N-CSR 1 d419931dncsr.htm OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT

INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-22314

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924

(Address of principal executive offices)  (Zip code)

Cynthia Lo Bessette

OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008

(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (303) 768-3200

Date of fiscal year end: July 31

Date of reporting period: 7/31/2017


Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.


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Table of Contents

 

Fund Performance Discussion

     3  

Top Holdings and Allocations

     6  

Fund Expenses

     9  

Statement of Investments

     11  

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

     25  

Statement of Operations

     27  

Statements of Changes in Net Assets

     29  

Financial Highlights

     30  

Notes to Financial Statements

     35  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     54  

Federal Income Tax Information

     55  
Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Guidelines; Updates to Statements of Investments      56  

Trustees and Officers

     57  

Privacy Policy Notice

     63  

 

 

Class A Shares

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS AT 7/31/17

 

    Class A Shares of the Fund    
            Without Sales Charge                    With Sales Charge                Bloomberg Barclays    
U.S. Aggregate  Bond
Index

1-Year

  1.82%   -3.02%   -0.51%

5-Year

  3.84       2.84       2.02   

Since Inception (8/2/10)

  5.30       4.57       3.13   

Performance data quoted represents past performance, which does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Fund returns include changes in share price, reinvested distributions, and a 4.75% maximum applicable sales charge except where “without sales charge” is indicated. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Returns do not consider capital gains or income taxes on an individual’s investment. Returns for periods of less than one year are cumulative and not annualized. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit oppenheimerfunds.com or call 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677). See Fund prospectuses and summary prospectuses for more information on share classes and sales charges.

 

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Fund Performance Discussion

MARKET OVERVIEW

 

The second half of 2016 was marked by numerous events that took the markets by surprise. The British referendum in June 2016 to leave the European Union (Brexit) initially raised the level of uncertainty in global markets. However, the markets staged an impressive rebound in July, as investor fears receded over the immediate implications of the Brexit vote. We saw central bank action remain supportive with the Bank of England and the European Central Bank (“ECB”) making forceful statements outlining intentions to backstop market sentiment. Another major event was the election of Donald Trump in the early November U.S. presidential election. Markets began to price in optimism on fiscal spending and potential

for broad reforms with the Republicans in control of both the presidency and Congress. Investors were most positive on the potential for economic expansion driven by infrastructure spending and tax cuts for individuals and corporations.

Markets continued their general risk-on mode through the end of the reporting period, as equities climbed and credit spreads narrowed to tight levels not seen since 2015. U.S. GDP growth continued to progress as employment and wage gains suggested the U.S. may be approaching full employment. Business and consumer confidence indicators were among their highest levels in the current expansion. While consumption growth has slowed

 

 

 

COMPARISON OF CHANGE IN VALUE OF $10,000 HYPOTHETICAL INVESTMENTS IN:

 

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modestly from a strong pace, the recovery in investment expenditures, a weaker dollar, and a stronger housing sector added to growth.

The Federal Reserve Bank (the “Fed”) has a dual mandate: full employment and stable prices, generally defined as 2% inflation. As full employment was approached during the reporting period, the Fed reduced monetary accommodation and began to normalize rates. The Fed hiked interest rates 0.25% in March and again in June, and also signaled the potential for balance sheet normalization later this year, possibly in September, along with another hike in December. This was largely in line with market expectations and the reaction has been orderly to date. However, inflation remained below 2% and the question of how quickly the Fed should raise rates in the future, if at all, remained at period end.

FUND REVIEW

Against this backdrop, the Fund’s Class A shares (without sales charge) produced a return of 1.82%. On a relative basis, the Fund outperformed the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the “Index”), which returned -0.51%. The Fund has an overweight position in corporate bonds versus the Index, which resulted in outperformance this period. Corporate bonds, as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Credit Index,

returned 1.26% during the year and generally outperformed U.S. government debt.

Top contributors to the Fund’s relative performance included security selection within banking, insurance and energy. Also contributing was the Fund’s overweight allocation to high yield credit, and its underweight to non-corporate agency bonds, which underperformed corporate credit during the period. The primary detractor from relative performance included security selection within the basic industry sector.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK

At period end, we believe that macroeconomic fundamentals should continue to remain solid, with continued gains in wages and employment. Inflation may creep higher and potential fiscal stimulus could boost consumption later in the year. Likewise, we think the Fed may hike interest rates one more time and could begin a well-telegraphed tapering of its pay down and maturity reinvestment program later in 2017.

The global search for yield continues and underpins strong global demand for credit-related securities. With corporate fundamentals appearing stable, we believe credit spreads remain well supported despite trading near their tightest levels of the past few years. As a result, at period end, we remain cautiously engaged in investment-

 

 

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grade corporate credit, with the Fund also including a modest exposure to typically high Sharpe Ratio BB-rated corporates.

 

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Krishna Memani

Portfolio Manager

    

 

 

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Top Holdings and Allocations

 

CORPORATE BONDS & NOTES - TOP TEN INDUSTRIES

 

Commercial Banks     13.1 %   
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels     7.0  
Capital Markets     5.8  
Electric Utilities     5.5  
Diversified Telecommunication Services     4.4  
Automobiles     3.3  
Food Products     3.2  
Chemicals     3.1  
Beverages     2.9  
Insurance     2.9  

Portfolio holdings and allocations are subject to change. Percentages are as of July 31, 2017, and are based on net assets.

PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION

Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes     92.4 %   
Investment Companies        

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund

    2.1  

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund

    4.4  
Short-Term Notes     1.0  

Mortgage-Backed Obligations Non-Agency

    0.1  

Portfolio holdings and allocations are subject to change. Percentages are as of July 31, 2017, and are based on the total market value of investments.

 

 

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Share Class Performance

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS WITHOUT SALES CHARGE AS OF 7/31/17

 

     Inception
Date
       1-Year        5-Year        Since
Inception
 

Class A (OFIAX)

     8/2/10          1.82        3.84        5.30

Class C (OFICX)

     8/2/10          0.97          3.05          4.46  

Class I (OFIIX)

     11/28/12          2.27          N/A          3.90  

Class R (OFINX)

     8/2/10          1.58          3.58          5.01  

Class Y (OFIYX)

     8/2/10          1.98          4.09          5.51  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS WITH SALES CHARGE AS OF 7/31/17

 

     Inception
Date
       1-Year        5-Year        Since
Inception
 

Class A (OFIAX)

     8/2/10          -3.02        2.84        4.57

Class C (OFICX)

     8/2/10          -0.02          3.05          4.46  

Class I (OFIIX)

     11/28/12          2.27          N/A          3.90  

Class R (OFINX)

     8/2/10          1.58          3.58          5.01  

Class Y (OFIYX)

     8/2/10          1.98          4.09          5.51  

STANDARDIZED YIELDS

For the 30 Days Ended 7/31/17

Class A

     2.54                   

Class C

     1.93          

Class I

     3.09          

Class R

     2.44          

Class Y

     2.91          

Performance data quoted represents past performance, which does not guarantee future results. The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Returns do not consider capital gains or income taxes on an individual’s investment. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit oppenheimerfunds.com or call 1.800. CALL OPP (225.5677). Fund returns include changes in share price, reinvested distributions, and the applicable sales charge: for Class A shares, the current maximum initial sales charge of 4.75%; for Class C shares, the contingent deferred sales charge of 1% for the 1-year period. There is no sales charge for Class I, Class R and Class Y shares. Returns for periods of less than one year are cumulative and not annualized. See Fund prospectuses and summary prospectuses for more information on share classes and sales charges.

Standardized yield is based on an SEC-standardized formula designed to approximate the Fund’s annualized hypothetical current income from securities less expenses for the 30-day period ended July 31, 2017 and that date’s maximum offering price (for Class A shares) or net asset value (for all other share classes). Each result is compounded semiannually and annualized. Falling share prices artificially increase yields.

 

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The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an index of U.S dollar-denominated, investment-grade U.S. corporate government and mortgage-backed securities. The Index is unmanaged and cannot be purchased directly by investors. While index comparisons may be useful to provide a benchmark for the Fund’s performance, it must be noted that the Fund’s investments are not limited to the investments comprising the Index. Index performance includes reinvestment of income, but does not reflect transaction costs, fees, expenses or taxes. Index performance is shown for illustrative purposes only as a benchmark for the Fund’s performance, and does not predict or depict performance of the Fund. The Fund’s performance reflects the effects of the Fund’s business and operating expenses.

The Fund’s investment strategy and focus can change over time. The mention of specific fund holdings does not constitute a recommendation by OppenheimerFunds, Inc. or its affiliates.

Before investing in any of the Oppenheimer funds, investors should carefully consider a fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Fund prospectuses and summary prospectuses contain this and other information about the funds, and may be obtained by asking your financial advisor, visiting oppenheimerfunds.com, or calling 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677). Read prospectuses and summary prospectuses carefully before investing.

Shares of Oppenheimer funds are not deposits or obligations of any bank, are not guaranteed by any bank, are not insured by the FDIC or any other agency, and involve investment risks, including the possible loss of the principal amount invested.

 

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Fund Expenses

Fund Expenses. As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, which may include sales charges (loads) on purchase payments and/or contingent deferred sales charges on redemptions; and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service fees; and other Fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The examples are based on an investment of $1,000.00 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire 6-month period ended July 31, 2017.

Actual Expenses. The first section of the table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this section for the class of shares you hold, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expense that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600.00 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.60), then multiply the result by the number in the first section under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During 6 Months Ended July 31, 2017” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes. The second section of the table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio for each class of shares, and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year for each class before expenses, which is not the Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the Fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example for the class of shares you hold with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as front-end or contingent deferred sales charges (loads). Therefore, the “hypothetical” section of the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Actual    Beginning
Account
Value
February 1, 2017
    

Ending
Account
Value

July 31, 2017

     Expenses
Paid During
6 Months Ended
July 31, 2017
         

Class A

   $ 1,000.00      $ 1,041.60      $ 4.97           

Class C

     1,000.00        1,037.80        8.78           

Class I

     1,000.00        1,043.80        2.79           

Class R

     1,000.00        1,041.30        6.19           

Class Y

     1,000.00        1,042.90        3.65     

Hypothetical

           

(5% return before expenses)

                                   

Class A

     1,000.00        1,019.93        4.92           

Class C

     1,000.00        1,016.22        8.69           

Class I

     1,000.00        1,022.07        2.76           

Class R

     1,000.00        1,018.74        6.12           

Class Y

     1,000.00        1,021.22        3.61     

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio for that class, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). Those annualized expense ratios, excluding indirect expenses from affiliated funds, based on the 6-month period ended July 31, 2017 are as follows:

 

Class    Expense Ratios  

Class A

     0.98 %     

Class C

     1.73  

Class I

     0.55  

Class R

     1.22  

Class Y

     0.72  

The expense ratios reflect voluntary and/or contractual waivers and/or reimbursements of expenses by the Fund’s Manager and Transfer Agent. Some of these undertakings may be modified or terminated at any time, as indicated in the Fund’s prospectus. The “Financial Highlights” tables in the Fund’s financial statements, included in this report, also show the gross expense ratios, without such waivers or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses, if applicable.

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS July 31, 2017

     Principal Amount      Value  

Mortgage-Backed Obligations—0.1%

                 
Banc of America Mortgage Trust, Series 2007-1, Cl. 1A24, 6%, 3/25/37    $ 41,437      $ 39,948  
WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Trust, Series 2005-AR14, Cl. 1A4, 2.852%, 12/25/351      73,725        71,840  
Wells Fargo Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust, Series 2006-AR2, Cl. 2A3, 3.126%, 3/25/361      59,511        59,831  
     

 

 

 
Total Mortgage-Backed Obligations (Cost $159,981)         171,619  
          
Corporate Bonds and Notes—92.2%                  
Consumer Discretionary—13.8%      
Auto Components—0.5%                  
Magna International, Inc., 4.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/1/25      1,000,000        1,068,565  
          
Automobiles—3.3%                  
Daimler Finance North America LLC:      
2.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/3/182      425,000        426,414  
8.50% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 1/18/31      462,000        697,682  
Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC, 3.664% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/8/24      1,190,000        1,195,967  
General Motors Co., 6.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/2/43      563,000        639,982  
General Motors Financial Co., Inc.:      
3.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/25/17      420,000        420,928  
3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/30/22      428,000        429,760  
Harley-Davidson, Inc., 4.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/28/45      444,000        465,708  
Hyundai Capital America, 1.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/27/192      475,000        469,969  
Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp., 1.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/13/192      337,000        333,762  
Volkswagen Group of America Finance LLC, 1.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/20/172      460,000        459,859  
ZF North America Capital, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/29/252      910,000        955,500  
     

 

 

 
        6,495,531  
          
Diversified Consumer Services—0.4%                  
Service Corp. International, 5.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/24      840,000        894,600  
          
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—0.7%                  
Aramark Services, Inc., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/252      454,000        484,077  
Wyndham Worldwide Corp., 4.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/24      953,000        990,964  
     

 

 

 
        1,475,041  
          
Household Durables—1.4%                  
Lennar Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/30/25      328,000        345,630  
Newell Brands, Inc., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/23      829,000        889,227  
PulteGroup, Inc., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/27      753,000        782,179  
Toll Brothers Finance Corp.:      
4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/23      619,000        648,402  
4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/27      175,000        182,000  
     

 

 

 
        2,847,438  

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

     Principal Amount      Value  
Internet & Catalog Retail—1.2%                  
Amazon.com, Inc., 4.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/5/44    $ 315,000      $ 371,522  
QVC, Inc., 4.45% Sr. Sec. Nts., 2/15/25      1,940,000            1,949,729  
     

 

 

 
        2,321,251  
          
Media—2.8%                  
21st Century Fox America, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/46      741,000        795,172  
Charter Communications Operating LLC/Charter Communications Operating Capital, 5.375% Sr. Sec. Nts., 5/1/472      545,000        567,853  
Comcast Corp., 2.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/27      849,000        799,125  
Historic TW, Inc., 9.15% Debs., 2/1/23      360,000        464,757  
Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The), 4.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/24      509,000        537,403  
Sky plc, 6.10% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/182      142,000        145,337  
Time Warner Cable LLC, 4.50% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 9/15/42      420,000        395,952  

Viacom, Inc.:

     

2.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/4/22

     100,000        96,816  

3.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/4/26

     363,000        352,090  
4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/43      915,000        812,202  
Virgin Media Secured Finance plc, 5.25% Sr. Sec. Nts., 1/15/262      608,000        634,600  
     

 

 

 
        5,601,307  
          
Multiline Retail—0.5%                  
Dollar Tree, Inc., 5.75% Sr. Sec. Nts., 3/1/23      862,000        916,953  
          
Specialty Retail—2.0%                  
AutoZone, Inc., 1.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/21/19      78,000        77,671  
Best Buy Co., Inc., 5.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/21      799,000        869,514  
Home Depot, Inc. (The), 3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/56      650,000        597,122  
L Brands, Inc., 5.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/22      321,000        337,852  
Lowe’s Cos., Inc., 3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/46      500,000        482,069  
Ross Stores, Inc., 3.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/24      597,000        608,539  
Sally Holdings LLC/Sally Capital, Inc., 5.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/25      455,000        466,375  
Signet UK Finance plc, 4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/24      456,000        449,345  
     

