Registration No. 333-16881
File No. 811-04797

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933     [X]

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Post-Effective Amendment No. 18     [X]
 

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940     [X]

     Amendment No. 29

Oppenheimer EQUITY INCOME fund, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)     (Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (303) 768-3200

Robert G. Zack, Esq.
OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

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Oppenheimer
Equity Income Fund, Inc.

Prospectus dated February 27, 2009 

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund that seeks total return. It invests mainly in common stocks, and other equity securities that it believes are undervalued in the marketplace.

This prospectus contains important information about the Fund's objective, investment policies, strategies and risks. It also contains important information about how to buy and sell shares of the Fund and other account features. Please read this prospectus carefully before you invest and keep it for future reference about your account.

As with all mutual funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved the Fund's securities nor has it determined that this prospectus is accurate or complete. It is a criminal offense to represent otherwise.

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc. 

Contents
	ABOUT THE FUND
3	The Fund's Investment Objective and Principal Investment Strategies
4	Main Risks of Investing in the Fund
6	The Fund's Past Performance
7	Fees and Expenses of the Fund
10	About the Fund's Investments
15	How the Fund is Managed
	ABOUT YOUR ACCOUNT
17	About Your Account
18	Choosing a Share Class
24	The Price of Fund Shares
27	How to Buy, Sell and Exchange Shares
39	Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes
42	Financial Highlights

ABOUT THE FUND

The Fund's Investment Objective and Principal Investment Strategies

WHAT IS THE FUND'S INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE? The Fund seeks total return.

THE FUND'S MAIN INVESTMENT STRATEGIES.

What is "Market Capitalization"? A company's "market capitalization" is the value of its outstanding common stock relative to that of other companies. Companies are generally classified as small-cap, mid-cap or large-cap.

The Fund mainly invests in common stocks of U.S. companies that the portfolio manager believes are undervalued in the marketplace. The Fund may invest in other equity securities, such as preferred stocks, warrants and securities convertible into common stocks. The Fund may invest in equity securities issued by companies of different capitalization ranges, but will typically focus on larger capitalization stocks.
The Fund can buy securities of companies in developed and emerging market countries. The Fund has no limits on the amounts it can invest in foreign securities. However, currently it does not intend to invest more than 25% of its net assets in securities of issuers in any single foreign country or more than 5% of its net assets in companies or government issuers in emerging market countries.

HOW THE PORTFOLIO MANAGER DECIDES WHAT SECURITIES TO BUY OR SELL.

What is "Value Investing"? Value investing uses fundamental analysis to seek companies whose intrinsic value is greater than the current price of their securities.

 In selecting securities to buy, the portfolio manager mainly relies on a value-oriented investing style. A security may be undervalued because the market is not aware of the issuer's intrinsic value, does not yet recognize its future potential, or the issuer may be temporarily out of favor. The Fund seeks to realize gains in the prices of those securities when other investors recognize their real or prospective worth. The Fund also looks for securities that offer higher than average dividends. The portfolio manager generally uses a fundamental approach to analyzing issuers, for example: price/earnings ratios and current balance sheet information. The Fund may invest in equity securities both for current income from dividends as well as for growth opportunities.

The portfolio manager currently focuses on companies with the following characteristics, which may vary in particular cases and may change over time:

• securities that have high current income and are believed to have substantial earnings possibilities,

• securities with low price/earnings ratios relative to other securities, and

• securities with a low price relative to the underlying value of the issuer's assets, earnings, cash flow or other factors.

The Fund may sell securities that the portfolio manager believes no longer meet the above criteria.

WHO IS THE FUND DESIGNED FOR? The Fund is designed primarily for investors seeking total investment return from capital appreciation and income over the long term. Those investors should be willing to assume the risks of short-term share price fluctuations and losses that are typical for a fund emphasizing investments in equity securities. Because of its focus on long-term growth, the Fund may be appropriate for investors with longer term investment goals. Since the Fund's income level will fluctuate, it is not designed for investors needing an assured level of current income. The Fund is not a complete investment program and may not be appropriate for all investors. You should carefully consider your own investment goals and risk tolerance before investing in the Fund.

Main Risks of Investing in the Fund

All investments have some degree of risk. The value of the Fund's shares fluctuates as the value of the Fund's investments changes, and may decline. The value of the Fund's investments may change because of broad changes in the markets in which the Fund invests or from more specific factors like those described below. There is also the risk that poor security selection could cause the Fund to underperform other funds with similar objectives. When you redeem your shares, they may be worth more or less than what you paid for them. These risks mean that you can lose money by investing in the Fund.

RISKS OF INVESTING IN STOCK. The value of the Fund's portfolio may be affected by changes in the stock markets. Stock markets may experience significant volatility and may fall sharply at times. Adverse events in any part of the equity or fixed-income markets may have unexpected negative effects on other market segments. Different stock markets may behave differently from each other and U.S. stock markets may move in the opposite direction from one or more foreign stock markets.

A variety of factors can affect the price of a particular company's stock and the prices of individual stocks generally do not all move in the same direction at the same time. These factors may include: poor earnings reports, a loss of customers, litigation against the company, or changes in government regulations affecting the company or its industry.

At times, the Fund may emphasize investments in a particular industry or sector. To the extent that the Fund increases its emphasis on stocks in a particular industry, the value of its investments may fluctuate more in response to events affecting that industry, such as changes in economic conditions, government regulations, availability of basic resources or supplies, or other events that affect that industry more than others.

RISKS OF VALUE INVESTING. Value investing entails the risk that the market might not recognize that the selected securities are undervalued and the prices of those securities might not appreciate as anticipated. Value investing has gone in and out of favor during past market cycles and is likely to continue to do so. Although "value" companies may outperform "growth" companies at certain times, "growth" companies may outperform "value" companies during other periods. During those periods the Fund may underperform funds that use a "growth" investment strategy.

DIVIDEND RISK. There is no guarantee that the issuers of the stocks held by the Fund will declare dividends in the future or that, if dividends are declared, they will remain at their current levels or increase over time. High-dividend stocks may not experience high earnings growth or capital appreciation. The Fund's performance during a broad market advance could suffer because dividend paying stocks may not experience the same capital appreciation as non dividend paying stocks.

RISKS OF FOREIGN INVESTING. While foreign securities may offer special investment opportunities, they are also subject to special risks. Foreign issuers are usually not subject to the same accounting and disclosure requirements as U.S. companies are subject to, which may make it difficult to evaluate a foreign company's operations or financial condition. A change in value of a foreign currency against the U.S. dollar will result in a change in the U.S. dollar value of securities denominated in that foreign currency and of any income or distributions the Fund may receive on those securities. Additionally, the value of foreign investments may be affected by exchange control regulations, expropriation or nationalization of a company's assets, foreign taxes, higher transaction and other costs, delays in settlement of transactions, changes in economic or monetary policy in the U.S. or abroad, or other political and economic factors.

     Time-Zone Arbitrage. The Fund may invest in securities of foreign issuers that are traded in U.S. or foreign markets. If the Fund invests a significant amount of its assets in securities traded in foreign markets, it may be exposed to "time-zone arbitrage" attempts by investors seeking to take advantage of differences in the values of foreign securities that might result from events that occur after the close of the foreign securities market on which a security is traded and before the close of the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") 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" under certain circumstances, to adjust the closing market prices of foreign securities to reflect what the Manager and the Board believe to be their fair value, may help deter those activities.

The above risks may be greater for investments in emerging or developing market countries. While the Fund has no limits on the amounts it can invest in foreign securities, currently it does not intend to invest more than 25% of its net assets in securities of issuers in any single foreign country or more than 5% of its net assets in companies or government issuers in emerging market countries.

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There is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. Equity securities markets may be volatile, and the price of the Fund's shares can go up and down substantially. The Fund is generally less aggressive than funds that focus on growth stocks but may be more aggressive than funds that invest in both stocks and bonds or in investment-grade debt securities.

An investment in the Fund is not a deposit of any bank and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency.

The Fund's Past Performance

The bar chart and table below show one measure of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's performance. The bar chart shows the yearly performance of the Fund's Class A shares for the last 10 calendar years.

Sales charges and taxes are not included in the calculations of return in this bar chart, and if those charges and taxes were included, the returns may be less than those shown. During the period shown in the bar chart, the highest return before taxes for a calendar quarter was 15.89% (4th qtr 01) and the lowest return before taxes for a calendar quarter was -17.86% (4th qtr 08). For the period January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008 the cumulative return before taxes was -35.56%.

The following table shows the average annual total returns of each class of the Fund's shares before taxes compared to a broad-based market index. After-tax returns are also shown for Class A shares. They are calculated using the highest individual Federal income tax rates in effect during the periods shown and do not reflect the impact of state or local taxes. The after-tax returns are based on certain assumptions mandated by regulation and your actual after-tax returns may differ from those shown, depending on your individual tax situation. After-tax returns will vary for the other share classes and are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred or tax-exempt arrangements (for example, individual retirement accounts, 401(k) plans, 529 plans or tax-exempt institutional investors). The Fund's past investment performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.

Average Annual Total Returns for the periods ended December 31, 2008	1 Year	5 Years	10 Years (or life of class, if less)
Class A Shares (inception 02-13-1987)
Return Before Taxes	(39.27%)	(2.05%)	1.75%
Return After Taxes on Distributions	(39.59%)	(3.61%)	(0.38%)
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	(24.97%)	(1.61%)	0.96%
Class B Shares (inception 03-03-1997)	(39.21%)	(2.00%)	1.94%
Class C Shares (inception 03-03-1997)	(36.71%)	(1.74%)	1.58%
Class N Shares (inception 3-01-2001)	(36.43%)	(1.29%)	0.30%
S&P 500 Index	(36.99%)	(2.19%)	(1.38%)1
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)			(2.20%)2
Russell 3000 Value Index	(36.25%)	(0.72%)	1.69%1
(reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)			0.60%2

1.  From 12-31-98
2.  From 02-28-01

The average annual total returns measure the performance of a hypothetical account and assume that all dividends and capital gains distributions have been reinvested in additional shares. The performance of the Fund's shares is compared to the S&P 500 Index, an unmanaged index of equity securities, and to the Russell 3000 Value Index, an unmanaged index of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. The index performance includes income reinvestment but does not reflect any transaction costs, fees, expenses or taxes. The calculation of the Fund's performance reflects the following sales charges: for Class A, the current maximum initial sales charge of 5.75%; for Class B, the contingent deferred sales charge of 5% for the "1 Year" period and 2% for the "5 Years" period; and for Class C and Class N, the 1% contingent deferred sales charge for the "1 Year" period. Because Class B shares convert to Class A shares 72 months after purchase, the Class B "10 Years" performance does not include any contingent deferred sales charge and is based on the Class A performance for the period after 72 months. Returns for periods from 3/3/97 to 2/28/99 are net of the Manager's waiver of certain fees and the Distributor's waiver of certain distribution fees.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

The following tables are provided to help you understand the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. Shareholders pay certain expenses directly, such as sales charges. The Fund pays other expenses for management of its assets, administration, distribution of its shares and other services. Since those expenses are paid from the Fund's assets, all shareholders pay those expenses indirectly.

The numbers below are based on the Fund's expenses during its fiscal year ended October 31, 2008. Expenses may vary in future years.

Shareholder Fees (paid directly from your investment)
	Class A Shares	Class B Shares	Class C Shares	Class N Shares
Maximum sales charge (Load) on purchases (as % of offering price)	5.75%	None	None	None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as % of the lower of the original offering price or redemption proceeds)	None1	5%2	1%3	1%4

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (deducted from Fund assets): (% of average daily net assets)
	Class A Shares	Class B Shares	Class C Shares	Class N Shares
Management Fees	0.70%	0.70%	0.70%	0.70%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees5	0.24%	1.00%	1.00%	0.50%
Other Expenses6	0.31%	0.44%	0.42%	0.67%
Total Annual Operating Expenses7	1.25%	2.14%	2.12%	1.87%

1. A Class A contingent deferred sales charge may apply to redemptions of investments of $1 million or more or to certain retirement plan redemptions. See "How to Buy Shares" for details.
2. Applies to redemptions in the first year after purchase. The contingent deferred sales charge gradually declines from 5% to 1% during years one through six and is eliminated after that.
3. Applies to shares redeemed within 12 months of purchase.
4. Applies to shares redeemed within 18 months of a retirement plan's first purchase of Class N shares.
5. Effective January 1, 2003, the Fund's Board of Directors voluntarily reduced the Class A asset-based sales charge to zero. The Board can set the rate of the asset-based sales charge on Class A shares up to 0.25% of average annual net assets.
6. "Other expenses" include transfer agent fees, custodial fees, audit, and legal expenses that the Fund pays. The Transfer Agent has voluntarily undertaken to the Fund to limit the transfer agent fees to 0.35% of average daily net assets per fiscal year for all classes. That undertaking may be amended or withdrawn at any time. For the Fund's fiscal year ended October 31, 2008, the transfer agent fees did exceed the expense limitation described above making the actual "Other Expenses" for Class C shares and Class N shares, 0.41% and 0.43%, respectively. The Fund also receives certain credits from the Fund's custodian that, during the fiscal year, reduced its custodial expenses for all share classes by less than 0.01% of average daily net assets.
7. After all of the expense limitations and waivers/reimbursements described above, the actual "Total Annual Operating Expenses" as percentages of average daily net assets were 2.11 % for Class C and 1.63% for Class N. Total Annual Operating Expenses for Class A and Class B shares were unchanged from the amounts shown in the table.

EXAMPLES. The following examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that you invest $10,000 in a class of shares of the Fund for the time periods indicated and reinvest your dividends and distributions. These examples also assume that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses remain the same. The Fund's expenses will vary over time, however, and your actual costs may be higher or lower.

The first example assumes that you redeem all of your shares at the end of the periods. The second example assumes that you keep your shares. Based on these assumptions your expenses would be as follows:

If shares are redeemed:	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A Shares	$696	$951	$1,226	$2,008
Class B Shares	$719	$977	$1,361	$2,056*
Class C Shares	$317	$671	$1,151	$2,477
Class N Shares	$292	$593	$1,020	$2,211

If shares are not redeemed:	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A Shares	$696	$951	$1,226	$2,008
Class B Shares	$219	$677	$1,161	$2,056*
Class C Shares	$217	$671	$1,151	$2,477
Class N Shares	$192	$593	$1,020	$2,211

In the first example, expenses include the initial sales charge for Class A and the applicable Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charges. In the second example, the Class A expenses include the sales charge, but Class B, Class C and Class N expenses do not include contingent deferred sales charges.

* Since Class B shares automatically convert to Class A shares 72 months after purchase, the Class B expenses for years 7 through 10 are based on Class A expenses.

In evaluating the Fund's expenses, it is important to remember that mutual funds offer you the opportunity to combine your resources with those of many other investors to obtain professional portfolio management, exposure to a larger number of markets and issuers, reliable custody for investment assets, liquidity, and convenient recordkeeping and reporting services. Funds also offer investment benefits to individuals without the expense and inconvenience of buying and selling individual securities. Because a fund is a pooled investment, however, shareholders may bear certain fund operating costs as a result of the activities of other fund investors. Because some investors may use fund services more than others, or may have smaller accounts or more frequent account activity, those activities may increase the Fund's overall expenses, which are indirectly borne by all of the Fund's shareholders.

About the Fund's Investments

The allocation of the Fund's portfolio among different types of investments will vary over time and the Fund's portfolio might not always include all of the different types of investments described below. The Statement of Additional Information contains more detailed information about the Fund's investment policies and risks.

THE FUND'S PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT POLICIES AND RISKS.  The following strategies and types of investments are the ones that the Fund considers to be the most important in seeking to achieve its investment objective and the following risks are those the Fund expects its portfolio to be subject to as a whole.

Common Stock and Other Equity Investments. Equity securities include common stock, preferred stock, rights, warrants and certain debt securities that are convertible into common stock. Equity investments may be exchange-traded or over-the-counter securities. Common stock represents an ownership interest in a company. It ranks below preferred stock and debt securities in claims for dividends and in claims for assets of the issuer in a liquidation or bankruptcy.

Preferred stock has a set dividend rate and ranks ahead of common stocks and behind debt securities in claims for dividends and for assets of the issuer in a liquidation or bankruptcy. The dividends on preferred stock may be cumulative (they remain a liability of the company until paid) or non-cumulative. The fixed dividend rate of preferred stocks may cause their prices to behave more like those of debt securities. When interest rates rise, the value of preferred stock having a fixed dividend rate tends to fall.

A convertible security can be converted into or exchanged for a set amount of common stock of an issuer within a particular period of time at a specified price or according to a price formula. Convertible debt securities pay interest and convertible preferred stocks pay dividends until they mature or are converted, exchanged or redeemed. Some convertible debt securities may be considered "equity equivalents" because of the feature that makes them convertible into common stock. Convertible securities may offer the Fund the ability to participate in stock market movements while also seeking some current income. Convertible securities may provide more income than common stock but they generally provide less income than comparable non‑convertible debt securities. Convertible securities are subject to credit and interest rate risk, however credit ratings of convertible securities generally have less impact on the value of the securities than they do for non-convertible debt securities.

Investing in Foreign Securities. The Fund may buy stocks and other equity securities of companies that are organized under the laws of a foreign country or that have a substantial portion of their operations or assets in a foreign country or countries, or that derive a substantial portion of their revenue or profits from businesses, investments or sales outside of the United States. The Fund may also invest in foreign securities that are represented in the United States securities markets by American Depository Receipts ("ADRs") or similar depository arrangements. The Fund may invest to a limited degree in companies in emerging markets, which have greater risks than companies in developed market countries, including: less developed trading markets, less market liquidity, less stable economies, less stable currencies, and greater risks of nationalization or government restrictions on foreign ownership or on withdrawing assets from the country. The Fund will hold foreign currency only in connection with buying and selling foreign securities.

OTHER INVESTMENT STRATEGIES AND RISKS.  The Fund can also use the investment techniques and strategies described below. The Fund might not use all of these techniques or strategies or might only use them from time to time.

Debt Securities. The Fund does not focus on debt securities as a principal investment strategy; however the Fund can also invest in debt securities, such as U.S. government securities and domestic and foreign corporate and government bonds and debentures. The Fund may invest in debt securities to seek income, for liquidity or for hedging purposes.

The Fund's debt securities may be rated by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations such as Moody's Investors Services, Inc. or Standard & Poor's Ratings Services or may be unrated. "Investment-grade" refers to securities that are rated in one of the top four rating categories. The Fund can also invest in debt securities that are rated below investment grade, also referred to as "junk bonds." Rating definitions of national rating agencies are described in Appendix B to the Statement of Additional Information.

Master Limited Partnerships. The Fund may invest in publicly traded limited partnerships known as "master limited partnerships" or MLPs. MLPs issue units that are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are freely tradable on a securities exchange or in the over-the-counter market. An MLP consists of one or more general partners, who conduct the business, and one or more limited partners, who contribute capital. The Fund, as a limited partner, normally would not be liable for the debts of the MLP beyond the amounts the Fund has contributed, but would not be shielded to the same extent that a shareholder of a corporation would be. In certain circumstances creditors of an MLP would have the right to seek return of capital distributed to a limited partner. This right of an MLP's creditors would continue after the Fund sold its investment in the MLP. MLPs are typically real estate, oil and gas and equipment leasing vehicles, but they also finance movies, research and development, and other projects.

Diversification and Concentration. The Fund is a diversified fund. It attempts to reduce its exposure to the risks of individual stocks by diversifying its investments across a broad number of different companies. The Fund will not concentrate more than 25% of its total assets in issuers in any one industry. At times, however, the Fund may emphasize investments in some industries more than others.

Risks of Small- and Mid-Sized Companies. Small- and mid-sized companies may be either established or newer companies, including "unseasoned" companies that have been in operation for less than three years. While smaller companies might offer greater opportunities for gain than larger companies, they also involve greater risk of loss. They may be more sensitive to changes in a company's earnings expectations and may experience more abrupt and erratic price movements. Smaller companies' securities often trade in lower volumes and it might be harder for the Fund to dispose of its holdings at an acceptable price when it wants to sell them. Small- and mid-sized companies may not have established markets for their products or services and may have fewer customers and product lines. They may have more limited access to financial resources and may not have the financial strength to sustain them through business downturns or adverse market conditions. Since small- and mid-sized companies typically reinvest a high proportion of their earnings in their business, they may not pay dividends for some time, particularly if they are newer companies. Smaller companies may have unseasoned management or less depth in management skill than larger, more established companies. They may be more reliant on the efforts of particular members of their management team and management changes may pose a greater risk to the success of the business. Securities of small, unseasoned companies may be particularly volatile, especially in the short term, and may have very limited liquidity. It may take a substantial period of time to realize a gain on an investment in a small- or mid-sized company, if any gain is realized at all.

Derivative Investments. The Fund can invest in a number of different types of "derivative" investments. A derivative is an investment whose value depends on (or is derived from) the value of an underlying security, asset, interest rate, index or currency. Derivatives may allow the Fund to increase or decrease its exposure to certain markets or risks.

The Fund may use derivatives to seek to increase its investment return or for hedging purposes. The Fund is not required to use derivatives in seeking its investment objective or for hedging and might not do so.

Options, futures and forward contracts are some of the types of derivatives the Fund can use. The Fund may also use other types of derivatives that are consistent with its investment strategies or for hedging purposes.

The Fund has percentage limits on its use of hedging instruments and is not required to use hedging instruments in seeking its objective.

"Structured" Notes. "Structured" notes are specially-designed derivative debt investments. The terms of the instrument may be "structured" by the purchaser and the issuer of the note. Payments of principal or interest on these notes may be linked to the value of an index (such as a currency or securities index), an individual security, or a commodity. The value of these notes will normally rise or fall in response to the changes in the performance of the underlying security, index or commodity.

Structured notes are subject to interest rate risk. Structured notes are also subject to credit risk both with respect to the borrower (referred to as "counter-party" risk) and with respect to the issuer of the underlying investment. If the underlying investment or index does not perform as anticipated, the investment might pay less interest than the stated coupon payment or repay less principal upon maturity. The price of structured notes may be very volatile and they may have a limited trading market, making it difficult to value them or sell them at an acceptable price.

Hedging. Hedging transactions are intended to reduce the risks of securities in the Fund's portfolio. At times, however, a hedging instrument's value might not be correlated with the investment it is intended to hedge, and the hedge might be unsuccessful. If the Fund uses a hedging instrument at the wrong time or judges market conditions incorrectly, the strategy could reduce its return or create a loss.

Risks of Derivative Investments. Derivatives may be volatile and may involve significant risks. The underlying security or other instrument on which a derivative is based, or the derivative itself, may not perform the way the Manager expects it to. Some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the Fund's initial investment. The Fund may also lose money on a derivative investment if the issuer fails to pay the amount due. Certain derivative investments held by the Fund may be illiquid, making it difficult to close out an unfavorable position. Derivative transactions may require the payment of premiums and can increase portfolio turnover. As a result of these risks, the Fund could realize little or no income or lose money from its investment, or a hedge might be unsuccessful.

Illiquid and Restricted Securities. Investments that do not have an active trading market, or that have legal or contractual limitations on their resale, are generally referred to as "illiquid" securities. Illiquid securities may be difficult to value or to sell promptly at an acceptable price or may require registration under applicable securities laws before they can be sold publicly. Securities that have limitations on their resale are referred to as "restricted securities." Certain restricted securities that are eligible for resale to qualified institutional purchasers may not be regarded as illiquid.

The Fund will not invest more than 10% of its net assets in illiquid or restricted securities.  The Board can increase that limit to 15%. The Manager monitors the Fund's holdings of illiquid securities on an ongoing basis to determine whether to sell any of those securities to maintain adequate liquidity.

Loans of Portfolio Securities. The Fund may loan its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and financial institutions to seek income. The Fund has entered into a securities lending agreement with Goldman Sachs Bank USA, doing business as Goldman Sachs Agency Lending ("Goldman Sachs") for that purpose. Under the agreement, Goldman Sachs will generally bear the risk that a borrower may default on its obligation to return loaned securities. The Fund, however, will be responsible for the risks associated with the investment of cash collateral, including any collateral invested in an affiliated money market fund. The Fund may lose money on its investment of cash collateral or may fail to earn sufficient income on its investment to meet its obligations to the borrower.

The Fund's portfolio loans must comply with the collateralization and other requirements of the Fund's securities lending agreement, its securities lending procedures and applicable government regulations.

The Fund limits loans of portfolio securities to not more than 25% of its net assets.

Conflicts of Interest. The investment activities of the Manager and its affiliates in regard to other accounts they manage may present conflicts of interest that could disadvantage the Fund and its shareholders. The Manager or its affiliates may provide investment advisory services to other funds and accounts that have investment objectives or strategies that differ from, or are contrary to, those of the Fund. That may result in another fund or account holding investment positions that are adverse to the Fund's investment strategies or activities. Other funds or accounts advised by the Manager or its affiliates may have conflicting interests arising from investment objectives that are similar to those of the Fund. Those funds and accounts may engage in, and compete for, the same types of securities or other investments as the Fund or invest in securities of the same issuers that have different, and possibly conflicting, characteristics. The trading and other investment activities of those other funds or accounts may be carried out without regard to the investment activities of the Fund and, as a result, the value of securities held by the Fund or the Fund's investment strategies may be adversely affected. The Fund's investment performance will usually differ from the performance of other accounts advised by the Manager or its affiliates and the Fund may experience losses during periods in which other accounts advised by the Manager or its affiliates achieve gains. The Manager has adopted policies and procedures designed to address potential conflicts of interest identified by the Manager; however, such policies and procedures may also limit the Fund's investment activities and affect its performance.

Investments in Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund. The Fund can invest its free cash balances in Class E shares of Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, to provide liquidity or for defensive purposes. The Fund invests in Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, rather than purchasing individual short-term investments, to seek a higher yield than it could obtain on its own. Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund is a registered open-end management investment company, regulated as a money market fund under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and is part of the Oppenheimer Family of Funds. It invests in a variety of short-term, high-quality, dollar-denominated money market instruments issued by the U.S. Government, domestic and foreign corporations, other financial institutions, and other entities. Those investments may have a higher rate of return than the investments that would be available to the Fund directly. At the time of an investment, the Fund cannot always predict what the yield of the Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund will be because of the wide variety of instruments that fund holds in its portfolio. The return on those investments may, in some cases, be lower than the return that would have been derived from other types of investments that would provide liquidity. As a shareholder, the Fund will be subject to its proportional share of the expenses of Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund's Class E shares, including its advisory fee. However, the Manager will waive a portion of the Fund's advisory fee to the extent of the Fund's share of the advisory fee paid to the Manager by Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund.

