neutral fund but have heard they have a longer time horizon than most. I assumed most of the investment style at pods is rank ordering / relative trades with maybe a handful of longer bets, but still mostly pair trades and focusing on nailing the quarters + more active trading style. How would a market neutral fund with longer duration differ from the pod groups? I guess for the purpose of interviews it may not matter that much though (just don't want to pitch the wrong ideas)

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What's similar is that you have tight risk limits and use of leverage.

What's different is that in one you try to be market neutral (by taking a view on single sectors/names vs others) while the other tends to be more directional & exposed to market fluctuations. Although as said before, tight risk limits don't usually allow for that much of a fluctuation in your PnL.

 

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