 

 

 
        3,888,487  
          
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—1.0%                  
Hanesbrands, Inc., 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/262      650,000        666,250  
Levi Strauss & Co., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/1/25      810,000        852,525  
PVH Corp., 4.50% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 12/15/22      408,000        421,260  
     

 

 

 
        1,940,035  

 

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     Principal Amount      Value  

Consumer Staples—7.5%

                 

Beverages—2.9%

                 

Anheuser-Busch InBev Finance, Inc.:

     

3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/26

   $     1,206,000      $     1,249,443  

4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/46

     463,000        522,922  

Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, Inc., 8.20% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 1/15/39

     560,000        881,420  

Diageo Capital plc, 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 4/29/43

     410,000        413,786  

Molson Coors Brewing Co.:

     

1.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/19

     169,000        167,590  

2.10% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/21

     1,200,000        1,187,016  

4.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/46

     140,000        137,940  

Pernod Ricard SA, 4.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/222

     1,100,000        1,178,382  
     

 

 

 
        5,738,499  
          

Food & Staples Retailing—0.8%

                 

Kroger Co. (The):

     

2.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/19

     103,000        103,135  

6.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/18

     290,000        309,718  

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/22/44

     1,050,000        1,170,210  
     

 

 

 
        1,583,063  
          

Food Products—3.2%

                 

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., 4.016% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/16/43

     425,000        440,485  

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp.:

     

3.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/26

     810,000        784,819  

8.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/19

     893,000        996,914  

Kraft Heinz Foods Co.:

     

3.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/25

     820,000        849,038  

4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/46

     660,000        644,942  

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc., 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/262

     504,000        529,406  

Mondelez International Holdings Netherlands BV, 1.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/28/192

     510,000        506,514  

Smithfield Foods, Inc., 2.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/31/202

     471,000        474,436  

TreeHouse Foods, Inc., 6% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/242

     450,000        484,875  

Tyson Foods, Inc., 3.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/2/27

     713,000        730,895  
     

 

 

 
        6,442,324  
          

Tobacco—0.6%

                 

Altria Group, Inc., 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/16/46

     695,000        668,765  

Reynolds American, Inc., 5.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/45

     458,000        559,361  
     

 

 

 
        1,228,126  
          

Energy—7.9%

                 

Energy Equipment & Services—0.9%

                 

Halliburton Co., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/45

     373,000        405,592  

Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., 4.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/25

     640,000        680,939  

 

13        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

     Principal Amount      Value  
Energy Equipment & Services (Continued)                  
Schlumberger Holdings Corp., 4% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/21/252    $ 697,000      $ 739,325  
     

 

 

 
        1,825,856  
          
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—7.0%                  
Anadarko Petroleum Corp.:      
4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/44      226,000        212,616  
6.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/40      379,000        434,162  
Apache Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/43      725,000        741,200  
Boardwalk Pipelines LP, 4.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/24      785,000        838,820  
BP Capital Markets plc, 1.676% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/3/19      408,000        407,662  
Buckeye Partners LP, 3.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/26      364,000        364,145  
Cenovus Energy, Inc., 5.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/472      45,000        43,418  
Cimarex Energy Co., 3.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/27      827,000        844,530  
Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc., 4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/25      201,000        216,017  
ConocoPhillips Co.:      
4.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/26      90,000        101,456  
5.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/46      330,000        425,984  
Devon Energy Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/42      450,000        447,544  
Energy Transfer LP, 5.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/47      389,000        387,296  
EnLink Midstream Partners LP, 4.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/26      347,000        366,054  
Enterprise Products Operating LLC:      
4.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/42      368,000        394,552  
4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/46      325,000        353,610  
Kinder Morgan, Inc., 5.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/45      1,275,000        1,373,277  
Marathon Oil Corp., 4.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/27      740,000        753,911  
Noble Energy, Inc., 5.05% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/44      310,000        322,940  
ONEOK Partners LP, 4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/25      628,000        676,996  
Phillips 66 Partners LP, 3.605% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/25      607,000        608,614  
Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC, 4.20% Sr. Sec. Nts., 3/15/28      705,000        716,474  
Shell International Finance BV, 4% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/10/46      505,000        512,090  
Tesoro Corp., 5.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/262      915,000        1,001,208  
Tesoro Logistics LP/Tesoro Logistics Finance Corp., 5.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/25      664,000        712,970  
Williams Partners LP, 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/27      596,000        597,227  
     

 

 

 
        13,854,773  
          
Financials—25.3%                  
Capital Markets—5.8%                  
Apollo Management Holdings LP, 4% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/30/242      330,000        336,423  
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The), 3% Sub. Nts., 10/30/28      423,000        413,905  
Brookfield Asset Management, Inc., 4% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/25      331,000        340,093  
Credit Suisse Group Funding Guernsey Ltd.:      
3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/22      420,000        439,932  
3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/9/23      600,000        626,057  
E*TRADE Financial Corp., 5.875% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds1,3      1,007,000        1,083,129  
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The):      
3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/16/26      591,000        590,457  
3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/25/26      440,000        450,844  

 

14        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


     Principal Amount      Value  
Capital Markets (Continued)                  
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The): (Continued)      
5.15% Sub. Nts., 5/22/45    $ 650,000      $ 737,255  
Morgan Stanley:      
3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/27/26      1,370,000        1,418,384  
5.00% Sub. Nts., 11/24/25      1,414,000        1,551,305  
MSCI, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/1/262      915,000        951,600  
Northern Trust Corp., 3.375% Sub. Nts., 5/8/321      412,000        413,916  
Raymond James Financial, Inc., 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/26      650,000        657,073  
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., 3.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/27      578,000        583,707  
UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG, 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/24/252      850,000        900,430  
     

 

 

 
        11,494,510  
          
Commercial Banks—13.1%                  
ABN AMRO Bank NV, 4.40% Sub. Nts., 3/27/281      1,150,000        1,195,742  

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (New York),

2.625% Unsec. Nts., 5/19/22

     951,000        955,537  
Bank of America Corp.:      
3.248% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/21/27      846,000        825,161  
7.75% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/14/38      801,000        1,176,008  
Barclays plc, 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/12/26      1,145,000        1,199,670  
BPCE SA, 4.50% Sub. Nts., 3/15/252      645,000        670,081  
Citigroup, Inc.:      
3.50% Sub. Nts., 5/15/23      370,000        378,190  
3.668% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/24/281      1,000,000        1,006,535  
4.281% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/24/481      484,000        498,779  
4.30% Sub. Nts., 11/20/26      445,000        463,436  
4.45% Sub. Nts., 9/29/27      419,000        441,834  
Citizens Bank NA (Providence RI):      
2.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/13/21      547,000        549,419  
2.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/26/22      232,000        232,578  
Compass Bank, 2.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/29/22      982,000        982,507  
Credit Agricole SA, 4.375% Sub. Nts., 3/17/252      1,180,000        1,227,946  
Danske Bank AS, 2.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/10/212      501,000        509,930  
Fifth Third Bank (Cincinnati OH), 3.85% Sub. Nts., 3/15/26      505,000        523,868  
First Republic Bank, 4.375% Sub. Nts., 8/1/46      407,000        403,344  
Glencore Funding LLC, 4% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/16/252      815,000        828,708  
Huntington Bancshares, Inc., 3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/14/21      546,000        559,964  
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/14/272      787,000        794,299  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.:      
3.54% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/1/281      823,000        831,292  
3.782% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/281      1,649,000        1,695,004  
4.26% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/22/481      379,000        394,550  
KeyBank NA (Cleveland OH), 3.40% Sub. Nts., 5/20/26      760,000        755,155  
Lloyds Banking Group plc:      
6.413% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds1,2,3      105,000        119,175  
6.657% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds1,2,3      565,000        646,925  

 

15        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

     Principal Amount      Value  
Commercial Banks (Continued)                  
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co., 2.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/18/22    $ 822,000      $ 825,258  
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The), 3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/19/27      855,000        858,209  
RBS Capital Trust II, 6.425% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds1,3      640,000        744,000  
Regions Bank (Birmingham AL), 7.50% Sub. Nts., 5/15/18      250,000        261,109  
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, 2.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/11/22      962,000        977,786  
SunTrust Bank (Atlanta GA), 3.30% Sub. Nts., 5/15/26      380,000        376,430  
US Bancorp:      
3.10% Sub. Nts., 4/27/26      530,000        528,074  
3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/27/27      231,000        233,013  
Wells Fargo & Co.:      
3.584% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/22/281      773,000        786,532  
4.75% Sub. Nts., 12/7/46      573,000        622,138  
     

 

 

 
        26,078,186  
          
Consumer Finance—0.9%                  
American Express Credit Corp., 3.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/3/27      579,000        583,954  
Capital One Financial Corp., 3.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/5/25      400,000        397,937  
Discover Financial Services, 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/4/25      462,000        464,827  
Electricite de France SA, 6.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/26/192      340,000        362,846  
     

 

 

 
        1,809,564  
          
Diversified Financial Services—1.0%                  
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co., 2% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/18      127,000        127,487  
Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, 3.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/1/46      450,000        460,408  
PacifiCorp, 4.10% Sr. Sec. Nts., 2/1/42      170,000        177,919  
Peachtree Corners Funding Trust, 3.976% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/252      381,000        390,519  
Voya Financial, Inc., 5.65% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/15/531      873,000        938,475  
     

 

 

 
        2,094,808  
          
Insurance—2.9%                  
Arch Capital Finance LLC, 4.011% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/26      576,000        600,722  
AXIS Specialty Finance plc, 5.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/45      666,000        715,979  
Brighthouse Financial, Inc., 3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/22/272      246,000        244,158  
Manulife Financial Corp., 4.061% Sub. Nts., 2/24/321      567,000        574,021  
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc., 4.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/30/47      406,000        433,327  
MetLife, Inc., 5.25% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds1,3      633,000        663,346  
Nuveen Finance LLC, 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/242      756,000        797,547  
Prudential Financial, Inc.:      
5.20% Jr. Sub. Nts., 3/15/441      725,000        772,125  
5.375% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/15/451      435,000        472,549  
RenaissanceRe Finance, Inc., 3.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/1/27      410,000        407,522  
     

 

 

 
        5,681,296  

 

16        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


     Principal Amount      Value  
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—1.6%                  
American Tower Corp.:      
5.05% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 9/1/20    $ 330,000      $ 358,067  
5.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/21      520,000        586,354  
Crown Castle International Corp.:      
3.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/21      700,000        723,447  
3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/1/274      720,000        720,621  
Lamar Media Corp., 5.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/26      550,000        599,500  
VEREIT Operating Partnership LP, 3% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/6/19      180,000        182,047  
     

 

 

 
        3,170,036  
          
Health Care—7.2%                  
Biotechnology—2.2%                  
AbbVie, Inc.:      
3.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/14/25      528,000        546,269  
4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/14/45      211,000        227,439  
Biogen, Inc., 5.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/45      335,000        386,627  
Celgene Corp.:      
2.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/18      465,000        467,243  
3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/25      482,000        511,940  
5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/45      126,000        144,049  
Gilead Sciences, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/46      395,000        436,772  
Shire Acquisitions Investments Ireland DAC:      
1.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/23/19      501,000        500,777  
3.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/23/26      1,216,000        1,199,439  
     

 

 

 
        4,420,555  
          
Health Care Equipment & Supplies—2.6%                  
Abbott Laboratories:      
2.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/22/19      482,000        487,403  
3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/30/26      1,215,000        1,255,175  
Becton Dickinson & Co.:      
2.404% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/5/20      302,000        304,052  
3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/6/27      1,073,000        1,085,887  
Boston Scientific Corp., 3.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/25      975,000        1,017,325  
Medtronic, Inc., 4.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/45      810,000        923,617  
     

 

 

 
        5,073,459  
          
Health Care Providers & Services—1.5%                  
Cardinal Health, Inc., 3.41% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/27      715,000        723,416  
Fresenius Medical Care US Finance II, Inc., 5.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/31/222      1,215,000        1,377,506  
Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings, 3.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/25      879,000        899,554  
     

 

 

 
        3,000,476  
          
Life Sciences Tools & Services—0.4%                  
Quintiles IMS, Inc., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/262      350,000        367,500  

 

17        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

      Principal Amount      Value  

Life Sciences Tools & Services (Continued)

                 

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., 4.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/24

   $ 451,000      $ 483,648  
     

 

 

 
       

 

851,148

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals—0.5%

                 

Allergan Funding SCS, 3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/25

     669,000        698,182  

GlaxoSmithKline Capital, Inc., 6.375% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 5/15/38

     190,000        263,473  
     

 

 

 
       

 

961,655

 

 

 

Industrials—6.6%

                 

Aerospace & Defense—1.8%

                 

BAE Systems Holdings, Inc., 3.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/252

     950,000        994,574  

Hexcel Corp., 3.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/27

     524,000        540,794  

Northrop Grumman Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/43

     450,000        507,067  

Textron, Inc.:

     

3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/27

     353,000        359,330  

3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/25

     230,000        239,091  

4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/24

     427,000        454,870  

United Technologies Corp.:

     

1.778% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/4/181

     76,000        76,130  

4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/42

     450,000        492,268  
     

 

 

 
       

 

            3,664,124

 

 

 

Air Freight & Couriers—0.1%

                 

United Parcel Service, Inc., 6.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/38

 

    

 

225,000

 

 

 

    

 

304,277

 

 

 

Building Products—0.5%

                 

Owens Corning, 3.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/26

 

    

 

917,000

 

 

 

    

 

906,963

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies—0.6%

                 

Pitney Bowes, Inc., 4.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/24

 

    

 

            1,124,000

 

 

 

    

 

1,155,924

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment—0.5%

                 

Sensata Technologies BV, 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/232

 

    

 

927,000

 

 

 

    

 

962,921

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates—0.5%

                 

Roper Technologies, Inc.:

     

3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/26

     269,000        277,948  

3.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/25

     620,000        645,261  
     

 

 

 
       

 

923,209

 

 

 

Machinery—0.6%

                 

Caterpillar, Inc., 4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/44

     450,000        485,758  

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., 2.451% Sub. Nts., 11/17/18

     101,000        102,077  

Wabtec Corp., 3.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/262

     605,000        599,081  
     

 

 

 
       

 

1,186,916

 

 

 

Road & Rail—1.1%

                 

Canadian Pacific Railway Co., 4.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/35

     324,000        364,071  

 

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      Principal Amount      Value  

Road & Rail (Continued)

                 

Norfolk Southern Corp., 4.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/46

   $ 196,000      $ 223,314  

Penske Truck Leasing Co. LP/PTL Finance Corp., 3.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/262

                 1,129,000        1,123,509  

Union Pacific Corp., 4.05% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/45

     400,000        417,996  
     

 

 

 
       

 

            2,128,890

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors—0.9%

                 

AerCap Ireland Capital DAC/AerCap Global Aviation Trust, 3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/21/27

     993,000        986,137  

Air Lease Corp.:

     