Temporary Defensive and Interim Investments. For temporary defensive purposes in times of adverse or unstable market, economic or political conditions, the Fund can invest up to 100% of its assets in investments that may be inconsistent with the Fund's principal investment strategies. Generally, the Fund would invest in shares of Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund or in the types of money market instruments in which Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund invests or in other short-term U.S. Government securities. The Fund might also hold these types of securities as interim investments pending the investment of proceeds from the sale of Fund shares or the sale of Fund portfolio securities or to meet anticipated redemptions of Fund shares. To the extent the Fund invests in these securities, it might not achieve its investment objective.

Portfolio Turnover. A change in the securities held by the Fund is known as "portfolio turnover." The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading to try to achieve its investment objective and may have a portfolio turnover rate of over 100% annually. Increased portfolio turnover may result in higher brokerage fees or other transaction costs, which can reduce performance. If the Fund realizes capital gains when it sells investments, it generally must pay those gains to shareholders, increasing its taxable distributions. The Financial Highlights table at the end of this prospectus shows the Fund's portfolio turnover rates during past fiscal years.

CHANGES TO THE FUND'S INVESTMENT POLICIES. The Fund's fundamental investment policies cannot be changed without the approval of a majority of the Fund's outstanding voting shares; however, the Fund's Board can change non-fundamental policies without a shareholder vote. Significant policy changes will be described in supplements to this prospectus. The Fund's investment objective is a fundamental policy. Other investment restrictions that are fundamental policies are listed in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information. An investment policy is not fundamental unless this prospectus or the Statement of Additional Information states that it is.

PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

 The Fund's portfolio holdings are included in semi-annual and annual reports that are distributed to its shareholders within 60 days after the close of the applicable reporting period. The Fund also discloses its portfolio holdings in its Statements of Investments on Form N-Q, which are public filings that are required to be made with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 60 days after the end of the Fund's first and third fiscal quarters. Therefore, the Fund's portfolio holdings are made publicly available no later than 60 days after the end of each of its fiscal quarters. 

A description of the Fund's policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of its portfolio holdings is available in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information.

How the Fund is Managed

THE MANAGER. OppenheimerFunds, Inc., the Manager, chooses the Fund's investments and handles its day-to-day business. The Manager carries out its duties, subject to the policies established by the Fund's Board of Trustees, under an investment advisory agreement that states the Manager's responsibilities. The agreement sets the fees the Fund pays to the Manager and describes the expenses that the Fund is responsible to pay to conduct its business.

The Manager has been an investment adviser since 1960. The Manager and a subsidiary managed funds with more than 6 million shareholder accounts as of December 31, 2008. The Manager is located at Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1008.

Advisory Fees.  Under the Investment Advisory Agreement, the Fund pays the Manager an advisory fee, calculated on the daily net assets of the Fund, at an annual rate that declines on additional assets as the Fund grows: 0.70% of the first $400 million of average annual net assets of the Fund, 0.68% of the next $400 million, 0.65% of the next $400 million, 0.60% of the next $400 million, 0.55% of the next $400 million, and 0.50% of average annual net assets in excess of $2 billion. The Fund's advisory fee for the fiscal period ended October 31, 2008 was 0.70% of average annual net assets for each class of shares.

A discussion regarding the basis for the Board of Directors' approval of the Fund's investment advisory contract is available in the Fund's Annual Report to shareholders for the one-year period ended October 31, 2008.

Portfolio Manager. The Fund's portfolio is managed by Michael Levine who is primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund's investments. Mr. Levine has been a Vice President and portfolio manager of the Fund since July 2007.

Mr. Levine has been a Vice President of the Manager since June 1998. He is a portfolio manager and an officer of another portfolio in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

The Statement of Additional Information provides additional information about the portfolio manager's compensation, other accounts he manages and his ownership of Fund shares.

ABOUT YOUR ACCOUNT

About Your Account

Where Can You Buy Fund Shares? Oppenheimer funds may be purchased either directly or through a variety of "financial intermediaries" that offer Fund shares to their clients. Financial intermediaries include securities dealers, financial advisors, brokers, banks, trust companies, insurance companies and the sponsors of fund "supermarkets," fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs or college and retirement savings programs.

WHAT CLASSES OF SHARES DOES THE FUND OFFER? The Fund offers investors four different classes of shares. The different classes of shares represent investments in the same portfolio of securities, but the classes are subject to different expenses and will usually have different share prices. When you buy shares, be sure to specify the class of shares you wish to purchase. If you do not choose a class, your investment will be made in Class A shares.

Class A Shares. If you buy Class A shares, you will pay an initial sales charge on investments up to $1 million for regular accounts or lesser amounts for certain retirement plans or if you qualify for certain fee waivers. The amount of the sales charge will vary depending on the amount you invest. The sales charge rates for different investment amounts are listed in "About Class A Shares" below.

Class B Shares. If you buy Class B shares, you will pay no sales charge at the time of purchase, but you will pay an annual asset-based sales charge (distribution fee) over a period of approximately six years. If you sell your shares within 6 years after buying them, you will normally pay a contingent deferred sales charge. The amount of the contingent deferred sales charge varies depending on how long you own your shares, as described in "About Class B Shares" below.

Class C Shares. If you buy Class C shares, you will pay no sales charge at the time of purchase, but you will pay an ongoing asset-based sales charge. If you sell your shares within 12 months after buying them, you will normally pay a contingent deferred sales charge of 1.0%, as described in "About Class C Shares" below.

Class N Shares. Class N shares are available only through certain retirement plans. If you buy Class N shares, you pay no sales charge at the time of purchase, but you will pay an ongoing asset-based sales charge. If you sell your shares within 18 months after the retirement plan's first purchase of Class N shares, you may pay a contingent deferred sales charge of 1.0%, as described in "About Class N Shares" below.

Certain sales charge waivers may apply to purchases or redemptions of Class A, Class B, Class C, or Class N shares. More information about those waivers is available in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information, or by clicking on the hyperlink "Sales Charges & Breakpoints" under the heading "Fund Information" on the OppenheimerFunds website at "www.oppenheimerfunds.com."

WHAT IS THE MINIMUM INVESTMENT? In most cases, you can buy Fund shares with a minimum initial investment of $1,000 and make additional investments with as little as $50. The minimum additional investment requirement does not apply to reinvested dividends from the Fund or from other Oppenheimer funds or to omnibus account purchases. A $25 minimum applies to additional investments through an Asset Builder Plan, an Automatic Exchange Plan or a government allotment plan established before November 1, 2002. Reduced initial minimums are available in certain circumstances, including under the following investment plans:

• For most types of retirement accounts that OppenheimerFunds offers, the minimum initial investment is $500.

• For certain retirement accounts that have automatic investments through salary deduction plans, there is no minimum initial investment.

• For an Asset Builder Plan or Automatic Exchange Plan or a government allotment plan, the minimum initial investment is $500.

• For certain fee-based programs that have an agreement with the Distributor, a minimum initial investment of $250 applies.

Minimum Account Balance. A $12 annual "minimum balance fee" is assessed on Fund accounts with a value of less than $500. The fee is automatically deducted from each applicable Fund account annually in September. See the Statement of Additional Information for information about the circumstances under which this fee will not be assessed. Small accounts may be involuntarily redeemed by the Fund if the value has fallen below $500 for reasons other than a decline in the market value of the shares.

Choosing a Share Class

CHOOSING A SHARE CLASS. Once you decide that the Fund is an appropriate investment for you, deciding which class of shares is best suited to your needs depends on a number of factors that you should discuss with your financial advisor. The Fund's operating costs that apply to a share class and the effect of the different types of sales charges on your investment will affect your investment results over time. For example, the net asset value and the dividends of Class B, Class C, and Class N shares will be reduced by additional expenses borne by those classes such as the asset-based sales charge.

Two of the factors to consider are how much you plan to invest and, while future financial needs cannot be predicted with certainty, how long you plan to hold your investment. For example, with larger purchases that qualify for a reduced initial sales charge on Class A shares, the effect of paying an initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares may be less over time than the effect of the asset-based sales charges on Class B, Class C, or Class N shares. For retirement plans that qualify to purchase Class N shares, Class N will generally be the most advantageous share class. If your goals and objectives change over time and you plan to purchase additional shares, you should re-evaluate each of the factors to see if you should consider a different class of shares.

The discussion below is not intended to be investment advice or a recommendation, because each investor's financial considerations are different. The discussion below assumes that you will purchase only one class of shares and not a combination of shares of different classes. These examples are based on approximations of the effects of current sales charges and expenses projected over time, and do not detail all of the considerations in selecting a class of shares. You should analyze your options carefully with your financial advisor before making that choice.

• Investing for the Shorter Term. While the Fund is meant to be a long-term investment, if you have a relatively short-term investment horizon (that is, if you do not plan to hold your shares for six years or more), you should consider investing in Class C shares. That is because of the effect of the initial sales charge on Class A shares or the Class B contingent deferred sales charge if you redeem within six years.

• Investing for the Longer Term. If you are investing less than $100,000 for the longer term and do not expect to need access to your money for six years or more, Class B shares may be appropriate.

• Amount of Your Investment. Your choice will also depend on how much you plan to invest. For shorter-term investments of less than $100,000, Class C shares might be the appropriate choice because there is no initial sales charge on Class C shares, and the contingent deferred sales charge does not apply to shares you redeem after holding them for one year or more. However, if you plan to invest more than $100,000, and as your investment horizon increases toward six years, Class C shares might not be as advantageous as Class A shares. That is because over time the ongoing asset-based sales charge on Class C shares will have a greater impact on your account than the reduced front-end sales charge available for Class A share purchases of $100,000 or more. If you invest $1 million or more, in most cases Class A shares will be the most advantageous choice, no matter how long you intend to hold your shares.

The Distributor normally will not accept purchase orders from a single investor for more than $100,000 of Class B shares or for $1 million or more of Class C shares. Dealers or other financial intermediaries purchasing shares for their customers in omnibus accounts are responsible for determining the suitability of a particular share class for an investor.

Are There Differences in Account Features That Matter to You? Some account features may not be available for all share classes. Other features may not be advisable because of the effect of the contingent deferred sales charge. Therefore, you should carefully review how you plan to use your investment account before deciding which class of shares to buy.

How Do Share Classes Affect Payments to Your Financial Intermediary? The Class B, Class C, and Class N contingent deferred sales charges and asset-based sales charges have the same purpose as the front-end sales charge or contingent deferred sales charge on Class A shares: to compensate the Distributor for concessions and expenses it pays to brokers, dealers and other financial intermediaries for selling Fund shares. Those financial intermediaries may receive different compensation for selling different classes of shares. The Manager or Distributor may also pay dealers or other financial intermediaries additional amounts from their own resources based on the value of Fund shares held by the intermediary for its own account or held for its customers' accounts. For more information about those payments, see "Payments to Financial Intermediaries and Service Providers" below.

ABOUT CLASS A SHARES. Class A shares are sold at their offering price, which is the net asset value of the shares (described below) plus, in most cases, an initial sales charge. The Fund receives the amount of your investment, minus the sales charge, to invest for your account. In some cases, Class A purchases may qualify for a reduced sales charge or a sales charge waiver, as described below or in the Statement of Additional Information.

The Class A sales charge rate varies depending on the amount of your purchase. A portion or all of the sales charge may be retained by the Distributor or paid to your broker, dealer or other financial intermediary as a concession. The current sales charge rates and concessions paid are shown in the table below. There is no initial sales charge on Class A purchases of $1 million or more, but a contingent deferred sales charge (described below) may apply.

Amount of Purchase	Front-End Sales Charge As a Percentage of Offering Price	Front-End Sales Charge As a Percentage of Net Amount Invested	Concession As a Percentage of Offering Price
Less than $25,000	5.75%	6.10%	4.75%
$25,000 or more but less than $50,000	5.50%	5.82%	4.75%
$50,000 or more but less than $100,000	4.75%	4.99%	4.00%
$100,000 or more but less than $250,000	3.75%	3.90%	3.00%
$250,000 or more but less than $500,000	2.50%	2.56%	2.00%
$500,000 or more but less than $1 million	2.00%	2.04%	1.60%

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

Reduced Class A Sales Charges. Under a "Right of Accumulation" or a "Letter of Intent" you may be eligible to buy Class A shares of the Fund at the reduced sales charge rates that would apply to a larger purchase. The Fund reserves the right to modify or to cease offering these programs at any time.

• Right of Accumulation. To qualify for the reduced Class A sales charge that would apply to a larger purchase than you are currently making, you can add the value of shares you or your spouse currently own or other purchases you are currently making to the value of your Class A share purchase of the Fund. You may count Class A, Class B and Class C shares of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds and Class A, Class B, Class C, Class G and Class H units in adviser sold Section 529 plans, for which the Manager or the Distributor serves as the "Program Manager" or "Program Distributor." In totaling your holdings, you may count shares held in:

               ° your individual accounts (including IRAs, 403(b) plans and eligible 529 plans),
       ° your joint accounts with your spouse,
       ° accounts you or your spouse hold as trustees or custodians on behalf of
         your children who are minors.

        A fiduciary can apply rights of accumulation to all shares purchased for a trust, estate or other fiduciary account that has multiple accounts (including employee benefit plans for the same employer and Single K plans for the benefit of a sole proprietor).

        Your Class A shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. or Oppenheimer Cash Reserves on which you have not paid a sales charge will not be counted for this purpose.

        If you are buying shares directly from the Fund, you must inform the Distributor of your eligibility and holdings at the time of your purchase in order to qualify for the Right of Accumulation. If you are buying shares through a financial intermediary you must notify the intermediary of your eligibility for the Right of Accumulation at the time of your purchase. To count eligible shares held in accounts at other firms, you may be requested to provide the Distributor or your current financial intermediary with a copy of account statements showing your current holdings of the Fund, other eligible Oppenheimer funds or qualifying 529 plans. To determine which Class A sales charge rate you qualify for on your current purchase the Distributor or other intermediary through which you are buying shares will calculate the value of your eligible shares based on their current offering price. Shares purchased under a Letter of Intent may also qualify as eligible holdings under a Right of Accumulation.

• Letter of Intent. 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 or Class A, Class B, Class C, Class G or Class H unit purchases in adviser sold Section 529 plans, for which the Manager or Distributor serves as the Program Manager or Program Distributor, over a 13-month period. The total amount of your intended purchases will determine the reduced sales charge rate that will apply to your Class A share purchases during that period. You must notify the Distributor or your financial intermediary of any qualifying 529 plan purchases or purchases through other financial intermediaries.

        Purchases of Class N or Class Y shares, purchases made by reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions from the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds, purchases of Class A shares with redemption proceeds under the "reinvestment privilege" described below, and purchases of Class A shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. or Oppenheimer Cash Reserves on which a sales charge has not been paid do not count as "qualified shares" for satisfying the terms of a Letter of Intent.

        Submitting a Letter of Intent does not obligate you to purchase the specified amount of shares. If you do not complete the anticipated purchases, you will be charged the difference between the sales charge that you paid and the sales charge that would apply to the actual value of shares you purchased. A certain portion of your shares will be held in escrow by the Fund's Transfer Agent for this purpose. Please refer to "How to Buy Shares – Letters of Intent" in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information for more information about Letters of Intent and these escrow provisions. You may also be able to apply the Right of Accumulation to purchases you make under a Letter of Intent.

Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge. There is no initial sales charge on Class A purchases of shares of one or more of the Oppenheimer funds totaling $1 million or more. However, those Class A shares may be subject to a 1.0% contingent deferred sales charge if they are redeemed within an 18 month "holding period" measured from the beginning of the calendar month in which they were purchased (except for shares purchased in certain retirement plans, as described below). That sales charge will be calculated on the lesser of the original net asset value of the redeemed shares or the aggregate net asset value of the redeemed shares at the time of redemption.

The Class A contingent deferred sales charge does not apply to shares purchased by the reinvestment of dividends or capital gain distributions and will not exceed the aggregate amount of the concessions the Distributor pays on all of your purchases of Class A shares, of all Oppenheimer funds, that are subject to the contingent deferred sales charge.

The Distributor pays concessions from its own resources equal to 1.0% of Class A purchases of $1 million or more (other than purchases by certain retirement plans). The concession will not be paid on shares purchased by exchange or shares that were previously subject to a front-end sales charge and concession.

Class A Purchases by Certain Retirement Plans. There is no initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares of the Fund by retirement plans that have $1 million or more in plan assets or by certain retirement plans or platforms offered through financial intermediaries or other service providers.

In addition, there is no contingent deferred sales charge on redemptions of certain Class A retirement plan shares offered through financial intermediaries or other service providers. There is no contingent deferred sales charge on redemptions of Class A group retirement plan shares purchased after March 1, 2007 except for shares of certain group retirement plans that were established prior to March 1, 2007 ("grandfathered retirement plans"). Shares purchased in grandfathered retirement plans are subject to the contingent deferred sales charge if they are redeemed within 18 months after purchase.

The Distributor does not pay a concession on Class A retirement plan purchases after March 1, 2007 except on purchases by grandfathered retirement plans and plans that have $5 million or more in plan assets. The concession for grandfathered retirement plan purchases after March 1, 2007 is 0.25%. For purchases of Class A shares by retirement plans that have $5 million or more in plan assets (within the first six months from the time the account was established), the Distributor may pay financial intermediaries concessions equal to 0.25% of the purchase price from its own resources at the time of sale. Those payments are subject to certain exceptions described in "Retirement Plans" in the Statement of Additional Information.

ABOUT CLASS B SHARES. Class B shares are sold at net asset value per share without an initial sales charge. However, if Class B shares are redeemed within six years from the beginning of the calendar month in which they were purchased, a contingent deferred sales charge will be deducted from the redemption proceeds. Class B shares are also subject to an asset-based sales charge that is calculated daily based on an annual rate of 0.75%. The Class B contingent deferred sales charge and asset-based sales charge are paid to compensate the Distributor for providing distribution-related services to the Fund in connection with the sale of Class B shares.

The amount of the Class B contingent deferred sales charge will depend on the number of years since you invested, according to the following schedule:

Years since Beginning of Month in Which Purchase Order was Accepted	Contingent Deferred Sales Charge on Redemptions in That Year (As % of Amount Subject to Charge)
0-1	5.0%
1-2	4.0%
2-3	3.0%
3-4	3.0%
4-5	2.0%
5-6	1.0%
More than 6	None

In the table, a "year" is a 12-month period. In applying the contingent deferred sales charge, all purchases are considered to have been made on the first regular business day of the month in which the purchase was made.

Automatic Conversion of Class B Shares. Class B shares automatically convert to Class A shares six years (72 months) after you purchase them. This conversion eliminates the Class B asset-based sales charge, however, the shares will be subject to the ongoing Class A fees and expenses. The conversion is based on the relative net asset value of the two classes, and no sales load or other charge is imposed. When any Class B shares that you hold convert to Class A shares, all other Class B shares that were acquired by reinvesting dividends and distributions on the converted shares will also convert. For further information on the conversion feature and its tax implications, see "Class B Conversion" in the Statement of Additional Information.

ABOUT CLASS C SHARES. Class C shares are sold at net asset value per share without an initial sales charge. However, if Class C shares are redeemed within a holding period of 12 months from the beginning of the calendar month in which they were purchased, a contingent deferred sales charge of 1.00% may be deducted from the redemption proceeds. Class C shares are also subject to an asset-based sales charge that is calculated daily based on an annual rate of 0.75%. The Class C contingent deferred sales charge and asset-based sales charge are paid to compensate the Distributor for providing distribution-related services to the Fund in connection with the sale of Class C shares.

ABOUT CLASS N SHARES. Class N shares are offered to retirement plans (including IRAs and 403(b) plans) that purchase $500,000 or more of Oppenheimer funds Class N shares or to group retirement plans (which do not include IRAs and 403(b) plans) held in omnibus accounts that have assets of $500,000 or more or have 100 or more eligible participants. See "Availability of Class N shares" in the Statement of Additional Information for other circumstances in which Class N shares are available for purchase.

Class N shares are sold at net asset value without an initial sales charge. Class N shares are subject to an asset-based sales charge that is calculated daily based on an annual rate of 0.25%. A contingent deferred sales charge of 1.00% will be imposed on the redemption of Class N shares, if:

• The group retirement plan is terminated, or Class N shares of all Oppenheimer funds are terminated as an investment option of the plan, and the Class N shares are redeemed within 18 months after the plan's first purchase of Class N shares of any Oppenheimer fund; or

• Class N shares are redeemed within 18 months after an IRA or 403(b) plan's first purchase of Class N shares of any Oppenheimer fund.

Retirement plans that offer Class N shares may impose charges on plan participant accounts. For more information about buying and selling shares through a retirement plan, see the section "Investment Plans and Services - Retirement Plans" below.

The Price of Fund Shares

THE PRICE OF FUND SHARES. Shares may be purchased at their offering price which is the net asset value per share plus any initial sales charge that applies. Shares are redeemed at their net asset value per share less any contingent deferred sales charge that applies. The net asset value that applies to a purchase or redemption order is the next one calculated after the Distributor receives the order, in proper form as described in this prospectus, or after any agent appointed by the Distributor receives the order in proper form as described in this prospectus. Your financial intermediary can provide you with more information regarding the time you must submit your purchase order and whether the intermediary is an authorized agent for the receipt of purchase and redemption orders.

Net Asset Value. The Fund calculates the net asset value of each class of shares as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE"), on each day the NYSE is open for trading (referred to in this prospectus as a "regular business day"). The NYSE normally closes at 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, but may close earlier on some days.

The Fund determines the net assets of each class of shares by subtracting the class-specific expenses and the amount of the Fund's liabilities attributable to the share class from the market value of the Fund's securities and other assets attributable to the share class. The Fund's "other assets" might include, for example, cash and interest or dividends from its portfolio securities that have been accrued but not yet collected. The Fund's securities are valued primarily on the basis of current market quotations.

The net asset value per share for each share class is determined by dividing the net assets of the class by the number of outstanding shares of that class.

Fair Value Pricing. If market quotations are not readily available or (in the Manager's judgment) do not accurately reflect the fair value of a security, or if after the close of the principal market on which a security held by the Fund is traded and before the time as of which the Fund's net asset value is calculated that day, an event occurs that the Manager learns of and believes in the exercise of its judgment will cause a material change in the value of that security from the closing price of the security on the principal market on which it is traded, that security may be valued by another method that the Board believes would more accurately reflect the security's fair value.

In determining whether current market prices are readily available and reliable, the Manager monitors the information it receives in the ordinary course of its investment management responsibilities. It seeks to identify significant events that it believes, in good faith, will affect the market prices of the securities held by the Fund. Those may include events affecting specific issuers (for example, a halt in trading of the securities of an issuer on an exchange during the trading day) or events affecting securities markets (for example, a foreign securities market closes early because of a natural disaster).

The Board has adopted valuation procedures for the Fund and has delegated the day-to-day responsibility for fair value determinations to the Manager's "Valuation Committee." Those determinations may include consideration of recent transactions in comparable securities, information relating to the specific security, developments in the markets and their performance, and current valuations of foreign or U.S. indices. Fair value determinations by the Manager are subject to review, approval and ratification by the Board at its next scheduled meeting after the fair valuations are determined.

The Fund's use of fair value pricing procedures involves subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value determined for a security may be materially different from the value that could be realized upon the sale of that security. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Fund could obtain the fair value assigned to a security if it were to sell the security at approximately the same time at which the Fund determines its net asset value per share.

Pricing Foreign Securities. The Fund may use fair value pricing more frequently for securities primarily traded on foreign exchanges. Because many foreign markets close hours before the Fund values its foreign portfolio holdings, significant events, including broad market movements, may occur during that time that could potentially affect the values of foreign securities held by the Fund.

The Manager believes that foreign securities values may be affected by volatility that occurs in U.S. markets after the close of foreign securities markets. The Manager's fair valuation procedures therefore include a procedure whereby foreign securities prices may be "fair valued" to take those factors into account.

Because some foreign securities trade in markets and on exchanges that operate on weekends and U.S. holidays, the values of some of the Fund's foreign investments may change on days when investors cannot buy or redeem Fund shares.

Contingent Deferred Sales Charge. If you redeem shares during their applicable contingent deferred sales charge holding period, the contingent deferred sales charge generally will be deducted from the redemption proceeds. In some circumstances you may be eligible for one of the waivers described in "Sales Charge Waivers" below and in the "Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers" Appendix to the Statement of Additional Information. You must advise the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary of your eligibility for a waiver when you place your redemption request.

       A contingent deferred sales charge will be based on the net asset value of the redeemed shares at the time of redemption or the original net asset value, whichever is lower. A contingent deferred sales charge is not imposed on:

• any increase in net asset value over the initial purchase price,

• shares purchased by the reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions, or

• shares eligible for a sales charge waiver (see "Sales Charge Waivers" below).

The Fund redeems shares in the following order:

• shares acquired by the reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions,

• other shares that are not subject to the contingent deferred sales charge, and

• shares held the longest during the holding period.

You are not charged a contingent deferred sales charge when you exchange shares of the Fund for shares of other Oppenheimer funds. However, if you exchange your shares within the applicable holding period, your original holding period will carry over to the shares you acquire, even if the new fund has a different holding period.

SALES CHARGE WAIVERS. The Fund and the Distributor offer the following opportunities to purchase shares without front-end or contingent deferred sales charges. The Fund reserves the right to amend or discontinue these programs at any time without prior notice.

• Dividend Reinvestment. Dividends or capital gains distributions may be reinvested in shares of the Fund, or any of the other Oppenheimer funds into which shares of the Fund may be exchanged, without a sales charge.

• Exchanges of Shares. There is no sales charge on exchanges of shares except for exchanges of Class A shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. or Oppenheimer Cash Reserves on which you have not paid a sales charge.

• Reinvestment Privilege. There is no sales charge on reinvesting the proceeds from redemptions of Class A shares or Class B shares that occurred within the previous six months if you paid an initial or contingent deferred sales charge on the redeemed shares. This reinvestment privilege does not apply to reinvestment purchases made through automatic investment options. You must advise the Distributor, the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary that you qualify for the waiver at the time you submit your purchase order.

In addition, the "Sales Charge Waivers" Appendix to the Statement of Additional Information provides detailed information about certain other initial sales charge and contingent deferred sales charge waivers and arrangements. A description of those sales charge waivers and arrangements is available for viewing on the OppenheimerFunds website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com (follow the hyperlink "Sales Charges & Breakpoints," under the heading "Fund Information") and may also be ordered by calling 1.800.225.5677. You must advise the Distributor, the Transfer Agent or your financial intermediary that you qualify for one of those waivers at the time you submit your purchase order or redemption request.

