-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, P13PCTyRl/fgaWc8OAZsVBVLpsI3YsXHjwqF7swvqRE2KphHYaFIqOBN7n7PCUcz Y85R1ohaU42PRxAxaUySIw== 0000728889-05-000246.txt : 20050215 0000728889-05-000246.hdr.sgml : 20050215 20050215122425 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000728889-05-000246 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20050215 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20050215 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20050215 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: OPPENHEIMER CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000319767 IRS NUMBER: 133054122 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 0831 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 002-69719 FILM NUMBER: 05615764 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6803 SOUTH TUCSON WAY STREET 2: N/A CITY: CENTENNIAL STATE: CO ZIP: 80112-3924 BUSINESS PHONE: 303-768-3200 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6803 SOUTH TUCSON WAY STREET 2: N/A CITY: CENTENNIAL STATE: CO ZIP: 80112-3924 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: OPPENHEIMER TARGET FUND DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: OPPENHEIMER TARGET FUND INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19870616 497 1 saipspcapappstick.htm SAI PSP STICKER OPPENHEIMER CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND


                                       OPPENHEIMER CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
                                     Supplement dated February 18, 2005 to the
                                         Prospectus dated October 25, 2004


This supplement amends the Prospectus dated October 25, 2004.

This Prospectus is revised as follows:

1.   The following paragraph is added to the end of section of the Prospectus captioned "Foreign Securities" in
the section "ABOUT THE FUND - ABOUT THE FUND'S INVESTMENTS - THE FUND'S PRINCIPAL POLICIES AND RISKS" on page 9:

         Additionally, if a fund invests a significant amount of its assets in foreign securities, it might
         expose the fund to "time-zone arbitrage" attempts by investors seeking to take advantage of the
         differences in value of foreign securities that might result from events that occur after the close
         of the foreign securities market on which a foreign security is traded and the close of The New
         York Stock Exchange that day, when the Fund's net asset value is calculated. If such time-zone
         arbitrage were successful, it might dilute the interests of other shareholders. However, the Fund's
         use of "fair value pricing" to adjust the closing market prices of foreign securities under certain
         circumstances, to reflect what the Manager and the Board believe to be their fair value may help
         deter those activities.

2.   The section titled "Pending Litigation" at the end of section of the Prospectus captioned "ABOUT THE FUND -
HOW THE FUND IS MANAGED," on page 11, is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

         PENDING LITIGATION.  A consolidated amended complaint has been filed as putative derivative and
         class actions against the Manager, Distributor and Transfer Agent, as well as 51 of the
         Oppenheimer funds (collectively the "funds") including the Fund, 31 present and former Directors
         or Trustees and 9 present and former officers of certain of the Funds. This complaint, filed in
         the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on January 10, 2005, consolidates
         into a single action and amends six individual previously-filed putative derivative and class
         action complaints. Like those prior complaints, the complaint alleges that the Manager charged
         excessive fees for distribution and other costs, improperly used assets of the funds in the form
         of directed brokerage commissions and 12b-1 fees to pay brokers to promote sales of the funds,
         and failed to properly disclose the use of fund assets to make those payments in violation of the
         Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Also, like those prior
         complaints, the complaint further alleges that by permitting and/or participating in those
         actions, the Directors/Trustees and the Officers breached their fiduciary duties to Fund
         shareholders under the Investment Company Act and at common law.  The complaint seeks unspecified
         compensatory and punitive damages, rescission of the funds' investment advisory agreements, an
         accounting of all fees paid, and an award of attorneys' fees and litigation expenses.

                  The Manager and the Distributor believe the claims asserted in these law suits to be
         without merit, and intend to defend the suits vigorously. The Manager and the Distributor do not
         believe that the pending actions are likely to have a material adverse effect on the Fund or on
         their ability to perform their respective investment advisory or distribution agreements with the
         Fund.