3.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/23

     417,000        416,649  

3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/27

     409,000        411,098  
     

 

 

 
       

 

1,813,884

 

 

 

Information Technology—5.7%

                 

Communications Equipment—0.4%

                 

Cisco Systems, Inc., 2.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/28/26

 

    

 

700,000

 

 

 

    

 

701,697

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments, & Components—0.6%

                 

Arrow Electronics, Inc., 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/12/28

     1,075,000        1,086,461  

CDW LLC/CDW Finance Corp., 5.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/24

     148,000        162,800  
     

 

 

 
       

 

1,249,261

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services—0.2%

                 

VeriSign, Inc.:

     

4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/272

     175,000        178,500  

5.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/25

     271,000        289,970  
     

 

 

 
       

 

468,470

 

 

 

IT Services—1.6%

                 

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., 3.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/27/26

     683,000        679,646  

DXC Technology Co.:

     

2.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/27/202

     343,000        347,491  

4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/272

     1,099,000        1,160,457  

International Business Machines Corp., 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/12/24

     950,000        999,697  
     

 

 

 
       

 

3,187,291

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—0.7%

                 

Intel Corp., 4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/29/45

     580,000        678,108  

QUALCOMM, Inc., 3.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/20/27

     716,000        722,184  
     

 

 

 
       

 

1,400,292

 

 

 

Software—1.8%

                 

Autodesk, Inc., 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/25

     330,000        352,179  

Dell International LLC/EMC Corp.:

     

3.48% Sr. Sec. Nts., 6/1/192

     442,000        452,647  

6.02% Sr. Sec. Nts., 6/15/262

     901,000        1,007,814  

 

19        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

      Principal Amount      Value  

Software (Continued)

                 

Microsoft Corp., 3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/8/46

   $             500,000      $ 496,033  

Open Text Corp., 5.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/232

     552,000        582,360  

Oracle Corp., 5.375% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 7/15/40

     470,000        579,334  
     

 

 

 
       

 

            3,470,367

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—0.4%

                 

Apple, Inc., 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/13/45

     675,000        736,648  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., 2.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/5/17

     143,000        143,253  
     

 

 

 
       

 

879,901

 

 

 

Materials—6.5%

                 

Chemicals—3.1%

                 

Agrium, Inc.:

     

3.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/25

     517,000        519,038  

4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/35

     196,000        196,162  

CF Industries, Inc., 3.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/23

     625,000        593,750  

Ecolab, Inc., 2% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/14/19

     427,000        429,353  

PolyOne Corp., 5.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/23

     915,000        967,612  

Praxair, Inc., 3.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/30/26

     500,000        512,230  

RPM International, Inc.:

     

3.45% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 11/15/22

     875,000        903,376  

3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/27

     335,000        341,476  

Sherwin-Williams Co. (The):

     

3.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/252

     222,000        222,523  

3.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/262

     510,000        537,616  

4.00% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 12/15/42

     235,000        227,300  

Yara International ASA, 3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/6/262

     650,000        649,283  
     

 

 

 
       

 

6,099,719

 

 

 

Construction Materials—1.1%

                 

CRH America, Inc., 5.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/18/452

     438,000        503,611  

James Hardie International Finance DAC, 5.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/232

     456,000        482,790  

LafargeHolcim Finance US LLC, 3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/22/262

     362,000        359,351  

Vulcan Materials Co., 3.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/27

     774,000        799,813  
     

 

 

 
       

 

2,145,565

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging—1.3%

                 

International Paper Co.:

     

3.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/27

     694,000        676,710  

4.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/44

     280,000        300,618  

Packaging Corp. of America:

     

3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/24

     223,000        228,370  

4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/23

     650,000        701,890  

Silgan Holdings, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/252

     660,000        683,100  
     

 

 

 
        2,590,688  

 

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      Principal Amount      Value  

Metals & Mining—0.6%

                 

Goldcorp, Inc., 5.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/9/44

   $ 440,000      $ 493,011  

Rio Tinto Finance USA Ltd., 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/25

     615,000        652,904  
     

 

 

 
                    1,145,915  
     

Paper & Forest Products—0.4%

                 

Louisiana-Pacific Corp., 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/24

     811,000        832,289  
     

Telecommunication Services—4.6%

                 

Diversified Telecommunication Services—4.4%

                 

AT&T, Inc.:

     

3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/22

     985,000        1,031,791  

4.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/45

                   1,355,000        1,234,173  

4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/14/374

     1,004,000        1,004,751  

5.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/14/504

     1,004,000        1,000,909  

British Telecommunications plc, 9.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/30

     686,000        1,049,620  

Telefonica Emisiones SAU:

     

4.103% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/8/27

     128,000        133,994  

5.213% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/8/47

     203,000        225,537  

7.045% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 6/20/36

     595,000        793,862  

Verizon Communications, Inc.:

     

1.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/21

     471,000        460,121  

3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/24

     402,000        406,305  

4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/46

     601,000        534,364  

4.522% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/48

     892,000        833,272  
     

 

 

 
        8,708,699  
     

Wireless Telecommunication Services—0.2%

                 

Rogers Communications, Inc., 6.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/18

     400,000        420,850  
     

Utilities—7.1%

                 

Electric Utilities—5.5%

                 

AEP Texas, Inc., 3.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/1/252

     632,000        660,766  

Alabama Power Co., 4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/2/46

     350,000        376,678  

Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC, 3.743% Sr. Sec. Nts., 5/1/26

     658,000        668,962  

Duke Energy Florida LLC, 3.85% Sec. Nts., 11/15/42

     620,000        617,519  

Edison International, 2.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/23

     772,000        779,977  

EDP Finance BV, 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/242

     954,000        956,127  

Emera US Finance LP, 2.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/19

     319,000        319,923  

Enel Finance International NV, 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/25/272

     715,000        723,380  

Entergy Texas, Inc., 7.125% Sec. Nts., 2/1/19

     131,000        140,801  

Exelon Corp., 4.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/46

     386,000        402,492  

Florida Power & Light Co., 5.40% Sr. Sec. Nts., 9/1/35

     280,000        337,038  

Indiana Michigan Power Co., Series K, 4.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/46

     323,000        357,485  

ITC Holdings Corp., 5.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/1/43

     323,000        374,929  

Kentucky Power Co., 6% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/172

     144,000        144,727  

Oncor Electric Delivery Co. LLC, 5.30% Sr. Sec. Nts., 6/1/42

     350,000        424,210  

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

      Principal Amount      Value  

Electric Utilities (Continued)

                 

Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 6.05% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/34

   $ 400,000      $ 520,796  

Pennsylvania Electric Co., 5.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/20

     125,000        132,697  

PPL WEM Ltd./Western Power Distribution Ltd., 5.375% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 5/1/212

                   1,533,000        1,665,546  

Southern Power Co., 1.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/19

     441,000        439,512  

TECO Finance, Inc., 6.572% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/17

     148,000        149,762  

Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line Co., 3.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/252

     643,000        671,664  
     

 

 

 
        10,864,991  
     

Gas Utilities—0.2%

                 

Atmos Energy Corp., 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/44

     455,000        483,682  
     

Multi-Utilities—1.4%

                 

Boston Gas Co.:

     

3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/1/272

     87,000        86,918  

4.487% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/422

     275,000        294,428  

Dominion Energy, Inc.:

     

1.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/19

     211,000        211,249  

4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/1/41

     250,000        272,120  

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 2.721% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/28/222

     370,000        371,328  

NiSource Finance Corp.:

     

3.49% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/27

     1,054,000        1,076,363  

6.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/19

     62,000        66,221  

Virginia Electric & Power Co., 4.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/44

     325,000        359,280  
     

 

 

 
        2,737,907  
     

 

 

 

Total Corporate Bonds and Notes (Cost $177,286,658)

        183,192,234  
     

Short-Term Notes—1.0%

                 

FMC Corp., 1.35%, 8/1/175,6

     1,000,000        999,962  

Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The), 1.38%, 8/2/172,5,6

     1,000,000        999,923  
     

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Notes (Cost $1,999,962)

        1,999,885  
     
     Shares         

Investment Companies—6.5%

                 

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. E, 0.94%7,8

     4,171,368        4,171,368  

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund, Cl. I7

     1,917,456        8,762,772  
     

 

 

 

Total Investment Companies (Cost $12,951,092)

        12,934,140  

Total Investments, at Value (Cost $192,397,693)

     99.8%        198,297,878  

Net Other Assets (Liabilities)

     0.2           361,717  
  

 

 

 

Net Assets

     100.0%      $         198,659,595  
  

 

 

 

Footnotes to Statement of Investments

1. Represents the current interest rate for a variable or increasing rate security.

2. Represents securities sold under Rule 144A, which are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities have been determined to be liquid under guidelines established by the Board of Trustees. These securities amount to $38,049,213 or 19.15% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

 

22        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


 

 

Footnotes to Statement of Investments (Continued)

 

3. This bond has no contractual maturity date, is not redeemable and contractually pays an indefinite stream of interest.

4. All or a portion of the security position is when-issued or delayed delivery to be delivered and settled after period end. See Note 4 of the accompanying Notes.

5. Security issued in an exempt transaction without registration under the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities amount to $1,999,885 or 1.01% of the Fund’s net assets, and have been determined to be liquid pursuant to guidelines adopted by the Board of Trustees.

6. Current yield as of period end.

7. Is or was an affiliate, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, at or during the reporting period, by virtue of the Fund owning at least 5% of the voting securities of the issuer or as a result of the Fund and the issuer having the same investment adviser. Transactions during the reporting period in which the issuer was an affiliate are as follows:

 

      Shares July 31, 2016     

Gross

Additions

    

Gross

Reductions

     Shares July 31, 2017  

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. Ea

     5,258,702        128,609,149        129,696,483        4,171,368  

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund, Cl. I

     1,785,560        1,029,052        897,156        1,917,456  

 

      Value      Income      Realized Loss  

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. Ea

   $ 4,171,368      $ 23,940      $  

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund, Cl. I

     8,762,772        224,266        58,315  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $         12,934,140      $         248,206      $         58,315  
  

 

 

 

a. Prior to September 28, 2016, this fund was named Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund.

8. Rate shown is the 7-day yield at period end.

 

Futures Contracts as of July 31, 2017

 

Description    Exchange      Buy/Sell     

Expiration

Date

    

Number

of

Contracts

     Value      Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 

United States Treasury Long Bonds

     CBT        Buy        9/20/17        17      $ 2,600,469      $ 2,828   

United States Treasury Nts., 10 yr.

     CBT        Sell        9/20/17        323        40,662,672        21,730   

United States Treasury Nts., 2 yr.

     CBT        Buy        9/29/17        236            51,057,125        (12,474)  

United States Treasury Nts., 5 yr.

     CBT        Sell        9/29/17        6        708,891        (509)  
                 

 

 

 
                  $ 11,575   
                 

 

 

 

 

Centrally Cleared Credit Default Swaps at July 31, 2017

 

Reference Asset   

Buy/Sell

Protection

    

Fixed

Rate

    

Maturity

Date

    

Notional

Amount

(000’s)

     Premiums
Received/(Paid)
    Value  

CDX.HY.28

     Sell        5.000%        6/20/22        USD            9,025        $            (571,257   $         720,927  

The table that follows shows the undiscounted maximum potential payment by the Fund related to selling credit protection in credit default swaps:

 

23        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

Type of Reference

Asset on which the

Fund Sold Protection

   Total Maximum
Potential Payments
for Selling Credit
Protection
(Undiscounted)
     Amount Recoverable*      Reference Asset Rating
Range**
 

Non-Investment Grade Corporate Debt Indexes

     $                        9,025,000        $                        —        BB  

* The Fund has no amounts recoverable from related purchased protection. In addition, the Fund has no recourse provisions under the credit derivatives and holds no collateral which can offset or reduce potential payments under a triggering event.

** The period end reference asset security ratings, as rated by any rating organization, are included in the equivalent Standard & Poor’s rating category. The reference asset rating represents the likelihood of a potential credit event on the reference asset which would result in a related payment by the Fund.

Glossary:

Definitions

CDX.HY.28

   Markit CDX High Yield Index   

Exchange Abbreviations

CBT

   Chicago Board of Trade   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

24        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES July 31, 2017

 

Assets

        

Investments, at value—see accompanying statement of investments:

  

Unaffiliated companies (cost $179,446,601)

   $ 185,363,738     

Affiliated companies (cost $12,951,092)

     12,934,140     
  

 

 

 
     198,297,878     

Cash

     500,002     

Cash used for collateral on futures

     507,500     

Centrally cleared swaps, at value (premiums paid $571,257)

     720,927     

Receivables and other assets:

  

Interest and dividends

     1,918,433     

Investments sold (including $621,342 sold on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis)

     794,265     

Shares of beneficial interest sold

     287,117     

Variation margin receivable

     21,209     

Other

     23,192     
  

 

 

 

Total assets

     203,070,523     
  

Liabilities

        

Centrally cleared swap collateral due

     267,198     

Payables and other liabilities:

  

Investments purchased (including $3,342,260 purchased on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis)

     3,626,140     

Shares of beneficial interest redeemed

     357,792     

Distribution and service plan fees

     37,674     

Trustees’ compensation

     12,667     

Shareholder communications

     6,360     

Variation margin payable

     4,485     

Dividends

     3,779     

Other

     94,833     
  

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     4,410,928     
  

Net Assets

   $     198,659,595     
  

 

 

 
  

Composition of Net Assets

        

Par value of shares of beneficial interest

   $ 18,193     

Additional paid-in capital

     195,164,814     

Accumulated net investment loss

     (60,704)    

Accumulated net realized loss on investments

     (2,524,138)    

Net unrealized appreciation on investments

     6,061,430     
  

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $ 198,659,595     
  

 

 

 

 

25        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES Continued

 

Net Asset Value Per Share

        

Class A Shares:

  
Net asset value and redemption price per share (based on net assets of $129,984,424 and
11,902,680 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)
   $ 10.92    

Maximum offering price per share (net asset value plus sales charge of 4.75% of offering price)

   $ 11.46    

Class C Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $33,420,331 and 3,062,045 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.91    

Class I Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price and offering price per share (based on net assets of $2,189,351 and 200,485 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.92    

Class R Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $15,317,376 and 1,401,905 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.93    

Class Y Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price and offering price per share (based on net assets of $17,748,113 and 1,626,340 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.91    

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

26        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT

OF OPERATIONS For the Year Ended July 31, 2017

 

Investment Income

        

Interest

   $         6,856,405      

Dividends - affiliated companies (net of foreign withholding taxes of $1,198)

     248,206      
  

 

 

 

Total investment income

    

 

7,104,611    

 

 

 

Expenses

        

Management fees

     875,963      

Distribution and service plan fees:

  

Class A

     324,178      

Class C

     358,152      

Class R

     67,003      

Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees:

  

Class A

     290,515      

Class C

     78,872      

Class I

     166      

Class R

     29,729      

Class Y

     27,912      

Shareholder communications:

  

Class A

     18,487      

Class C

     4,014      

Class I

     15      

Class R

     1,315      

Class Y

     895      

Custodian fees and expenses

     20,912      

Trustees’ compensation

     17,043      

Borrowing fees

     3,633      

Other

     94,037      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses

     2,212,841      

Less reduction to custodian expenses

     (362)     