How to Buy, Sell and Exchange Shares

HOW TO BUY SHARES. You can buy shares in several ways. The Distributor has appointed certain financial intermediaries, including brokers, dealers and others, as servicing agents to accept purchase and redemption orders. The Distributor or servicing agent must receive your order, in proper form, by the close of the NYSE for you to receive that day's offering price. If your order is received on a day when the NYSE is closed or after it has closed, the order will receive the next offering price that is determined. To be in proper form, your purchase order must comply with the procedures described below. The Distributor, in its sole discretion, may reject any purchase order for the Fund's shares.

Buying Shares Through a Financial Intermediary. You can buy shares through any servicing agent (a broker, dealer, or other financial intermediary) that has a sales agreement with the Distributor. Your servicing agent will place your order with the Distributor on your behalf. A servicing agent may charge a processing fee for that service. Your account information will be shared with the financial intermediary designated as the dealer of record for the account.

Buying Shares Through the Distributor. We recommend that you discuss your investment with a financial advisor before you make a purchase to be sure that the Fund is appropriate for you. If you want to purchase shares directly from the Distributor, complete an OppenheimerFunds new account application and mail it with a check payable in U.S. dollars to "OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc." to the address on the back cover. If you do not list a dealer on your application, the Distributor is designated as the broker-dealer of record, but solely for the purpose of acting as your agent to purchase the shares and Class A shares are your only purchase option. Class B, Class C or Class N shares may not be purchased by a new investor directly from the Distributor without the investor designating another registered broker-dealer. However, if a current investor no longer has a broker-dealer of record for an existing Class B, Class C or Class N account, the Distributor is automatically designated as the broker-dealer of record, but solely for the purpose of acting as your agent to purchase the shares.

• Involuntary Redemptions. In some circumstances, involuntary redemptions may be made to repay the Distributor for losses from the cancellation of share purchase orders.

Identification Requirements. Federal regulations may require the Fund to obtain your name, your date of birth (for a natural person), your residential street address or principal place of business, and your Social Security Number, Employer Identification Number or other government-issued identification when you open an account. Additional information may be required to open a corporate account or in certain other circumstances. The Fund or the Transfer Agent may use this information to verify your identity. The Fund may not be able to establish an account if the necessary information is not received. The Fund may also place limits on account transactions while it is in the process of verifying your identity. Additionally, if the Fund is unable to verify your identity after your account is established, the Fund may be required to redeem your shares and close your account.

Suspension of Share Offering. The offering of Fund shares may be suspended during any period in which the determination of net asset value is suspended, and may be suspended by the Board at any time the Board believes it is in the Fund's best interest to do so.

HOW TO SELL SHARES. You can generally redeem (sell) some or all of your shares on any regular business day. You may redeem your shares by writing a letter, by wire, by telephone or on the internet. You can also set up an Automatic Withdrawal Plan to redeem shares on a regular basis. The redemption of Fund shares may be suspended under certain circumstances described in the Statement of Additional Information. If you have questions about any of these procedures, and especially if you are redeeming shares in a special situation, such as due to the death of the owner or from a retirement plan account, please call your financial intermediary or the Transfer Agent for assistance.

Redemption Price. Your shares will be redeemed at net asset value less any applicable sales charge or other fees. The net asset value used will be the next one calculated after your order is received, in proper form, by the Transfer Agent or your authorized financial intermediary. To be in proper form, your redemption order must comply with the procedures described below. The redemption price for shares will change from day-to-day because the value of the securities in the Fund's portfolio and the Fund's expenses fluctuate. The redemption price will normally differ for each class of shares. The redemption price of your shares may be more or less than their original cost.

Redemptions "In-Kind." Shares may be "redeemed in-kind" under certain circumstances (such as a lack of liquidity in the Fund's portfolio to meet redemptions). That means that the redemption proceeds will be paid in securities from the Fund's portfolio. If the Fund redeems your shares in-kind, you may bear transaction costs and will bear market risks until such securities are converted into cash.

Options for Receiving Redemption Proceeds

• By Check. The Fund will normally send redemption proceeds by check to the address on your account statement.

• By AccountLink. If you have linked your Fund account to your bank account with AccountLink (described below), you may have redemption proceeds transferred directly into your account. Normally the transfer to your bank is initiated on the bank business day after the redemption. You will not receive dividends on the proceeds of redeemed shares while they are waiting to be transferred.

• By Wire. You can arrange to have redemption proceeds sent by Federal Funds wire to an account at a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve wire system. The redemption proceeds will normally be transmitted on the next bank business day after the shares are redeemed. You will not receive dividends on the proceeds of redeemed shares while they are waiting to be transmitted.

Payment Delays. Payment for redeemed shares is usually made within seven days after the Transfer Agent receives redemption instructions in proper form. For accounts registered in the name of a broker-dealer, payment will normally be forwarded to the broker-dealer within three business days. The Transfer Agent may delay processing redemption payments for recently purchased shares until the purchase payment has cleared. That delay may be as much as 10 days from the date the shares were purchased. That delay may be avoided if you purchase shares by Federal Funds wire or certified check. Under unusual circumstances, the right to redeem shares or the payment of redemption proceeds may be delayed or suspended as permitted under the Investment Company Act.

THE OPPENHEIMERFUNDS EXCHANGE PRIVILEGE. You can exchange all or part of your Fund shares for shares of the same class of other Oppenheimer funds that offer the exchange privilege. For example, you can exchange Class A shares of the Fund only for Class A shares of another fund. You can obtain a list of the Oppenheimer funds that are currently available for exchanges by calling a service representative at the telephone number on the back of this prospectus. The funds available for exchange can change from time to time. 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.

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 its transaction and administrative costs and/or affect its 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 or redemption transactions, the Fund might be required to sell portfolio securities at unfavorable times to meet those transaction requests, and the Fund's brokerage or administrative expenses might be increased. Therefore, the Manager and the Fund's Board have adopted the following policies and procedures to detect and prevent frequent and/or excessive exchanges or purchase and redemption activity, while addressing the needs of investors who seek liquidity in their investment and the ability to exchange shares as their investment needs change. There is no guarantee that those policies and procedures, described below, will be sufficient to identify and deter all excessive short-term trading.

Limitations on Frequent Exchanges

30-Day Hold. If a direct shareholder exchanges shares of another Oppenheimer fund account for shares of the Fund, his or her Fund account will be "blocked" from exchanges into any other fund for a period of 30 calendar days from the date of the exchange, subject to certain exceptions described below. Likewise, if a Fund shareholder exchanges Fund shares for shares of another eligible Oppenheimer fund, that fund account will be "blocked" from further exchanges for 30 calendar days. 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 $2,000 from one fund into another fund in which the shareholder already owned shares worth $10,000, then, following the exchange, the full account balance ($12,000 in this example) would be blocked from exchanges into another fund for a period of 30 calendar days. A shareholder whose account is registered on the Fund's books showing the name, address and tax ID number of the beneficial owner is a "direct shareholder."

Exceptions to 30-Day Hold

• Exchanges Into Money Market Funds. A direct shareholder will be permitted to exchange shares of a stock or bond fund for shares of an eligible money market fund 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.

• Dividend Reinvestments and Class B Share Conversions. The 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.

• Asset Allocation Programs. Investment programs by Oppenheimer "funds-of-funds" that entail rebalancing investments in underlying Oppenheimer funds will not be subject to these limits. However, 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 also be subject to the 30-day limit.

• 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.

• 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.

Limitations on Exchanges in Omnibus Accounts. If you hold your Fund shares through a financial adviser or other firm such as a broker-dealer, a bank, an insurance company separate account, an investment adviser, an administrator or a trustee of a retirement 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, may apply. The Fund, the Distributor, the Manager and the Transfer Agent encourage those financial intermediaries to apply the Fund's policies to their customers who invest indirectly in the Fund. However, the Transfer Agent may not be able to detect excessive short-term trading activity in accounts maintained in "omnibus" or "street name" form where the underlying beneficial owners are not identified. 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 the account activity, and to confirm to the Transfer Agent and the Fund that appropriate action has been taken to curtail any excessive trading activity.

Other Limitations on Exchanges. There are a number of other special conditions and limitations that apply to certain types of exchanges. Those conditions and circumstances are described in the section "How to Exchange Shares" in the Statement of Additional Information. For information about sales charges that may apply to exchanges of shares see the sections "Contingent Deferred Sales Charges" and "Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers" above.

Requirements for Exchanges of Shares. To exchange shares of the Fund, you must meet several conditions. The Fund may amend the following requirements at any time:

• Shares of the fund selected for exchange must be available for sale in your state of residence.

• The selected fund must offer the exchange privilege.

• You must meet the minimum purchase requirements for the selected fund.

• Generally, exchanges may be made only between identically registered accounts, unless all account owners send written exchange instructions with a signature guarantee.

• Before exchanging into a fund, you should obtain its prospectus and should read it carefully.

Timing of Exchange Transactions. 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 NYSE that day in order to receive that day's net asset value on the exchanged shares. For requests received after the close of the NYSE the shares being exchanged will be valued at the next net asset value calculated after the request is received. The Transfer Agent may delay transmitting the proceeds from an exchange for up to five business days, however, if it determines, in its discretion, that an earlier transmittal of the redemption proceeds would be detrimental to either the fund from which shares are being exchanged or the fund into which the exchange is being made. The exchange proceeds will be invested in the new fund at the next net asset value calculated after the proceeds are received. In the event that a delay in the reinvestment of proceeds occurs, the Transfer Agent will notify you or your financial intermediary.

Taxes on Exchanges. 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 into which you are exchanging. Therefore, an exchange may result in a capital gain or loss for tax purposes.

OTHER LIMITS ON SHARE TRANSACTIONS. The Fund may impose other limits on transactions that it believes would be disruptive and may refuse any purchase or exchange order.

• Right to Refuse Purchase and Exchange 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.

• Right to Terminate or Suspend Account Privileges. 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 policies outlined in this prospectus. As part of the Transfer Agent's procedures to detect and deter excessive trading activity, 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. The Transfer Agent may send a written warning to a shareholder that the Transfer Agent believes may be engaging in disruptive or excessive trading activity; however, the Transfer Agent reserves the right to suspend or terminate the ability to purchase or exchange shares, with or without warning, for any account that the Transfer Agent determines, in the exercise of its discretion, has engaged in such trading activity.

HOW TO SUBMIT SHARE TRANSACTION REQUESTS. Share transactions may be requested by telephone or internet, in writing, through your financial advisor, or by establishing one of the Investor Services plans described below. Certain transactions may also be submitted by fax.

Internet and Telephone Transaction Requests. Purchase, redemption and exchange requests may be submitted on the OppenheimerFunds internet website, www.oppenheimerfunds.com. Those requests may also be made by calling the telephone number on the back cover and either speaking to a service representative or accessing PhoneLink, the OppenheimerFunds automated telephone system that enables shareholders to perform certain account transactions automatically using a touch-tone phone.

You will need to obtain a user I.D. and password to execute transactions through PhoneLink or on the internet. Some internet and telephone transactions require the Oppenheimer AccountLink feature, described below, that links your Fund account with an account at a U.S. bank or other financial institution. The Transfer Agent will record any telephone calls to verify data concerning transactions.

The following policies apply to internet and telephone transactions:

• Purchases through AccountLink that are submitted through PhoneLink or on the internet are limited to $100,000.

• Purchases through AccountLink that are submitted by calling a service representative are limited to $250,000.

• Redemptions that are submitted by telephone or on the internet and request the proceeds to be paid by check, must be made payable to all owners of record of the shares and must be sent to the address on the account statement. Telephone or internet redemptions paid by check may not exceed $100,000 in any seven-day period. This service is not available within 30 days of changing the address on an account.

• Redemptions by telephone or on the internet that are sent to your bank account through AccountLink are not subject to any dollar limits.

• Exchanges submitted by telephone or on the internet 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 redeemed or exchanged by telephone or on the internet.

• Shares held in an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored qualified retirement plan account may not be redeemed or exchanged by telephone or on the internet.

The Transfer Agent has adopted procedures to confirm that telephone and internet instructions are genuine. Callers are required to provide service representatives with tax identification numbers and other account data and PhoneLink and internet users are required to use PIN numbers. The Transfer Agent will also send you written confirmations of share transactions. The Transfer Agent and the Fund will not be liable for losses or expenses that occur from telephone or internet instructions reasonably believed to be genuine.

Telephone or internet transaction privileges may be modified, suspended or terminated by the Fund at any time. The Fund will provide you notice of such changes whenever it is required to do so by applicable law. 

Purchases and Redemptions by Federal Funds Wire.  Shares purchased through the Distributor may be paid for by Federal Funds wire. Redemption proceeds may also be transmitted by wire. The minimum wire purchase or redemption is $2,500. There is a $10 fee for each wire redemption request. Before sending a wire purchase, call the Distributor's Wire Department at 1.800.225.5677 to notify the Distributor of the wire and to receive further instructions. To set up wire redemptions on your account or to arrange for a wire redemption, call the Transfer Agent at the telephone number on the back of this prospectus for information.

Written Transaction Requests. You can send purchase, exchange or redemption requests to the Transfer Agent at the address on the back cover. Your request must include:

• The Fund's name;

• For existing accounts, the Fund account number (from your account statement);

• For new accounts, a completed account application; 

• For purchases, a check payable to the Fund or to OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.;

• For redemptions, any special payment instructions;

• For redemptions or exchanges, the dollar amount or number of shares to be redeemed or exchanged;

• For redemptions or exchanges, any share certificates that have been issued (exchanges or redemptions of shares for which certificates have been issued cannot be processed until the Transfer Agent receives the certificates);

• For individuals, the names and signatures of all registered owners exactly as they appear in the account registration;

• For corporations, partnerships or other businesses or as a fiduciary, the name of the entity as it appears in the account registration and the names and titles of any individuals signing on its behalf; and

• Other documents requested by the Transfer Agent to assure that the person purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares is properly identified and has proper authorization to carry out the transaction.

Certain Requests Require a Signature Guarantee. To protect you and the Fund from fraud, the following redemption requests must be in writing and must include a signature guarantee. A notary public seal will not be accepted for these requests (other situations might also require a signature guarantee):

• You wish to redeem more than $100,000 and receive a check;

• The redemption check is not payable to all shareholders listed on the account statement;

• The redemption check is not sent to the address of record on your account statement;

• Shares are being transferred to a Fund account with a different owner or name; or 

• Shares are being redeemed by someone (such as an Executor) other than the owners.

Where Can You Have Your Signature Guaranteed? The Transfer Agent will accept a signature guarantee from a number of financial institutions, including:

• a U.S. bank, trust company, credit union or savings association,

• a foreign bank that has a U.S. correspondent bank,

• a U.S. registered dealer or broker in securities, municipal securities or government securities, or

• a U.S. national securities exchange, a registered securities association or a clearing agency.

Fax Requests. You may send requests for certain types of account transactions to the Transfer Agent by fax. Please call the number on the back of this prospectus for information about which transactions may be handled this way. Transaction requests submitted by fax are subject to the same rules and restrictions as the written, telephone and internet requests described in this prospectus.  However, requests that require a signature guarantee may not be submitted by fax. 

Submitting Transaction Requests Through Your Financial Intermediary. You can submit purchase, redemption or exchange requests through any broker, dealer or other financial intermediary that has a special agreement with the Distributor. The broker, dealer or other intermediary will place the order with the Distributor on your behalf. A broker or dealer may charge a processing fee for that service. If your shares are held in the name of your financial intermediary, you must redeem them through that intermediary. Intermediaries that perform account transactions for their clients by participating in "Networking" through the National Securities Clearing Corporation are responsible for obtaining their clients' permission to perform those transactions, and are responsible to their clients who are shareholders of the Fund if the intermediary performs any transaction erroneously or improperly.

Client Account Exchanges by Financial Intermediaries. The Fund and the Transfer Agent permit brokers, dealers and other financial intermediaries to submit exchange requests on behalf of their customers, unless that authority has been revoked. The Fund or the Transfer Agent may limit or refuse 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.

INVESTMENT PLANS AND SERVICES

AccountLink. You can use our AccountLink feature to link your Fund account with an account at a U.S. bank or other financial institution that is an Automated Clearing House (ACH) member. AccountLink lets you:

• transmit funds electronically to purchase shares by internet, by telephone or automatically through an Asset Builder Plan. The purchase payment will be debited from your bank account. 

• have the Transfer Agent send redemption proceeds or dividends and distributions directly to your bank account. 

AccountLink privileges should be requested on your account application or on your broker-dealer's settlement instructions if you buy your shares through a broker-dealer. For an established account, you can request AccountLink privileges by sending signature-guaranteed instructions and proper documentation to the Transfer Agent. AccountLink privileges will apply to each shareholder listed in the registration on the account as well as to the financial intermediary's representative of record unless and until the Transfer Agent terminates or receives written instructions terminating or changing those privileges. After you establish AccountLink for your account, any change you make to your bank account information must be made by signature-guaranteed instructions to the Transfer Agent signed by all shareholders on the account. Please call the Transfer Agent for more information.

Asset Builder Plan. Under an Asset Builder Plan, you may purchase shares of the Fund automatically. An Asset Builder Plan is available only if you have established AccountLink with a bank or other financial institution. Payments to purchase Fund shares will be debited from your linked account.

To establish an Asset Builder Plan at the time you initially purchase Fund shares, complete the "Asset Builder Plan" information on the account application. To add an Asset Builder Plan to an existing account, use the Asset Builder Enrollment Form. You may change the amount of your Asset Builder payment or you can terminate your automatic investments at any time by writing to the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent requires a reasonable period (approximately 10 days) after receipt of your instructions to implement the requested changes. For more details, see the account application, the Asset Builder Enrollment Form and the Statement of Additional Information. Those documents are available by contacting the Distributor or may be downloaded from our website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com. The Fund reserves the right to amend, suspend or discontinue offering Asset Builder Plans at any time without prior notice.

Automatic Redemption and Exchange Plans. The Fund has several plans that enable you to redeem shares automatically or exchange them for shares of another Oppenheimer fund on a regular basis. Please call the Transfer Agent or consult the Statement of Additional Information for details.

Retirement Plans. The Distributor offers a number of different retirement plans that individuals and employers can use. The procedures for buying, selling, exchanging and transferring shares, and the account features applicable to other share classes, generally do not apply to Class N shares offered through a group retirement plan. However, the time that transaction requests must be received in order to purchase, redeem or exchange shares at the net asset value calculated on any business day is the same for all share classes. Purchase, redemption, exchange and transfer requests for a group retirement plan must be submitted by the plan administrator, not by plan participants. Retirement plans that hold shares of Oppenheimer funds in an omnibus account for the benefit of plan participants (other than OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Single DB Plus plans) are not permitted to make initial purchases of Class A shares that would be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge. Class B shares are not offered to new omnibus group retirement plans. The types of retirement plans that the Distributor offers include:

• Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). These include regular IRAs, Roth IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and rollover IRAs.

• SEP-IRAs. These are Simplified Employee Pension Plan IRAs for small business owners or self-employed individuals.

• 403(b)(7) Custodial Plans. These are tax-deferred plans for employees of eligible tax-exempt organizations, such as schools, hospitals and charitable organizations.

• 401(k) Plans. These are special retirement plans for employees of businesses.

• Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans. These plans are designed for businesses and self-employed individuals.

Retirement Plan Accounts. To open an OppenheimerFunds retirement plan account, please call the Distributor for retirement plan documents, which include applications and important plan information.

Less Paper, Less Waste. To avoid sending duplicate copies of Fund materials to households, the Fund will mail only one copy of each prospectus, annual and semi-annual report and annual notice of the Fund's privacy policy to shareholders having the same last name and address on the Fund's records. The consolidation of these mailings, called "householding," benefits the Fund through lower printing costs and reduced mailing expense.

If you prefer to receive multiple copies of these materials, you may call the Transfer Agent at the number on the back of this prospectus or you may notify the Transfer Agent in writing. Multiple copies of prospectuses, reports and privacy notices will be sent to you commencing within 30 days after the Transfer Agent receives your request to stop householding.

DISTRIBUTION AND SERVICE (12b-1) PLANS

Distribution and Service Plan for Class A Shares. The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service Plan for Class A shares. The plan provides for the Fund to pay the Distributor an asset-based sales charge calculated at an annual rate of 0.25% of the daily net assets of Class A. However, the Board of Trustees has currently set that rate at zero. The Fund pays a service fee under the plan calculated at an annual rate of 0.25% of the Class A daily net assets. The Distributor currently uses all of the Class A service fees to pay brokers, dealers, banks and other financial intermediaries for providing personal service and maintaining the accounts of their customers that hold Class A shares. Because the service fee is paid out of the Fund's assets on an ongoing basis, over time it will increase the cost of your investment.

Distribution and Service Plans for Class B, Class C and Class N Shares. The Fund has adopted Distribution and Service Plans for Class B, Class C and Class N shares to pay the Distributor for distributing those share classes, maintaining accounts and providing shareholder services. Under the plans, the Fund pays the Distributor an asset-based sales charge for Class B and Class C shares calculated at an annual rate of 0.75% of the daily net assets of those classes and for Class N shares calculated at 0.25% of the daily net assets of that class. The Fund also pays a service fee under the plans at an annual rate of 0.25% of the daily net assets of Class B, Class C and Class N. Altogether, these fees increase the Class B and Class C annual expenses by 1.00% and increase the Class N annual expenses by 0.50%, calculated on the daily net assets of the applicable class. Because these fees are paid out of the Fund's assets on an ongoing basis, over time they will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than other types of sales charges.

     Use of Plan Fees: The Distributor uses the service fees to compensate brokers, dealers, banks and other financial intermediaries for maintaining accounts and providing personal services to Class B, Class C or Class N shareholders in the applicable share class. The Distributor normally pays intermediaries the 0.25% service fee in advance for the first year after shares are purchased and then pays that fee periodically.

     Class B Shares: The Distributor currently pays a sales concession of 3.75% of the purchase price of Class B shares to dealers from its own resources at the time of sale. Including the advance of the service fee, the total amount paid by the Distributor to the dealer at the time of sale of Class B shares is therefore 4.00% of the purchase price. The Distributor normally retains the Class B asset-based sales charge. However, for ongoing purchases of Class B shares by certain retirement plans, the Distributor may pay the intermediary the asset-based sales charge and service fee during the first year after purchase instead of paying a sales concession and the first year's service fees at the time of purchase. See the Statement of Additional Information for exceptions.

     Class C Shares: At the time of a Class C share purchase, the Distributor generally pays financial intermediaries a sales concession of 0.75% of the purchase price from its own resources. Therefore, the total amount, including the advance of the service fee, that the Distributor pays the intermediary at the time of a Class C share purchase is 1.00% of the purchase price. The Distributor normally retains the asset-based sales charge on Class C share purchases during the first year and then pays that fee to the intermediary as an ongoing concession. For Class C share purchases in certain omnibus group retirement plans or through the OppenheimerFunds Record(k)eeper Pro program, the Distributor pays the intermediary the asset-based sales charge during the first year instead of paying a sales concession at the time of purchase. The Distributor pays the service fees it receives on those shares to the intermediary or to FASCore, LLC for providing shareholder services to those accounts. See the Statement of Additional Information for exceptions to these arrangements.

     Class N Shares: At the time of a Class N share purchase, the Distributor generally pays financial intermediaries a sales concession of 0.75% of the purchase price from its own resources. Therefore, the total amount, including the advance of the service fee, that the Distributor pays the intermediary at the time of a Class N purchase is 1.00% of the purchase price. The Distributor normally retains the asset-based sales charge on Class N shares. For Class N shares purchased in certain omnibus group retirement plans the Distributor may pay the intermediary the asset-based sales charge and service fee during the first year instead of paying a sales concession and the first year's service fees at the time of purchase. See the Statement of Additional Information for exceptions to these arrangements.

PAYMENTS TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS. The Manager and the Distributor, in their discretion, may also make payments to brokers, dealers and other financial intermediaries or to service providers for distribution and/or shareholder servicing activities. Those payments are made out of the Manager's and/or the Distributor's own resources and/or assets, including from the revenues or profits derived from the advisory fees the Manager receives from the Fund. Those cash payments, which may be substantial, are paid to many firms having business relationships with the Manager and Distributor and are in addition to any distribution fees, servicing fees, or transfer agency fees paid directly or indirectly by the Fund to these financial intermediaries and any commissions the Distributor pays to these firms out of the sales charges paid by investors. Payments by the Manager or Distributor from their own resources are not reflected in the tables in the "Fees and Expenses of the Fund" section of this prospectus because they are not paid by the Fund.

      The financial intermediaries that may receive those payments include firms that offer and sell Fund shares to their clients, or provide shareholder services to the Fund, or both, and receive compensation for those activities. The financial intermediaries that may receive payments include your securities broker, dealer or financial adviser, sponsors of fund "supermarkets," sponsors of fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, sponsors of college and retirement savings programs, banks, trust companies and other intermediaries offering products that hold Fund shares, and insurance companies that offer variable annuity or variable life insurance products.

In general, these payments to financial intermediaries can be categorized as "distribution-related" or "servicing" payments. Payments for distribution-related expenses, such as marketing or promotional expenses, are often referred to as "revenue sharing." Revenue sharing payments may be made on the basis of the sales of shares attributable to that intermediary, the average net assets of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds attributable to the accounts of that intermediary and its clients, negotiated lump sum payments for distribution services provided, or similar fees. In some circumstances, revenue sharing payments may create an incentive for a financial intermediary or its representatives to recommend or offer shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds to its customers. These payments also may give an intermediary an incentive to cooperate with the Distributor's marketing efforts. A revenue sharing payment may, for example, qualify the Fund for preferred status with the intermediary receiving the payment or provide representatives of the Distributor with access to representatives of the intermediary's sales force, in some cases on a preferential basis over funds of competitors. Additionally, as firm support, the Manager or Distributor may reimburse expenses related to educational seminars and "due diligence" or training meetings (to the extent permitted by applicable laws or the rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), formerly known as the NASD) designed to increase sales representatives' awareness about Oppenheimer funds, including travel and lodging expenditures. However, the Manager does not consider a financial intermediary's sale of shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds when selecting brokers or dealers to effect portfolio transactions for the funds.

