How to answer the question: "Why do you want to work for a hedge fund and not a mutual fund"?

A lot of hedge funds love to ask this question in their interviews: "Why do you want to work for a hedge fund and not a mutual fund"? What do you think are the best answers to give to this question? Is there any answer that should be avoided? 

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