Less waivers and reimbursements of expenses

     (53,548)     
  

 

 

 

Net expenses

 

    

 

2,158,931    

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

     4,945,680      

 

27        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT

OF OPERATIONS Continued

 

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

        

Net realized gain (loss) on:

  

Investment transactions in:

  

Unaffiliated companies

   $ 1,500,580      

Affiliated companies

     (58,315)     

Closing and expiration of futures contracts

     419,664      

Swap contracts

     191,515      

Closing and expiration of swaption contracts written

     97,943      
  

 

 

 

Net realized gain

     2,151,387      

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on:

  

Investment transactions

     (4,536,952)     

Futures contracts

     135,274      

Swap contracts

     149,670      
  

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

    

 

(4,252,008)   

 

 

 

Net Increase in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

   $         2,845,059      
  

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

28        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

 

     Year Ended
July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
 

Operations

                 

Net investment income

   $ 4,945,680        $ 4,626,625    

Net realized gain (loss)

             2,151,387          (3,797,738)   

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     (4,252,008)                 10,454,703    
  

 

 

 

Net increase in net assets resulting from operations

    

 

2,845,059  

 

 

 

    

 

11,283,590  

 

 

 

Dividends and/or Distributions to Shareholders

                 

Dividends from net investment income:

     

Class A

     (3,708,902)         (3,559,216)   

Class C

     (734,685)         (662,656)   

Class I

     (18,808)         (3,609)   

Class R

     (348,759)         (215,804)   

Class Y

     (390,596)         (208,747)   
  

 

 

 
    

 

(5,201,750) 

 

 

 

    

 

(4,650,032) 

 

 

 

Beneficial Interest Transactions

                 

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from beneficial interest transactions:

     

Class A

     (7,394,506)         31,171,875    

Class C

     (4,261,994)         9,247,933    

Class I

     2,088,817          (33,483)   

Class R

     3,686,814          5,117,004    

Class Y

     6,789,107          5,237,867    
  

 

 

 
    

 

908,238  

 

 

 

    

 

50,741,196  

 

 

 

Net Assets

                 

Total increase (decrease)

     (1,448,453)         57,374,754    

Beginning of period

     200,108,048          142,733,294    
  

 

 

 

End of period (including accumulated net investment (loss) of $(60,704) and $11,822, respectively)

   $ 198,659,595        $ 200,108,048    
  

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

29        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

Class A    Year Ended
     July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
     Year Ended
July 31, 2014
     Year Ended
July 31, 2013
 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.03            $10.66            $10.90            $10.74            $10.91      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income1

     0.29            0.30            0.33            0.34            0.35      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.10)            0.37            (0.24)            0.44            (0.05)      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     0.19            0.67            0.09            0.78            0.30      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.30)            (0.30)            (0.33)            (0.34)            (0.35)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            (0.28)            (0.12)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.30)            (0.30)            (0.33)            (0.62)            (0.47)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.92            $11.03            $10.66            $10.90            $10.74      
  

 

 

 
              

Total Return, at Net Asset Value2

     1.82%            6.45%            0.84%            7.56%            2.70%      
              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                            

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $129,985            $139,018            $103,315            $86,231            $65,006      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $132,043            $125,116            $101,748            $70,792            $70,909      

Ratios to average net assets:3

              

Net investment income

     2.68%            2.83%            3.07%            3.19%            3.17%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     1.00%            1.02%            1.01%            1.03%            1.04%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses5

     1.00%            1.02%            1.01%            1.03%            1.04%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      0.97%            1.00%            1.00%            0.99%            1.00%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     80%            73%            100%            119%            135%      

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

2. Assumes an initial investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

5. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund fees and expenses were as follows:

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     1.02
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     1.03
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     1.02
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.04
 

Year Ended July 31, 2013

     1.05

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Class C    Year Ended
     July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
     Year Ended
July 31, 2014
     Year Ended
July 31, 2013
 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.03            $10.65            $10.89            $10.73            $10.91      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income1

     0.21            0.22            0.25            0.26            0.27      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.11)            0.38            (0.24)            0.44            (0.06)      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     0.10            0.60            0.01            0.70            0.21      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.22)            (0.22)            (0.25)            (0.26)            (0.27)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            (0.28)            (0.12)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.22)            (0.22)            (0.25)            (0.54)            (0.39)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.91            $11.03            $10.65            $10.89            $10.73      
  

 

 

 
              

Total Return, at Net Asset Value2

     0.97%            5.76%            0.08%            6.77%            1.84%      
              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                            

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $33,420            $38,261            $27,706            $19,280            $18,060      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $35,836            $31,800            $24,595            $17,588            $20,527      

Ratios to average net assets:3

              

Net investment income

     1.92%            2.07%            2.32%            2.45%            2.42%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     1.75%            1.77%            1.78%            1.81%            1.83%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses5

     1.75%            1.77%            1.78%            1.81%            1.83%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      1.72%            1.75%            1.75%            1.74%            1.75%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     80%            73%        100%            119%            135%      

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

2. Assumes an initial investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

5. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund fees and expenses were as follows:

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     1.77
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     1.78
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     1.79
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.82
 

Year Ended July 31, 2013

     1.84

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

31        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued

 

Class I    Year Ended
     July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
     Year Ended
July 31, 2014
    

Period

Ended
July 31, 20131

 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.03            $10.65            $10.89            $10.73            $11.13      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income2

     0.35            0.35            0.38            0.39            0.27      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.11)            0.38            (0.24)            0.44            (0.28)      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     0.24            0.73            0.14            0.83            (0.01)      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.35)            (0.35)            (0.38)            (0.39)            (0.27)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            (0.28)            (0.12)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.35)            (0.35)            (0.38)            (0.67)            (0.39)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.92            $11.03            $10.65            $10.89            $10.73      
  

 

 

 
              

Total Return, at Net Asset Value3

     2.27%            7.03%            1.29%            8.04%            (0.17)%      
              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                            

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $2,189            $80            $110            $12            $10      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $563            $110            $105            $11            $10      

Ratios to average net assets:4

              

Net investment income

     3.23%            3.28%            3.52%            3.65%            3.61%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     0.56%            0.57%            0.56%            0.56%            0.56%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00%5            0.00%5            0.00%5            0.00%            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses6

     0.56%            0.57%            0.56%            0.56%            0.56%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      0.54%            0.55%            0.55%            0.54%            0.55%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     80%            73%            100%            119%            135%      

1. For the period from November 28, 2012 (inception of offering) to July 31, 2013.

2. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

3. Assumes an initial investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

4. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

5. Less than 0.005%.

6. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund fees and expenses were as follows:

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     0.58
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     0.58
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     0.57
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     0.57
 

Period Ended July 31, 2013

     0.57

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

32        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


Class R    Year Ended
     July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
     Year Ended
July 31, 2014
     Year Ended
July 31, 2013
 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.04            $10.66            $10.90            $10.74            $10.92      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income1

     0.26            0.27            0.31            0.32            0.32      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.09)            0.39            (0.24)            0.44            (0.06)      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     0.17            0.66            0.07            0.76            0.26      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.28)            (0.28)            (0.31)            (0.32)            (0.32)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            (0.28)            (0.12)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.28)            (0.28)            (0.31)            (0.60)            (0.44)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.93            $11.04            $10.66            $10.90            $10.74      
  

 

 

 
              

Total Return, at Net Asset Value2

     1.58%            6.29%            0.59%            7.29%            2.35%      
              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                            

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $15,318            $11,736            $6,189            $4,782            $3,734      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $13,530            $8,432            $5,572            $4,129            $3,880      

Ratios to average net assets:3

              

Net investment income

     2.45%            2.55%            2.82%            2.94%            2.92%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     1.25%            1.27%            1.27%            1.30%            1.30%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses5

     1.25%            1.27%            1.27%            1.30%            1.30%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      1.22%            1.25%            1.25%            1.24%            1.25%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     80%            73%            100%            119%            135%      

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

2. Assumes an initial investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares. The returns do not include adjustments in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles required at the period end for financial reporting purposes.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

5. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund fees and expenses were as follows:

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     1.27
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     1.28
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     1.28
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.31
 

Year Ended July 31, 2013

     1.31

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

33        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued

 

Class Y    Year Ended
     July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
     Year Ended
July 31, 2014
     Year Ended
July 31, 2013
 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.03            $10.65            $10.89            $10.72            $10.91      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income1

     0.32            0.32            0.36            0.36            0.38      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.11)            0.39            (0.24)            0.46            (0.07)      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     0.21            0.71            0.12            0.82            0.31      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.33)            (0.33)            (0.36)            (0.37)            (0.38)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            (0.28)            (0.12)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.33)            (0.33)            (0.36)            (0.65)            (0.50)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.91            $11.03            $10.65            $10.89            $10.72      
  

 

 

 
              

Total Return, at Net Asset Value2

     1.98%            6.82%            1.09%            7.93%            2.79%      
              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                            

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $17,748            $11,013            $5,413            $2,747            $687      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $12,709            $6,857            $4,275            $1,285            $1,195      

Ratios to average net assets:3

              

Net investment income

     2.95%            3.04%            3.35%            3.38%            3.45%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     0.75%            0.77%            0.77%            1.87%            0.72%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%4            0.00%            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses5

     0.75%            0.77%            0.77%            1.87%            0.72%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      0.72%            0.75%            0.75%            0.75%            0.71%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     80%            73%            100%            119%            135%      

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.

2. Assumes an initial investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

5. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund fees and expenses were as follows:

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     0.77
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     0.78
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     0.78
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.88
 

Year Ended July 31, 2013

     0.73

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

34        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS July 31, 2017

 

 

1. Organization

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund (the “Fund”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”), as amended, as an open-end diversified management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek total return. The Fund’s investment adviser is OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (“OFI Global” or the “Manager”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (“OFI” or the “Sub-Adviser”). The Manager has entered into a sub-advisory agreement with OFI.

The Fund offers Class A, Class C, Class I, Class R and Class Y shares, and previously offered Class B shares for new purchase through June 29, 2012. Subsequent to that date, no new purchases of Class B shares are permitted, however reinvestment of dividend and/or capital gain distributions and exchanges of Class B shares into and from other Oppenheimer funds are allowed. Purchases of Class R shares occurring on or after July 1, 2014, are not subject to a CDSC upon redemption. Class A shares are sold at their offering price, which is normally net asset value plus a front-end sales charge. Class C and Class R shares are sold, and Class B shares were sold, without a front-end sales charge but may be subject to a CDSC. Class R shares are sold only through retirement plans. Retirement plans that offer Class R shares may impose charges on those accounts. Class I and Class Y shares are sold to certain institutional investors or intermediaries without either a front-end sales charge or a CDSC, however, the intermediaries may impose charges on their accountholders who beneficially own Class I and Class Y shares. All classes of shares have identical rights and voting privileges with respect to the Fund in general and exclusive voting rights on matters that affect that class alone. Earnings, net assets and net asset value per share may differ due to each class having its own expenses, such as transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees and shareholder communications, directly attributable to that class. Class A, B, C and R shares have separate distribution and/or service plans under which they pay fees. Class I and Class Y shares do not pay such fees. Class B shares will automatically convert to Class A shares 72 months after the date of purchase.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed in the Fund’s preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”).

 

 

2. Significant Accounting Policies

Security Valuation. All investments in securities are recorded at their estimated fair value, as described in Note 3.

Allocation of Income, Expenses, Gains and Losses. Income, expenses (other than those attributable to a specific class), gains and losses are allocated on a daily basis to each class of shares based upon the relative proportion of net assets represented by such class. Operating expenses directly attributable to a specific class are charged against the operations of that class.

Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders. Dividends and distributions to

 

35        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

2. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

 

shareholders, which are determined in accordance with income tax regulations and may differ from U.S. GAAP, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income distributions, if any, are declared daily and paid monthly. Capital gain distributions, if any, are declared and paid annually or at other times as deemed necessary by the Manager.

Investment Income. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or upon ex-dividend notification in the case of certain foreign dividends where the ex-dividend date may have passed. Non-cash dividends included in dividend income, if any, are recorded at the fair value of the securities received. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends, if any, and capital gains taxes on foreign investments, if any, have been provided for in accordance with the Fund’s understanding of the applicable tax rules and regulations. Interest income is recognized on an accrual basis. Discount and premium, which are included in interest income on the Statement of Operations, are amortized or accreted daily.

Custodian Fees. “Custodian fees and expenses” in the Statement of Operations may include interest expense incurred by the Fund on any cash overdrafts of its custodian account during the period. Such cash overdrafts may result from the effects of failed trades in portfolio securities and from cash outflows resulting from unanticipated shareholder redemption activity. The Fund pays interest to its custodian on such cash overdrafts, to the extent they are not offset by positive cash balances maintained by the Fund, at a rate equal to the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%. This rate increased to the Federal Funds Rate plus 2.00% effective January 1, 2017. The “Reduction to custodian expenses” line item, if applicable, represents earnings on cash balances maintained by the Fund during the period. Such interest expense and other custodian fees may be paid with these earnings.

Security Transactions. Security transactions are recorded on the trade date. Realized gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of identified cost.

Indemnifications. The Fund’s organizational documents provide current and former Trustees and officers with a limited indemnification against liabilities arising in connection with the performance of their duties to the Fund. In the normal course of business, the Fund may also enter into contracts that provide general indemnifications. The Fund’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would be dependent on future claims that may be made against the Fund. The risk of material loss from such claims is considered remote.

Federal Taxes. The Fund intends to comply with provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute substantially all of its investment company taxable income, including any net realized gain on investments not offset by capital loss carryforwards, if any, to shareholders. Therefore, no federal income or excise tax provision is required. The Fund files income tax returns in U.S. federal and applicable state jurisdictions. The statute of limitations on the Fund’s tax return filings generally remains open for the three preceding fiscal reporting period ends. The Fund has analyzed its tax positions for

 

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2. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

 

the fiscal year ended July 31, 2017, including open tax years, and does not believe there are any uncertain tax positions requiring recognition in the Fund’s financial statements. The tax components of capital shown in the following table represent distribution requirements the Fund must satisfy under the income tax regulations, losses the Fund may be able to offset against income and gains realized in future years and unrealized appreciation or depreciation of securities and other investments for federal income tax purposes.

 

Undistributed
Net Investment
Income
  Undistributed
Long-Term
Gain
    Accumulated
Loss
Carryforward1,2,3
    Net Unrealized
Appreciation
Based on cost of
Securities and
Other Investments
for Federal Income
Tax Purposes
 
$101,632     $—       $2,454,248       $5,841,871  

1. At period end, the Fund had $2,454,248 of net capital loss carryforward available to offset future realized capital gains, if any, and thereby reduce future taxable gain distributions. Details of the capital loss carryforwards are included in the table below. Capital loss carryovers with no expiration, if any, must be utilized prior to those with expiration dates.

 

Expiring

        

No expiration

   $ 2,454,248  

2. During the reporting period, the Fund utilized $2,161,432 of capital loss carryforward to offset capital gains realized in that fiscal year.