3.   In the section entitled "How Can You Buy Class A Shares?", the following is added after the chart depicting
Class A share sales charges on page 18:

         Due to rounding, the actual sales charge for a particular transaction may be higher or lower than the
         rates listed above.

4.   Effective March 18, 2005, the first two sentences of the first paragraph of the section entitled "Right of
Accumulation" in the section entitled "Can You Reduce Class A Sales Charges?" on page 18 are replaced with the
following:

         To qualify for the reduced Class A sales charge that would apply to a larger purchase than you are
         currently making (as shown in the table above), you can add the value of any Class A, Class B or
         Class C shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds that you or your spouse currently own, or are
         currently purchasing, to the value of your Class A share purchase. Your Class A shares of
         Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. or Oppenheimer Cash Reserves on which you did not pay a sales
         charge will not be counted for this purpose.

5.   Effective March 18, 2005, the first paragraph of the section entitled "Letters of Intent" in the section
entitled "Can You Reduce Class A Sales Charges?" on page 19 is replaced with the following:

         You may also qualify for reduced Class A sales charges by submitting a Letter of Intent to the
         Distributor. A Letter of Intent is a written statement of your intention to purchase a specified
         value of Class A, Class B or Class C shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds over a 13-month
         period. The total amount of your intended purchases of Class A, Class B and Class C shares will
         determine the reduced sales charge rate that will apply to your Class A share purchases of the Fund
         during that period. You can choose to include purchases made up to 90 days before the date that you
         submit a Letter.  Your Class A shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. or Oppenheimer Cash
         Reserves on which you did not pay a sales charge will not be counted for this purpose. Submitting a
         Letter of Intent does not obligate you to purchase the specified amount of shares. You can also
         apply the Right of Accumulation to these purchases.

6.   The section titled "How to Exchange Shares" in the section of the Prospectus captioned "ABOUT YOUR ACCOUNT,"
on page 29, should be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

How to Exchange Shares

If you want to change all or part of your investment from one Oppenheimer fund to another, you can exchange your
shares for shares of the same class of another Oppenheimer fund that offers the exchange privilege. For example,
you can exchange Class A shares of the Fund only for Class A shares of another fund. To exchange shares, you must
meet several conditions:

     o   Shares of the fund selected for exchange must be available for sale in your state of residence.
     o   The prospectuses of the selected fund must offer the exchange privilege.
     o   You must hold the shares you buy when you establish an account for at least seven days before you can
         exchange them. After your account is open for seven days, you can exchange shares on any regular
         business day, subject to the limitations described below.
     o   You must meet the minimum purchase requirements for the selected fund.
     o   Generally, exchanges may be made only between identically registered accounts, unless all account owners
         send written exchange instructions with a signature guarantee.
     o   Before exchanging into a fund, you must obtain its prospectus and should read it.

         For tax purposes, an exchange of shares of the Fund is considered a sale of those shares and a purchase
of the shares of the fund to which you are exchanging. An exchange may result in a capital gain or loss.

         You can find a list of the Oppenheimer funds that are currently available for exchanges in the Statement
of Additional Information or you can obtain a list by calling a service representative at 1.800.225.5677. The
funds available for exchange can change from time to time. There are a number of other special conditions and
limitations that apply to certain types of exchanges. In some cases, sales charges may be imposed on exchange
transactions. In general, a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) is not imposed on exchanges of shares that
are subject to a CDSC. However, if you exchange shares that are subject to a CDSC, the CDSC holding period will
be carried over to the acquired shares, and the CDSC may be imposed if those shares are redeemed before the end
of that holding period. These conditions and circumstances are described in detail in the "How to Exchange
Shares" section in the Statement of Additional Information.

HOW DO you SUBMIT EXCHANGE REQUESTS? Exchanges may be requested in writing, by telephone or the internet, or by
establishing an Automatic Exchange Plan.