Various factors are used to determine whether to make revenue sharing payments. Possible considerations include, without limitation, the types of services provided by the intermediary, sales of Fund shares, the redemption rates on accounts of clients of the intermediary or overall asset levels of Oppenheimer funds held for or by clients of the intermediary, the willingness of the intermediary to allow the Distributor to provide educational and training support for the intermediary's sales personnel relating to the Oppenheimer funds, the availability of the Oppenheimer funds on the intermediary's sales system, as well as the overall quality of the services provided by the intermediary and the Manager or Distributor's relationship with the intermediary. The Manager and Distributor have adopted guidelines for assessing and implementing each prospective revenue sharing arrangement. To the extent that financial intermediaries receiving distribution-related payments from the Manager or Distributor sell more shares of the Oppenheimer funds or retain more shares of the funds in their client accounts, the Manager and Distributor benefit from the incremental management and other fees they receive with respect to those assets.

Payments may also be made by the Manager, the Distributor or the Transfer Agent to financial intermediaries to compensate or reimburse them for administrative or other client services provided such as sub-transfer agency services for shareholders or retirement plan participants, omnibus accounting or sub-accounting, participation in networking arrangements, account set-up, recordkeeping and other shareholder services. Payments may also be made for administrative services related to the distribution of Fund shares through the intermediary. Firms that may receive servicing fees include retirement plan administrators, qualified tuition program sponsors, banks and trust companies, and others. These fees may be used by the service provider to offset or reduce fees that would otherwise be paid directly to them by certain account holders, such as retirement plans.

The Statement of Additional Information contains more information about revenue sharing and service payments made by the Manager or the Distributor. Your broker, dealer or other financial intermediary may charge you fees or commissions in addition to those disclosed in this prospectus. You should ask your financial intermediary for details about any such payments it receives from the Manager or the Distributor and their affiliates, or any other fees or expenses it charges.

Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes

DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS. The Fund intends to declare and pay dividends quarterly from its net investment income. The Fund may also realize capital gains on the sale of portfolio securities, in which case it may make distributions out of any net short-term or long-term capital gains annually. The Fund may also make supplemental distributions of dividends and capital gains following the end of its fiscal year. The Fund has no fixed dividend rate and cannot guarantee that it will pay any dividends or capital gains distributions in a particular year.

Dividends and distributions are paid separately for each share class. The dividends and capital gains distributions paid on Class A and Class Y shares will generally be higher than those on Class B, Class C and Class N shares, since those classes normally have higher expenses than Class A and Class Y.

Options for Receiving Dividends and Distributions. When you open your Fund account, you can specify on your application how you want to receive distributions of dividends and capital gains. To change that option, you must notify the Transfer Agent. There are four payment options available:

• Reinvest All Distributions in the Fund. You can elect to reinvest all dividends and capital gains distributions in additional shares of the Fund.

• Reinvest Only Dividends or Capital Gains. You can elect to reinvest some types of distributions in the Fund while receiving the other types of distributions by check or having them sent to your bank account through AccountLink. Different treatment is available for distributions of dividends, short-term capital gains and long-term capital gains.

• Receive All Distributions in Cash. You can elect to receive all dividends and capital gains distributions by check or have them sent to your bank through AccountLink.

• Reinvest Your Distributions in Another Oppenheimer Fund. You can reinvest all of your dividends and capital gains distributions in another Oppenheimer fund that is available for exchanges. You must have an existing account in the same share class in the selected fund.

TAXES. If your shares are not held in a tax-deferred retirement account, you should be aware of the following tax consequences of investing in the Fund. Fund distributions, whether taken in cash or in additional shares, are subject to Federal income tax and may be subject to state or local taxes. Distributions paid from short-term capital gains and net investment income are taxable as ordinary income and distributions from net long-term capital gain are taxable as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have held your shares. In taxable years beginning before 2011, long-term capital gains of individuals and other non-corporate taxpayers are taxed at a special reduced rate.

In the case of individuals and other non-corporate taxpayers, for taxable years beginning before 2011, certain dividends (including certain dividends from foreign corporations) are taxable at the lower rate applicable to long-term capital gains. In the case of certain corporations, some dividends are eligible for the dividends-received deduction. To the extent the Fund's distributions are paid from these types of dividends, and provided certain other shareholder level requirements are satisfied, the Fund's individual and non-corporate shareholders will be eligible to claim the reduced tax rate for the distributions and the Fund's corporate shareholders will be eligible to claim the dividends-received deduction.

Foreign countries may impose withholding and other taxes on the Fund's dividend and interest income. Provided that at the end of the fiscal year more than 50% of the Fund's assets are invested in stocks and securities of foreign corporations or governments, the Fund may make an election under the Internal Revenue Code allowing shareholders to take a credit or deduction on their Federal income tax returns for the foreign taxes paid by the Fund.

After the end of each calendar year the Fund will send you and the Internal Revenue Service statements showing the amount of any taxable distributions you received in the previous year and will separately identify any portion of these distributions that qualify for taxation as long-term capital gains or for any other special tax treatment.

The Fund has qualified and intends to qualify each year to be taxed as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code by satisfying certain income, asset diversification and income distribution requirements, but reserves the right not to so qualify. In each year that it qualifies as a regulated investment company, the Fund will not be subject to federal income taxes on its income that it distributes to shareholders.

If you are neither a lawful permanent resident nor a citizen of the United States, or if you are a foreign entity, the Fund's ordinary income dividends (which include distributions of net short-term capital gain) generally will be subject to a 30% U.S. withholding tax, unless a lower rate applies under an income tax treaty. For the Fund's taxable year beginning November 1, 2008, certain distributions that are designated by the Fund as interest-related dividends or short-term gain dividends and paid to a foreign shareholder may be eligible for an exemption from U.S. withholding tax. To the extent the Fund's distributions are derived from dividends, they will not be eligible for this exemption.

By law, your dividends and redemption proceeds will be subject to a withholding tax if you are not a corporation and have not provided a taxpayer identification number or social security number or if the number you have provided is incorrect.

Avoid "Buying a Distribution." If you buy shares on or just before the ex-dividend date, or just before the Fund declares a capital gains distribution, you will pay the full price for the shares and then receive a portion of the price back as a taxable dividend or capital gain.

Remember, There May be Taxes on Transactions. Because the Fund's share prices fluctuate, you may have a capital gain or loss when you sell or exchange your shares. A capital gain or loss is the difference between the price you paid for the shares and the price you receive when you sell or exchange them. Any capital gain is subject to capital gains tax.

Returns of Capital Can Occur. In certain cases, distributions made by the Fund may be considered a non-taxable return of capital to shareholders, resulting in a reduction in the basis in their shares. If this occurs, the Fund will notify you.

This information is only a summary of certain Federal income tax information about your investment. You are encouraged to consult your tax adviser about the effect of an investment in the Fund on your particular tax situation and about any changes to the Internal Revenue Code that may occur from time to time. Additional information about the tax effects of investing in the Fund is contained in the Statement of Additional Information.

Financial Highlights

The Financial Highlights Table is presented to help you understand the Fund's financial performance for the past five fiscal years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single Fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the Fund (assuming reinvestment of all dividends and distributions). This information has been audited by KPMG LLP, the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm, whose report, along with the Fund's financial statements, is included in the Statement of Additional Information, which is available upon request.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Financial Highlights Tables

Class A      Year Ended October 31,	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$29.86	$29.15	$27.34	$26.89	$23.71
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)	.631	.201	.091	(.05)1	(.10)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)	(10.24)	2.67	4.61	2.58	3.45
Total from investment operations	(9.61)	2.87	4.70	2.53	3.35
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income	(.62)	(.03)	--	--	--
Distributions from net realized gain	(3.98)	(2.13)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders	(4.60)	(2.16)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Net asset value, end of period	$15.65	$29.86	$29.15	$27.34	$26.89
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2	(37.27)%	10.43%	18.43%	9.80%	14.22%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$199,650	$362,740	$382,512	$339,703	$252,661
Average net assets (in thousands)	$292,638	$370,916	$369,074	$309,617	$225,711
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)	2.85%	0.68%	0.32%	(0.19)%	(0.37)%
Total expenses	1.25%4	1.28%4	1.29%	1.34%	1.40%
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses	1.25%	1.28%	1.28%	1.34%	1.40%
Portfolio turnover rate	78%	124%	56%	89%	61%

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2. Assumes an 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. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:
             Year Ended October 31, 20081.25%
             Year Ended October 31, 20071.28%

Class B      Year Ended October 31,	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$26.48	$26.27	$25.11	$25.07	$22.31
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)	.381	(.05)1	(.14)1	(.28)1	(.29)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)	(8.95)	2.39	4.19	2.40	3.22
Total from investment operations	(8.57)	2.34	4.05	2.12	2.93
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income	(.30)	--	--	--	--
Distributions from net realized gain	(3.98)	(2.13)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders	(4.28)	(2.13)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Net asset value, end of period	$13.63	$26.48	$26.27	$25.11	$25.07
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2	(37.81)%	9.46%	17.37%	8.81%	13.22%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$24,862	$60,106	$76,583	$74,004	$64,069
Average net assets (in thousands)	$42,007	$72,568	$76,606	$73,417	$60,460
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)	1.94%	(0.21)%	(0.58)%	(1.10)%	(1.26)%
Total expenses	2.14%4,5,6 ,7	2.16%4,5,6 ,7	2.19%5,6	2.25%5,6	2.30%5,6
Portfolio turnover rate	78%	124%	56%	89%	61%

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2. Assumes an 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. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:
             Year Ended October 31, 20082.14%
             Year Ended October 31, 20072.16%
5. Reduction to custodian expenses less than 0.005%.
6. Voluntary waiver of transfer agent fees less than 0.005%.
7. Waiver or reimbursement of indirect management fees less than 0.005%.

Class C      Year Ended October 31,	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$26.54	$26.31	$25.14	$25.10	$22.34
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)	.391	(.04)1	(.14)1	(.27)1	(.29)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)	(8.99)	2.40	4.20	2.39	3.22
Total from investment operations	(8.60)	2.36	4.06	2.12	2.93
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income	(.30)	-	-	-	-
Distributions from net realized gain	(3.98)	(2.13)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders	(4.28)	(2.13)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Net asset value, end of period	$13.66	$26.54	$26.31	$25.14	$25.10
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2	(37.83)%	9.53%	17.39%	8.80%	13.20%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$29,599	$56,130	$54,971	$46,560	$34,414
Average net assets (in thousands)	$43,817	$56,496	$51,822	$42,635	$32,051
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)	1.98%	(0.17)%	(0.57)%	(1.09)%	(1.26)%
Total expenses	2.12%4	2.13%4	2.17%	2.24%	2.31%
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses	2.11%	2.13%	2.17%	2.24%	2.31%
Portfolio turnover rate	78%	124%	56%	89%	61%

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2. Assumes an 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. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:
             Year Ended October 31, 20082.12%
             Year Ended October 31, 20072.13%

Class N      Year Ended October 31,	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$29.09	$28.52	$26.91	$26.61	$23.56
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)	.541	.081	(.03)1	(.16)1	(.19)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)	(9.97)	2.62	4.53	2.54	3.41
Total from investment operations	(9.43)	2.70	4.50	2.38	3.22
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income	(.44)	-	-	-	-
Distributions from net realized gain	(3.98)	(2.13)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders	(4.42)	(2.13)	(2.89)	(2.08)	(.17)
Net asset value, end of period	$15.24	$29.09	$28.52	$26.91	$26.61
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2	(37.48)%	10.02%	17.93%	9.31%	13.75%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$10,023	$19,340	$19,013	$16,451	$10,554
Average net assets (in thousands)	$15,221	$19,387	$17,985	$13,849	$8,724
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)	2.47%	0.29%	(0.12)%	(0.61)%	(0.78)%
Total expenses	1.87%4	1.91%4	1.90%	2.08%	2.20%
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses	1.63%	1.67%	1.72%	1.76%	1.81%
Portfolio turnover rate	78%	124%	56%	89%	61%

1. Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2. Assumes an 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. Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:
             Year Ended October 31, 20081.87%
             Year Ended October 31, 20071.91%

INFORMATION AND SERVICES

STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. This document includes additional information about the Fund's investment policies, risks, and operations. It is incorporated by reference into this prospectus (it is legally part of this prospectus).
ANNUAL AND SEMI-ANNUAL REPORTS. The Fund's Annual and Semi-Annual Reports provide additional information about the Fund's investments and performance. The Annual Report includes a discussion of market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Fund's performance during its last fiscal year.

How to Request More Information

You can request the above documents, the notice explaining the Fund's privacy policy, and other information about the Fund, without charge, by:

Telephone:	Call OppenheimerFunds Services toll-free: 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677)
Mail:	Use the following address for regular mail: OppenheimerFunds Services P.O. Box 5270 Denver, Colorado 80217-5270
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Internet:	You may request documents, and read or download certain documents at www.oppenheimerfunds.com

Information about the Fund including the Statement of Additional Information can 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 the SEC at 1.202.942.8090. Reports and other information about the Fund are available on the EDGAR database on the SEC's Internet website at www.sec.gov. Copies may be obtained after payment of a duplicating fee by electronic request at the SEC's e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov or by writing to the SEC's Public Reference Section, Washington, D.C. 20549-0102.

No one has been authorized to provide any information about the Fund or to make any representations about the Fund other than what is contained in this prospectus. This prospectus is not an offer to sell shares of the Fund, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy shares of the Fund, to any person in any state or other jurisdiction where it is unlawful to make such an offer.

The Fund's SEC File No.: 811-04797

PR0835.001.0209

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924

1.800. CALL OPP (225.5677)

Statement of Additional Information dated February 27, 2009

This Statement of Additional Information is not a Prospectus. This document contains additional information about the Fund and supplements information in the Prospectus dated February 27, 2009. It should be read together with the Prospectus, which may be obtained by writing to the Fund's Transfer Agent, OppenheimerFunds Services, at P.O. Box 5270, Denver, Colorado 80217, or by calling the Transfer Agent at the toll-free number shown above, or by downloading it from the OppenheimerFunds Internet website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.
 

Contents                                                                                                             Page

About the Fund

Additional Information About the Fund's Investment Policies and Risks          

The Fund's Investment Policies          

Other Investment Techniques and Strategies          

Other Investment Restrictions          

     Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings          
How the Fund is Managed           

Organization and History          

Board of Directors and Audit Committee          

Directors and Officers of the Fund          

The Manager          

Brokerage Policies of the Fund          
Distribution and Service Plans          
Payments to Fund Intermediaries          
Performance of the Fund          

About Your Account

How To Buy Shares          
How To Sell Shares          
How To Exchange Shares          
Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes          
Additional Information About the Fund          
 

Financial Information About the Fund

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm          

Financial Statements          

Appendix A: Special Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers                                          A-1

Appendix B: Ratings Definitions                                                                                         B-1

about The FUnd

Additional Information About the Fund's Investment Policies and Risks

The investment objective, the principal investment policies and the main risks of the Fund are described in the Prospectus. This Statement of Additional Information ("SAI") contains supplemental information about those policies and risks and the types of securities that the Fund's investment manager, OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (the "Manager"), can select for the Fund. Additional information is also provided about the strategies that the Fund might use to try to achieve its objective.

The Fund's Investment Policies. The composition of the Fund's portfolio and the techniques and strategies that the Fund's Manager, may use in selecting portfolio securities will vary over time. The Fund is not required to use all of the investment techniques and strategies described below in seeking its goal. It may use some of the special techniques and strategies at some times or not at all.

     In selecting securities for the Fund's portfolio, the Manager evaluates the merits of particular securities primarily through the exercise of its own investment analysis. In the case of corporate issuers, that process may include, among other things, evaluation of the issuer's historical operations, prospects for the industry of which the issuer is part, the issuer's financial condition, its pending product developments and business (and those of competitors), the effect of general market and economic conditions on the issuer's business, and legislative proposals that might affect the issuer. In the case of foreign securities, when evaluating the securities of issuers in a particular country, the Manager may also consider the conditions of a particular country's economy in relation to the U.S. economy or other foreign economies, general political conditions in a country or region, the effect of taxes, the efficiencies and costs of particular markets and other factors.

n     Investments in Equity Securities. While the Fund currently emphasizes investments in equity securities of larger companies, the Fund does not limit its investments in equity securities to issuers having a market capitalization of a specified size or range, and therefore can invest in securities of small-, mid- and large-capitalization issuers. At times, the Fund might focus its equity investments in securities of one or more capitalization ranges, based upon the Manager's judgment of where the best market opportunities are to seek the Fund's objective. At times, in the Manager's view, the market may favor or disfavor securities of issuers of a particular capitalization range, and securities of mid-and small-capitalization issuers may be subject to greater price volatility in general than securities of larger companies. Therefore, if the Fund has substantial investments in mid-and/or smaller-capitalization companies at times of market volatility, the Fund's share price could fluctuate more than that of funds focusing on larger-capitalization issuers.

      Value Investing. In selecting equity investments for the Fund's portfolio, the portfolio manager currently uses a value investing style. In using a value approach, the portfolio manager seeks stock and other equity securities that appear to be temporarily undervalued by various measures, such as price/earnings ratios. This approach is subject to change and may not necessarily be used in all cases. Value investing seeks stocks having prices that are low in relation to their real worth or future prospects, in the hope that the Fund will realize appreciation in the value of its holdings when other investors realize the intrinsic value of the stock.

      Using value investing requires research as to the issuer's underlying financial condition and prospects. Some of the measures used to identify these securities include, among others:

·      Price/Earnings ratio, which is the stock's price divided by its earnings per share. A stock having a price/earnings ratio lower than its historical range, or the market as a whole or that of similar companies, may offer attractive investment opportunities.

·      Price/book value ratio, which is the stock price divided by the book value of the company per share, which measures the company's stock price in relation to its asset value.

·      Dividend Yield is measured by dividing the annual dividend by the stock price per share.

·      Valuation of Assets, which compares the stock price to the value of the company's underlying assets, including their projected value in the marketplace and liquidation value.

·     Preferred Stocks. Preferred stock, unlike common stock, has a stated dividend rate payable from the corporation's earnings. Preferred stock dividends may be cumulative or non-cumulative, participating, or auction rate. "Cumulative" dividend provisions require all or a portion of prior unpaid dividends to be paid before dividends can be paid on the issuer's common stock. Preferred stock may be "participating" stock, which means that it may be entitled to a dividend exceeding the stated dividend in certain cases.

If interest rates rise, the fixed dividend on preferred stocks may be less attractive, causing the price of preferred stocks to decline. Preferred stock may have mandatory sinking fund provisions, as well as provisions allowing calls or redemptions prior to maturity, which also have a negative impact on prices when interest rates decline. Preferred stock also generally has a preference over common stock on the distribution of a corporation's assets in the event of liquidation of the corporation. The rights of preferred stock on distribution of a corporation's assets in the event of a liquidation are generally subordinate to the rights associated with a corporation's debt securities.

·     Rights and Warrants. Warrants basically are options to purchase equity securities at specific prices valid for a specific period of time. Their prices do not necessarily move parallel to the prices of the underlying securities. Rights are similar to warrants, but normally have a short duration and are distributed directly by the issuer to its shareholders. Rights and warrants have no voting rights, receive no dividends and have no rights with respect to the assets of the issuer. The market for them may be very limited and they may be difficult for the fund to dispose of promptly at an acceptable price. There is also the risk of failure of the price of the underlying security to reach or have reasonable prospects of reaching a level at which the warrant can be prudently exercised, in which event the warrant may expire without being exercised, resulting in a loss of the Fund's investment thereof. The Fund will not invest more than 5% of its net assets in warrants. That limit does not apply to warrants that have been acquired in units or attached to other securities.

·     Convertible Securities. Convertible securities are debt securities that are convertible into an issuer's common stock. Convertible securities rank senior to common stock in a corporation's capital structure and therefore are subject to less risk than common stock in case of the issuer's bankruptcy or liquidation.

     The value of a convertible security is a function of its "investment value" and its "conversion value." If the investment value exceeds the conversion value, the security will behave more like a debt security, and the security's price will likely increase when interest rates fall and decrease when rates rise. If the conversion value exceeds the investment value, the security will behave more like an equity security: it will likely sell at a premium over its conversion value, and its price will tend to fluctuate directly with the price of the underlying security.
 

While some convertible securities are a form of debt security, in many cases their conversion feature (allowing conversion into equity securities) may cause them to be regarded by the Manager more as "equity equivalents."As a result, the credit rating assigned to the security has less impact on the Manager's investment decision with respect to convertible securities than in the case of non-convertible fixed-income securities. Convertible securities are subject to the credit risks and interest rate risks described below. To determine whether convertible securities should be regarded as "equity equivalents," the Manager may consider the following factors:

(1)      whether, at the option of the investor, the convertible security can be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of common stock of the issuer,

(2)      whether the issuer of the convertible securities has restated its earnings per share of common stock on a fully diluted basis (considering the effect of conversion of the convertible securities), and

(3)      the extent to which the convertible security may be a defensive "equity substitute," providing the ability to participate in any appreciation in the price of the issuer's common stock.

n     Investments in Debt Securities. The Fund can invest in a variety of domestic and foreign debt securities including bonds, notes, debentures and other debt securities, including U.S. Government securities. It can also invest in short-term debt securities primarily for liquidity or defensive purposes. Because the Fund currently emphasizes investments in equity securities, such as stocks, it is not anticipated that more than 25% of the Fund's total assets will be invested in debt securities under normal market conditions.

     Foreign debt securities are subject to the risks of foreign investing described below. In general, domestic and foreign debt securities are also subject to credit risk and interest rate risk.

·     Credit Risk. Credit risk relates to the ability of the issuer of a debt security to meet interest and principal payment obligations as they become due. In making investments in debt securities, the Manager may rely to some extent on the ratings of ratings organizations or it may use its own research to evaluate a security's creditworthiness. The Fund's debt investments can include investment-grade and below investment-grade bonds (commonly referred to as "junk bonds"). Investment-grade bonds are bonds rated at least "Baa" by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"), at least "BBB" by Standard & Poor's Rating Service ("Standard & Poor's") or Fitch, Inc., or that have comparable ratings by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization. If the securities the Fund buys are unrated, to be considered part of the Fund's holdings of investment-grade securities they must be judged by the Manager to be of comparable quality to bonds rated as investment-grade by a rating organization. The debt security ratings definitions of the principal ratings organizations are included in Appendix B to this SAI.

·     Interest Rate Risk. Interest rate risk refers to the fluctuations in value of debt 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.

Fluctuations in the market value of the Fund's portfolio securities after the Fund buys them normally do not affect the interest income payable on those securities (unless the security's interest is payable on a variable rate pegged to particular interest rate changes). However, those price fluctuations will be reflected in the valuations of the securities, and therefore the Fund's net asset values will be affected by those fluctuations.

·     U.S. Government Securities. These are securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury or other government agencies or federally-chartered corporate entities referred to as "instrumentalities." Obligations of U.S. Government agencies or instrumentalities (including mortgage-backed securities) may or may not be guaranteed or supported by the "full faith and credit" of the United States. "Full faith and credit" means generally that the taxing power of the U.S. Government is pledged to the payment of interest and repayment of principal on a security. Some are obligations backed by the right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury; others, by discretionary authority of the U.S. Government to purchase the agencies' obligations; while others are supported only by the credit of the instrumentality.

     
     All U.S. Treasury obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. If the securities are not backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, the owner of the securities must look principally to the agency issuing the obligation for repayment and might not be able to assert a claim against the United States in the event that the agency or instrumentality does not meet its commitment. The Fund will invest in securities of U.S. Government agencies and instrumentalities only when the Manager is satisfied that the credit risk with respect to such agency or instrumentality is minimal.

·     Special Risks of Lower-Grade Securities. While it is not currently anticipated that the Fund will invest more than 25% of its total assets in lower-grade debt securities, the Fund can invest a portion of its assets in these securities. Because lower-grade securities tend to offer higher yields than investment-grade securities, the Fund could invest in lower-grade securities if the Manager is trying to achieve greater income. In some cases, the appreciation possibilities of lower-grade securities might be a reason they are selected for the Fund's portfolio.

     "Lower-grade" debt securities are those rated below "investment-grade," which means they have a rating lower than "Baa" by Moody's or lower than "BBB" by Standard & Poor's or Fitch, Inc., or similar ratings by other nationally recognized statistical rating organizations. If they are unrated, and are determined by the Manager to be of comparable quality to debt securities rated below investment-grade, they are included in determining the percentage of the Fund's assets that can be invested in lower-grade securities. The Fund can invest in securities rated as low as "C" or "D."

     Some of the special credit risks of lower-grade securities are discussed in the Prospectus. There is a greater risk that the issuer may default on its obligation to pay interest or to repay principal than in the case of investment-grade securities. The issuer's low creditworthiness may increase the potential for its insolvency. An overall decline in values in the high yield bond market is also more likely during a period of a general economic downturn. An economic downturn or an increase in interest rates could severely disrupt the market for high yield bonds, adversely affecting the values of outstanding bonds as well as the ability of issuers to pay interest or repay principal. In the case of foreign high yield bonds, these risks are in addition to the special risks of foreign investing discussed in the Prospectus and in this SAI.
 

     However, the Fund's limitations on these investments may reduce some of the risks to the Fund, as will the Fund's policy of diversifying its investments. Additionally, to the extent they can be converted into stock, convertible securities may be less subject to some of these risks than non-convertible high yield bonds, since stock may be more liquid and less affected by some of these risk factors.
 
     While securities rated "Baa" by Moody's or "BBB" by Standard & Poor's or Fitch, Inc. are investment-grade and are not regarded as junk bonds, those securities may be subject to special risks, and have some speculative characteristics.
 

n     Money Market Instruments. The following is a brief description of the types of money market securities the Fund can invest in. Those money market securities are high-quality, short-term debt instruments that are issued by the U.S. Government, corporations, banks or other entities. They may have fixed, variable or floating interest rates.

·     U.S. Government Securities. These include obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities, described above.

·     Bank Obligations. The Fund can buy time deposits, certificates of deposit and bankers' acceptances. Time deposits, other than overnight deposits, may be subject to withdrawal penalties and, if so, they are deemed "illiquid" investments.

     The Fund can purchase bank obligations that are fully insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The FDIC generally insures the deposits of member banks up to $100,000 per account; however, that limit has been increased to $250,000 through December 31, 2009. Insured bank obligations may have a limited market and a particular investment of this type may be deemed "illiquid" unless the Board of Directors of the Fund determines that a readily-available market exists for that particular obligation, or unless the obligation is payable at principal amount plus accrued interest on demand or within seven days after demand.

·     Commercial Paper. The Fund can invest in commercial paper if it is rated within the top two rating categories of Standard & Poor's and Moody's. If the paper is not rated, it may be purchased if issued by a company having a credit rating of at least "AA" by Standard & Poor's or "Aa" by Moody's.