3. During the previous reporting period, the Fund did not utilize any capital loss carryforward.

Net investment income (loss) and net realized gain (loss) may differ for financial statement and tax purposes. The character of dividends and distributions made during the fiscal year from net investment income or net realized gains are determined in accordance with federal income tax requirements, which may differ from the character of net investment income or net realized gains presented in those financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Also, due to timing of dividends and distributions, the fiscal year in which amounts are distributed may differ from the fiscal year in which the income or net realized gain was recorded by the Fund.

Accordingly, the following amounts have been reclassified for the reporting period. Net assets of the Fund were unaffected by the reclassifications.

 

Reduction
to Accumulated
Net Investment
Loss
   Increase
to Accumulated Net
Realized Loss
on Investments
 
$183,544      $183,544  

The tax character of distributions paid during the reporting periods:

 

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2. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

 

      Year Ended
July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
 

Distributions paid from:

     

Ordinary income

   $         5,201,750      $         4,650,032  

The aggregate cost of securities and other investments and the composition of unrealized appreciation and depreciation of securities and other investments for federal income tax purposes at period end are noted in the following table. The primary difference between book and tax appreciation or depreciation of securities and other investments, if applicable, is attributable to the tax deferral of losses or tax realization of financial statement unrealized gain or loss.

 

Federal tax cost of securities

    $ 192,456,008  

Federal tax cost of other investments

     13,006,957  
  

 

 

 

Total federal tax cost

    $     205,462,965  
  

 

 

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

    $ 6,369,706  

Gross unrealized depreciation

     (527,835
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation

    $ 5,841,871  
  

 

 

 

Use of Estimates. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Recent Accounting Pronouncement. In October 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted amendments to rules under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“final rules”) intended to modernize the reporting and disclosure of information by registered investment companies. The final rules amend Regulation S-X and require funds to provide standardized, enhanced derivative disclosure in fund financial statements in a format designed for individual investors. The amendments to Regulation S-X also update the disclosures for other investments and investments in, and advances to affiliates and amend the rules regarding the general form and content of fund financial statements. The compliance date for the amendments to Regulation S-X is for reporting periods ended after August 1, 2017. The implementation of the rules will not have a material impact on the Fund’s financial statements.

 

 

3. Securities Valuation

The Fund calculates the net asset value of its shares as of 4:00 P.M. Eastern time, on each day the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”) is open for trading, except in the case of a scheduled early closing of the Exchange, in which case the Fund will calculate net asset value of the shares as of the scheduled early closing time of the Exchange.

The Fund’s Board has adopted procedures for the valuation of the Fund’s securities and has

 

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3. Securities Valuation (Continued)

 

delegated the day-to-day responsibility for valuation determinations under those procedures to the Manager. The Manager has established a Valuation Committee which is responsible for determining a fair valuation for any security for which market quotations are not readily available. The Valuation Committee’s fair valuation determinations are subject to review, approval and ratification by the Fund’s Board at its next regularly scheduled meeting covering the calendar quarter in which the fair valuation was determined.

Valuation Methods and Inputs

Securities are valued primarily using unadjusted quoted market prices, when available, as supplied by third party pricing services or broker-dealers.

The following methodologies are used to determine the market value or the fair value of the types of securities described below:

Shares of a registered investment company that are not traded on an exchange are valued at that investment company’s net asset value per share.

Corporate and government debt securities (of U.S. or foreign issuers) and municipal debt securities, short-term notes, mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, and asset-backed securities are valued at the mean between the bid and asked prices utilizing evaluated prices obtained from third party pricing services or broker-dealers who may use matrix pricing methods to determine the evaluated prices. Pricing services generally price debt securities assuming orderly transactions of an institutional “round lot” size, but some trades may occur in smaller, “odd lot” sizes, sometimes at lower prices than institutional round lot trades. Standard inputs generally considered by third-party pricing vendors include reported trade data, broker-dealer price quotations, benchmark yields, issuer spreads on comparable securities, the credit quality, yield, maturity, as well as other appropriate factors.

Structured securities, swaps, swaptions, and other over-the-counter derivatives are valued utilizing evaluated prices obtained from third party pricing services or broker-dealers. Standard inputs generally considered by third-party pricing vendors include market information relevant to the underlying reference asset such as the price of financial instruments, stock market indices, foreign currencies, interest rate spreads, commodities, credit spreads, credit event probabilities, index values, individual security values, forward interest rates, variable interest rates, volatility measures, and forward currency rates, or the occurrence of other specific events.

Futures contracts and futures options traded on a commodities or futures exchange will be valued at the final settlement price or official closing price on the principal exchange as reported by such principal exchange at its trading session ending at, or most recently prior to, the time when the Fund’s assets are valued.

Securities for which market quotations are not readily available or a significant event has occurred that would materially affect the value of the security, the security is fair valued either (i) by a standardized fair valuation methodology applicable to the security type or the significant event as previously approved by the Valuation Committee and the Fund’s Board or (ii) as determined in good faith by the Manager’s Valuation Committee. The Valuation Committee considers all relevant facts that are reasonably available, through either public

 

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3. Securities Valuation (Continued)

 

information or information available to the Manager, when determining the fair value of a security. Those standardized fair valuation methodologies include, but are not limited to, valuing securities at the last sale price or initially at cost and subsequently adjusting the value based on: changes in company specific fundamentals, changes in an appropriate securities index, or changes in the value of similar securities which may be further adjusted for any discounts related to security-specific resale restrictions. When possible, such methodologies use observable market inputs such as unadjusted quoted prices of similar securities, observable interest rates, currency rates and yield curves. The methodologies used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risks associated with investing in those securities nor can it be assured that the Fund can obtain the fair value assigned to a security if it were to sell the security.

Classifications

Each investment asset or liability of the Fund is assigned a level at measurement date based on the significance and source of the inputs to its valuation. Various data inputs may be used in determining the value of each of the Fund’s investments as of the reporting period end. These data inputs are categorized in the following hierarchy under applicable financial accounting standards:

1) Level 1-unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (including securities actively traded on a securities exchange)

2) Level 2-inputs other than unadjusted quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability (such as unadjusted quoted prices for similar assets and market corroborated inputs such as interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risks, etc.)

3) Level 3-significant unobservable inputs (including the Manager’s own judgments about assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability).

The inputs used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risks associated with investing in those securities.

The Fund classifies each of its investments in investment companies which are publicly offered as Level 1. Investment companies that are not publicly offered, if any, are classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.

The table below categorizes amounts that are included in the Fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities at period end based on valuation input level:

 

      Level 1—
Unadjusted
Quoted Prices
     Level 2—
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3—
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
     Value  

Assets Table

           

Investments, at Value:

           

Mortgage-Backed Obligations

   $      $ 171,619      $      $ 171,619  

Corporate Bonds and Notes

            183,192,234               183,192,234  

Short-Term Notes

            1,999,885               1,999,885  

Investment Companies

     12,934,140                      12,934,140  

 

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3. Securities Valuation (Continued)

 

      Level 1—
Unadjusted
Quoted Prices
   

Level 2—

Other Significant
Observable Inputs

     Level 3—
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
     Value  

Investments, at Value: (Continued)

          
  

 

 

 

Total Investments, at Value

     12,934,140       185,363,738               198,297,878  

Other Financial Instruments:

          

Centrally cleared swaps, at value

           720,927               720,927  

Futures contracts

     24,558                     24,558  
  

 

 

 

Total Assets

   $     12,958,698     $     186,084,665      $             —      $     199,043,363  
  

 

 

 

Liabilities Table

          

Other Financial Instruments:

          

Futures contracts

   $ (12,983   $      $      $ (12,983
  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

   $ (12,983   $      $      $ (12,983
  

 

 

 

Forward currency exchange contracts and futures contracts, if any, are reported at their unrealized appreciation/depreciation at measurement date, which represents the change in the contract’s value from trade date. All additional assets and liabilities included in the above table are reported at their market value at measurement date.

 

 

4. Investments and Risks

Investments in Affiliated Funds. The Fund is permitted to invest in other mutual funds advised by the Manager (“Affiliated Funds”). Affiliated Funds are open-end management investment companies registered under the 1940 Act, as amended. The Manager is the investment adviser of, and the Sub-Adviser provides investment and related advisory services to, the Affiliated Funds. When applicable, the Fund’s investments in Affiliated Funds are included in the Statement of Investments. Shares of Affiliated Funds are valued at their net asset value per share. As a shareholder, the Fund is subject to its proportional share of the Affiliated Funds’ expenses, including their management fee. The Manager will waive fees and/ or reimburse Fund expenses in an amount equal to the indirect management fees incurred through the Fund’s investment in the Affiliated Funds.

Each of the Affiliated Funds in which the Fund invests has its own investment risks, and those risks can affect the value of the Fund’s investments and therefore the value of the Fund’s shares. To the extent that the Fund invests more of its assets in one Affiliated Fund than in another, the Fund will have greater exposure to the risks of that Affiliated Fund.

Investments in Money Market Instruments. The Fund is permitted to invest its free cash balances in money market instruments to provide liquidity or for defensive purposes. The Fund may invest in money market instruments by investing in Class E shares of Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund (“IGMMF”), formerly known as Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, which is an Affiliated Fund. IGMMF is regulated as a money market fund under the 1940 Act, as amended. The Fund may also invest in money market instruments directly or in other affiliated or unaffiliated money market funds.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

4. Investments and Risks (Continued)

 

Securities on a When-Issued or Delayed Delivery Basis. The Fund may purchase securities on a “when-issued” basis, and may purchase or sell securities on a “delayed delivery” basis. “When-issued” or “delayed delivery” refers to securities whose terms and indenture are available and for which a market exists, but which are not available for immediate delivery. Delivery and payment for securities that have been purchased by the Fund on a when-issued basis normally takes place within six months and possibly as long as two years or more after the trade date. During this period, such securities do not earn interest, are subject to market fluctuation and may increase or decrease in value prior to their delivery. The purchase of securities on a when-issued basis may increase the volatility of the Fund’s net asset value to the extent the Fund executes such transactions while remaining substantially fully invested. When the Fund engages in when-issued or delayed delivery transactions, it relies on the buyer or seller, as the case may be, to complete the transaction. Their failure to do so may cause the Fund to lose the opportunity to obtain or dispose of the security at a price and yield it considers advantageous. The Fund may also sell securities that it purchased on a when-issued basis or forward commitment prior to settlement of the original purchase.

At period end, the Fund had purchased securities issued on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis and sold securities issued on a delayed delivery basis as follows:

      When-Issued or
Delayed Delivery
Basis Transactions
 

Purchased securities

     $3,342,260  

Sold securities

     621,342  

 

 

5. Market Risk Factors

The Fund’s investments in securities and/or financial derivatives may expose the Fund to various market risk factors:

Commodity Risk. Commodity risk relates to the change in value of commodities or commodity indexes as they relate to increases or decreases in the commodities market. Commodities are physical assets that have tangible properties. Examples of these types of assets are crude oil, heating oil, metals, livestock, and agricultural products.

Credit Risk. Credit risk relates to the ability of the issuer of debt to meet interest and principal payments, or both, as they come due. In general, lower-grade, higher-yield debt securities are subject to credit risk to a greater extent than lower-yield, higher-quality securities.

Equity Risk. Equity risk relates to the change in value of equity securities as they relate to increases or decreases in the general market.

Foreign Exchange Rate Risk. Foreign exchange rate risk relates to the change in the U.S. dollar value of a security held that is denominated in a foreign currency. The U.S. dollar value of a foreign currency denominated security will decrease as the dollar appreciates against the currency, while the U.S. dollar value will increase as the dollar depreciates against the currency.

 

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5. Market Risk Factors (Continued)

 

Interest Rate Risk. Interest rate risk refers to the fluctuations in value of fixed-income securities resulting from the inverse relationship between price and yield. For example, an increase in general interest rates will tend to reduce the market value of already issued fixed-income investments, and a decline in general interest rates will tend to increase their value. In addition, debt securities with longer maturities, which tend to have higher yields, are subject to potentially greater fluctuations in value from changes in interest rates than obligations with shorter maturities.

Volatility Risk. Volatility risk refers to the magnitude of the movement, but not the direction of the movement, in a financial instrument’s price over a defined time period. Large increases or decreases in a financial instrument’s price over a relative time period typically indicate greater volatility risk, while small increases or decreases in its price typically indicate lower volatility risk.

 

 

6. Use of Derivatives

The Fund’s investment objective not only permits the Fund to purchase investment securities, it also allows the Fund to enter into various types of derivatives contracts, including, but not limited to, futures contracts, forward currency exchange contracts, credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, total return swaps, variance swaps and purchased and written options. In doing so, the Fund will employ strategies in differing combinations to permit it to increase, decrease, or change the level or types of exposure to market risk factors. These instruments may allow the Fund to pursue its objectives more quickly and efficiently than if it were to make direct purchases or sales of securities capable of effecting a similar response to market factors. Such contracts may be entered into through a bilateral over-the-counter (“OTC”) transaction, or through a securities or futures exchange and cleared through a clearinghouse.

Derivatives may have little or no initial cash investment relative to their market value exposure and therefore can produce significant gains or losses in excess of their cost due to changes in the market risk factors and the overall market. This use of embedded leverage allows the Fund to increase its market value exposure relative to its net assets and can substantially increase the volatility of the Fund’s performance. In instances where the Fund is using derivatives to decrease, or hedge, exposures to market risk factors for securities held by the Fund, there are also risks that those derivatives may not perform as expected resulting in losses for the combined or hedged positions. Some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the Fund’s initial investment.

Additional associated risks from investing in derivatives also exist and potentially could have significant effects on the valuation of the derivative and the Fund. Typically, the associated risks are not the risks that the Fund is attempting to increase or decrease exposure to, per its investment objectives, but are the additional risks from investing in derivatives. Examples of these associated risks are liquidity risk, which is the risk that the Fund will not be able to sell the derivative in the open market in a timely manner, and counterparty credit risk, which is the risk that the counterparty will not fulfill its obligation to the Fund.

The Fund’s actual exposures to these market risk factors and associated risks during the

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

period are discussed in further detail, by derivative type, below.

Futures Contracts

A futures contract is a commitment to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity, financial instrument or currency at a negotiated price on a stipulated future date. The Fund may buy and sell futures contracts and may also buy or write put or call options on these futures contracts. Futures contracts and options thereon are generally entered into on a regulated futures exchange and cleared through a clearinghouse associated with the exchange.

Upon entering into a futures contract, the Fund is required to deposit either cash or securities (initial margin) in an amount equal to a certain percentage of the contract value in an account registered in the futures commission merchant’s name. Subsequent payments (variation margin) are paid to or from the futures commission merchant each day equal to the daily changes in the contract value. Such payments are recorded as unrealized gains and losses. Should the Fund fail to make requested variation margin payments, the futures commission merchant can gain access to the initial margin to satisfy the Fund’s payment obligations.