Written Exchange Requests. Send an OppenheimerFunds Exchange Request form, signed by all owners of the account,
         to the Transfer Agent at the address on the back cover. Exchanges of shares for which share certificates
         have been issued cannot be processed unless the Transfer Agent receives the certificates with the
         request.

Telephone and Internet Exchange Requests. Telephone exchange requests may be made either by calling a service
         representative or by using PhoneLink by calling 1.800.225.5677. You may submit internet exchange
         requests on the OppenheimerFunds internet website, at www.oppenheimerfunds.com. You must have obtained a
         user I.D. and password to make transactions on that website. Telephone and/or internet exchanges may be
         made only between accounts that are registered with the same name(s) and address. Shares for which share
         certificates have been issued may not be exchanged by telephone or the internet.

Automatic Exchange Plan. Shareholders can authorize the Transfer Agent to exchange a pre-determined amount of
         shares automatically on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis.


Please refer to "How to Exchange Shares" in the Statement of Additional Information for more details.


ARE THERE LIMITATIONS ON FREQUENT PURCHASES, REDEMPTIONS AND EXCHANGES?

Risks from Excessive Purchase, Redemption and Short-Term Exchange Activity. The OppenheimerFunds exchange
privilege affords investors the ability to switch their investments among Oppenheimer funds if their investment
needs change. However, there are limits on that privilege. Frequent purchases, redemptions and exchanges of fund
shares may interfere with the Manager's ability to manage the fund's investments efficiently, increase the fund's
transaction and administrative costs and/or affect the fund's performance, depending on various factors, such as
the size of the fund, the nature of its investments, the amount of fund assets the portfolio manager maintains in
cash or cash equivalents, the aggregate dollar amount and the number and frequency of trades. If large dollar
amounts are involved in exchange and/or redemption transactions, the Fund might be required to sell portfolio
securities at unfavorable times to meet redemption or exchange requests, and the Fund's brokerage or
administrative expenses might be increased.

Therefore, the Manager and the Fund's Board of Trustees have adopted the following policies and procedures to
detect and prevent frequent and/or excessive exchanges, and/or purchase and redemption activity, while balancing
the needs of investors who seek liquidity from their investment and the ability to exchange shares as investment
needs change. There is no guarantee that the policies and procedures described below will be sufficient to
identify and deter excessive short-term trading.

o        Timing of Exchanges.  Exchanged shares are normally redeemed from one fund and the proceeds are
         reinvested in the fund selected for exchange on the same regular business day on which the Transfer
         Agent or its agent (such as a financial intermediary holding the investor's shares in an "omnibus" or
         "street name" account) receives an exchange request that conforms to these policies. The request must be
         received by the close of The New York Stock Exchange that day, which is normally 4:00 p.m. Eastern time,
         but may be earlier on some days. However, the Transfer Agent may delay the reinvestment of proceeds from
         an exchange for up to five business days if it determines, in its discretion, that an earlier
         transmittal of the redemption proceeds to the receiving fund would be detrimental to either the fund
         from which the exchange is made or the fund to which the exchange is made.

o        Limits on Disruptive Activity. The Transfer Agent may, in its discretion, limit or terminate trading
         activity by any person, group or account that it believes would be disruptive, even if the activity has
         not exceeded the policy outlined in this Prospectus. The Transfer Agent may review and consider the
         history of frequent trading activity in all accounts in the Oppenheimer funds known to be under common
         ownership or control as part of the Transfer Agent's procedures to detect and deter excessive trading
         activity.

o        Exchanges of Client Accounts by Financial Advisers.  The Fund and the Transfer Agent permit dealers and
         financial intermediaries to submit exchange requests on behalf of their customers (unless the customer
         has revoked that authority). The Distributor and/or the Transfer Agent have agreements with a number of
         financial intermediaries that permit them to submit exchange orders in bulk on behalf of their clients.
         Those intermediaries are required to follow the exchange policy stated in this Prospectus and to comply
         with additional, more stringent restrictions. Those additional restrictions include limitations on the
         funds available for exchanges, the requirement to give advance notice of exchanges to the Transfer
         Agent, and limits on the amount of client assets that may be invested in a particular fund. A fund or
         the Transfer Agent may limit or refuse bulk exchange requests submitted by such financial intermediaries
         if, in the Transfer Agent's judgment, exercised in its discretion, the exchanges would be disruptive to
         any of the funds involved in the transaction.