The Fund can buy commercial paper, including U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign branches of U.S. banks, issued by other entities if the commercial paper is guaranteed as to principal and interest by a bank, government or corporation whose certificates of deposit or commercial paper may otherwise be purchased by the Fund.

·     Variable Amount Master Demand Notes. Master demand notes are corporate obligations that permit the investment of fluctuating amounts by the Fund at varying rates of interest under direct arrangements between the Fund, as lender, and the borrower. They permit daily changes in the amounts borrowed. The Fund has the right to increase the amount under the

note at any time up to the full amount provided by the note agreement, or to decrease the amount. The borrower may prepay up to the full amount of the note without penalty. These notes may or may not be backed by bank letters of credit.

Because these notes are direct lending arrangements between the lender and borrower, it is not expected that there will be a trading market for them. There is no secondary market for these notes, although they are redeemable (and thus are immediately repayable by the borrower) at principal amount, plus accrued interest, at any time. Accordingly, the Fund's right to redeem such notes is dependent upon the ability of the borrower to pay principal and interest on demand.

The Fund has no limitations on the type of issuer from whom these notes will be purchased. However, in connection with such purchases and on an ongoing basis, the Manager will consider the earning power, cash flow and other liquidity ratios of the issuer, and its ability to pay principal and interest on demand, including a situation in which all holders of such notes made demand simultaneously. Investments in master demand notes are subject to the limitation on investments by the Fund in illiquid securities, described in the Prospectus, unless they have a demand feature permitting them to be put back to the issuer within seven days. The Fund does not intend that its investments in variable amount master demand notes will exceed 5% of its total assets.

|X| Publicly Traded Partnerships; Master Limited Partnerships. The Fund may invest in publicly traded limited partnerships such as master limited partnerships (“MLPs”). MLPs issue units that are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and are freely tradable on a securities exchange or in the over-the-counter market. An MLP may have one or more general partners, who conduct the business, and one or more limited partners, who contribute capital. The general partner or partners are jointly and severally responsible for the liabilities of the MLP. The Fund invests as a limited partner, and normally would not be liable for the debts of an MLP beyond the amounts the Fund has contributed but it would not be shielded to the same extent that a shareholder of corporation would be. In certain circumstances, creditors of an MLP would have the right to seek a return of capital that had been distributed to a limited partner. This right of an MLP’s creditors would continue even after the Fund had sold its investment in the partnership. MLPs typically invest in real estate, oil and gas and equipment leasing assets, but they also finance entertainment, research and development, and other projects.

     The Fund currently invests in MLPs that are taxed as corporations for United States federal tax purposes and that make distributions in additional shares rather than cash. Because these distributions of additional shares will be made proportionately to all owners of shares, the receipt of these additional shares will not be included in the gross income of an owner of shares for United States federal income tax purposes. When the Fund as an owner of the shares of such an MLP receives additional shares, it will be required to allocate its tax basis in its shares of the MLP equally between shares that the Fund already owns and the new additional shares received. Gain or loss recognized by the Fund as an owner of shares, on the sale or other disposition of a share will generally be taxable as capital gain or loss.

     As a regulated investment company, the Fund is required to derive at least 90% of its gross income for every taxable year from qualifying income. As an owner of shares of an MLP, the Fund will not report on its United States federal income tax return any of an MLP’s items of income, gain, loss and deduction. Thus, ownership of shares by the Fund will not result in income which is not qualifying income to the fund that elects to qualify as a regulated investment company for federal tax purposes. Furthermore, any gain from the sale or other disposition of the shares of an MLP that the Fund owns, and the associated purchase rights, will qualify for purposes of that 90% test. Finally, shares, and the associated purchase rights, will constitute qualifying assets to mutual funds which also must own at least 50% qualifying assets at the end of each quarter.

n     Foreign Securities. The Fund can purchase equity and debt securities issued by foreign companies or foreign governments or their agencies. "Foreign securities" include equity and debt securities of companies organized under the laws of countries other than the United States and debt securities of foreign governments and their agencies and instrumentalities. Those securities may be traded on foreign securities exchanges or in the foreign over-the-counter markets.

     Securities of foreign issuers that are represented by American Depository Receipts, European Depository Receipts or Global Depository Receipts, or that are listed on a U.S. securities exchange or traded in the U.S. over-the-counter markets, are considered "foreign securities" for the purpose of the Fund's investment allocations. That is because they are subject to many of the special considerations and risks, discussed below, that apply to foreign securities traded and held abroad.
 

Because the Fund can purchase securities denominated in foreign currencies, a change in the value of a foreign currency against the U.S. dollar could result in a change in the amount of income the Fund has available for distribution. Because a portion of the Fund's investment income may be received in foreign currencies, the Fund will be required to compute its income in U.S. dollars for distribution to shareholders, and therefore the Fund will absorb the cost of currency fluctuations. After the Fund has distributed income, subsequent foreign currency losses may result in the Fund's having distributed more income in a particular fiscal period than was available from investment income, which could result in a return of capital to shareholders.

     Investing in foreign securities offers potential benefits not available from investing solely in securities of domestic issuers. They include the opportunity to invest in foreign issuers that appear to offer growth potential, or in foreign countries with economic policies or business cycles different from those of the U.S., or to reduce fluctuations in portfolio value by taking advantage of foreign stock markets that do not move in a manner parallel to U.S. markets. The Fund will hold foreign currency only in connection with the purchase or sale of foreign securities.
 

·     Foreign Debt Obligations. The debt obligations of foreign governments and their agencies and instrumentalities may or may not be supported by the full faith and credit of the foreign government. The Fund may buy securities issued by certain "supra-national" entities, which include entities designated or supported by governments to promote economic reconstruction or development, international banking organizations and related government agencies. Examples are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (commonly called the "World Bank"), the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.

The governmental members of these supra-national entities are "stockholders" that typically make capital contributions and may be committed to make additional capital contributions if the entity is unable to repay its borrowings. A supra-national entity's lending activities may be limited to a percentage of its total capital, reserves and net income. There can be no assurance that the constituent foreign governments will continue to be able or willing to honor their capitalization commitments for those entities.

·     Risks of Foreign Investing. Investments in foreign securities may offer special opportunities for investing but also present special additional risks and considerations not typically associated with investments in domestic securities. Some of these additional risks are:

·      reduction of income by foreign taxes;

·      fluctuation in value of foreign investments due to changes in currency rates or currency control regulations (for example, currency blockage), or currency devaluation;

·      transaction charges for currency exchange;

·      lack of public information about foreign issuers;

·      lack of uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards in foreign countries comparable to those applicable to domestic issuers;

·      less volume on foreign exchanges than on U.S. exchanges;

·      greater volatility and less liquidity on foreign markets than in the U.S.;

·      less governmental regulation of foreign issuers, stock exchanges and brokers than in the U.S.;

·      greater difficulties in commencing lawsuits;

·      higher brokerage commission rates than in the U.S.;

·      increased risks of delays in settlement of portfolio transactions or loss of certificates for portfolio securities;

·      possibilities in some countries of expropriation, confiscatory taxation, political, financial or social instability or adverse diplomatic developments;

·      unfavorable differences between the U.S. economy and foreign economies

·      foreign withholding taxes; and

·      foreign exchange contracts.

     In the past, U.S. Government policies have discouraged certain investments abroad by U.S. investors, through taxation or other restrictions, and it is possible that such restrictions could be re-imposed.

·     Special Risks of Emerging Markets. Emerging and developing markets abroad may also offer special opportunities for growth investing but have greater risks than more developed foreign markets, such as those in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. There may be even less liquidity in their securities markets, and settlements of purchases and sales of securities may be subject to additional delays. They are subject to greater risks of limitations on the repatriation of income and profits because of currency restrictions imposed by local governments. Those countries may also be subject to the risk of greater political and economic instability, which can greatly affect the volatility of prices of securities in those countries. They may also experience higher levels of inflation and currency devaluation and have fewer potential buyers for investments. The Manager will consider these factors when evaluating securities in these markets.

n     Loans of Portfolio Securities. The Fund may lend its portfolio securities pursuant to a Securities Lending Agency Agreement (the " Securities Lending Agreement") with Goldman Sachs Bank USA, doing business as Goldman Sachs Agency Lending ("Goldman Sachs"), subject to the restrictions stated in the Prospectus. The Fund will lend portfolio securities to attempt to increase its income. Goldman Sachs has agreed, in general, to guarantee the obligations of borrowers to return loaned securities and to be responsible for certain expenses relating to securities lending. Under the Securities Lending Agreement, the Fund's securities lending procedures and applicable regulatory requirements (which are subject to change), the Fund must receive collateral from the borrower consisting of cash, bank letters of credit or securities of the U.S. Government (or its agencies or instrumentalities). On each business day, the amount of collateral that the Fund has received must at least equal the value of the loaned securities. If the Fund receives cash collateral from the borrower, the Fund may invest that cash in certain high quality, short-term investments, including money market funds advised by the Manager, specified in its securities lending procedures. The Fund will be responsible for the risks associated with the investment of cash collateral, including the risk that the Fund may lose money on the investment or may fail to earn sufficient income to meet its obligations to the borrower.

     The terms of the Fund's portfolio loans must comply with all applicable regulations and with the Fund's Securities Lending Procedures adopted by the Board. The terms of the loans must permit the Fund to recall loaned securities on five business days' notice and the Fund will seek to recall loaned securities in time to vote on any matters that the Manager determines would have a material effect on the Fund's investment. The Securities Lending Agreement may be terminated by either Goldman Sachs or the Fund on 30 days' written notice.

Passive Foreign Investment Companies. Some securities of corporations domiciled outside the U.S. which the Fund may purchase, may be considered passive foreign investment companies ("PFICs") under U.S. tax laws. PFICs are those foreign corporations which generate primarily passive income. They tend to be growth companies or "start-up" companies. For federal tax purposes, a corporation is deemed a PFIC if 75% or more of the foreign corporation's gross income for the income year is passive income or if 50% or more of its assets are assets that produce or are held to produce passive income. Passive income is further defined as any income to be considered foreign personal holding company income within the subpart F provisions defined by Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") §954.

     Investing in PFICs involves the risks associated with investing in foreign securities, as described above. There are also the risks that the Fund may not realize that a foreign corporation it invests in is a PFIC for federal tax purposes. Federal tax laws impose severe tax penalties for failure to properly report investment income from PFICs. Following industry standards, the Fund makes every effort to ensure compliance with federal tax reporting of these investments. PFICs are considered foreign securities for the purposes of the Fund's minimum percentage requirements or limitations of investing in foreign securities.

     Subject to the limits under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Investment Company Act"), the Fund may also invest in foreign mutual funds which are also deemed PFICs (since nearly all of the income of a mutual fund is generally passive income). Investing in these types of PFICs may allow exposure to various countries because some foreign countries limit, or prohibit, all direct foreign investment in the securities of companies domiciled therein.
 

     In addition to bearing their proportionate share of a fund's expenses (management fees and operating expenses), shareholders will also indirectly bear similar expenses of such entities. Additional risks of investing in other investment companies are described below under "Investment in Other Investment Companies."

n     Portfolio Turnover. "Portfolio turnover" describes the rate at which the Fund traded its portfolio securities during its last fiscal year. For example, if a fund sold all of its securities during the year, its portfolio turnover rate would have been 100% annually. The Fund's portfolio turnover rate will fluctuate from year to year. The Fund experienced a higher portfolio turnover rate during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007 than during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006 due to changing market conditions and the Fund's focus on dividend-paying stocks. The portfolio turnover rate during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2008 declined from the previous year as the Fund's transition toward a portfolio of mostly dividend-paying stocks was completed.

            Increased portfolio turnover creates higher brokerage and transaction costs for the Fund, which may reduce its overall performance. Additionally, the realization of capital gains from selling portfolio securities may result in distributions of taxable long-term capital gains to shareholders, since the Fund will normally distribute all of its capital gains realized each year to avoid excise taxes under the Internal Revenue Code.

Other Investment Techniques and Strategies. In seeking its objective, the Fund may from time to time use the types of investment strategies and investments described below. It is not required to use all of these strategies at all times and at times may not use them.
 

n     Investing in Small-Cap and Mid-Cap stocks. Although the Fund will typically focus in large capitalization stocks, it may also invest in stocks of small- or medium-size companies ("small-cap" or "mid-cap" stocks). Small-cap companies are often newer companies that may have limited product lines or markets for their products, limited access to financial resources and less depth in management skill than larger, more established companies. It may take a substantial period of time before the Fund realizes a gain on an investment in a small-cap company, if it realizes any gain at all.

     Mid-cap stocks tend to be more sensitive to changes in an issuer's earnings expectations than the stocks of larger companies. While small- and mid-cap stocks may offer greater opportunities for long-term capital appreciation than the stocks of larger, more established companies, they also involve greater risk of loss and price fluctuation. Since small- and mid-cap companies typically reinvest a high proportion of earnings in their own businesses, they may lack the dividend-yield that could help cushion their total return in a declining market. Many small- and mid-cap stocks are traded in over-the-counter markets and tend to have lower trading volumes than large capitalization securities. Therefore, they may be less liquid than stocks of larger exchange-traded issuers and the Fund could have greater difficulty selling a security at an acceptable price, especially in periods of market volatility.

n     Investing in Small, Unseasoned Companies. The Fund may invest in securities of small, unseasoned companies. These are companies that have been in operation for less than three years, including the operations of any predecessors. Securities of these companies may be subject to volatility in their prices. They may have a limited trading market, which may adversely affect the Fund's ability to dispose of them and can reduce the price the Fund might be able to obtain for them. Other investors that own a security issued by a small, unseasoned issuer for which there is limited liquidity might trade the security when the Fund is attempting to dispose of its holdings of that security. In that case the Fund might receive a lower price for its holdings than might otherwise be obtained. These are speculative securities and can increase the Fund's overall portfolio risks.

n     Investment in Other Investment Companies. The Fund can also invest in the securities of other investment companies, which can include open-end funds, closed-end funds and unit investment trusts, subject to the limits set forth in the Investment Company Act that apply to those types of investments. For example, the Fund can invest in Exchange-Traded Funds, which are typically open-end funds or unit investment trusts, listed on a stock exchange. The Fund might do so as a way of gaining exposure to the segments of the equity or fixed-income markets represented by the Exchange-Traded Fund's portfolio, at times when the Fund may not be able to buy those portfolio securities directly.

     Investing in another investment company may involve the payment of substantial premiums above the value of such investment company's portfolio securities and is subject to limitations under the Investment Company Act. The Fund does not intend to invest in other investment companies unless the Manager believes that the potential benefits of the investment justify the payment of any premiums or sales charges. As a shareholder in an investment company, the Fund would be subject to its ratable share of that investment company's expenses, including its advisory and administration expenses. At the same time, the Fund would bear its own management fees and other expenses. The Fund does not anticipate investing a substantial amount of its net assets in shares of other investment companies.
 

n     "When-Issued" and "Delayed-Delivery" Transactions. The Fund can invest in securities on a "when-issued" basis and can purchase or sell securities on a "delayed-delivery" or "forward commitment" basis. When-issued and delayed-delivery are terms that refer to securities whose terms and indenture are available and for which a market exists, but which are not available for immediate delivery. The Fund limits its when-issued commitments to not more than 15% of its net assets.

When such transactions are negotiated, the price (which is generally expressed in yield terms) is fixed at the time the commitment is made. Delivery and payment for the securities take place at a later date. The securities are subject to change in value from market fluctuations during the period until settlement. The value at delivery may be less than the purchase price. For example, changes in interest rates in a direction other than that expected by the Manager before settlement will affect the value of such securities and may cause a loss to the Fund. During the period between purchase and settlement, the Fund makes no payment to the issuer and no interest accrues to the Fund from the investment until it receives the security as settlement. There is a risk of loss to the Fund if the value of the security changes prior to the settlement date, and there is the risk that the other party may not perform.

     The Fund will engage in when-issued transactions to secure what the Manager considers to be an advantageous price and yield at the time of entering into the obligation. When the Fund enters into a when-issued or delayed-delivery transaction, it relies on the other party to complete the transaction. Its failure to do so may cause the Fund to lose the opportunity to obtain the security at a price and yield the Manager considers to be advantageous.

When the Fund engages in when-issued and delayed-delivery transactions, it does so for the purpose of acquiring or selling securities consistent with its investment objective and policies for its portfolio or for delivery pursuant to options contracts it has entered into, and not for the purpose of investment leverage. Although the Fund will enter into delayed-delivery or when-issued purchase transactions to acquire securities, it may dispose of a commitment prior to settlement. If the Fund chooses to dispose of the right to acquire a when-issued security prior to its acquisition or to dispose of its right to delivery or receive against a forward commitment, it may incur a gain or loss.

At the time the Fund makes the commitment to purchase or sell a security on a when-issued or delayed-delivery basis, it records the transaction on its books and reflects the value of the security purchased in determining the Fund's net asset value. In a sale transaction, it records the proceeds to be received. The Fund will identify on its books liquid assets at least equal in value to the value of the Fund's purchase commitments until the Fund pays for the investment.

When-issued and delayed-delivery transactions can be used by the Fund as a defensive technique to hedge against anticipated changes in interest rates and prices. For instance, in periods of rising interest rates and falling prices, the Fund might sell securities in its portfolio on a forward commitment basis to attempt to limit its exposure to anticipated falling prices. In periods of falling interest rates and rising prices, the Fund might sell portfolio securities and purchase the same or similar securities on a when-issued or delayed-delivery basis to obtain the benefit of currently higher cash yields.

n     Repurchase Agreements. The Fund can acquire securities subject to repurchase agreements. It might do so for liquidity purposes to meet anticipated redemptions of Fund shares, or pending the investment of the proceeds from sales of Fund shares, or pending the settlement of portfolio securities transactions.

In a repurchase transaction, the Fund buys a security from, and simultaneously resells it to, an approved vendor for delivery on an agreed-upon future date. The resale price exceeds the purchase price by an amount that reflects an agreed-upon interest rate effective for the period during which the repurchase agreement is in effect. Approved vendors include U.S. commercial banks, U.S. branches of foreign banks, or broker-dealers that have been designated as primary dealers in government securities. They must meet credit requirements set by the Fund's investment manager, OppenheimerFunds, Inc., from time to time.

     The majority of these transactions run from day-to-day, and delivery pursuant to the resale typically occurs within one to five days of the purchase. Repurchase agreements having a maturity beyond seven days are subject to the Fund's limits on holding illiquid investments. There is no limit on the amount of the Fund's net assets that may be subject to repurchase agreements having maturities of seven days or less.
 
     Repurchase agreements, considered "loans" under the Investment Company Act, are collateralized by the underlying security. The Fund's repurchase agreements require that at all times while the repurchase agreement is in effect, the value of the collateral must equal or exceed the repurchase price to fully collateralize the repayment obligation. However, if the vendor fails to pay the resale price on the delivery date, the Fund may incur costs in disposing of the collateral and may experience losses if there is any delay in its ability to do so. The Manager will monitor the vendor's creditworthiness to confirm that the vendor is financially sound and will continuously monitor the collateral's value.
 

Pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), the Fund, along with other affiliated entities managed by the Manager, may transfer uninvested cash balances into one or more joint repurchase accounts. These balances are invested in one or more repurchase agreements, secured by U.S. Government securities. Securities that are pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each joint repurchase arrangement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default by the other party to the agreement, retention or sale of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.

·     Reverse Repurchase Agreements. The Fund can use reverse repurchase agreements and would normally do so as a cash management tool. These agreements create leverage, a speculative investment technique. The Fund does not currently use reverse repurchase agreements, but may do so in the future. When the Fund enters into a reverse repurchase agreement, it segregates on its books an amount of cash or U.S. Government securities equal in value to the purchase price of the securities it has committed to buy, plus accrued interest, until the payment is made to the seller. Before the Fund enters into a reverse repurchase agreement, the Manager evaluates the creditworthiness of the seller, typically a bank or broker-dealer. Reverse repurchase agreements are considered to be a form of borrowing by the Fund and are subject to the Fund's limitations on borrowing.

      These agreements are subject to certain risks. The market value of the securities retained in lieu of sale by the Fund may decline more or appreciate more than the securities the Fund has sold but is obligated to repurchase. If the buyer of the securities under the agreement files for bankruptcy or becomes insolvent, there may be delays in the Fund's use of the proceeds.

n     Illiquid and Restricted Securities. To enable the Fund to sell its holdings of a restricted security not registered under applicable securities laws, the Fund may have to cause those securities to be registered. The expenses of registering restricted securities may be negotiated by the Fund with the issuer at the time the Fund buys the securities. When the Fund must arrange registration because the Fund wishes to sell the security, a considerable period may elapse between the time the decision is made to sell the security and the time the security is registered so that the Fund could sell it. The Fund would bear the risks of any downward price fluctuation during that period.

      The Fund may also acquire restricted securities through private placements. Those securities have contractual restrictions on their public resale. Those restrictions might limit the Fund's ability to dispose of the securities and might lower the amount the Fund could realize upon the sale.

The Fund has limitations that apply to purchases of restricted securities, as stated in the Prospectus. Those percentage restrictions do not limit purchases of restricted securities that are eligible for sale to qualified institutional purchasers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, if those securities have been determined to be liquid by the Manager under Board-approved guidelines. Those guidelines take into account the trading activity for such securities and the availability of reliable pricing information, among other factors. If there is a lack of trading interest in a particular Rule 144A security, the Fund's holdings of that security may be considered to be illiquid.

·     Borrowing and Leverage. The Fund may not borrow money, except to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption from the Act that applies to the Fund, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time. Currently, under the Investment Company Act, a mutual fund may borrow only from banks (for other than emergency purposes) and only to the extent that the value of the Fund's assets, less its liabilities other than borrowings, is equal to at least 300% of all borrowings including the proposed borrowing, except that it may also borrow up to 5% of its total assets for temporary or emergency purposes from any lender. Under the Investment Company Act, there is a rebuttable presumption that a loan is temporary if it is repaid within 60 days and not extended or renewed. 

When the Fund borrow, it segregates or identifies securities on its books equal to 300% of the amount borrowed to cover its obligations to repay the loan. If the value of the Fund's assets, fail to meet this 300% asset coverage requirement, it will reduce its borrowing within three days to meet the requirement. To do so, the Fund might have to sell a portion of its investments at a disadvantageous time.

When the Fund invests borrowed money in portfolio securities, it is using a speculative investment technique known as "leverage." If the Fund does borrow, its expenses may be greater than comparable funds that do not borrow. The Fund will pay interest on loans, and that interest expense may raise the overall expenses of the Fund and reduce its returns. In the case of borrowing for leverage, the interest paid on a loan might be more (or less) than the yield on the securities purchased with the loan proceeds. Additionally, the use of leverage may make the Fund's share prices more sensitive to interest rate changes and thus might cause the Fund's net asset value per share to fluctuate more than that of funds that do not borrow.

·     Hedging. Although the Fund can use hedging instruments, it is not obligated to use them in seeking its objective. It does not currently contemplate using them to any significant degree. The Fund may use hedging to attempt to protect against declines in the market value of the Fund's portfolio, to permit the Fund to retain unrealized gains in the value of portfolio securities which have appreciated, or to facilitate selling securities for investment reasons. To do so, the Fund could:

·      sell futures contracts,

·      buy puts on such futures or on securities, or

·     write covered calls on securities or futures.

The Fund can use hedging to establish a position in the securities market as a temporary substitute for purchasing particular securities. In that case the Fund would normally seek to purchase the securities and then terminate that hedging position. The Fund might also use this type of hedge to attempt to protect against the possibility that its portfolio securities would not be fully included in a rise in value of the market. To do so, the Fund could:

·      buy futures, or

·      buy calls on such futures or on securities.

The Fund's strategy of hedging with futures and options on futures will be incidental to the Fund's activities in the underlying cash market. The particular hedging instruments the Fund can use are described below. The Fund may employ new hedging instruments and strategies when they are developed, if those investment methods are consistent with the Fund's investment objective and are permissible under applicable regulations governing the Fund.

·     Futures. The Fund can buy and sell futures contracts that relate to (1) broadly-based stock indices (these are referred to as "stock index futures"), (2) foreign currencies (these are referred to as "forward contracts"), (3) an individual stock ("single stock futures") and (4) commodities (these are referred to as "commodity futures").

     A broadly-based stock index is used as the basis for trading stock index futures. These indices may in some cases be based on stocks of issuers in a particular industry or group of industries. A stock index assigns relative values to the common stocks included in the index and its value fluctuates in response to the changes in value of the underlying stocks. A stock index cannot be purchased or sold directly. These contracts obligate the seller to deliver, and the purchaser to take, cash to settle the futures transactions. There is no delivery made of the underlying securities to settle the futures obligation. Either party may also settle the transaction by entering into an offsetting contract.
 

A single stock future obligates the seller to deliver (and the purchaser to take) cash or a specified equity security to settle the futures transaction. Either party could also enter into an offsetting contract to close out the position. Single stock futures trade on a very limited number of exchanges, with contracts typically not fungible among the exchanges.

The Fund can invest a portion of its assets in commodity futures contracts. Commodity futures may be based upon commodities within five main commodity groups: (1) energy, which includes crude oil, natural gas, gasoline and heating oil; (2) livestock, which includes cattle and hogs; (3) agriculture, which includes wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, coffee, sugar and cocoa; (4) industrial metals, which includes aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc; and (5) precious metals, which includes gold, platinum and silver. The Fund may purchase and sell commodity futures contracts, options on futures contracts and options and futures on commodity indices with respect to these five main commodity groups and the individual commodities within each group, as well as other types of commodities.

     No money is paid or received by the Fund on the purchase or sale of a future. Upon entering into a futures transaction, the Fund will be required to deposit an initial margin payment with the futures commission merchant (the "futures broker"). Initial margin payments will be deposited with the Fund's custodian bank in an account registered in the futures broker's name. However, the futures broker can gain access to that account only under specified conditions. As the future is marked to market (that is, its value on the Fund's books is changed) to reflect changes in its market value, subsequent margin payments, called variation margin, will be paid to or by the futures broker daily.
 
     At any time prior to expiration of the future, the Fund may elect to close out its position by taking an opposite position, at which time a final determination of variation margin is made and any additional cash must be paid by or released to the Fund. Any loss or gain on the future is then realized by the Fund for tax purposes. All futures transactions (except forward contracts) are effected through a clearinghouse associated with the exchange on which the contracts are traded.
 

·     Put and Call Options. The Fund can buy and sell certain kinds of put options ("puts") and call options ("calls"). The Fund can buy and sell exchange-traded and over-the-counter put and call options, including options on broadly-based stock indices, securities, foreign currencies and stock index futures.