Futures contracts are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments. Securities held by a futures commission merchant to cover initial margin requirements on open futures contracts are noted in the Statement of Investments. Cash held by a futures commission merchant to cover initial margin requirements on open futures contracts and the receivable and/or payable for the daily mark to market for the variation margin are noted in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The net change in unrealized appreciation and depreciation is reported in the Statement of Operations. Realized gains (losses) are reported in the Statement of Operations at the closing or expiration of futures contracts.

The Fund may purchase and/or sell financial futures contracts and options on futures contracts to gain exposure to, or decrease exposure to interest rate risk, equity risk, foreign exchange rate risk, volatility risk, or commodity risk.

During the reporting period, the Fund had an ending monthly average market value of $46,222,541 and $35,062,266 on futures contracts purchased and sold, respectively.

Additional associated risks of entering into futures contracts (and related options) include the possibility that there may be an illiquid market where the Fund is unable to liquidate the contract or enter into an offsetting position and, if used for hedging purposes, the risk that the price of the contract will correlate imperfectly with the prices of the Fund’s securities.

Swap Contracts

The Fund may enter into swap contract agreements with a counterparty to exchange a series of cash flows based on either specified reference rates, the price or volatility of asset or non-asset references, or the occurrence of a credit event, over a specified period. Swaps can be executed in a bi-lateral privately negotiated arrangement with a dealer in an OTC transaction (“OTC swaps”) or executed on a regulated market. Certain swaps, regardless of the venue of their execution, are required to be cleared through a clearinghouse (“centrally cleared swaps”). Swap contracts may include interest rate, equity, debt, index, total return, credit

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

default, currency, and volatility swaps.

Swap contracts are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments. The values of centrally cleared swap and OTC swap contracts are aggregated by positive and negative values and disclosed separately on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The unrealized appreciation (depreciation) related to the change in the valuation of the notional amount of the swap is combined with the accrued interest due to (owed by) the Fund, if any, at termination or settlement. The net change in this amount during the period is included on the Statement of Operations. The Fund also records any periodic payments received from (paid to) the counterparty, including at termination, under such contracts as realized gain (loss) on the Statement of Operations.

Swap contract agreements are exposed to the market risk factor of the specific underlying reference rate or asset. Swap contracts are typically more attractively priced compared to similar investments in related cash securities because they isolate the risk to one market risk factor and eliminate the other market risk factors. Investments in cash securities (for instance bonds) have exposure to multiple risk factors (credit and interest rate risk). Because swaps have embedded leverage, they can expose the Fund to substantial risk in the isolated market risk factor.

Credit Default Swap Contracts. A credit default swap is a contract that enables an investor to buy or sell protection against a defined-issuer credit event, such as the issuer’s failure to make timely payments of interest or principal on a debt security, bankruptcy or restructuring. The Fund may enter into credit default swaps either by buying or selling protection on a corporate issuer, sovereign issuer, or a basket or index of issuers (the “reference asset”).

The buyer of protection pays a periodic fee to the seller of protection based on the notional amount of the swap contract. The seller of protection agrees to compensate the buyer of protection for future potential losses as a result of a credit event on the reference asset. The contract effectively transfers the credit event risk of the reference asset from the buyer of protection to the seller of protection.

The ongoing value of the contract will fluctuate throughout the term of the contract based primarily on the credit risk of the reference asset. If the credit quality of the reference asset improves relative to the credit quality at contract initiation, the buyer of protection may have an unrealized loss greater than the anticipated periodic fee owed. This unrealized loss would be the result of current credit protection being cheaper than the cost of credit protection at contract initiation. If the buyer elects to terminate the contract prior to its maturity, and there has been no credit event, this unrealized loss will become realized. If the contract is held to maturity, and there has been no credit event, the realized loss will be equal to the periodic fee paid over the life of the contract.

If there is a credit event, the buyer of protection can exercise its rights under the contract and receive a payment from the seller of protection equal to the notional amount of the swap less the market value of specified debt securities issued by the reference asset. Upon exercise of the contract the difference between such value and the notional amount is recorded as realized gain (loss) and is included on the Statement of Operations.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

The Fund may purchase or sell credit protection through credit default swaps to increase or decrease exposure to the credit risk of individual issuers and/or indexes of issuers that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractive in the bond market.

For the reporting period, the Fund had ending monthly average notional amounts of $5,224,369 on credit default swaps to sell protection.

Swaption Transactions

The Fund may enter into a swaption contract which grants the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to enter into a swap transaction at preset terms detailed in the underlying agreement within a specified period of time. The purchaser pays a premium to the swaption writer who bears the risk of unfavorable changes in the preset terms on the underlying swap.

Purchased swaptions are reported as a component of investments in the Statement of Investments and the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Written swaptions are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments and their value is reported as a separate asset or liability line item in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The net change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation on written swaptions is separately reported in the Statement of Operations. When a swaption is exercised, the cost of the swap is adjusted by the amount of premium paid or received. Upon the expiration or closing of an unexercised swaption contract, a gain or loss is reported in the Statement of Operations for the amount of the premium paid or received.

The Fund generally will incur a greater risk when it writes a swaption than when it purchases a swaption. When the Fund writes a swaption it will become obligated, upon exercise of the swaption, according to the terms of the underlying agreement. Swaption contracts written by the Fund do not give rise to counterparty credit risk prior to exercise as they obligate the Fund, not its counterparty, to perform. When the Fund purchases a swaption it only risks losing the amount of the premium it paid if the swaption expires unexercised. However, when the Fund exercises a purchased swaption there is a risk that the counterparty will fail to perform or otherwise default on its obligations under the swaption contract.

The Fund may purchase swaptions which give it the option to buy or sell credit protection through credit default swaps in order to decrease or increase exposure to the credit risk of individual issuers and/ or indexes of issuers. A swaption selling protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset decreases. A swaption buying protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset increases.

At period end, the Fund had no purchased swaption contracts outstanding.

The Fund may write swaptions which give it the obligation, if exercised by the purchaser, to sell or buy credit protection through credit default swaps in order to increase or decrease exposure to the credit risk of individual issuers and/or indexes of issuers. A written swaption selling protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset decreases. A written swaption buying protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset increases.

During the reporting period, the Fund had an ending monthly average market value of $39,099 and $11,188 on purchased and written swaptions, respectively.

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

At period end, the Fund had no written swaption contracts outstanding.

Written swaption activity for the reporting period was as follows:

 

      Number of
Contracts
     Amount of
Premiums
 
Swaptions outstanding as of July 31, 2016           $ —   
Swaptions written      18,342,000        97,943   
Swaptions closed or expired      (18,342,000      (97,943)  
  

 

 

 
Swaptions outstanding as of July 31, 2017                              —      $  
  

 

 

 

Counterparty Credit Risk. Derivative positions are subject to the risk that the counterparty will not fulfill its obligation to the Fund. The Fund intends to enter into derivative transactions with counterparties that the Manager believes to be creditworthy at the time of the transaction.

The Fund’s risk of loss from counterparty credit risk on OTC derivatives is generally limited to the aggregate unrealized gain netted against any collateral held by the Fund. For OTC options purchased, the Fund bears the risk of loss of the amount of the premiums paid plus the positive change in market values net of any collateral held by the Fund should the counterparty fail to perform under the contracts. Options written by the Fund do not typically give rise to counterparty credit risk, as options written generally obligate the Fund and not the counterparty to perform.

To reduce counterparty risk with respect to OTC transactions, the Fund has entered into master netting arrangements, established within the Fund’s International Swap and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) master agreements, which allow the Fund to make (or to have an entitlement to receive) a single net payment in the event of default (close-out netting) for outstanding payables and receivables with respect to certain OTC positions in swaps, options, swaptions, and forward currency exchange contracts for each individual counterparty. In addition, the Fund may require that certain counterparties post cash and/or securities in collateral accounts to cover their net payment obligations for those derivative contracts subject to ISDA master agreements. If the counterparty fails to perform under these contracts and agreements, the cash and/or securities will be made available to the Fund.

ISDA master agreements include credit related contingent features which allow counterparties to OTC derivatives to terminate derivative contracts prior to maturity in the event that, for example, the Fund’s net assets decline by a stated percentage or the Fund fails to meet the terms of its ISDA master agreements, which would cause the Fund to accelerate payment of any net liability owed to the counterparty.

For financial reporting purposes, the Fund does not offset derivative assets and derivative liabilities that are subject to netting arrangements in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Bankruptcy or insolvency laws of a particular jurisdiction may impose restrictions on or prohibitions against the right of offset in bankruptcy, insolvency or other events.

The Fund’s risk of loss from counterparty credit risk on exchange-traded derivatives cleared

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

through a clearinghouse and for centrally cleared swaps is generally considered lower than as compared to OTC derivatives. However, counterparty credit risk exists with respect to initial and variation margin deposited/paid by the Fund that is held in futures commission merchant, broker and/or clearinghouse accounts for such exchange-traded derivatives and for centrally cleared swaps.

With respect to centrally cleared swaps, such transactions will be submitted for clearing, and if cleared, will be held in accounts at futures commission merchants or brokers that are members of clearinghouses. While brokers, futures commission merchants and clearinghouses are required to segregate customer margin from their own assets, in the event that a broker, futures commission merchant or clearinghouse becomes insolvent or goes into bankruptcy and at that time there is a shortfall in the aggregate amount of margin held by the broker, futures commission merchant or clearinghouse for all its customers, U.S. bankruptcy laws will typically allocate that shortfall on a pro-rata basis across all the broker’s, futures commission merchant’s or clearinghouse’s customers, potentially resulting in losses to the Fund.

There is the risk that a broker, futures commission merchant or clearinghouse will decline to clear a transaction on the Fund’s behalf, and the Fund may be required to pay a termination fee to the executing broker with whom the Fund initially enters into the transaction. Clearinghouses may also be permitted to terminate centrally cleared swaps at any time. The Fund is also subject to the risk that the broker or futures commission merchant will improperly use the Fund’s assets deposited/paid as initial or variation margin to satisfy payment obligations of another customer. In the event of a default by another customer of the broker or futures commission merchant, the Fund might not receive its variation margin payments from the clearinghouse, due to the manner in which variation margin payments are aggregated for all customers of the broker/futures commission merchant.

Collateral and margin requirements differ by type of derivative. Margin requirements are established by the broker, futures commission merchant or clearinghouse for exchange-traded and cleared derivatives, including centrally cleared swaps. Brokers, futures commission merchants and clearinghouses can ask for margin in excess of the regulatory minimum, or increase the margin amount, in certain circumstances.

Collateral terms are contract specific for OTC derivatives. For derivatives traded under an

ISDA master agreement, the collateral requirements are typically calculated by netting the mark to market amount for each transaction under such agreement and comparing that amount to the value of any collateral currently pledged by the Fund or the counterparty.

For financial reporting purposes, cash collateral that has been pledged to cover obligations of the Fund, if any, is reported separately on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as cash pledged as collateral. Non-cash collateral pledged by the Fund, if any, is noted in the Statement of Investments. Generally, the amount of collateral due from or to a party must exceed a minimum transfer amount threshold (e.g. $250,000) before a transfer has to be made. To the extent amounts due to the Fund from its counterparties are not fully collateralized, contractually or otherwise, the Fund bears the risk of loss from counterparty nonperformance.

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

The following table presents the valuations of derivative instruments by risk exposure as reported within the Statement of Assets and Liabilities at period end:

 

       Asset Derivatives                         Liability Derivatives            

Derivatives

Not Accounted

for as Hedging

Instruments

       Statement of Assets
and Liabilities Location
       Value                  Statement of Assets
and Liabilities Location
       Value  

Credit contracts

      
Centrally cleared swaps,
at value
 
 
     $ 720,927                

Interest rate contracts Variation margin receivable

 

       21,209*             Variation margin payable        $ 4,485*   
         

 

 

              

 

 

 

Total

          $     742,136                 $     4,485    
         

 

 

              

 

 

 

*Includes only the current day’s variation margin. Prior variation margin movements have been reflected in cash on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities upon receipt or payment.

The effect of derivative instruments on the Statement of Operations is as follows:

 

Amount of Realized Gain or (Loss) Recognized on Derivatives  

Derivatives

Not Accounted

for as Hedging

Instruments

   Investment
transactions
in unaffiliated
companies*
    Closing and
expiration
of swaption
contracts
written
     Closing and
expiration
of futures
contracts
     Swap contracts      Total  

Credit contracts

   $ (292,190   $ 97,943      $      $ 191,515      $ (2,732 )   

Interest rate contracts

                  419,664               419,664  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ (292,190   $ 97,943      $ 419,664      $ 191,515      $     416,932  
  

 

 

 

*Includes purchased option contracts, purchased swaption contracts, written option contracts exercised and written swaption contracts exercised if any.

 

Amount of Change in Unrealized Gain or (Loss) Recognized on Derivatives  

Derivatives

Not Accounted

for as Hedging

Instruments

   Futures
contracts
    Swap contracts     Total  

Credit contracts

   $     $ 149,670     $ 149,670  

Interest rate contracts

     135,274             135,274  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $     135,274     $ 149,670     $     284,944  
  

 

 

 

 

 

7. Shares of Beneficial Interest

The Fund has authorized an unlimited number of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest of each class. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest were as follows:

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

7. Shares of Beneficial Interest (Continued)

 

     Year Ended July 31, 2017     Year Ended July 31, 2016  
      Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  

Class A

        

Sold

     3,899,900     $ 42,132,459       6,728,553     $ 71,479,141   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     332,862       3,591,997       323,102       3,422,210   

Redeemed

     (4,928,222     (53,118,962     (4,149,455     (43,729,476)  
  

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease)

     (695,460   $ (7,394,506     2,902,200     $ 31,171,875   
  

 

 

 

    

 

Class C

        

Sold

     889,600     $ 9,612,956       1,712,463     $ 18,163,692   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     66,488       717,008       61,323       649,533   

Redeemed

     (1,363,212     (14,591,958     (906,267     (9,565,292)  
  

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease)

     (407,124   $ (4,261,994     867,519     $ 9,247,933   
  

 

 

 

    

 

Class I

        

Sold

     201,133     $ 2,174,827       174     $ 1,836   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     1,708       18,487       311       3,296   

Redeemed

     (9,648     (104,497     (3,513     (38,615)  
  

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease)

     193,193     $ 2,088,817       (3,028   $ (33,483)  
  

 

 

 

    

 

Class R

        

Sold

     679,123     $ 7,327,631       618,722     $ 6,555,830   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     31,632       341,444       19,887       211,228   

Redeemed

     (371,868     (3,982,261     (156,140     (1,650,054)  
  

 

 

 

Net increase

     338,887     $ 3,686,814       482,469     $ 5,117,004   
  

 

 

 

    

 

Class Y

        

Sold

                 1,592,243     $ 17,147,663       747,746     $ 7,967,666   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     36,025       388,663       19,533       207,500   

Redeemed

     (1,000,708     (10,747,219     (276,970     (2,937,299)  
  

 

 

 

Net increase

     627,560     $ 6,789,107       490,309     $ 5,237,867   
  

 

 

 

 

 

8. Purchases and Sales of Securities

The aggregate cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other than short-term obligations and investments in IGMMF, for the reporting period were as follows:

 

      Purchases        Sales  

Investment securities

   $ 152,811,638        $ 148,214,613  

 

 

9. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates

Management Fees. Under the investment advisory agreement, the Fund pays the Manager a management fee based on the daily net assets of the Fund at an annual rate as shown in the following table:

 

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9. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates (Continued)

 

Fee Schedule        

Up to $500 million

     0.45 %     

Next $500 million

     0.40  

Next $4 billion

     0.35  

Over $5 billion

     0.30  

The Fund’s effective management fee for the reporting period was 0.45% of average annual net assets before any applicable waivers.

