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A rentier is a passive investor who lives on the earnings from capital. His entire income is derived from assets on which the income yields are outside his control. Examples include equities, bank deposits, and other securities. Real estate is also a favourite investment with rentiers, although its income derived depends to some extent on the efficiency of estate management. The straight rentier, as distinct from the trader or financier, does not attempt to make speculative profit from trading opportunities in the market.
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See J. M. Keynes, The General Theory (Macmillan, 1965 edition) p. 221.
See I. Fisher, The Theory of Interest (Macmillan, 1930) p. 191.
For an account of this problem, see, for example, J. Hirshleifer, Investment, Interest and Capital (Prentice-Hall, 1970 ) pp. 82–5.
For elaboration, see Part 2, pp. 131–2, of present volume. For a further treatment of the concept, see S. M. Schaeffer, ‘The Problem with Redemption Yields’, in J. Lorie, and R. Brealey Modern Developments in Investment Management (Dryden Press, 1978 ) pp. 702–26.
See K. J. Arrow, Essays in the Theory of Risk-bearing (North Holland, 1974) pp. 99–105. Low risk is defined here in terms of the asset’s contribution to the volatility of the portfolio’s returns. The proposition here does not conflict with that in the next chapter, where small savers are found to place a larger share of their portfolio in hedge assets than do large savers.
See Bresciani-Turroni, The Economics of Inflation (Kelley, 1968) pp. 253–85.
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Brown, B. (1982). The Rentier on the Defensive. In: A Theory of Hedge Investment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06103-7_3
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