N-Q 1 d433793dnq.htm OPPENHEIMER SERIES FUND Oppenheimer Series Fund

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

Investment Company Act file number 811-3346

Oppenheimer Series 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: October 31

Date of reporting period: 7/31/2017


Item 1. Schedule of Investments.


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS July 31, 2017 Unaudited

 

     Shares     Value  
Common Stocks—98.0%                
Consumer Discretionary—8.0%  
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—2.0%  
Carnival Corp.     349,860     $         23,363,651  
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.     189,830       19,812,557  
     

 

43,176,208

 

 

 

Household Durables—0.8%  
Whirlpool Corp.    

 

102,027

 

 

 

   

 

18,148,563

 

 

 

Media—3.8%  
Comcast Corp., Cl. A     1,189,420       48,112,039  
DISH Network Corp., Cl. A1     259,810       16,635,634  
Walt Disney Co. (The)     160,822       17,679,163  
     

 

82,426,836

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—1.4%  
Coach, Inc.     390,400       18,403,456  
Hanesbrands, Inc.     464,610       10,648,861  
     

 

29,052,317

 

 

 

Consumer Staples—6.5%  
Beverages—0.6%  
Coca-Cola European Partners plc    

 

322,410

 

 

 

   

 

13,937,784

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing—2.8%  
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.     382,938       30,891,609  
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.     375,370       30,025,846  
     

 

60,917,455

 

 

 

Household Products—1.9%  
Procter & Gamble Co. (The)     229,330       20,827,750  
Weatherford International plc1     4,289,530       19,131,304  
     

 

39,959,054

 

 

 

Tobacco—1.2%  
Philip Morris International, Inc.    

 

224,470

 

 

 

   

 

26,197,894

 

 

 

Energy—9.6%  
Energy Equipment & Services—1.6%  
Halliburton Co.     457,843       19,430,857  
Schlumberger Ltd.         204,039       13,997,075  
      33,427,932  
     Shares     Value  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—8.0%  
Chevron Corp.     579,276     $         63,251,147  
ConocoPhillips     224,438       10,182,752  
Enbridge, Inc.     552,277       22,897,405  
Hess Corp.     215,380       9,593,025  
Phillips 66     171,512       14,364,130  
Suncor Energy, Inc.     1,636,460       53,381,325  
     

 

173,669,784

 

 

 

Financials—30.5%  
Capital Markets—5.9%  
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.     146,620       21,242,306  
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The)     468,170       24,827,055  
BlackRock, Inc., Cl. A     51,600       22,008,948  
Morgan Stanley     485,400       22,765,260  
Nasdaq, Inc.     492,090       36,596,733  
     

 

127,440,302

 

 

 

Commercial Banks—14.1%  
Bank of America Corp.     4,569,740       110,222,129  
Citigroup, Inc.     718,230       49,162,843  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.     1,062,980       97,581,564  
KeyCorp     1,560,500       28,151,420  
Zions Bancorporation     451,560       20,464,699  
     

 

305,582,655

 

 

 

Insurance—6.2%  
American International Group, Inc.     723,574       47,357,918  
Aon plc     187,880       25,959,380  
MetLife, Inc.     602,390       33,131,450  
XL Group Ltd.     615,290       27,318,876  
     

 

133,767,624

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—4.3%  
Crown Castle International Corp.     238,280       23,966,202  
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.     119,040       13,730,074  
HCP, Inc.     692,210       21,908,447  
Invitation Homes, Inc.     414,410       8,835,221  
Prologis, Inc.         427,290       25,983,505  
      94,423,449  
 

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Unaudited / Continued

 

     Shares     Value  
Health Care—11.0%  
Biotechnology—1.4%  
Amgen, Inc.     121,120     $         21,136,651  
Gilead Sciences, Inc.     122,830       9,346,135  
             

 

30,482,786

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies—2.7%  
Danaher Corp.     324,054       26,407,160  
Medtronic plc     133,310       11,194,041  
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.     178,870       21,700,508  
             

 

59,301,709

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services—2.4%  
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.    

 

276,821

 

 

 

   

 

53,097,036

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services—0.7%  
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.    