Sub-Adviser Fees. The Manager has retained the Sub-Adviser to provide the day-to-day portfolio management of the Fund. Under the Sub-Advisory Agreement, the Manager pays the Sub-Adviser an annual fee in monthly installments, equal to a percentage of the investment management fee collected by the Manager from the Fund, which shall be calculated after any investment management fee waivers. The fee paid to the Sub-Adviser is paid by the Manager, not by the Fund.

Transfer Agent Fees. OFI Global (the “Transfer Agent”) serves as the transfer and shareholder servicing agent for the Fund. The Fund pays the Transfer Agent a fee based on annual net assets, which shall be calculated after any applicable fee waivers. Fees incurred and average net assets for each class with respect to these services are detailed in the Statement of Operations and Financial Highlights, respectively.

Sub-Transfer Agent Fees. The Transfer Agent has retained Shareholder Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of OFI (the “Sub-Transfer Agent”), to provide the day-to-day transfer agent and shareholder servicing of the Fund. Under the Sub-Transfer Agency Agreement, the Transfer Agent pays the Sub-Transfer Agent an annual fee in monthly installments, equal to a percentage of the transfer agent fee collected by the Transfer Agent from the Fund, which shall be calculated after any applicable fee waivers. The fee paid to the Sub-Transfer Agent is paid by the Transfer Agent, not by the Fund.

Trustees’ Compensation. The Fund’s Board of Trustees (“Board”) has adopted a compensation deferral plan for Independent Trustees that enables Trustees to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of the annual compensation they are entitled to receive from the Fund. For purposes of determining the amount owed to the Trustees under the plan, deferred amounts are treated as though equal dollar amounts had been invested in shares of the Fund or in other Oppenheimer funds selected by the Trustees. The Fund purchases shares of the funds selected for deferral by the Trustees in amounts equal to his or her deemed investment, resulting in a Fund asset equal to the deferred compensation liability. Such assets are included as a component of “Other” within the asset section of the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Deferral of Trustees’ fees under the plan will not affect the net assets of the Fund and will not materially affect the Fund’s assets, liabilities or net investment income per share. Amounts will be deferred until distributed in accordance with the compensation deferral plan.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

9. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates (Continued)

 

Distribution and Service Plan (12b-1) Fees. Under its General Distributor’s Agreement with the Fund, OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (the “Distributor”) acts as the Fund’s principal underwriter in the continuous public offering of the Fund’s classes of shares.

Service Plan for Class A Shares. The Fund has adopted a Service Plan (the “Plan”) for Class A shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Under the Plan, the Fund reimburses the Distributor for a portion of its costs incurred for services provided to accounts that hold Class A shares. Reimbursement is made periodically at an annual rate of up to

0.25% of the daily net assets of Class A shares of the Fund. The Distributor currently uses all of those fees to pay dealers, brokers, banks and other financial institutions periodically for providing personal service and maintenance of accounts of their customers that hold Class A shares. Any unreimbursed expenses the Distributor incurs with respect to Class A shares in any fiscal year cannot be recovered in subsequent periods. Fees incurred by the Fund under the Plan are detailed in the Statement of Operations.

Distribution and Service Plans for Class C and Class R Shares. The Fund has adopted Distribution and Service Plans (the “Plans”) for Class C and Class R shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act to compensate the Distributor for distributing those share classes, maintaining accounts and providing shareholder services. Under the Plans, the Fund pays the Distributor an annual asset-based sales charge of 0.75% on Class C shares’ daily net assets and 0.25% on Class R shares’ daily net assets. The Fund also pays a service fee under the Plans at an annual rate of 0.25% of daily net assets. The Plans continue in effect from year to year only if the Fund’s Board of Trustees votes annually to approve their continuance at an in person meeting called for that purpose. Fees incurred by the Fund under the Plans are detailed in the Statement of Operations.

Sales Charges. Front-end sales charges and CDSC do not represent expenses of the Fund. They are deducted from the proceeds of sales of Fund shares prior to investment or from redemption proceeds prior to remittance, as applicable. The sales charges retained by the Distributor from the sale of shares and the CDSC retained by the Distributor on the redemption of shares is shown in the following table for the period indicated.

 

Year Ended    Class A
Front-End
Sales Charges
Retained by
Distributor
     Class A
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges
Retained by
Distributor
     Class C
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges
Retained by
Distributor
     Class R
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges
Retained by
Distributor
     Class Y
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges
Retained by
Distributor
 

July 31, 2017

     $77,603        $1,860        $4,748        $—        $—  

Waivers and Reimbursements of Expenses. The Manager has contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses to limit the Fund’s “Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses” (excluding any applicable dividend expense, taxes, interest and fees from borrowing, any subsidiary expenses, Acquired

 

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9. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates (Continued)

 

Fund Fees and Expenses, brokerage commissions, interest and fees from borrowing, and certain other Fund expenses) so that, as percentages of average daily net assets, those expenses will not exceed the annual rate of 1.00%, 1.75%, 0.55%, 1.25% and 0.75% for Class A, Class C, Class I, Class R and Class Y shares, respectively.

This fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement may not be amended or withdrawn for one year from the date of the Fund’s prospectus, unless approved by the Board.

Effective January 1, 2017, the Transfer Agent has voluntarily agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse Fund expenses in an amount equal to 0.015% of average annual net assets for Classes A, B, C, R and Y.

During the reporting period, the Transfer Agent waived fees and/or reimbursed the Fund for transfer agent and shareholder servicing agent fees as follows:

 

Class A

   $ 11,305  

Class C

     2,946  

Class R

     1,228  

Class Y

     1,209  

This fee waiver and/or reimbursement may be terminated at any time.

The Manager will waive fees and/or reimburse Fund expenses in an amount equal to the indirect management fees incurred through the Fund’s investments in Affiliated Funds. During the reporting period, the Manager waived fees and/or reimbursed the Fund $36,860 for these management fees. This fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement may not be amended or withdrawn for one year from the date of the Fund’s prospectus, unless approved by the Board.

 

 

10. Borrowings and Other Financing

Joint Credit Facility. A number of mutual funds managed by the Manager participate in a $1.875 billion revolving credit facility (the “Facility”) intended to provide short-term financing, if necessary, subject to certain restrictions in connection with atypical redemption activity. Expenses and fees related to the Facility are paid by the participating funds and are disclosed separately or as other expenses on the Statement of Operations. The Fund did not utilize the Facility during the reporting period.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

 

The Board of Trustees and Shareholders of Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund (the Fund), including the statement of investments, as of July 31, 2017, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years or periods in the five-year period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of July 31, 2017, by correspondence with the custodian, transfer agent and brokers, or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund as of July 31, 2017, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years or periods in the five-year period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

KPMG LLP

Denver, Colorado

September 27, 2017

 

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FEDERAL INCOME TAX INFORMATION Unaudited

 

 

In early 2017, if applicable, shareholders of record received information regarding all dividends and distributions paid to them by the Fund during calendar year 2016.

None of the dividends paid by the Fund during the reporting period are eligible for the corporate dividend-received deduction.

Dividends, if any, paid by the Fund during the reporting period which are not designated as capital gain distributions, may be eligible for lower individual income tax rates to the extent that the Fund has received qualified dividend income as stipulated by recent tax legislation. In early 2017, shareholders of record received information regarding the percentage of distributions that are eligible for lower individual income tax rates. The amount will be the maximum amount allowed.

Recent tax legislation allows a regulated investment company to designate distributions not designated as capital gain distributions, as either interest related dividends or short-term capital gain dividends, both of which are exempt from the U.S. withholding tax applicable to non U.S. taxpayers. For the reporting period, the maximum amount allowable but not less than $4,216,154 of the ordinary distributions to be paid by the Fund qualifies as an interest related dividend.

The foregoing information is presented to assist shareholders in reporting distributions received from the Fund to the Internal Revenue Service. Because of the complexity of the federal regulations which may affect your individual tax return and the many variations in state and local tax regulations, we recommend that you consult your tax advisor for specific guidance.

 

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PORTFOLIO PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND GUIDELINES;

UPDATES TO STATEMENTS OF INVESTMENTS Unaudited

 

 

The Fund has adopted Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Guidelines under which the Fund votes proxies relating to securities (“portfolio proxies”) held by the Fund. A description of the Fund’s Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Guidelines is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling the Fund toll-free at 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677), (ii) on the Fund’s website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com, and (iii) on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, the Fund is required to file Form N-PX, with its complete proxy voting record for the 12 months ended June 30th, no later than August 31st of each year. The Fund’s voting record is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling the Fund toll-free at
1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677), and (ii) in the Form N-PX filing on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

The Fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first quarter and the third quarter of each fiscal year on Form N-Q. The Fund’s Form N-Q filings are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Those forms may be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling 1-800-SEC-0330.

Householding—Delivery of Shareholder Documents

This is to inform you about OppenheimerFunds’ “householding” policy. If more than one member of your household maintains an account in a particular fund, OppenheimerFunds will mail only one copy of the fund’s prospectus (or, if available, the fund’s summary prospectus), annual and semiannual report and privacy policy. The consolidation of these mailings, called householding, benefits your fund through reduced mailing expense, and benefits you by reducing the volume of mail you receive from OppenheimerFunds. Householding does not affect the delivery of your account statements.

Please note that we will continue to household these mailings for as long as you remain an OppenheimerFunds shareholder, unless you request otherwise. If you prefer to receive multiple copies of these materials, please call us at 1.800.CALL-OPP (225-5677). You may also notify us in writing or via email. We will begin sending you individual copies of the prospectus (or, if available, the summary prospectus), reports and privacy policy within 30 days of receiving your request to stop householding.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited

 

Name, Position(s) Held with the

Fund, Length of Service, Year of

Birth

 

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years; Other Trusteeships/

Directorships Held; Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Currently

Overseen

INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES   The address of each Trustee in the chart below is 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924. Each Trustee serves for an indefinite term, or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Robert J. Malone,

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

(since 2016) and Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1944

 

Chairman - Colorado Market of MidFirst Bank (since January 2015); Chairman of the Board (2012-2016) and Director (August 2005-January 2016) of Jones International University (educational organization); Trustee of the Gallagher Family Foundation (non-profit organization) (2000-2016); Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Steele Street Bank Trust (commercial banking) (August 2003-January 2015); Director of Opera Colorado Foundation (non-profit organization) (2008-2012); Director of Colorado UpLIFT (charitable organization)

(1986-2010); Director of Jones Knowledge, Inc. (2006-2010); Former Chairman of U.S. Bank-Colorado (subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp and formerly Colorado National Bank) (July 1996-April 1999); Director of Commercial Assets, Inc. (real estate investment trust) (1993-2000); Director of U.S. Exploration, Inc. (oil and gas exploration) (1997-February 2004); Chairman of the Board (1991-1994) and Trustee (1985-1994) of Regis University; and Chairman of the Board (1990-1991) and Member (1984-1999) of Young Presidents Organization. Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Malone has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2002, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Board’s deliberations.

Andrew J. Donohue,

Trustee (since 2017)

Year of Birth: 1950

  Chief of Staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (regulator) (June 2015-February 2017); Managing Director and Investment Company General Counsel of Goldman Sachs (investment bank) (November 2012-May 2015); Partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP (law firm) (March 2011-October 2012); Director of the Division of Investment Management of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (regulator) (May 2006-November 2010); Global General Counsel of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (investment firm) (May 2003-May 2006); General Counsel (October 1991-November 2001) and Executive Vice President (January 1993-November 2001) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (investment firm) (June 1991-November 2001). Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Donohue has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2017, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Board’s deliberations.

Jon S. Fossel,

Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1942

  Chairman of the Board of Jack Creek Preserve Foundation (non-profit organization) (2005-2015); Director of Jack Creek Preserve Foundation (non-profit organization) (since March 2005); Chairman of the Board (2006-December 2011) and Director (June 2002-December 2011) of UNUMProvident (insurance company); Director of Northwestern Energy Corp. (public utility corporation) (November 2004-December 2009); Director of P.R. Pharmaceuticals (October 1999-October 2003); Director of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (non-profit organization) (February 1998-February 2003 and February 2005-February 2007); Chairman and Director (until October 1996) and President and Chief Executive Officer (until October 1995) of the

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited / Continued

 

Jon S. Fossel,

Continued

  Sub-Adviser; President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the following: Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (“OAC”) (parent holding company of the Sub- Adviser), Shareholders Services, Inc. and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (until October 1995). Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Fossel has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 1990, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Richard F. Grabish,

Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1948

  Formerly Senior Vice President and Assistant Director of Sales and Marketing (March 1997-December 2007), Director (March 1987-December 2007) and Manager of Private Client Services (June 1985-June 2005) of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. (broker/dealer and investment firm); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of A.G. Edwards Trust Company, FSB (March 2001-December 2007); President and Vice Chairman of A.G. Edwards Trust Company, FSB (investment adviser) (April 1987-March 2001); President of A.G. Edwards Trust Company, FSB (investment adviser) (June 2005-December 2007). Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Grabish has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2001, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Beverly L. Hamilton,

Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1946

  Trustee of Monterey Institute for International Studies (educational organization) (2000-2014); Board Member of Middlebury College (educational organization) (December 2005-June 2011); Director (1991-2016), Vice Chairman of the Board (2006-2009) and Chairman of the Board (2010-2013) of American Funds’ Emerging Markets Growth Fund, Inc. (mutual fund); Director of The California Endowment (philanthropic organization) (April 2002-April 2008); Director (February 2002-2005) and Chairman of Trustees (2006-2007) of the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula; President of ARCO Investment Management Company (February 1991-April 2000); Member of the investment committees of The Rockefeller Foundation (2001-2006) and The University of Michigan (since 2000); Advisor at Credit Suisse First Boston’s Sprout venture capital unit (venture capital fund) (1994-January 2005); Trustee of MassMutual Institutional Funds (investment company) (1996-June 2004); Trustee of MML Series Investment Fund (investment company) (April 1989-June 2004); Member of the investment committee of Hartford Hospital (2000-2003); and Advisor to Unilever (Holland) pension fund (2000-2003). Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Ms. Hamilton has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2002, during which time she has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Victoria J. Herget,

Trustee (since 2012)

Year of Birth: 1951

  Board Chair (2008-2015) and Director (2004-Present), United Educators (insurance company); Trustee (since 2000) and Chair (since 2010), Newberry Library (independent research library); Trustee, Mather LifeWays (senior living organization) (since 2001); Independent Director of the First American Funds (mutual fund family) (2003-2011); former Managing Director (1993-2001), Principal (1985-

 

