PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Haim Reisman AU - Gady Zohar TI - Instantaneous Mean-Variance Analysis of Bond Returns AID - 10.3905/jfi.2004.419551 DP - 2004 Jun 30 TA - The Journal of Fixed Income PG - 32--39 VI - 14 IP - 1 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/14/1/32.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/14/1/32.full AB - An explicit formula for the instantaneous expected return of any bond can be used to determine the mean-variance efficient frontier of instantaneous bond returns. Fitting the model to historical U.S. Treasury quotes, the analysis anticipates very high Sharpe ratios. The empirical findings support this prediction.