 

81,860

 

 

 

   

 

14,368,886

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals—3.8%  
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.     218,060       12,407,614  
GlaxoSmithKline plc, Sponsored ADR     522,480       21,170,890  
Pfizer, Inc.     1,150,930       38,164,839  
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Sponsored ADR     329,060       10,585,860  
             

 

82,329,203

 

 

 

Industrials—11.4%  
Aerospace & Defense—1.8%  
Lockheed Martin Corp.    

 

138,810

 

 

 

   

 

40,550,565

 

 

 

Air Freight & Couriers—1.8%  
FedEx Corp.     56,710       11,797,381  
XPO Logistics, Inc.1     443,500       26,658,785  
             

 

38,456,166

 

 

 

Airlines—1.3%  
Delta Air Lines, Inc.     344,480       17,003,533  
Southwest Airlines Co.     198,070       10,994,866  
             

 

27,998,399

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies—1.5%  
Johnson Controls International plc     491,655       19,149,962  
Waste Management, Inc.         178,370       13,404,506  
     

 

32,554,468

 

 

 

     Shares     Value  
Electrical Equipment—2.0%  
Eaton Corp. plc     553,978     $         43,348,779  
Machinery—2.5%  
Caterpillar, Inc.     117,380       13,375,451  
PACCAR, Inc.     160,430       10,981,433  
Parker-Hannifin Corp.     177,205       29,412,486  
             

 

53,769,370

 

 

 

Road & Rail—0.5%  
Kansas City Southern    

 

99,030

 

 

 

   

 

10,218,906

 

 

 

Information Technology—11.1%  
Electronic Equipment, Instruments, & Components—1.6%  
TE Connectivity Ltd.     305,937       24,594,276  
Zebra Technologies Corp., Cl. A1     91,120       9,268,726  
             

 

33,863,002

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services—1.0%  
Alphabet, Inc., Cl. A1    

 

22,220

 

 

 

   

 

21,009,010

 

 

 

IT Services—0.9%  
First Data Corp., Cl. A1    

 

1,036,880

 

 

 

   

 

19,348,181

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—2.9%  
Broadcom Ltd.     117,574       29,000,803  
NXP Semiconductors NV1     152,710       16,848,494  
Texas Instruments, Inc.     210,040       17,093,055  
             

 

62,942,352

 

 

 

Software—2.9%  
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.1     80,570       8,522,695  
Microsoft Corp.     398,430       28,965,861  
Synopsys, Inc.1     345,970       26,490,923  
             

 

63,979,479

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—1.8%  
Apple, Inc.     150,595       22,397,994  
HP, Inc.         929,670       17,756,697  
     

 

40,154,691

 

 

 

 

 

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     Shares     Value  
Materials—4.2%  
Chemicals—1.6%  
Eastman Chemical Co.    

 

411,835

 

 

 

  $

 

        34,248,198

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging—1.0%  
WestRock Co.    

 

378,840

 

 

 

   

 

21,752,993

 

 

 

Metals & Mining—1.6%  
Goldcorp, Inc.     1,284,660       16,867,586  
Nucor Corp.     318,060       18,342,520  
             

 

35,210,106

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services—1.0%  
Diversified Telecommunication Services—0.3%  
AT&T, Inc.    

 

172,720

 

 

 

   

 

6,736,080

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services—0.7%  
T-Mobile US, Inc.1    

 

244,050

 

 

 

   

 

15,048,123

 

 

 

Utilities—4.7%  
Electric Utilities—4.7%  
Edison International         831,690       65,437,369  
     Shares     Value  
Electric Utilities (Continued)  
Entergy Corp.     337,970     $         25,929,058  
NextEra Energy, Inc.     76,453       11,169,019  
      102,535,446  

Total Common Stocks
(Cost $1,658,600,159)

 

     

 

2,125,431,791

 

 

 

Investment Company—1.2%  

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. E, 0.94%2,3
(Cost $26,066,920)

 

   

 

26,066,920

 

 

 

   

 

26,066,920

 

 

 

Total Investments, at Value
(Cost $1,684,667,079)
    99.2%       2,151,498,711  
Net Other Assets (Liabilities)     0.8       16,884,432  
Net Assets     100.0%     $   2,168,383,143  
       
