Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and Co-Managing Partner at SkyBridge Cpaital and a CNBC contributor, says Sotheby’s is the stock hedge fund managers are talking about these days.

It’s nearly three-centuries old but these days, Sotheby’s is giving investors returns to rival a few young Internet companies. And that has gotten it noticed by some of the world’s biggest fund hedge managers.

Anthony Scaramucci, Founder and Co-Managing Partner at SkyBridge Cpaital and a CNBC contributor, says Sotheby’s is the stock hedge fund managers are talking about these days. SkyBridge manages over $8 billion and is also the organizer of the annual SALT Conference, one of the most important gatherings of fund managers in the world. Few people are as in-touch with what hedge funds are doing than Scaramucci.

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Some of the big names include Daniel Loeb’s Third Point and Nelson Peltz’s Trian; they each own more than 3% of the company. Mic McGuire’s Marcato Capital owns about 7% of the

Bob Olstein, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of The Olstein Funds, says Wall Street uses three big myths to lure investors. In this segment, he tackles one of the biggest ones.

There are rules, and there are myths. And Bob Olstein amassed huge wealth not by following the former, but rather by avoiding the latter.

Bob Olstein is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of The Olstein Funds. He's been managing and making money for his clients for over forty years. In other words, he's made money in all kinds of markets.

"Investors don't realize just how many myths are out there," Olstein told Talking Numbers. "Basically, there are all these myths that Wall Street uses to lure investors into making investments. And they're just not good advice."

So what are the three biggest myths Bob Olstein says you should avoid? Well, all this week, Olstein is revealing them to Talking Numbers one at a time.

First up, myth number one:

"A good company is a good investment."

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Home prices are on the rise but is there a housing bubble? Dolly Lenz says there are three reasons why there isn’t.

Single-family home prices in the 20 large US cities are still going up, just not as fast as they were the month before. Some of that had to do with Ben Bernanke and the Fed. But one of real estate’s biggest names says there’s no reason to believe we’re in a housing bubble.

Yesterday, the S&P/ Case Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index rose 0.6% in July on a seasonally-adjusted basis, compared to 0.9% in June.

That doesn’t mean the index is at its peak, however. Set at 100 in January 2000, the index topped out at 206.52 in July 2006 – double what it was 6.5 years before. The index is currently at 162.49, up 1.8% on a non-adjusted basis from June.

(Read more: Single family home prices rise, but at less feverish pace)

How would homeowners have done if they were treating their residence as an investment?

Measuring from June 2013, single-family homes in these 20 cities