LITIGATION

A consolidated amended complaint has been filed as putative derivative and class
actions against the Manager, OFS and the Distributor (collectively, the
"Oppenheimer defendants"), as well as 51 of the Oppenheimer funds (as "Nominal
Defendants") including the Fund, 31 present and former Directors or Trustees and
9 present and former officers 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 assets of the funds to make
those payments in violation of the Investment Company Act of 1940 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 shareholders of the funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940 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 Oppenheimer defendants believe that the allegations contained in the
Complaints are without merit and that they, the funds named as Nominal
Defendants, and the Directors/Trustees of those funds have meritorious defenses
against the claims asserted. The Oppenheimer defendants intend to defend these
lawsuits vigorously and to contest any claimed liability, and they have retained
legal counsel to defend such suits. The Oppenheimer defendants believe that it
is premature to render any opinion as to the likelihood of an outcome
unfavorable to them and that no estimate can yet be made with any degree of
certainty as to the amount or range of any potential loss.