o        Redemptions of Shares.  These exchange policy limits do not apply to redemptions of shares. Shareholders
         are permitted to redeem their shares on any regular business day, subject to the terms of this
         Prospectus.

o        Right to Refuse Exchange and Purchase Orders.  The Distributor and/or the Transfer Agent may refuse any
         purchase or exchange order in their discretion and are not obligated to provide notice before rejecting
         an order. The Fund may amend, suspend or terminate the exchange privilege at any time. You will receive
         60 days' notice of any material change in the exchange privilege unless applicable law allows otherwise.

o        Right to Terminate or Suspend Account Privileges.  The Transfer Agent may send a written warning to
         direct shareholders who the Transfer Agent believes may be engaging in excessive purchases, redemptions
         and/or exchange activity and reserves the right to suspend or terminate the ability to purchase shares
         and/or exchange privileges for any account that the Transfer Agent determines, in carrying out these
         policies and in the exercise of its discretion, has engaged in disruptive or excessive trading activity.

o        Omnibus Accounts.  If you hold your shares of the Fund through a financial intermediary such as a
         broker-dealer, a bank, an insurance company separate account, an investment adviser, an administrator or
         trustee of a retirement plan or 529 plan that holds your shares in an account under its name (these are
         sometimes referred to as "omnibus" or "street name" accounts), that financial intermediary may impose
         its own restrictions or limitations to discourage short-term or excessive trading. You should consult
         your financial intermediary to find out what trading restrictions, including limitations on exchanges,
         they may apply to you.



While the Fund, the Distributor, the Manager and the Transfer Agent encourage financial intermediaries to apply
the Fund's policies to their customers who invest indirectly in the Fund, the Transfer Agent may not be able to
apply this policy to accounts such as (a) accounts held in omnibus form in the name of a broker-dealer or other
financial institution, or (b) omnibus accounts held in the name of a retirement plan or 529 plan trustee or
administrator, or (c) accounts held in the name of an insurance company for its separate account(s), or (d) other
accounts having multiple underlying owners but registered in a manner such that the underlying beneficial owners
are not identified to the Transfer Agent.

Therefore the Transfer Agent might not be able to detect excessive short term trading activity facilitated by, or
in accounts maintained in, the "omnibus" or "street name" accounts of a financial intermediary. However, the
Transfer Agent will attempt to monitor overall purchase and redemption activity in those accounts to seek to
identify patterns that may suggest excessive trading by the underlying owners.  If evidence of possible excessive
trading activity is observed by the Transfer Agent, the financial intermediary that is the registered owner will
be asked to review account activity, and to confirm to the Transfer Agent and the fund that appropriate action
has been taken to curtail any excessive trading activity. However, the Transfer Agent's ability to monitor and
deter excessive short-term trading in omnibus or street name accounts ultimately depends on the capability and
cooperation of the financial intermediaries controlling those accounts.



The Fund's Board has adopted additional policies and procedures to detect and prevent frequent and/or excessive
exchanges and purchase and redemption activity. Those additional policies and procedures will take effect on June
20, 2005:

o        30-Day Limit.  A direct shareholder may exchange all or some of the shares of the Fund held in his or
         her account to another eligible Oppenheimer fund once in a 30 calendar-day period. When shares are
         exchanged into another fund account, that account will be "blocked" from further exchanges into another
         fund for a period of 30 calendar days from the date of the exchange. The block will apply to the full
         account balance and not just to the amount exchanged into the account. For example, if a shareholder
         exchanged $1,000 from one fund into another fund in which the shareholder already owned shares worth
         $10,000, then, following the exchange, the full account balance ($11,000 in this example) would be
         blocked from further exchanges into another fund for a period of 30 calendar days. A "direct
         shareholder" is one whose account is registered on the Fund's books showing the name, address and tax ID
         number of the beneficial owner.