·     Writing Covered Call Options. The Fund can write (that is, sell) covered calls. If the Fund sells a call option, it must be covered. For options on securities, that means the Fund must own the security subject to the call while the call is outstanding. For stock index options, that means the call must be covered by segregating or identifying liquid assets on the Fund's books to enable the Fund to satisfy its obligations if the call is exercised. Up to 25% of the Fund's total assets may be subject to calls the Fund writes.

     When the Fund writes a call on a security, it receives cash (a premium). For calls on securities, the Fund agrees to sell the underlying security to a purchaser of a corresponding call on the same security during the call period at a fixed exercise price regardless of market price changes during the call period. The call period is usually not more than nine months. The exercise price may differ from the market price of the underlying security. The Fund has the risk of loss that the price of the underlying security may decline during the call period. That risk may be offset to some extent by the premium the Fund receives. If the value of the investment does not rise above the call price, it is likely that the call will lapse without being exercised. In that case the Fund would keep the cash premium and the investment.

     When the Fund writes a call on an index, it receives cash (a premium). If the buyer of a call on a stock index exercises it, the Fund will pay an amount of cash equal to the difference between the closing price of the call and the exercise price, multiplied by a specified multiple that determines the total value of the call for each point of difference. If the value of the underlying investment does not rise above the call price, it is likely that the call will lapse without being exercised. In that case the Fund would keep the cash premium.

     Settlement of puts and calls on broadly-based stock indices is in cash. Gain or loss on options on stock indices depends on changes in the index in question (and thus on price movements in the stock market generally).

The Fund's custodian bank, or a securities depository acting for the custodian bank, will act as the Fund's escrow agent, through the facilities of the Options Clearing Corporation ("OCC"), as to the investments on which the Fund has written calls traded on exchanges or as to other acceptable escrow securities. In that way, no margin will be required for such transactions. The OCC will release the securities on the expiration of the option or when the Fund enters into a closing transaction.

     If the Fund writes an over-the-counter ("OTC") option, it will enter into an arrangement with a primary U.S. Government securities dealer which will establish a formula price at which the Fund will have the absolute right to repurchase that OTC option. The formula price will generally be based on a multiple of the premium received for the option, plus the amount by which the option is exercisable below the market price of the underlying security (that is, the option is "in the money"). If the Fund writes an OTC option, it will treat as illiquid (for purposes of its restriction on holding illiquid securities) the mark-to-market value of any OTC option it holds, unless the option is subject to a buy-back agreement by the executing broker.
 
     To terminate its obligation on a call it has written, the Fund may purchase a corresponding call in a "closing purchase transaction." The Fund will then realize a profit or loss, depending upon whether the net of the amount of the option transaction costs and the premium received on the call the Fund wrote is more or less than the price of the call the Fund purchases to close out the transaction. The Fund may realize a profit if the call expires unexercised, because the Fund will retain the premium it received when it wrote the call. Any such profits are considered short-term capital gains for Federal income tax purposes, as are the premiums on lapsed calls. When distributed by the Fund they are taxable as ordinary income. If the Fund cannot effect a closing purchase transaction due to the lack of a market, it will have to hold the escrowed assets in escrow until the call expires or is exercised.
 

The Fund may also write calls on a futures contract without owning the futures contract or securities deliverable under the contract. To do so, at the time the call is written, the Fund must cover the call by segregating or identifying an equivalent dollar amount of liquid assets on the Fund's books. The Fund will segregate or identify additional liquid assets on the Fund's books if the value of the segregated or identified assets drops below 100% of the current value of the future. Because of this requirement, in no circumstances would the Fund's receipt of an exercise notice as to that future require the Fund to deliver a futures contract. It would simply put the Fund in a short futures position, which is permitted by the Fund's hedging policies.

·     Writing Put Options. The Fund may write (that is, can sell) put options on stocks, stock indices, foreign currencies or stock index futures. If the Fund writes a put, the put must be covered by segregated or identified liquid assets on the Fund's books. The Fund will not write puts if, as a result, more than 25% of the Fund's net assets would have to be segregated or identified to cover such put options.

The premium the Fund receives from writing a put represents a profit, as long as the price of the underlying investment remains equal to or above the exercise price of the put. However, the Fund also assumes the obligation during the option period to settle the transaction in cash with the buyer of the put at the exercise price, even if the value of the underlying investment falls below the exercise price. If a put the Fund has written expires unexercised, the Fund realizes a gain in the amount of the premium less the transaction costs incurred. If the put is exercised, the Fund must fulfill its obligation to settle in cash at the exercise price. That price will usually exceed the market value of the investment at that time.

As long as the Fund's obligation as the put writer continues, it may be assigned an exercise notice by the broker-dealer through which the put was sold. That notice will require the Fund to settle the transaction in cash at the exercise price. The Fund has no control over when it may be required to settle the transaction, since it may be assigned an exercise notice at any time prior to the termination of its obligation as the writer of the put. That obligation terminates upon expiration of the put. It may also terminate if, before it receives an exercise notice, the Fund effects a closing purchase transaction by purchasing a put of the same series as it sold. Once the Fund has been assigned an exercise notice, it cannot effect a closing purchase transaction.

The Fund may decide to effect a closing purchase transaction to realize a profit on an outstanding put option it has written. The Fund will realize a profit or loss from a closing purchase transaction depending on whether the cost of the transaction is less or more than the premium received from writing the put option. Any profits from writing puts are considered short-term capital gains for federal tax purposes, and when distributed by the Fund, are taxable as ordinary income.

·     Purchasing Puts and Calls. The Fund can buy calls on securities it intends to purchase and puts on securities that it owns. The Fund may purchase calls to protect against the possibility that the Fund's portfolio will not participate in an anticipated rise in the securities market.

      When the Fund buys a call (other than in a closing purchase transaction), it pays a premium. Buying a call on a security or future gives the Fund the right to buy the underlying investment from a seller of a corresponding call on the same investment during the call period at a fixed exercise price. The Fund benefits only if it sells the call at a profit or if, during the call period, the market price of the underlying investment is above the sum of the call price plus the transaction costs and the premium paid for the call and the Fund exercises the call. If the Fund does not exercise the call or sell it (whether or not at a profit), the call will become worthless at its expiration date. In that case the Fund will have paid the premium but lost the right to purchase the underlying investment.
 
     In the case of a purchase of a call on a stock index, if the Fund exercises the call during the call period, a seller of a corresponding call on the same index will pay the Fund an amount of cash to settle the call if the closing level of the stock index upon which the call is based is greater than the exercise price of the call. That cash payment is equal to the difference between the closing price of the call and the exercise price of the call times a specified multiple (the "multiplier") which determines the total dollar value for each point of difference.

     When the Fund buys a put, it pays a premium. It has the right during the put period to require a seller of a corresponding put, upon the Fund's exercise of its put, to buy the underlying security (in the case of puts on securities or futures) or in the case of puts on stock indices, to deliver cash to the Fund to settle the put if the closing level of the stock index upon which the put is based is less than the exercise price of the put. That cash payment is determined by the multiplier, in the same manner as described above as to calls.
 
     Buying a put on a security or future enables the Fund to sell the underlying investment to a seller of a corresponding put on the same investment during the put period at a fixed exercise price. Buying a put on securities or futures the Fund owns enables the Fund to attempt to protect itself during the put period against a decline in the value of the underlying investment below the exercise price by selling the underlying investment at the exercise price to a seller of a corresponding put. If the market price of the underlying investment is equal to or above the exercise price and, as a result, the put is not exercised or resold, the put will become worthless at
its expiration date. In that case the Fund will have paid the premium but lost the right to sell the underlying investment. However, the Fund may sell the put prior to its expiration. That sale may or may not be at a profit.
 

Buying a put on an investment the Fund does not own (such as an index or future) permits the Fund to resell the put or to buy the underlying investment and sell it at the exercise price. The resale price will vary inversely to the price of the underlying investment. If the market price of the underlying investment is above the exercise price and, as a result, the put is not exercised, the put will become worthless on its expiration date.

     When the Fund purchases a put on a stock index, the put protects the Fund to the extent that the index moves in a similar pattern to the securities the Fund holds. The Fund can resell the put. The resale price of the put will vary inversely with the price of the underlying investment. If the market price of the underlying investment is above the exercise price, and as a result the put is not exercised, the put will become worthless on the expiration date. In the event of a decline in price of the underlying investment, the Fund could exercise or sell the put at a profit to attempt to offset some or all of its loss on its portfolio securities.

The Fund may buy a call or put only if, after the purchase, the value of all call and put options held by the Fund will not exceed 5% of the Fund's total assets.

·     Buying and Selling Options on Foreign Currencies. The Fund can buy and sell calls and puts on foreign currencies. They include puts and calls that trade on a securities or commodities exchange or in the over-the-counter markets or are quoted by major recognized dealers in such options. The Fund could use these calls and puts to try to protect against declines in the dollar value of foreign securities and increases in the dollar cost of foreign securities the Fund wants to acquire.

      If the Manager anticipates a rise in the dollar value of a foreign currency in which securities to be acquired are denominated, the increased cost of those securities may be partially offset by purchasing calls or writing puts on that foreign currency. If the Manager anticipates a decline in the dollar value of a foreign currency, the decline in the dollar value of portfolio securities denominated in that currency might be partially offset by writing calls or purchasing puts on that foreign currency. However, the currency rates could fluctuate in a direction adverse to the Fund's position. The Fund will then have incurred option premium payments and transaction costs without a corresponding benefit.
 

     A call the Fund writes on a foreign currency is "covered" if the Fund owns the underlying foreign currency covered by the call or has an absolute and immediate right to acquire that foreign currency without additional cash consideration (or it can do so for additional cash consideration segregated or identified on the Fund's books) upon conversion or exchange of other foreign currency held in its portfolio.

·     Risks of Hedging with Options and Futures. The use of hedging instruments requires special skills and knowledge of investment techniques that are different than what is required for normal portfolio management. If the Manager uses a hedging instrument at the wrong time or judges market conditions incorrectly, hedging strategies may reduce the Fund's return. The Fund could also experience losses if the prices of its futures and options positions were not correlated with its other investments. The Fund's option activities may affect its costs.

The Fund's option activities could affect its portfolio turnover rate and brokerage commissions. The exercise of calls written by the Fund could cause the Fund to sell related portfolio securities, thus increasing its turnover rate. The exercise by the Fund of puts on securities will cause the sale of underlying investments, increasing portfolio turnover. Although the decision whether to exercise a put it holds is within the Fund's control, holding a put might cause the Fund to sell the related investments for reasons that would not exist in the absence of the put.

The Fund could pay a brokerage commission each time it buys a call or put, sells a call or put, or buys or sells an underlying investment in connection with the exercise of a call or put. Those commissions could be higher on a relative basis than the commissions for direct purchases or sales of the underlying investments. Premiums paid for options are small in relation to the market value of the underlying investments. Consequently, put and call options offer large amounts of leverage. The leverage offered by trading in options could result in the Fund's net asset value being more sensitive to changes in the value of the underlying investment.

If a covered call written by the Fund is exercised on an investment that has increased in value, the Fund will be required to sell the investment at the call price. It will not be able to realize any profit if the investment has increased in value above the call price.

An option position may be closed out only on a market that provides secondary trading for options of the same series, and there is no assurance that a liquid secondary market will exist for any particular option. The Fund might experience losses if it could not close out a position because of an illiquid market for the future or option.

There is a risk in using short hedging by selling futures or purchasing puts on broadly-based indices or futures to attempt to protect against declines in the value of the Fund's portfolio securities. The risk is that the prices of the futures or the applicable index will correlate imperfectly with the behavior of the cash prices of the Fund's securities. For example, it is possible that while the Fund has used hedging instruments in a short hedge, the market may advance and the value of the securities held in the Fund's portfolio might decline. If that occurred, the Fund would lose money on the hedging instruments and also experience a decline in the value of its portfolio securities. However, while this could occur for a very brief period or to a very small degree, over time the value of a diversified portfolio of securities will tend to move in the same direction as the indices upon which the hedging instruments are based.

The risk of imperfect correlation increases as the composition of the Fund's portfolio diverges from the securities included in the applicable index. To compensate for the imperfect correlation of movements in the price of the portfolio securities being hedged and movements in the price of the hedging instruments, the Fund might use hedging instruments in a greater dollar amount than the dollar amount of portfolio securities being hedged. It might do so if the historical volatility of the prices of the portfolio securities being hedged is more than the historical volatility of the applicable index.

     The ordinary spreads between prices in the cash and futures markets are subject to distortions, due to differences in the nature of those markets. First, all participants in the futures market are subject to margin deposit and maintenance requirements. Rather than meeting additional margin deposit requirements, investors may close futures contracts through offsetting transactions which could distort the normal relationship between the cash and futures markets. Second, the liquidity of the futures market depends on participants entering into offsetting transactions rather than making or taking delivery. To the extent participants decide to make or take delivery, liquidity in the futures market could be reduced, thus producing distortion. Third, from the point of view of speculators, the deposit requirements in the futures market are less onerous than margin requirements in the securities markets. Therefore, increased participation by speculators in the futures market may cause temporary price distortions.
 

The Fund can use hedging instruments to establish a position in the securities markets as a temporary substitute for the purchase of individual securities (long hedging) by buying futures and/or calls on such futures, broadly-based indices or on securities. It is possible that when the Fund does so the market might decline. If the Fund then concludes not to invest in securities because of concerns that the market might decline further or for other reasons, the Fund will realize a loss on the hedging instruments that is not offset by a reduction in the price of the securities purchased.

·     Forward Contracts. Forward contracts are foreign currency exchange contracts. They are used to buy or sell foreign currency for future delivery at a fixed price. The Fund uses them to "lock in" the U.S. dollar price of a security denominated in a foreign currency that the Fund has bought or sold, or to protect against possible losses from changes in the relative values of the U.S. dollar and a foreign currency. The Fund limits its exposure in foreign currency exchange contracts in a particular foreign currency to the amount of its assets denominated in that currency or a closely-correlated currency. The Fund may also use "cross-hedging" where the Fund hedges against changes in currencies other than the currency in which a security it holds is denominated.

     Under a forward contract, one party agrees to purchase, and another party agrees to sell, a specific currency at a future date. That date may be any fixed number of days from the date of the contract agreed upon by the parties. The transaction price is set at the time the contract is entered into. These contracts are traded in the inter-bank market conducted directly among currency traders (usually large commercial banks) and their customers.
 

The Fund may use forward contracts to protect against uncertainty in the level of future exchange rates. The use of forward contracts does not eliminate the risk of fluctuations in the prices of the underlying securities the Fund owns or intends to acquire, but it does fix a rate of exchange in advance. Although forward contracts may reduce the risk of loss from a decline in the value of the hedged currency, at the same time they limit any potential gain if the value of the hedged currency increases.

When the Fund enters into a contract for the purchase or sale of a security denominated in a foreign currency, or when it anticipates receiving dividend payments in a foreign currency, the Fund might desire to "lock-in" the U.S. dollar price of the security or the U.S. dollar equivalent of the dividend payments. To do so, the Fund could enter into a forward contract for the purchase or sale of the amount of foreign currency involved in the underlying transaction, in a fixed amount of U.S. dollars per unit of the foreign currency. This is called a "transaction hedge." The transaction hedge will protect the Fund against a loss from an adverse change in the currency exchange rates during the period between the date on which the security is purchased or sold or on which the payment is declared, and the date on which the payments are made or received.

The Fund could also use forward contracts to lock in the U.S. dollar value of portfolio positions. This is called a "position hedge." When the Fund believes that foreign currency may suffer a substantial decline against the U.S. dollar, it could enter into a forward contract to sell an amount of that foreign currency approximating the value of some or all of the Fund's portfolio securities denominated in that foreign currency. When the Fund believes that the U.S. dollar may suffer a substantial decline against a foreign currency, it might enter into a forward contract to buy that foreign currency for a fixed dollar amount. Alternatively, the Fund could enter into a forward contract to sell a different foreign currency for a fixed U.S. dollar amount if the Fund believes that the U.S. dollar value of the foreign currency to be sold pursuant to its forward contract will fall whenever there is a decline in the U.S. dollar value of the currency in which portfolio securities of the Fund are denominated. That is referred to as a "cross hedge."

The Fund will cover its short positions in these cases by identifying on the Fund's books liquid assets having a value equal to the aggregate amount of the Fund's commitment under forward contracts. The Fund will not enter into forward contracts or maintain a net exposure to such contracts if the consummation of the contracts would obligate the Fund to deliver an amount of foreign currency in excess of the value of the Fund's portfolio securities or other assets denominated in that currency or another currency that is the subject of the hedge. However, to avoid excess transactions and transaction costs, the Fund may maintain a net exposure to forward contracts in excess of the value of the Fund's portfolio securities or other assets denominated in foreign currencies if the excess amount is "covered" by liquid securities denominated in any currency. The cover must be at least equal at all times to the amount of that excess.

As one alternative, the Fund may purchase a call option permitting the Fund to purchase the amount of foreign currency being hedged by a forward sale contract at a price no higher than the forward contract price. As another alternative, the Fund may purchase a put option permitting the Fund to sell the amount of foreign currency subject to a forward purchase contract at a price as high or higher than the forward contact price.

The precise matching of the amounts under forward contracts and the value of the securities involved generally will not be possible because the future value of securities denominated in foreign currencies will change as a consequence of market movements between the date the forward contract is entered into and the date it is sold. In some cases the Manager may decide to sell the security and deliver foreign currency to settle the original purchase obligation. If the market value of the security is less than the amount of foreign currency the Fund is obligated to deliver, the Fund might have to purchase additional foreign currency on the "spot" (that is, cash) market to settle the security trade. If the market value of the security instead exceeds the amount of foreign currency the Fund is obligated to deliver to settle the trade, the Fund might have to sell on the spot market some of the foreign currency received upon the sale of the security. There will be additional transaction costs on the spot market in those cases.

The projection of short-term currency market movements is extremely difficult, and the successful execution of a short-term hedging strategy is highly uncertain. Forward contracts involve the risk that anticipated currency movements will not be accurately predicted, causing the Fund to sustain losses on these contracts and to pay additional transactions costs. The use of

forward contracts in this manner might reduce the Fund's performance if there are unanticipated changes in currency prices to a greater degree than if the Fund had not entered into such contracts.

At or before the maturity of a forward contract requiring the Fund to sell a currency, the Fund might sell a portfolio security and use the sale proceeds to make delivery of the currency. In the alternative the Fund might retain the security and offset its contractual obligation to deliver the currency by purchasing a second contract. Under that contract the Fund will obtain, on the same maturity date, the same amount of the currency that it is obligated to deliver. Similarly, the Fund might close out a forward contract requiring it to purchase a specified currency by entering into a second contract entitling it to sell the same amount of the same currency on the maturity date of the first contract. The Fund would realize a gain or loss as a result of entering into such an offsetting forward contract under either circumstance. The gain or loss will depend on the extent to which the exchange rate or rates between the currencies involved moved between the execution dates of the first contract and offsetting contract.

The costs to the Fund of engaging in forward contracts varies with factors such as the currencies involved, the length of the contract period and the market conditions then prevailing. Because forward contracts are usually entered into on a principal basis, no brokerage fees or commissions are involved. Because these contracts are not traded on an exchange, the Fund must evaluate the credit and performance risk of the counterparty under each forward contract.

Although the Fund values its assets daily in terms of U.S. dollars, it does not intend to convert its holdings of foreign currencies into U.S. dollars on a daily basis. The Fund may convert foreign currency from time to time, and will incur costs in doing so. Foreign exchange dealers do not charge a fee for conversion, but they do seek to realize a profit based on the difference between the prices at which they buy and sell various currencies. Thus, a dealer might offer to sell a foreign currency to the Fund at one rate, while offering a lesser rate of exchange if the Fund desires to resell that currency to the dealer.

·     Regulatory Aspects of Hedging Instruments. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") has eliminated limitations on futures trading by certain regulated entities including registered investment companies and consequently registered investment companies may engage in unlimited futures transactions and options thereon provided that the Fund claims an exclusion from regulation as a commodity pool operator. The Fund has claimed such an exclusion from registration as a commodity pool operator under the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA"). The Fund may use futures and options for hedging and non-hedging purposes to the extent consistent with its investment objective, internal risk management guidelines adopted by the Fund's investment adviser (as they may be amended from time to time), and as otherwise set forth in the Fund's Prospectus or this SAI.     

Transactions in options by the Fund are subject to limitations established by the option exchanges. The exchanges limit the maximum number of options that may be written or held by a single investor or group of investors acting in concert. Those limits apply regardless of whether the options were written or purchased on the same or different exchanges or are held in one or more accounts or through one or more different exchanges or through one or more brokers. Thus, the number of options that the Fund may write or hold may be affected by options written or held by other entities, including other investment companies having the same adviser as the Fund (or an adviser that is an affiliate of the Fund's Manager. The exchanges also impose position limits on futures transactions. An exchange may order the liquidation of positions found to be in violation of those limits and may impose certain other sanctions.

Under SEC staff interpretations regarding applicable provisions of the Investment Company Act, when the Fund purchases a future, it must segregate cash or readily marketable short-term debt instruments in an amount equal to the purchase price of the future, less the margin deposit applicable to it. The account must be a segregated account or accounts held by the Fund's custodian bank.

·     Tax Aspects of Certain Hedging Instruments. Certain foreign currency exchange contracts in which the Fund may invest are treated as "Section 1256 contracts" under the Internal Revenue Code. In general, gains or losses relating to Section 1256 contracts are characterized as 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gains or losses under the Code. However, foreign currency gains or losses arising from Section 1256 contracts that are forward contracts generally are treated as ordinary income or loss. In addition, Section 1256 contracts held by the Fund at the end of each taxable year are "marked-to-market," and unrealized gains or losses are treated as though they were realized. These contracts also may be marked-to-market for purposes of determining the excise tax applicable to investment company distributions and for other purposes under rules prescribed pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code. An election can be made by the Fund to exempt those transactions from this marked-to-market treatment.

Certain forward contracts the Fund enters into may result in "straddles" for federal income tax purposes. The straddle rules may affect the character and timing of gains (or losses) recognized by the Fund on straddle positions. Generally, a loss sustained on the disposition of a position making up a straddle is allowed only to the extent that the loss exceeds any unrecognized gain in the offsetting positions making up the straddle. Disallowed loss is generally allowed at the point where there is no unrecognized gain in the offsetting positions making up the straddle, or the offsetting position is disposed of.

Under the Internal Revenue Code, the following gains or losses are treated as ordinary income or loss:

(1)      gains or losses attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates that occur between the time the Fund accrues interest or other receivables or accrues expenses or other liabilities denominated in a foreign currency and the time the Fund actually collects such receivables or pays such liabilities, and

(2)      gains or losses attributable to fluctuations in the value of a foreign currency between the date of acquisition of a debt security denominated in a foreign currency or foreign currency forward contracts and the date of disposition.

     Currency gains and losses are offset against market gains and losses on each trade before determining a net "Section 988" gain or loss under the Internal Revenue Code for that trade, which may increase or decrease the amount of the Fund's investment income available for distribution to its shareholders.

n     Temporary Defensive and Interim Investments. When market, economic or political conditions are unstable, or the Manager believes it is otherwise appropriate to reduce holdings in stocks, the Fund can invest in a variety of debt securities for defensive purposes. The Fund can also purchase these securities for liquidity purposes to meet cash needs due to the redemption of Fund shares, or to hold while waiting to reinvest cash received from the sale of other portfolio securities. The Fund's temporary defensive investments can include the following short-term (maturing in one year or less) dollar-denominated debt obligations:

·      obligations issued or guaranteed by the U. S. government or its instrumentalities or agencies,

·      commercial paper (short-term, unsecured promissory notes) rated within the top two rating categories rating category by an established rating organization,

·      debt obligations of domestic or foreign corporate issuers rated "Baa" or higher by Moody's or "BBB" or higher by Standard & Poor's,

·      certificates of deposit and bankers' acceptances and other bank obligations, and

·      repurchase agreements.

     Short-term debt securities would normally be selected for defensive or cash management purposes because they can normally be disposed of quickly, are not generally subject to significant fluctuations in principal value and their value will be less subject to interest rate risk than longer-term debt securities.

Other Investment Restrictions

n     What Are "Fundamental Policies"? Fundamental policies are those policies that the Fund has adopted to govern its investments that can be changed only by the vote of a "majority" of the Fund's outstanding voting securities. Under the Investment Company Act, a "majority" vote is defined as the vote of the holders of the lesser of:

·      67% or more of the shares present or represented by proxy at a shareholder meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares are present or represented by proxy, or

·      more than 50% of the outstanding shares.

     The Fund's investment objective is a fundamental policy. Other policies described in the Prospectus or this SAI are "fundamental" only if they are identified as such. The Fund's Board of Directors can change non-fundamental policies without shareholder approval. However, significant changes to investment policies will be described in supplements or updates to the Prospectus or this SAI, as appropriate. The Fund's most significant investment policies are described in the Prospectus.

n     Does the Fund Have Additional Fundamental Policies? The following investment restrictions are fundamental policies of the Fund.

·     The Fund cannot buy securities or other instruments issued or guaranteed by any one issuer if more than 5% of its total assets would be invested in securities or other instruments of that issuer or if it would then own more than 10% of that issuer's voting securities. This limitation applies to 75% of the Fund's total assets. The limit does not apply to securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities or securities of other investment companies.

·     The Fund cannot make loans, except to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom that is applicable to the Fund, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

·     The Fund cannot invest 25% or more of its total assets in any one industry. That limit does not apply to securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or its agencies and instrumentalities or securities issued by investment companies.

·     The Fund cannot invest in real estate, physical commodities or commodity contracts, except to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

·     The Fund may not underwrite securities issued by others, except to the extent that a Fund may be considered an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, when reselling securities held in its own portfolio.

·     The Fund may not borrow money, except to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom that is applicable to the Fund, as such statute, rules, or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

·     The Fund cannot issue senior securities, except to the extent permitted under the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption therefrom, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted from time to time.

For purposes of the Fund's policy not to concentrate its investments as described above, the Fund has adopted classifications of industries and groups of related industries. These classifications are not fundamental policies.

n     Does the Fund Have Any Restrictions That Are Not Fundamental? The Fund has other investment restrictions that are not fundamental policies, which means that they can be changed by the Board of Directors without shareholder approval.

·     The Fund cannot purchase oil, gas or other mineral leases, rights, royalty contracts or exploration or development programs. However, the Fund can invest in securities of companies that invest in or sponsor such programs.

·     The Fund cannot purchase securities on margin (except for short-term loans that are necessary for the clearance of transactions) or make short sales of securities.