 

 

Footnotes to Statement of Investments

1. Non-income producing security.

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

3. 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
October 31,
2016
    

Gross

Additions

     Gross
Reductions
     Shares
July 31, 2017
 
Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. E      60,597,782                      350,412,247                  384,943,109                  26,066,920    

 

      Value      Income  

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. E

   $       26,066,920        $              145,651    

 

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NOTES TO STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS July 31, 2017 Unaudited

 

 

 

1. Organization

Oppenheimer Value Fund (the “Fund”), a series of Oppenheimer Series Fund, is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”), as amended, as a diversified open-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek capital appreciation. 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.

 

 

2. Significant Accounting Policies

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

Foreign Currency Translation. The books and records of the Fund are maintained in U.S. dollars. Any foreign currency amounts are translated into U.S. dollars on the following basis:

(1) Value of investment securities, other assets and liabilities — at the exchange rates prevailing at Market Close as described in Note 3.

(2) Purchases and sales of investment securities, income and expenses — at the rates of exchange prevailing on the respective dates of such transactions.

 

 

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 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:

Equity securities traded on a securities exchange (including exchange-traded derivatives other than futures and futures options) are valued based on the official closing price on the principal exchange on which the security is traded, as identified by the Manager, prior to the time when the Fund’s assets are valued. If the official closing price is unavailable, the security is valued at the last sale price on the principal exchange on which it is traded, or if no sales

 

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3. Securities Valuation (Continued)

occurred, the security is valued at the mean between the quoted bid and asked prices. Over-the-counter equity securities are valued at the last published sale price, or if no sales occurred, at the mean between the quoted bid and asked prices. Events occurring after the close of trading on foreign exchanges may result in adjustments to the valuation of foreign securities to more accurately reflect their fair value as of the time when the Fund’s assets are valued.

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.

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 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

 

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NOTES TO STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Unaudited / Continued

 

 

 

3. Securities Valuation (Continued)

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 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:

           

Common Stocks

           

Consumer Discretionary

   $ 172,803,924      $ —        $ —        $    172,803,924    

Consumer Staples

     141,012,187        —          —          141,012,187    

Energy

     207,097,716        —          —          207,097,716    

Financials

     661,214,030        —          —          661,214,030    

Health Care

     239,579,620        —          —          239,579,620    

Industrials

     246,896,653        —          —          246,896,653    

Information Technology

     241,296,715        —          —          241,296,715    

Materials

     91,211,297        —          —          91,211,297    

Telecommunication Services

     21,784,203        —          —          21,784,203    

Utilities

     102,535,446        —          —          102,535,446    

Investment Company

     26,066,920        —          —          26,066,920    
  

 

 

 

Total Assets

   $      2,151,498,711      $                 —        $             —        $       2,151,498,711    
  

 

 

 

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.

 

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4. Investments and Risks (Continued)

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”), 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.

Equity Security Risk. Stocks and other equity securities fluctuate in price. The value of the

Fund’s portfolio may be affected by changes in the equity markets generally. Equity markets may experience significant short-term volatility and may fall sharply at times. Different markets may behave differently from each other and U.S. equity markets may move in the opposite direction from one or more foreign stock markets. Adverse events in any part of the equity or fixed-income markets may have unexpected negative effects on other market segments.

The prices of individual equity securities generally do not all move in the same direction at the same time and a variety of factors can affect the price of a particular company’s securities. These factors may include, but are not limited to, poor earnings reports, a loss of customers, litigation against the company, general unfavorable performance of the company’s sector or industry, or changes in government regulations affecting the company or its industry.

 

 

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.

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

 

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NOTES TO STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Unaudited / Continued

 

 

 

5. Market Risk Factors (Continued)

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. Federal Taxes

The approximate 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 below. 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.

 

Federal tax cost of securities

     $   1,691,672,093    
  

 

 

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

     $ 489,796,566    

Gross unrealized depreciation

     (29,969,948)   
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation

     $ 459,826,618    
  

 

 

 

 

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Item 2. Controls and Procedures.

 

(a) 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 the 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.

 

(b) There have been no significant changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 3. Exhibits.

Exhibits 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 Series 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