o        Exchanges Into Money Market Funds.  A direct shareholder will be permitted to exchange shares of a stock
         or bond fund for shares of a money market fund at any time, even if the shareholder has exchanged shares
         into the stock or bond fund during the prior 30 days. However, all of the shares held in that money
         market fund would then be blocked from further exchanges into another fund for 30 calendar days.

o        Dividend Reinvestments/B Share Conversions.  Reinvestment of dividends or distributions from one fund to
         purchase shares of another fund and the conversion of Class B shares into Class A shares will not be
         considered exchanges for purposes of imposing the 30-day limit.

o        Asset Allocation.  Third-party asset allocation and rebalancing programs will be subject to the 30-day
         limit described above. Asset allocation firms that want to exchange shares held in accounts on behalf of
         their customers must identify themselves to the Transfer Agent and execute an acknowledgement and
         agreement to abide by these policies with respect to their customers' accounts. "On-demand" exchanges
         outside the parameters of portfolio rebalancing programs will be subject to the 30-day limit. However,
         investment programs by other Oppenheimer "funds-of-funds" that entail rebalancing of investments in
         underlying Oppenheimer funds will not be subject to these limits.

o        Automatic Exchange Plans.  Accounts that receive exchange proceeds through automatic or systematic
         exchange plans that are established through the Transfer Agent will not be subject to the 30-day block
         as a result of those automatic or systematic exchanges (but may be blocked from exchanges, under the
         30-day limit, if they receive proceeds from other exchanges).





February 18, 2005                                                                       PS0320.022






                                       OPPENHEIMER CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
                                     Supplement dated February 18, 2005 to the
               Statement of Additional Information dated October 25, 2004, revised February 3, 2005


This supplement amends the Statement of Additional Information dated October 25, 2004, revised February 3, 2005.

The Statement of Additional Information is revised as follows:

1.   Effective March 18, 2005, the first three paragraphs of the section entitled "Letters of Intent" on page 47
are replaced with the following:

     Letters of Intent.  Under a Letter of Intent ("Letter"), you can reduce the sales charge rate that applies
     to your purchases of Class A shares if you purchase Class A, Class B or Class C shares of the Fund or other
     Oppenheimer funds during a 13-month period. The total amount of your purchases of Class A, Class B and Class
     C shares will determine the sales charge rate that applies to your Class A share purchases during that
     period. You can choose to include purchases made up to 90 days before the date of the Letter. Class A shares
     of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. and Oppenheimer Cash Reserves fund on which you did not pay a sales
     charge and any Class N shares you purchase, or may have purchased, will not be counted towards satisfying
     the purchases specified in a Letter.

              A Letter is an investor's statement in writing to the Distributor of his or her intention to
     purchase a specified value of Class A, Class B and Class C shares of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds
     during a 13-month period (the "Letter period"). At the investor's request, this may include purchases made
     up to 90 days prior to the date of the Letter. The Letter states the investor's intention to make the
     aggregate amount of purchases of shares which, when added to the investor's holdings of shares of those
     funds, will equal or exceed the amount specified in the Letter. Purchases made by reinvestment of dividends
     or capital gains distributions and purchases made at net asset value (i.e. without a sales charge) do not
     count toward satisfying the amount of the Letter.

              Each purchase of Class A shares under the Letter will be made at the offering price (including the
     sales charge) that would apply to a single lump-sum purchase of shares in the amount intended to be
     purchased under the Letter.

2.   The following is added to the end of the section entitled "Waivers of Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales
Charges in Certain Transactions" on page B-4 of Appendix B:

|_|      Shares purchased in amounts of less than $5.






February 18, 2005                                                                                320PX.011





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