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Victoria J. Herget,

Continued

  1993), Vice President (1978-1985) and Assistant Vice President (1973-1978) of Zurich Scudder Investments (investment adviser) (and its predecessor firms); Trustee (1992-2007), Chair of the Board of Trustees (1999-2007), Investment Committee Chair (1994-1999) and Investment Committee member (2007-2010) of Wellesley College; Trustee, BoardSource (non-profit organization) (2006-2009) and Chicago City Day School (K-8 School)
(1994-2005). Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Ms. Herget has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2012, during which time she has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

F. William Marshall, Jr,

Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1942

  Trustee Emeritus of Worcester Polytech Institute (WPI) (private university) (since 2009); Trustee of MassMutual Select Funds (formerly MassMutual Institutional Funds) (investment company) (1996-2015), MML Series Investment Fund (investment company) (1996-2015) and Mass Mutual Premier Funds (investment company) (January 2012-December 2015); President and Treasurer of the SIS Charitable Fund (private charitable fund) (January 1999-March 2011); Former Trustee of WPI (1985-2008); Former Chairman of the Board (2004-2006) and Former Chairman of the Investment Committee of WPI (1994-2008); Chairman of SIS Family Bank, F.S.B. (formerly SIS Bank) (commercial bank) (January 1999-July 1999); Executive Vice President of Peoples Heritage Financial Group, Inc. (commercial bank) (January 1999-July 1999); and Former President and Chief Executive Officer of SIS Bancorp. (1993-1999). Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Marshall has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2000, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Karen L. Stuckey,

Trustee (since 2012)

Year of Birth: 1953

  Member (since May 2015) of Desert Mountain Community Foundation Advisory Board (non-profit organization); Partner (1990-2012) of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (professional services firm) (held various positions 1975-1990); Trustee (1992-2006); member of Executive, Nominating and Audit Committees and Chair of Finance Committee (1992-2006), and Emeritus Trustee (since 2006) of Lehigh University; and member, Women’s Investment Management Forum (professional organization) since inception. Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Ms. Stuckey has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2012, during which time she has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

James D. Vaughn,

Trustee (since 2012)

Year of Birth: 1945

  Retired; former managing partner (1994-2001) of Denver office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, (held various positions 1969-1993); Trustee and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Schroder Funds (2003-2012); Board member and Chairman of Audit Committee of AMG National Trust Bank (since 2005); Trustee and Investment Committee member, University of South Dakota Foundation (since 1996); Board member, Audit Committee Member and past Board Chair, Junior Achievement (since 1993); former Board member, Mile High United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts, Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, Economic Club of Colorado and Metro Denver Network. Oversees 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Vaughn has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2012, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited / Continued

 

 

INTERESTED TRUSTEE AND

OFFICER

  Mr. Steinmetz is an “Interested Trustee” because he is affiliated with the Manager and the Sub-Adviser by virtue of his positions as Chairman of the Sub-Adviser and officer and director of the Manager. Both as a Trustee and as an officer, Mr. Steinmetz serves for an indefinite term, or until his resignation, retirement, death or removal. Mr. Steinmetz’s address is 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008.

Arthur P. Steinmetz,

Trustee (since 2015), President and

Principal Executive Officer (since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1958

  Chairman of the Sub-Adviser (since January 2015); CEO and Chairman of the Manager (since July 2014), President of the Manager (since May 2013), a Director of the Manager (since January 2013), Director of the Sub-Adviser (since July 2014), President, Management Director and CEO of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (the Sub-Adviser’s parent holding company) (since July 2014), and President and Director of OFI SteelPath, Inc. (since January 2013). Chief Investment Officer of the OppenheimerFunds advisory entities from (January 2013-December 2013); Executive Vice President of the Manager (January 2013-May 2013); Chief Investment Officer of the Sub-Adviser (October 2010-December 2012); Chief Investment Officer, Fixed-Income, of the Sub-Adviser (April 2009-October 2010); Executive Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (October 2009-December 2012); Director of Fixed Income of the Sub-Adviser (January 2009-April 2009); and a Senior Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (March 1993-September 2009).An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

 

OTHER OFFICERS OF THE FUND   The addresses of the Officers in the chart below are as follows: for Mr. Memani, Mss. Lo Bessette, Foxson and Picciotto, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008, for Mr. Petersen 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924. Each Officer serves for an indefinite term or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Krishna Memani,

Vice President (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1960

  President of the Sub-Adviser (since January 2013); Executive Vice President of the Manager (since January 2014) and Chief Investment Officer of the OppenheimerFunds advisory entities (since January 2014). Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income of the Sub-Adviser (January 2013-December 2013); Head of the Investment Grade Fixed Income Team of the Sub-Adviser (March 2009-January 2014); Director of Fixed Income of the Sub-Adviser (October 2010-December 2012); Senior Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (March 2009-December 2012) and Senior Vice President of OFI Global Institutional, Inc. (April 2009-December 2012). Managing Director and Head of the U.S. and European Credit Analyst Team at Deutsche Bank Securities (June 2006-January 2009). Chief Credit Strategist at Credit Suisse Securities (August 2002-March 2006). Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Putnam Investments (September 1998-June 2002).

Cynthia Lo Bessette,

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer

(since 2016)

Year of Birth: 1969

  Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Manager (since February 2016); Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the Manager (March 2015-February 2016); Chief Legal Officer of the Sub-Adviser and the Distributor (since February 2016); Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (since February 2016); General Counsel of OFI SteelPath, Inc., VTL Associates, LLC and Index Management Solutions, LLC (since February 2016); Chief Legal Officer of OFI Global Institutional, Inc., HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, OFI Global Trust Company, Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., OFI Private Investments Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc. and Trinity Investment Management Corporation (since February 2016); Corporate Counsel (February 2012-March 2015) and Deputy Chief Legal Officer (April 2013-March 2015) of Jennison Associates LLC; Assistant General Counsel (April 2008-September 2009) and Deputy General Counsel (October 2009-February 2012) of Lord Abbett & Co. LLC. An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

 

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Jennifer Foxson,

Vice President and Chief Business Officer (since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1969

  Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (since June 2014); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (April 2006-June 2014); Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (January 1998-March 2006); Assistant Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (October 1991-December 1998). An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Mary Ann Picciotto,

Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer (since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1973

  Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Manager (since March 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of the Sub-Adviser, OFI SteelPath, Inc., OFI Global Trust Company, OFI Global Institutional, Inc., Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., OFI Private Investments, Inc., Harborview Asset Management Corporation, Trinity Investment Management Corporation, and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since March 2014); Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. and certain of its various affiliated entities; Chief Compliance Officer of various Morgan Stanley Funds (May 2010-January 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (April 2007-January 2014). An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Brian S. Petersen,

Treasurer and Principal Financial & Accounting Officer (since 2016)

Year of Birth: 1970

  Senior Vice President of the Manager (since January 2017); Vice President of the Manager (January 2013-January 2017); Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (February 2007-December 2012); Assistant Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (August 2002- 2007). An officer of 101 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

The Fund’s Statement of Additional Information contains additional information about the Fund’s Trustees and Officers and is available without charge upon request by calling 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677).

 

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OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND

 

Manager   OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.
Sub-Adviser   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Distributor   OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.

Transfer and Shareholder

Servicing Agent

  OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.
Sub-Transfer Agent  

Shareholder Services, Inc.

DBA OppenheimerFunds Services

Independent Registered

Public Accounting Firm

  KPMG LLP
Legal Counsel   Ropes & Gray LLP

© 2017 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. All Rights reserved.

 

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PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE

As an Oppenheimer fund shareholder, you are entitled to know how we protect your personal information and how we limit its disclosure.

Information Sources

We obtain nonpublic personal information about our shareholders from the following sources:

  Applications or other forms
  When you create a user ID and password for online account access
  When you enroll in eDocs Direct,SM our electronic document delivery service
  Your transactions with us, our affiliates or others
  Technologies on our website, including: “cookies” and web beacons, which are used to collect data on the pages you visit and the features you use.

If you visit oppenheimerfunds.com and do not log on to the secure account information areas, we do not obtain any personal information about you. When you do log on to a secure area, we do obtain your user ID and password to identify you. We also use this information to provide you with products and services you have requested, to inform you about products and services that you may be interested in and assist you in other ways.

We do not collect personal information through our website unless you willingly provide it to us, either directly by email or in those areas of the website that request information. In order to update your personal information (including your mailing address, email address and phone number) you must first log on and visit your user profile.

If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. However, doing so may limit your access to certain sections of our website.

We use cookies to help us improve and manage our website. For example, cookies help us recognize new versus repeat visitors to the site, track the pages visited, and enable some special features on the website. This data helps us provide a better service for our website visitors.

Protection of Information

We do not disclose any non-public personal information (such as names on a customer list) about current or former customers to anyone, except as permitted by law.

Disclosure of Information

Copies of confirmations, account statements and other documents reporting activity in your fund accounts are made available to your financial advisor (as designated by you). We may also use details about you and your investments to help us, our financial service affiliates, or firms that jointly market their financial products and services with ours, to better serve your investment needs or suggest educational material that may be of interest to you. If this requires us to provide you with an opportunity to “opt in” or “opt out” of such information sharing with a firm not affiliated with us, you will receive notification on how to do so, before any such sharing takes place.

Right of Refusal

We will not disclose your personal information to unaffiliated third parties (except as permitted by law), unless we first offer you a reasonable opportunity to refuse or “opt out” of such disclosure.

 

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PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE Continued

 

Internet Security and Encryption

In general, the email services provided by our website are encrypted and provide a secure and private means of communication with us. To protect your own privacy, confidential and/or personal information should only be communicated via email when you are advised that you are using a secure website. As a security measure, we do not include personal or account information in non-secure emails, and we advise you not to send such information to us in non-secure emails. Instead, you may take advantage of the secure features of our website to encrypt your email correspondence. To do this, you will need to use a browser that supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

  All transactions, including redemptions, exchanges and purchases, are secured by SSL and 256-bit encryption. SSL is used to establish a secure connection between your PC and OppenheimerFunds’ server. It transmits information in an encrypted and scrambled format.
  Encryption is achieved through an electronic scrambling technology that uses a “key” to code and then decode the data. Encryption acts like the cable converter box you may have on your television set. It scrambles data with a secret code so that no one can make sense of it while it is being transmitted. When the data reaches its destination, the same software unscrambles the data.
  You can exit the secure area by either closing your browser, or for added security, you can use the Log Out button before you close your browser.

Other Security Measures

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal account information. Our employees and agents have access to that information only so that they may offer you products or provide services, for example, when responding to your account questions.

How You Can Help

You can also do your part to keep your account information private and to prevent unauthorized transactions. If you obtain a user ID and password for your account, safeguard that information. Also, take special precautions when accessing your account on a computer used by others.

Who We Are

This joint notice describes the privacy policies of the Oppenheimer funds, OppenheimerFunds, Inc., each of its investment adviser subsidiaries, OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. and OFI Global Trust Co. It applies to all Oppenheimer fund accounts you presently have, or may open in the future, using your Social Security number—whether or not you remain a shareholder of our funds. This notice was last updated November 2016. In the event it is updated or changed, we will post an updated notice on our website at oppenheimerfunds.com. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, write to us at P.O. Box 5270, Denver, CO 80217-5270, email us by clicking on the Contact Us section of our website at oppenheimerfunds.com or call us at 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677).

 

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Oppenheimer funds are distributed by OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.

225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281-1008

© 2017 OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

RA1225.001.0717 September 26, 2017

  


Item 2. Code of Ethics.

The registrant has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the registrant’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions.

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.

The Board of Trustees of the registrant has determined that Karen L. Stuckey, the Chairwoman of the Board’s Audit Committee, is the audit committee financial expert and that Ms. Stuckey is “independent” for purposes of this Item 3.


Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

 

(a) Audit Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $51,200 in fiscal 2017 and $41,600 in fiscal 2016.

 

(b) Audit-Related Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $7,000 in fiscal 2017 and $1,172 in fiscal 2016.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $320,775 in fiscal 2017 and $736,335 in fiscal 2016 to the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant.

Such services include: Internal control reviews, GIPS attestation procedures, additional audit services, and custody exams.

 

(c) Tax Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2017 and no such fees in fiscal 2016.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $710,577 in fiscal 2017 and $298,261 in fiscal 2016 to the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant.

Such services include: tax compliance, tax planning and tax advice. Tax compliance generally involves preparation of original and amended tax returns, claims for a refund and tax payment-planning services. Tax planning and tax advice includes assistance with tax audits and appeals, tax advice related to mergers and acquisitions and requests for rulings or technical advice from taxing authorities.

 

(d) All Other Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2017 and no such fees in fiscal 2016.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2017 and no such fees in fiscal 2016 to the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant.


Such fees would include the cost to the principal accountant of attending audit committee meetings and consultations regarding the registrant’s retirement plan with respect to its Trustees.

 

(e) (1) During its regularly scheduled periodic meetings, the registrant’s audit committee will pre-approve all audit, audit-related, tax and other services to be provided by the principal accountants of the registrant.

The audit committee has delegated pre-approval authority to its Chairman for any subsequent new engagements that arise between regularly scheduled meeting dates provided that any fees such pre-approved are presented to the audit committee at its next regularly scheduled meeting.

Under applicable laws, pre-approval of non-audit services may be waived provided that: 1) the aggregate amount of all such services provided constitutes no more than five percent of the total amount of fees paid by the registrant to its principal accountant during the fiscal year in which services are provided 2) such services were not recognized by the registrant at the time of engagement as non-audit services and 3) such services are promptly brought to the attention of the audit committee of the registrant and approved prior to the completion of the audit.

(2) 0%

 

(f) Not applicable as less than 50%.

 

(g) The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $1,038,352 in fiscal 2017 and $1,035,768 in fiscal 2016 to the registrant and the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant related to non-audit fees. Those billings did not include any prohibited non-audit services as defined by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

(h) The registrant’s audit committee of the board of Trustees has considered whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to the registrant’s investment adviser, and any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the investment adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant that were not pre-approved pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(ii) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X is compatible with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence. No such services were rendered.

Item 5.  Audit Committee of Listed Registrants

Not applicable.

Item 6. Schedule of Investments.


a) Not applicable. The complete schedule of investments is included in Item 1 of this Form N-CSR.

b) Not applicable.

Item 7.  Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable.

Item 8.  Portfolio Managers of Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable.

Item 9.  Purchases of Equity Securities by Closed-End Management Investment Company and Affiliated Purchasers.

Not applicable.

Item 10.  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Fund’s Governance Committee Provisions with Respect to Nominations of Directors/Trustees to the Respective Boards

None

Item 11.  Controls and Procedures.

Based on their evaluation of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c)) as of 7/31/2017, the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer found the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurances that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in the reports that it files under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (a) is accumulated and communicated to registrant’s management, including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, and (b) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

There have been no changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that


have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 12.  Exhibits.

 

(a) (1) Exhibit attached hereto.

(2) Exhibits attached hereto.

(3) Not applicable.

 

(b) Exhibit attached hereto.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund

 

By:   /s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Principal Executive Officer
Date:   9/12/2017

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By:   /s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Principal Executive Officer
Date:   9/12/2017

 

By:   /s/ Brian S. Petersen
  Brian S. Petersen
  Principal Financial Officer
Date:   9/12/2017