     Unless the Prospectus or this SAI states that a percentage restriction applies on an ongoing basis, it applies only at the time the Fund makes an investment (except in the case of borrowing and investments in illiquid securities). The Fund need not sell securities to meet the percentage limits if the value of the investment increases in proportion to the size of the Fund.

Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings. The Fund has adopted policies and procedures concerning the dissemination of information about its portfolio holdings by employees, officers and/or directors of the Manager, Distributor and Transfer Agent. These policies are designed to assure that non-public information about portfolio securities is distributed only for a legitimate business purpose, and is done in a manner that (a) conforms to applicable laws and regulations and (b) is designed to prevent that information from being used in a way that could negatively affect the Fund's investment program or enable third parties to use that information in a manner that is harmful to the Fund.

·      Public Disclosure. The Fund's portfolio holdings are made publicly available no later than 60 days after the close of each of the Fund's fiscal quarters in its semi-annual report to shareholders, its annual report to shareholders, or its Statements of Investments on Form N-Q. Those documents are publicly available at the SEC. In addition, the top 20 month-end holdings may be posted on the OppenheimerFunds website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com (select the Fund's name under the "View Fund Information for:" menu) with a 15-day lag. The Fund may release a more restrictive list of holdings (e.g., the top five or top 10 portfolio holdings) or may release no holdings if that is in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders. Other general information about the Fund's portfolio investments, such as portfolio composition by asset class, industry, country, currency, credit rating or maturity, may also be posted.

Until publicly disclosed, the Fund's portfolio holdings are proprietary, confidential business information. While recognizing the importance of providing Fund shareholders with information about their Fund's investments and providing portfolio information to a variety of third parties to assist with the management, distribution and administrative process, the need for transparency must be balanced against the risk that third parties who gain access to the Fund's portfolio holdings information could attempt to use that information to trade ahead of or against the Fund, which could negatively affect the prices the Fund is able to obtain in portfolio transactions or the availability of the securities that portfolio managers are trading on the Fund's behalf.

The Manager and its subsidiaries and affiliates, employees, officers, and directors, shall neither solicit nor accept any compensation or other consideration (including any agreement to maintain assets in the Fund or in other investment companies or accounts managed by the Manager or any affiliated person of the Manager) in connection with the disclosure of the Fund's non-public portfolio holdings. The receipt of investment advisory fees or other fees and compensation paid to the Manager and its subsidiaries pursuant to agreements approved by the Fund's Board shall not be deemed to be "compensation" or "consideration" for these purposes. It is a violation of the Code of Ethics for any covered person to release holdings in contravention of portfolio holdings disclosure policies and procedures adopted by the Fund.

A list of the top 20 portfolio securities holdings (based on invested assets), listed by security or by issuer, as of the end of each month may be disclosed to third parties (subject to the procedures below) no sooner than 15 days after month-end.

Except under special limited circumstances discussed below, month-end lists of the Fund's complete portfolio holdings may be disclosed no sooner than 30-days after the relevant month-end, subject to the procedures below. If the Fund's complete portfolio holdings have not been disclosed publicly, they may be disclosed pursuant to special requests for legitimate business reasons, provided that:

·      The third-party recipient must first submit a request for release of Fund portfolio holdings, explaining the business reason for the request;

·      Senior officers (a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel or above) in the Manager's Portfolio and Legal departments must approve the completed request for release of Fund portfolio holdings; and

·      The third-party recipient must sign the Manager's portfolio holdings non-disclosure agreement before receiving the data, agreeing to keep information that is not publicly available regarding the Fund's holdings confidential and agreeing not to trade directly or indirectly based on the information.

The Fund's complete portfolio holdings positions may be released to the following categories of entities or individuals on an ongoing basis, provided that such entity or individual either (1) has signed an agreement to keep such information confidential and not trade on the basis of such information or (2) is subject to fiduciary obligations, as a member of the Fund's Board, or as an employee, officer and/or director of the Manager, Distributor, or Transfer Agent, or their respective legal counsel, not to disclose such information except in conformity with these policies and procedures and not to trade for his/her personal account on the basis of such information:

·      Employees of the Fund's Manager, Distributor and Transfer Agent who need to have access to such information (as determined by senior officers of such entity),

·      The Fund's independent registered public accounting firm,

·      Members of the Fund's Board and the Board's legal counsel,

·      The Fund's custodian bank,

·      A proxy voting service designated by the Fund and its Board,

·      Rating/ranking organizations (such as Lipper and Morningstar),

·      Portfolio pricing services retained by the Manager to provide portfolio security prices, and

·      Dealers, to obtain bids (price quotations if securities are not priced by the Fund's regular pricing services).

Portfolio holdings information of the Fund may be provided, under limited circumstances, to brokers and/or dealers with whom the Fund trades and/or entities that provide investment coverage and/or analytical information regarding the Fund's portfolio, provided that there is a legitimate investment reason for providing the information to the broker, dealer or other entity. Month-end portfolio holdings information may, under this procedure, be provided to vendors providing research information and/or analytics to the Fund, with at least a 15-day delay after the month end, but in certain cases may be provided to a broker or analytical vendor with a 1-2 day lag to facilitate the provision of requested investment information to the Manager to facilitate a particular trade or the portfolio manager's investment process for the Fund. Any third party receiving such information must first sign the Manager's portfolio holdings non-disclosure agreement as a pre-condition to receiving this information.

Portfolio holdings information (which may include information on individual securities positions or multiple securities) may be provided to the entities listed below (1) by portfolio traders employed by the Manager in connection with portfolio trading, and (2) by the members of the Manager's Security Valuation Group and Accounting Departments in connection with portfolio pricing or other portfolio evaluation purposes:

·      Brokers and dealers in connection with portfolio transactions (purchases and sales)

·      Brokers and dealers to obtain bids or bid and asked prices (if securities held by the Fund are not priced by the Fund's regular pricing services)

·      Dealers to obtain price quotations where the Fund is not identified as the owner.

Portfolio holdings information (which may include information on the Fund's entire portfolio or individual securities therein) may be provided by senior officers of the Manager or attorneys on the legal staff of the Manager, Distributor, or Transfer Agent, in the following circumstances:

·      Response to legal process in litigation matters, such as responses to subpoenas or in class action matters where the Fund may be part of the plaintiff class (and seeks recovery for losses on a security) or a defendant,

·      Response to regulatory requests for information (the SEC, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), formerly known as the NASD, state securities regulators, and/or foreign securities authorities, including without limitation requests for information in inspections or for position reporting purposes),

·      To potential sub-advisers of portfolios (pursuant to confidentiality agreements),

·      To consultants for retirement plans for plan sponsors/discussions at due diligence meetings (pursuant to confidentiality agreements),

·      Investment bankers in connection with merger discussions (pursuant to confidentiality agreements).

Portfolio managers and analysts may, subject to the Manager's policies on communications with the press and other media, discuss portfolio information in interviews with members of the media, or in due diligence or similar meetings with clients or prospective purchasers of Fund shares or their financial intermediary representatives.

The Fund's shareholders may, under unusual circumstances (such as a lack of liquidity in the Fund's portfolio to meet redemptions), receive redemption proceeds of their Fund shares paid as pro rata shares of securities held in the Fund's portfolio. In such circumstances, disclosure of the Fund's portfolio holdings may be made to such shareholders.

Any permitted release of otherwise non-public portfolio holdings information must be in accordance with the then-current policy on approved methods for communicating confidential information.

The Chief Compliance Officer (the "CCO") of the Fund and the Manager, Distributor, and Transfer Agent shall oversee the compliance by the Manager, Distributor, Transfer Agent, and their personnel with these policies and procedures. At least annually, the CCO shall report to the Fund's Board on such compliance oversight and on the categories of entities and individuals to which disclosure of portfolio holdings of the Fund has been made during the preceding year pursuant to these policies. The CCO shall report to the Fund's Board any material violation of these policies and procedures and shall make recommendations to the Board as to any amendments that the CCO believes are necessary and desirable to carry out or improve these policies and procedures.

The Manager and/or the Fund have entered into ongoing arrangements to make available information about the Fund's portfolio holdings. One or more of the Oppenheimer funds may currently disclose portfolio holdings information based on ongoing arrangements to the following parties:

ABG Sundal Collier	Fidelity Capital Markets	Oddo Securities
Altus Investment Management	Fortis Securities	Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.
American Technology Research	Fox-Pitt, Kelton, Inc.	OTR Global
Auerbach Grayson & Company	Friedman, Billings, Ramsey	Pacific Crest
Baird & Company	Garp Research & Securities	Piper Jaffray Company
Banc of America Securities	George K. Baum & Company	Prager Sealy & Company
Barclays Capital	Goldman Sachs & Company	R. Seelaus & Co., Inc.
BB&T Capital Markets	Hewitt	Ramirez & Company
Belle Haven Investments, Inc.	HJ Sims & Co., Inc.	Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Bergen Capital	Howard Weil	RBC Capital Markets
Bloomberg	HSBC	RBC Dain Rauscher
BMO Capital Markets	ISI Group	RiskMetrics Group
Brown Brothers Harriman & Company	IXIS	Robert W. Baird & Company
Buckingham Research Group	Janco Partners	Rocaton
Cabrera Capital	Janney Montgomery Scott LLC	Rogers Casey
Callan Associates	Jefferies & Company	Roosevelt & Cross
Cambridge Associates	Jennings Capital Inc.	Russell/Mellon
Canaccord Adams, Inc.	Jesup & Lamont Securities	RV Kuhns
Caris & Company	JMP Securities	Sandler Morris Harris Group
Cheuvreux	Johnson Rice & Company	Sandler O'Neill & Partners
Citigroup	JPMorgan Chase	Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, LLC
Cleveland Research Company	Kaufman Brothers	Scotia Capital
Cogent	Kaupthing Securities Inc.	Seattle-Northwest Securities
Collins Stewart	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.	Sidoti & Company LLC
Commerzbank	Keijser Securities N.V.	Siebert Brandford Shank & Company
Cowen & Company	Kempen & Co. USA Inc.	Simmons & Company
Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC	Kepler Capital Markets	Societe Generale
Credit Suisse	KeyBanc Capital Markets	Standard & Poor's
Crew & Associates	Kim Eng Securities	Stifel, Nicolaus & Company
D.A. Davidson & Company	LCG Associates	Stone & Youngberg
Daiwa Securities	Lebenthal & Company	SunGard
DeMarche	Leerink Swann	Suntrust Robinson Humphrey
DEPFA First Albany Corporation	Loop Capital Markets	SWS Group, Inc.
Desjardins Securities	MainFirst Bank AG	Thomas Weisel Partners
Deutsche Bank	Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.	ThomsonReuters LLC
Dougherty & Company	Mizuho Securities USA	UBS
Dowling Partners	ML Stern	UOB Kay Hian (U.S.) Inc.
Dresdner Kleinwort	Morgan Keegan	Wachovia Securities Corporation
Duncan Williams	Morgan Stanley	Watson Wyatt
Emmet & Co., Inc.	Morningstar	Wedbush Morgan Securities
Empirical Research	MSCI Barra	Weeden & Company
Enskilda Securities	Natixis Bleichroeder Inc.	West LB
Evaluation Associates	Ned Davis Research Group	WH Mell & Associates
Exane/BNP Paribas	Needham & Company	William Blair & Company
FactSet Research Systems	Nomura Securities International, Inc.	Wilshire
		Ziegler Capital Markets Group

How the Fund is Managed

Organization and History. The Fund is an open-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund was organized as a Maryland corporation in August 1986. The Fund commenced its operations on February 13, 1987 as a closed-end investment company with a "dual-purpose" structure. The Fund originally had two objectives: (1) long-term capital appreciation and preservation of capital, and (2) current income and long-term growth of income. The Fund originally had common stock, denominated as "capital shares," and preferred stock, denominated as "income shares."
 
     Under the Fund's original dual-purpose structure, the capital shares were entitled to all of the Fund's gains and losses on its assets, and no Fund expenses were allocated to those shares. The income shares were entitled to all of the Fund's income and bore all of the Fund's operating expenses. The income shares were redeemed on January 31, 1997, and the Fund's dual-purpose structure was terminated.
 

     On March 3, 1997, the Fund was converted to an open-end management investment company with a single investment objective of capital appreciation. The outstanding capital shares of the Fund were re-denominated as Class A shares of common stock, which bear their allocable share of Fund expenses.
 

Prior to August 1, 2007, the Fund was named "Oppenheimer Quest Capital Value Fund, Inc." and its investment objective was to seek capital appreciation. The Fund was sub-advised by Oppenheimer Capital LLC (which is not affiliated with the Manager). The performance information, financial information, and expense information in the shareholder report and the portfolio holdings, shown in this SAI and in the Fund's shareholder reports for periods prior to August 1, 2007, may not be indicative of the Fund's operations for the current period.

n     Classes of Shares. The Directors are authorized, without shareholder approval, to create new series and classes of shares, to reclassify unissued shares into additional series or classes and to divide or combine the shares of a class into a greater or lesser number of shares without changing the proportionate beneficial interest of a shareholder in the Fund. Shares do not have cumulative voting rights, preemptive rights or subscription rights. Shares may be voted in person or by proxy at shareholder meetings.

The Fund currently has four classes of shares: Class A, Class B, Class C, and Class N. All classes invest in the same investment portfolio. Each class of shares:

·      has its own dividends and distributions,

·      pays certain expenses which may be different for the different classes,

·      will generally have a different net asset value,

·      will generally have separate voting rights on matters in which interests of one class are different from interests of another class, and

·      votes as a class on matters that affect that class alone.

Shares are freely transferable, and each share of each class has one vote at shareholder meetings, with fractional shares voting proportionally, on matters submitted to a vote of shareholders. Each share of the Fund represents an interest in the Fund proportionately equal to the interest of each other share of the same class.

n     Meetings of Shareholders. Although the Fund is not required by Maryland law to hold annual meetings, it may hold shareholder meetings from time to time on important matters or when required to do so by the Investment Company Act or other applicable law. The shareholders have the right to call a meeting to remove a Director or to take certain other action described in the Articles of Incorporation or under Maryland law.

The Fund will hold a meeting when the Directors call a meeting or upon proper request of shareholders. If the Fund receives a written request of the record holders of at least 25% of the outstanding shares eligible to be voted at a meeting to call a meeting for a specified purpose (which might include the removal of a Director), the Directors will call a meeting of shareholders for that specified purpose. The Fund's has undertaken that it will then either give the applicants access to the Fund's shareholder list or mail the applicants' communication to all other shareholders at the applicants' expense.

Board of Directors and Audit Committee. The Fund is governed by a Board of Directors, which is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders under Maryland law. The Directors meet periodically throughout the year to oversee the Fund's activities, review its performance, and review the actions of the Manager.

The Board of Directors has an Audit Committee comprised solely of Directors who are not "interested persons" under the Investment Company Act (the "Independent Trustees"). The members of the Audit Committee are David K. Downes (Chairman), Thomas W. Courtney, Lacy B. Herrmann and Brian F. Wruble. The Audit Committee held 4 meetings during the Fund's fiscal year ended October 31, 2008. The Audit Committee furnishes the Board with recommendations regarding the selection of the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm (also referred to as the "independent Auditors"). Other main functions of the Audit Committee outlined in the Audit Committee Charter, include, but are not limited to: (i) reviewing the scope and results of financial statement audits and the audit fees charged; (ii) reviewing reports from the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm regarding the Fund's internal accounting procedures and controls; (iii) reviewing reports from the Manager's Internal Audit Department; (iv) maintaining a separate line of communication between the Fund's independent Auditors and the Independent Directors; (v) reviewing the independence of the Fund's independent Auditors; (vi) pre-approving the provision of any audit or non-audit services by the Fund's independent Auditors, including tax services, that are not prohibited by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to the Fund, the Manager and certain affiliates of the Manager.

The Audit Committee's functions include selecting and nominating, to the full Board, nominees for election as Directors, and selecting and nominating Independent Directors for election. The Audit Committee may, but need not, consider the advice and recommendation of the Manager and its affiliates in selecting nominees. The full Board elects new directors except for those instances when a shareholder vote is required.

To date, the Audit Committee has been able to identify from its own resources an ample number of qualified candidates. Nonetheless, shareholders may submit names of individuals, accompanied by complete and properly supported resumes, for the Audit Committee's consideration by mailing such information to the Audit Committee. Shareholders wishing to submit a nominee for election to the Board may do so by mailing their submission to the offices of OppenheimerFunds, Inc., Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11^th Floor, New York, NY 10281-1008, to the attention of the Board of Trustees of Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc., c/o the Secretary of the Fund. Submissions should, at a minimum, be accompanied by the following: (1) the name, address, and business, educational, and/or other pertinent background of the person being recommended; (2) a statement concerning whether the person is an "interested person" as defined in the Investment Company Act; (3) any other information that the Fund would be required to include in a proxy statement concerning the person if he or she was nominated; and (4) the name and address of the person submitting the recommendation and, if that person is a shareholder, the period for which that person held Fund shares. Shareholders should note that a person who owns securities issued by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ("MassMutual") (the parent company of the Manager) would be deemed an "interested person" under the Investment Company Act. In addition, certain other relationships with MassMutual or its subsidiaries, with registered broker-dealers, or with the Funds' outside legal counsel may cause a person to be deemed an "interested person."

Although candidates are expected to provide a mix of attributes, experience, perspective and skills necessary to effectively advance the interests of shareholders, the Audit Committee has not established specific qualifications that must be met by a trustee nominee. In evaluating trustee nominees, the Audit Committee considers, among other things, an individual's background, skills, and experience; whether the individual is an "interested person" as defined in the Investment Company Act; and whether the individual would be deemed an "audit committee financial expert" within the meaning of applicable SEC, rules. The Audit Committee also considers whether the individual's background, skills, and experience will complement the background, skills, and experience of other nominees. The Audit Committee may, upon Board approval, retain an executive search firm or use the services of legal, financial, or other external counsel to assist in screening potential candidates.

There are no differences in the manner in which the Audit Committee evaluates nominees for trustees based on whether the nominee is recommended by a shareholder.

Directors and Officers of the Fund. Except for Mr. Murphy, each of the Directors is an "Independent Director" under the Investment Company Act. All of the Directors are also directors or trustees of the following Oppenheimer funds (referred to as "Board III Funds"):

Bond Fund Series

Oppenheimer MidCap Fund
Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Quest For Value Funds

Oppenheimer Quest International Value Fund, Inc.
Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc.
Rochester Fund Municipals

Rochester Portfolio Series

In addition to being a Board member of each of the Board III Funds, Messrs. Downes and Wruble are also directors or trustees of 64 other portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their immediate family members) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, and retirement plans established by them for their employees are permitted to purchase Class A shares of the Fund and the other Oppenheimer funds at net asset value without sales charge. The sales charge on Class A shares is waived for that group because of the reduced sales efforts realized by the Distributor. Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their eligible family members) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, its parent company and the subsidiaries of its parent company, and retirement plans established for the benefit of such individuals, are also permitted to purchase Class Y shares of the Oppenheimer funds that offer Class Y shares.

Messrs. Levine, Edwards, Legg, Murphy, Petersen, Vandehey, Wixted and Zack and Mss. Bloomberg, Bullington, Ives and Ruffle, who are officers of the Fund, hold the same offices with one or more of the other Board III Funds. As of January 30, 2009, the Directors and officers of the Fund, as a group, owned of record or beneficially less than 1% of any class of shares of the Fund. The foregoing statement does not reflect ownership of shares held of record by an employee benefit plan for employees of the Manager, other than the shares beneficially owned under that plan by the officers of the Fund listed above. In addition, none of the Independent Directors (nor any of their immediate family members) owns securities of either the Manager or the Distributor of the Board III Funds or of any entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Manager or the Distributor.

Biographical Information. The Directors and officers, their positions with the Fund, length of service in such position(s), and principal occupations and business affiliations during at least the past five years are listed in the charts below. The charts also include information about each Director's beneficial share ownership in the Fund and in all of the registered investment companies that the Director oversees in the Oppenheimer family of funds ("Supervised Funds"). The address of each Director in the chart below is 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924. Each Director serves for an indefinite term, or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Independent Directors
Name, Position(s) Held with the Fund, Length of Service, Age	Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years; Other Trusteeships/Directorships Held; Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Currently Overseen	Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in the Fund	Aggregate Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Supervised Funds
		As of December 31, 2008
Thomas W. Courtney, Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2001, Director since 1996 Age: 75	Principal of Courtney Associates, Inc. (venture capital firm) (since 1982); General Partner of Trivest Venture Fund (private venture capital fund); President of Investment Counseling Federated Investors, Inc. (1973-1982); Trustee of the following open-end investment companies: Cash Assets Trust (1984), Premier VIT (formerly PIMCO Advisors VIT), Tax Free Trust of Arizona (since 1984) and four funds for the Hawaiian Tax Free Trust. Oversees 10 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.	None	$50,001-$100,000
David K. Downes, Director since 2005 Age: 69	Independent Chairman GSK Employee Benefit Trust (since April 2006); Director of Correctnet (since January 2006); Trustee of Employee Trust (since January 2006); President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of CRAFund Advisors, Inc. (investment management company) (since January 2004); Director of Internet Capital Group (information technology company) (since October 2003); Independent Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Quaker Investment Trust (registered investment company) (2004-2007); President of The Community Reinvestment Act Qualified Investment Fund (investment management company) (2004-2007); Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Lincoln National Investment Companies, Inc. (subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation, a publicly traded company) and Delaware Investments U.S., Inc. (investment management subsidiary of Lincoln National Corporation) (1993-2003); President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of Delaware Investment Family of Funds (1993-2003); President and Board Member of Lincoln National Convertible Securities Funds, Inc. and the Lincoln National Income Funds, TDC (1993-2003); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Retirement Financial Services, Inc. (registered transfer agent and investment adviser and subsidiary of Delaware Investments U.S., Inc.) (1993-2003); President and Chief Executive Officer of Delaware Service Company, Inc. (1995-2003); Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Vice Chairman and Director of Equitable Capital Management Corporation (investment subsidiary of Equitable Life Assurance Society) (1985-1992); Corporate Controller of Merrill Lynch & Company (financial services holding company) (1977-1985); held the following positions at the Colonial Penn Group, Inc. (insurance company): Corporate Budget Director (1974-1977), Assistant Treasurer (1972-1974) and Director of Corporate Taxes (1969-1972); held the following positions at Price Waterhouse & Company (financial services firm): Tax Manager (1967-1969), Tax Senior (1965-1967) and Staff Accountant (1963-1965); United States Marine Corps (1957-1959). Oversees 64 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.*	$50,001-$100,000	Over $100,000
Lacy B. Herrmann, Director since 1996 Age: 79	Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Aquila Group of Funds (open-end investment company) (since December 2004); Chairman of Aquila Management Corporation and Aquila Investment Management LLC (since August 1984); Chief Executive Officer and President of Aquila Management Corporation (August 1984-December 1994); Vice President, Director and Secretary of Aquila Distributors, Inc. (distributor of Aquila Management Corporation); Treasurer of Aquila Distributors, Inc.; President and Director of STCM Management Company, Inc. (sponsor and adviser to CCMT) (until September 2007); Chairman, President and Director of InCap Management Corporation (until 2004); Director of OCC Cash Reserves, Inc. (open-end investment company) (June 2003-December 2004); Trustee of Premier VIT (formerly PIMCO Advisors VIT) (investment company) (since 1994); Trustee of OCC Accumulation Trust (open-end investment company) (until December 2004); Trustee Emeritus of Brown University (since June 1983). Oversees 10 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.	None	$10,001-$50,000
Brian F. Wruble, Director since 2001 Age: 65	General Partner of Odyssey Partners, L.P. (hedge fund) (September 1995-December 2007); Director of Special Value Opportunities Fund, LLC (registered investment company) (affiliate of the Manager's parent company) (since September 2004); Chairman (since August 2007) and Trustee (since August 1991) of the Board of Trustees of the Jackson Laboratory (non-profit); Treasurer and Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study (non-profit educational institute) (since May 1992); Member of Zurich Financial Investment Management Advisory Council (insurance) (2004-2007); Special Limited Partner of Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC (private equity investment) (January 1999-September 2004).Oversees 64 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.*	$10,001-$50,000	Over $100,000

*In addition to serving as a director of each of the Board III Funds, Messrs. Downes and Wruble also serve on the Boards of 54 other Oppenheimer funds that are not Board III Funds.

Mr. Murphy is an "Interested Director" because he is affiliated with the Manager by virtue of his positions as an officer and director of the Manager, and as a shareholder of its parent company. The address of Mr. Murphy is Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1008. Mr. Murphy serves as a Director for an indefinite term, or until his resignation, retirement, death or removal and as an officer for an indefinite term, or until his resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Interested Director and Officer
Name, Position(s) Held with Fund, Length of Service, Age		Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years; Other Trusteeships/Directorships Held; Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Currently Overseen		Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in the Fund		Aggregate Dollar Range Of Shares Beneficially Owned in Supervised Funds
				As of December 31, 2008
John V. Murphy, Director since 2005 and President and Principal Executive Officer since 2001 Age: 58	Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Manager (since June 2001); President of the Manager (September 2000-March 2007); President and director or trustee of other Oppenheimer funds; President and Director of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. ("OAC ") (the Manager's parent holding company) and of Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings, Inc. (holding company subsidiary of the Manager) (since July 2001); Director of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (subsidiary of the Manager) (November 2001-December 2006); Chairman and Director of Shareholder Services, Inc. and of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (transfer agent subsidiaries of the Manager) (since July 2001); President and Director of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (charitable trust program established by the Manager) (since July 2001); Director of the following investment advisory subsidiaries of the Manager: OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation, Trinity Investment Management Corporation and Tremont Capital Management, Inc. (since November 2001), HarbourView Asset Management Corporation and OFI Private Investments, Inc. (since July 2001); President (since November 2001) and Director (since July 2001) of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.; Executive Vice President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (OAC's parent company) (since February 1997); Director of DLB Acquisition Corporation (holding company parent of Babson Capital Management LLC) (since June 1995); Member of the Investment Company Institute 's Board of Governors (since October  2003); Chairman of the Investment Company Institute's Board of Governors (since October 2007). Oversees 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.		$10,001-$50,000		Over $100,000

The addresses of the officers in the chart below are as follows: for Messrs. Levine, Edwards and Zack and Mss. Bloomberg and Ruffle, Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008, for Messrs. Legg, Petersen, Vandehey, and Wixted and Mss. Bullington and Ives, 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.

Other Officers of the Fund
Name, Position(s) Held with Fund, Length of Service, Age	Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years
Michael S. Levine, Vice President and Portfolio Manager since 2007 Age: 43	Vice President of the Manager since June 1998 and Vice President of the Fund since 2007. A portfolio manager and officer of 2 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Mark S. Vandehey, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer since 2004 Age: 58	Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Manager (since March 2004); Chief Compliance Officer of the Manager, OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Centennial Asset Management and Shareholder Services, Inc. (Since March 2004); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since June 1983). Former Vice President and Director of Internal Audit of the Manager (1997-February 2004). An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Brian W. Wixted, Treasurer and Principal Financial & Accounting Officer since 1999 Age: 49	Senior Vice President and Treasurer of the Manager (since March 1999); Treasurer of the following: HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc. and Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings, Inc. (since March 1999), OFI Private Investments, Inc. (since March 2000), OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. (since May 2000), OppenheimerFunds plc (since May 2000), OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since November 2000), and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (charitable trust program established by the Manager) (since June 2003); Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of OFI Trust Company (trust company subsidiary of the Manager) (since May 2000); Assistant Treasurer of the following: OAC (since March 1999),Centennial Asset Management Corporation (March 1999-October 2003) and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (April 2000-June 2003) . An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Brian Petersen, Assistant Treasurer since 2004 Age: 38	Vice President of the Manager (since February 2007); Assistant Vice President of the Manager (August 2002-February 2007); Manager/Financial Product Accounting of the Manager (November 1998-July 2002). An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Stephanie Bullington, Assistant Treasurer since 2008 Age: 32	Assistant Vice President of the Manager (since October 2005); Assistant Vice President of ButterField Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited, part of The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited (Butterfield) (February 2004-June 2005); Fund Accounting Officer of Butterfield Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited (September 2003-February 2004). An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Robert G. Zack, Secretary since 2001 Age: 60	Executive Vice President (since January 2004) and General Counsel (since March 2002) of the Manager; General Counsel and Director of the Distributor (since December 2001); General Counsel of Centennial Asset Management Corporation (since December 2001); Senior Vice President and General Counsel of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation (since December 2001); Secretary and General Counsel of OAC (since November 2001); Assistant Secretary (since September 1997) and Director (since November 2001) of OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. and OppenheimerFunds plc; Vice President and Director of Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings, Inc. (since December 2002); Director of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc. (since November 2001); Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since December 2001); Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director of OFI Private Investments, Inc. and OFI Trust Company (since November 2001); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (since June 2003); Senior Vice President and General Counsel of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since November 2001); Director of OppenheimerFunds International Distributor Limited (since December 2003); Senior Vice President (May 1985-December 2003). An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Kathleen T. Ives, Assistant Secretary since 2001 Age: 43	Vice President (since June 1998), Deputy General Counsel (since May 2008) and Assistant Secretary (since October 2003) of the Manager; Vice President (since 1999) and Assistant Secretary (since October 2003) of the Distributor; Assistant Secretary of Centennial Asset Management Corporation (since October 2003); Vice President and Assistant Secretary of Shareholder Services, Inc. (since 1999); Assistant Secretary of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (since December 2001); Senior Counsel of the Manager (October 2003-May 2008). An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Lisa I. Bloomberg, Assistant Secretary since 2004 Age: 41	Vice President (since May 2004) and Deputy General Counsel (since May 2008) of the Manager; Associate Counsel of the Manager (May 2004-May 2008); First Vice President (April 2001-April 2004), Associate General Counsel (December 2000-April 2004) of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly, PaineWebber Incorporated). An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Taylor V. Edwards, Assistant Secretary since 2008 Age : 41	Vice President and Assistant Counsel of the Manager (since February 2007); Assistant Vice President and Assistant Counsel of the Manager (January 2006-January 2007); Formerly an Associate at Dechert LLP (September 2000-December 2005). An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Randy G. Legg, Assistant Secretary since 2008 Age : 43	Vice President (since June 2005) and Associate Counsel (since January 2007) of the Manager; Assistant Vice President (February 2004-June 2005) and Assistant Counsel (February 2004-January 2007) of the Manager. An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
Adrienne M. Ruffle, Assistant Secretary since 2008 Age : 31	Vice President (since February 2007) and Assistant Counsel (since February 2005) of the Manager; Assistant Vice President of the Manager (February 2005-February 2007); Associate (September 2002-February 2005) at Sidley Austin LLP. An officer of 105 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

|X|     Remuneration of the Officers and Directors. The officers and the interested Director of the Fund, who are affiliated with the Manager, receive no salary or fee from the Fund. The Independent Director's compensation from the Fund, shown below, is for serving as a Director and member of a committee (if applicable), with respect to the Fund's fiscal year ended October 31, 2008. The total compensation from the Fund and fund complex represents compensation for serving as a Director and member of a committee (if applicable) of the Boards of the Fund and other funds in the OppenheimerFunds complex during the calendar year ended December 31, 2008.

Director Name and Other Fund Position(s) (as applicable)	Aggregate Compensation From the Fund(1)	Retirement Benefits Accrued as Part of Fund Expenses	Estimated Annual Benefits Upon Retirement(2)	Total Compensation From the Fund and Fund Complex (3)
	Fiscal year ended October 31, 2008			Year ended December 31, 2008
Thomas W. Courtney Chairman of the Board and Audit Committee Member	$2,918	$7,407	$129,360(4)	$180,000
David K. Downes(5) Audit Committee Chairman	$2,515	$1,059	$26,522(6)	$335,000(7)
Robert G. Galli(8)	$2,139	$4,854	$105,840(9)	$256,019(10)
Lacy B. Herrmann Audit Committee Member	$2,274	$5,298	$73,950(4)	$ 140,000
Brian F. Wruble Audit Committee Member	$2,313 (11)	$1,941	$58,494(12)	$365,000(13)

1.      "Aggregate Compensation From the Fund" includes fees and deferred compensation, if any, for a Director.

2.      "Estimated Annual Benefits Upon Retirement" is based on a straight life payment plan election with the assumption that a Director will retire at the age of 75 and is eligible (after 7 years of service) to receive retirement plan benefits as described below under "Retirement Plan for Directors." Actual benefits upon retirement may vary based on retirement age, years of service and benefit payment elections of the Director. The Board III Funds' retirement plan was frozen effective December 31, 2007, and each plan participant who had not commenced receiving retirement benefits subsequently elected to receive the previously accrued benefits based upon the distribution method elected by such participant, as described below.

3.      "Total Compensation From the Fund and Fund Complex" includes fees, deferred compensation (if any) and accrued retirement benefits (if any).

4.      In lieu of receiving an estimated annual benefit amount for his service as a director or trustee to the Board III Funds, the Trustee elected to receive equal annual installment payments of an actuarially equivalent lump sum over 10 years commencing in January 2009, subsequent to the freezing of the Board III Funds' retirement plan.

5.      Mr. Downes was appointed as Director of the Board III Funds on December 16, 2005.

6.      In lieu of receiving an estimated annual benefit amount for his service as a director or trustee to the Board III Funds, Mr. Downes elected to receive an actuarially equivalent lump sum amount, subsequent to the freezing of the Board III Funds' retirement plan.

7.      Includes $180,000 for serving as a director or trustee of 54 other Oppenheimer funds (at December 31, 2007) that are not Board III Funds.

8.      Mr. Galli retired from the Board of the Board III Funds effective September 30, 2008.

9.      Mr. Galli has elected to receive his estimated annual benefit in the form of an annuity at retirement.

10.      Includes $151,019 estimated benefits to be paid to Mr. Galli for serving as a director or trustee of 54 other Oppenheimer funds that are not Board III Funds.

11.      Includes $2,313 deferred by Mr. Wruble under the "Compensation Deferral Plan" described below.

12.      In lieu of receiving an estimated annual benefit amount for his service as a director or trustee to the Board III Funds, Mr. Wruble has elected to receive an actuarially equivalent lump sum amount contributed to his Compensation Deferral Plan account subsequent to the freezing of the Board III Funds' retirement plan. In lieu of receiving that estimated annual benefit, Mr. Wruble elected to receive an actuarially equivalent lump sum distribution to the Compensation.

13.      Includes $225,000 paid to Mr. Wruble for serving as a director or trustee of 54 other Oppenheimer funds that are not Board III Funds.

n     Retirement Plan for Directors. The Fund has adopted a retirement plan for current Board members that provides for payments to retired Independent Directors. Payments are up to 80% of the average compensation paid during a Director's five years of service in which the highest compensation was received. A Director must serve as director or trustee for any of the Board III Funds for at least seven years to be eligible for retirement plan benefits and must serve for at least 15 years to be eligible for the maximum benefit. The amount of retirement benefits a Director will receive depends on the amount of the Director's compensation, including future compensation and the length of his or her service on the Board. Any Director who joined the Board after December 31, 2007, will not be eligible to participate in the Retirement Plan. Currently, there are no such members.     

n     Compensation Deferral Plan for Directors. The Board of Directors has adopted a Compensation Deferral Plan for Independent Directors that enables them to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of the annual fees they are entitled to receive from the Fund. Under the plan, the compensation deferred by a Director is periodically adjusted as though an equivalent amount had been invested in shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds selected by the Director. The amount paid to the Director under the plan will be determined based upon the amount of compensation deferred and the performance of the selected funds.

     Deferral of Directors' fees under the plan will not materially affect the Fund's assets, liabilities or net income per share. The plan will not obligate the Fund to retain the services of any Director or to pay any particular level of compensation to any Director. Pursuant to an Order issued by the SEC the Fund may invest in the funds selected by the Director under the plan without shareholder approval for the limited purpose of determining the value of the Director's deferred compensation account.

n     Major Shareholders. As of January 30, 2009, the only persons or entities who owned of record or were known by the Fund to own beneficially 5% or more of any class of the Fund's outstanding shares were:

Fidelity Investments, Institutional Operations Co. Inc., Certain Employee Benefit Plans, 100 Magellan Way #KW1C, Covington, KY 41015-1987, which owned 1,061,061.947 Class A shares (8.17% of the Class A shares then outstanding).
 

Edward D. Jones & Co., ATTN: Mutual Fund Shareholder Accounting, 201 Progress Parkway, Maryland Heights, MO 63043-3009, which owned 804,655.350 Class A shares (6.20% of the Class A shares then outstanding).

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith for the Sole Benefit of Its Customers, ATTN: Fund Admin., 4800 Deer Lake Dr. E., Floor 3, Jacksonville, FL 32246-6484, which owned 38,365.034 Class N shares (6.27% of the Class N shares then outstanding).

The Manager. The Manager is wholly-owned by Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp., a holding company controlled by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, a global, diversified insurance and financial services organization.

n      Code of Ethics. The Fund, the Manager and the Distributor have a Code of Ethics. It is designed to detect and prevent improper personal trading by certain employees, including portfolio managers, that would compete with or take advantage of the Fund's portfolio transactions. Covered persons include persons with knowledge of the investments and investment intentions of the Fund and other funds advised by the Manager. The Code of Ethics does permit personnel subject to the Code to invest in securities, including securities that may be purchased or held by the Fund, subject to a number of restrictions and controls. Compliance with the Code of Ethics is carefully monitored and enforced by the Manager.

     The Code of Ethics is an exhibit to the Fund's registration statement filed with the SEC and can be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. You can obtain information about the hours of operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1.202.551.8090. The Code of Ethics can also be viewed as part of the Fund's registration statement on the SEC's EDGAR database at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at the following E-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov, or by writing to the SEC's Public Reference Section, Washington, D.C. 20549-0102.

n     Portfolio Proxy Voting. The Fund has adopted Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures, which include Proxy Voting Guidelines, under which the Fund votes proxies relating to securities held by the Fund ("portfolio proxies"). OppenheimerFunds, Inc. generally undertakes to vote portfolio proxies with a view to enhancing the value of the company's stock held by the Funds. The Fund has retained an independent, third party proxy voting agent to vote portfolio proxies in accordance with the Fund's Proxy Voting Guidelines and to maintain records of such portfolio proxy voting. The Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures include provisions to address conflicts of interest that may arise between the Fund and the Manager or the Manager's affiliates or business relationships. Such a conflict of interest may arise, for example, where the Manager or an affiliate of the Manager manages or administers the assets of a pension plan or other investment account of the portfolio company soliciting the proxy or seeks to serve in that capacity. The Manager and its affiliates generally seek to avoid such material conflicts of interest by maintaining separate investment decision making processes to prevent the sharing of business objectives with respect to proposed or actual actions regarding portfolio proxy voting decisions. Additionally, the Manager employs the following procedures, as long as OFI determines that the course of action is consistent with the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders: (1) if the proposal that gives rise to the conflict is specifically addressed in the Proxy Voting Guidelines, the Manager will vote the portfolio proxy in accordance with the Proxy Voting Guidelines, provided that they do not provide discretion to the Manager on how to vote on the matter; (2) if such proposal is not specifically addressed in the Proxy Voting Guidelines or the Proxy Voting Guidelines provide discretion to the Manager on how to vote, the Manager will vote in accordance with the third-party proxy voting agent's general recommended guidelines on the proposal provided that the Manager has reasonably determined that there is no conflict of interest on the part of the proxy voting agent; and (3) if neither of the previous two procedures provides an appropriate voting recommendation, the Manager may retain an independent fiduciary to advise the Manager on how to vote the proposal or may abstain from voting. The Proxy Voting Guidelines' provisions with respect to certain routine and non-routine proxy proposals are summarized below:

·      The Fund evaluates nominees for director nominated by management on a case-by-case basis, examining the following factors, among others: composition of the board and key board committees, attendance at board meetings, corporate governance provisions and takeover activity, long-term company performance and the nominee's investment in the company.

·      The Fund supports shareholder proposals to reduce a super-majority vote requirement, and opposes management proposals to add a super-majority vote requirement.

·      The Fund generally votes against proposals to classify a board.

·      The Fund supports proposals to eliminate cumulative voting.

·      The Fund opposes re-pricing of stock options without shareholder approval.

·      The Fund generally supports proposals to require majority voting for the election of directors.

·      The Fund generally supports proposals seeking additional disclosure of executive and director pay information.

·      The Fund generally supports proposals seeking disclosure regarding the company's, board's or committee's use of compensation consultants.

·      The Fund generally supports "pay-for-performance" proposals that align a significant portion of total compensation of senior executives to company performance.

·      In the case of social, political and environmental responsibility issues, the Fund will generally abstain where there could be a detrimental impact on share value or where the perceived value if the proposal was adopted is unclear or unsubstantiated.  The Fund will vote for a proposal that would clearly have a discernible positive impact on short- or long-term share value, or that would have a presently indiscernible impact on short- or long-term share value but promotes general long-term interests of the company and its shareholders.

     The Fund is required to file Form N-PX, with its complete proxy voting record for the 12 months ended June 30^th, no later than August 31^st of each year. The Fund's Form N-PX filing is available (i) without charge, upon request, by calling the Fund toll-free at 1.800.525.7048 and (ii) on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

n     The Investment Advisory Agreement. The Manager provides investment advisory and management services to the Fund under an investment advisory agreement between the Manager and the Fund. The Manager selects securities for the Fund's portfolio and handles its day-to-day business. The portfolio manager of the Fund is employed by the Manager and is the person who is principally responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio. Other members of the Manager's Equity Portfolio Team provide the portfolio managers with counsel and support in managing the Fund's portfolio.

The agreement requires the Manager, at its expense, to provide the Fund with adequate office space, facilities and equipment. It also requires the Manager to provide and supervise the activities of all administrative and clerical personnel required to provide effective administration for the Fund. Those responsibilities include the compilation and maintenance of records with respect to its operations, the preparation and filing of specified reports, and composition of proxy materials and registration statements for continuous public sale of shares of the Fund.
 

The Fund pays expenses not expressly assumed by the Manager under the advisory agreement. The advisory agreement lists examples of expenses paid by the Fund. The major categories relate to interest, taxes, brokerage commissions, fees to certain Directors, legal and audit expenses, custodian and transfer agent expenses, share issuance costs, certain printing and registration costs and non-recurring expenses, including litigation costs. The management fees paid by the Fund to the Manager are calculated at the rates described in the Prospectus, which are applied to the assets of the Fund as a whole. The fees are allocated to each class of shares based upon the relative proportion of the Fund's net assets represented by that class. The management fees paid by the Fund to the Manager during its last three fiscal years were:

Fiscal Year ended 10/31:	Management Fees Paid to OppenheimerFunds, Inc.*
2006	$4,322,669
2007	$4,171,523
2008	$2,758,254

The investment advisory agreement states that in the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence in the performance of its duties or reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under the investment advisory agreement, the Manager is not liable for any loss the Fund sustains in connection with matters to which the agreement relates.

The agreement permits the Manager to act as investment adviser for any other person, firm or corporation and to use the name "Oppenheimer" in connection with other investment companies for which it may act as investment adviser or general distributor. If the Manager shall no longer act as investment adviser to the Fund, the Manager may withdraw the right of the Fund to use the name "Oppenheimer" as part of its name.

Prior Sub-Advisory Agreement. Prior to August 1, 2007, the Manager retained Oppenheimer Capital LLC as the Fund's sub-adviser, pursuant to a Sub-Advisory Agreement between the Manager and Oppenheimer Capital that was terminated on that date. Prior to January 1, 2005, OpCap Advisors ("OpCap"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oppenheimer Capital LLC, served as the Fund's sub-adviser, and prior to February 28, 1997, OpCap Advisors (which was then named Quest for Value Advisors) served as the Fund's investment adviser. Oppenheimer Capital and OpCap are not affiliated with the Manager.

Portfolio Manager. The Fund's portfolio is managed by Mr. Levine (referred to as the "Portfolio Manager"). He is the person responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund's investments.

Other Accounts Managed. In addition to managing the Fund's investment portfolio, Mr. Levine also manages other investment portfolios on behalf of the Manager or its affiliates. The following table provides information regarding the other portfolios managed by Mr. Levine as of October 31, 2008. No account has a performance-based advisory fee:

	Registered Investment Companies	Other Pooled Investment Vehicles	Other Accounts2
Accounts Managed	1	None	None
Total Assets Managed1	$1,809	None	None

1.     In millions.
2.      Does not include personal accounts of portfolio managers and their families, which are subject to the Code of Ethics.

As indicated above, the Portfolio Manager also manages other funds and accounts. Potentially, at times, those responsibilities could conflict with the interests of the Fund. That may occur whether the investment objectives and strategies of the other funds and accounts are the same as, or different from, the Fund's investment objectives and strategies. For example the Portfolio Manager may need to allocate investment opportunities between the Fund and another fund or account having similar objectives or strategies, or he may need to execute transactions for another fund or account that could have a negative impact on the value of securities held by the Fund. Not all funds and accounts advised by the Manager have the same management fee. If the management fee structure of another fund or account is more advantageous to the Manager than the fee structure of the Fund, the Manager could have an incentive to favor the other fund or account. However, the Manager's compliance policies and procedures and Code of Ethics recognize the Manager's fiduciary obligations to treat all of its clients, including the Fund, fairly and equitably, and are designed to preclude the Portfolio Manager from favoring one client over another. It is possible, of course, that those compliance policies and procedures and the Code of Ethics may not always be adequate to do so. At different times, the Fund's Portfolio Manager may manage other funds or accounts with investment objectives and strategies similar to those of the Fund, or he may manage funds or accounts with different investment objectives and strategies.

<     Compensation of the Portfolio Manager. The Fund's Portfolio Manager is employed and compensated by the Manager, not the Fund. Under the Manager's compensation program for its portfolio managers and portfolio analysts, Fund performance is the most important element of compensation with half of annual cash compensation based on relative investment performance results of the funds or accounts they manage, rather than on the financial success of the Manager. This is intended to align the portfolio managers and analysts interests with the success of the funds and accounts and their shareholders. The Manager's compensation structure is designed to attract and retain highly qualified investment management professionals and to reward individual and team contributions toward creating shareholder value. As of October 31, 2008, the Portfolio Manager's compensation consisted of three elements: a base salary, an annual discretionary bonus and eligibility to participate in long-term awards of options and stock appreciation rights in regard to the common stock of the Manager's holding company parent, as well as restricted shares of such common stock. Senior portfolio managers may also be eligible to participate in the Manager's deferred compensation plan.

          The base pay component of each portfolio manager is reviewed regularly to ensure that it reflects the performance of the individual, is commensurate with the requirements of the particular portfolio, reflects any specific competence or specialty of the individual manager, and is competitive with other comparable positions. The annual discretionary bonus is determined by senior management of the Manager and is based on a number of factors, including a fund's pre-tax performance for periods of up to five years, measured against an appropriate Lipper benchmark selected by management. The majority (80%) is based on three and five year data, with longer periods weighted more heavily. Below median performance in all three periods results in an extremely low, and in some cases no, performance based bonus. The Lipper benchmark used with respect to the Fund is Equity Income Funds. Other factors considered include management quality (such as style consistency, risk management, sector coverage, team leadership and coaching) and organizational development. The Portfolio Manager's compensation is not based on the total value of the Fund's portfolio assets, although the Fund's investment performance may increase those assets. The compensation structure is also intended to be internally equitable and serve to reduce potential conflicts of interest between the Fund and other funds and accounts managed by the Portfolio Manager.

Ownership of Fund Shares. As of October 31, 2008, the Portfolio Manager beneficially owned shares of the Fund as follows:

Portfolio Manager	Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in the Fund
Michael S. Levine	$10,001 - $50,000

*Does not include personal accounts of the portfolio manager and his family, which are subject to the Code of Ethics.

Brokerage Policies of the Fund

Brokerage Provisions of the Investment Advisory Agreement. One of the duties of the Manager under the investment advisory agreement is to arrange the portfolio transactions for the Fund. The advisory agreement contains provisions relating to the employment of broker-dealers to effect the Fund's portfolio transactions. The Manager is authorized by the advisory agreement to employ broker-dealers, including "affiliated brokers," as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act, that the Manager thinks, in its best judgment based on all relevant factors, will implement the policy of the Fund to obtain, at reasonable expense, the "best execution" of the Fund's portfolio transactions. "Best execution" means prompt and reliable execution at the most favorable price obtainable for the services provided. The Manager need not seek competitive commission bidding. However, it is expected to be aware of the current rates of eligible brokers and to minimize the commissions paid to the extent consistent with the interests and policies of the Fund as established by its Board of Directors.
 

Under the investment advisory agreement, in choosing brokers to execute portfolio transactions for the Fund, the Manager may select brokers (other than affiliates) that provide both brokerage and research services to the Fund. The commissions paid to those brokers may be higher than another qualified broker would charge, if the Manager makes a good faith determination that the commission is fair and reasonable in relation to the services provided.

Brokerage Practices Followed by the Manager. The Manager allocates brokerage for the Fund subject to the provisions of the investment advisory agreement and other applicable rules and procedures described below.

The Manager's portfolio traders allocate brokerage based upon recommendations from the Manager's portfolio managers, together with the portfolio traders' judgment as to the execution capability of the broker or dealer. In certain instances, portfolio managers may directly place trades and allocate brokerage. In either case, the Manager's executive officers supervise the allocation of brokerage.

Transactions in securities other than those for which an exchange is the primary market are generally done with principals or market makers. In transactions on foreign exchanges, the Fund may be required to pay fixed brokerage commissions and therefore would not have the benefit of negotiated commissions that are available in U.S. markets. Brokerage commissions are paid primarily for transactions in listed securities or for certain fixed-income agency transactions executed in the secondary market. Otherwise, brokerage commissions are paid only if it appears likely that a better price or execution can be obtained by doing so. In an option transaction, the Fund ordinarily uses the same broker for the purchase or sale of the option and any transaction in the securities to which the option relates.

Other accounts advised by the Manager have investment policies similar to those of the Fund. Those other accounts may purchase or sell the same securities as the Fund at the same time as the Fund, which could affect the supply and price of the securities. If two or more accounts advised by the Manager purchase the same security on the same day from the same dealer, the transactions under those combined orders are averaged as to price and allocated in accordance with the purchase or sale orders actually placed for each account. When possible, the Manager tries to combine concurrent orders to purchase or sell the same security by more than one of the accounts managed by the Manager or its affiliates. The transactions under those combined orders are averaged as to price and allocated in accordance with the purchase or sale orders actually placed for each account.

Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act prohibits any fund from compensating a broker or dealer for promoting or selling the fund's shares by (1) directing to that broker or dealer any of the fund's portfolio transactions, or (2) directing any other remuneration to that broker or dealer, such as commissions, mark-ups, mark downs or other fees from the fund's portfolio transactions, that were effected by another broker or dealer (these latter arrangements are considered to be a type of "step-out" transaction). In other words, a fund and its investment adviser cannot use the fund's brokerage for the purpose of rewarding broker-dealers for selling the fund's shares.

However, the Rule permits funds to effect brokerage transactions through firms that also sell fund shares, provided that certain procedures are adopted to prevent a quid pro quo with respect to portfolio brokerage allocations. As permitted by the Rule, the Manager has adopted procedures (and the Fund's Board of Directors has approved those procedures) that permit the Fund to direct portfolio securities transactions to brokers or dealers that also promote or sell shares of the Fund, subject to the "best execution" considerations discussed above. Those procedures are designed to prevent: (1) the Manager's personnel who effect the Fund's portfolio transactions from taking into account a broker's or dealer's promotion or sales of the Fund shares when allocating the Fund's portfolio transactions, and (2) the Fund, the Manager and the Distributor from entering into agreements or understandings under which the Manager directs or is expected to direct the Fund's brokerage directly, or through a "step-out" arrangement, to any broker or dealer in consideration of that broker's or dealer's promotion or sale of the Fund's shares or the shares of any of the other Oppenheimer funds.

The investment advisory agreement permits the Manager to allocate brokerage for research services. The research services provided by a particular broker may be useful both to the Fund and to one or more of the other accounts advised by the Manager or its affiliates. Investment research may be supplied to the Manager by the broker or by a third party at the instance of a broker through which trades are placed.

Investment research services include information and analysis on particular companies and industries as well as market or economic trends and portfolio strategy, market quotations for portfolio evaluations, analytical software and similar products and services. If a research service also assists the Manager in a non-research capacity (such as bookkeeping or other administrative functions), then only the percentage or component that provides assistance to the Manager in the investment decision-making process may be paid in commission dollars.

Although the Manager currently does not do so, the Board of Directors may permit the Manager to use stated commissions on secondary fixed-income agency trades to obtain research if the broker represents to the Manager that: (i) the trade is not from or for the broker's own inventory, (ii) the trade was executed by the broker on an agency basis at the stated commission, and (iii) the trade is not a riskless principal transaction. The Board of Directors may also permit the Manager to use commissions on fixed-price offerings to obtain research, in the same manner as is permitted for agency transactions.

The research services provided by brokers broaden the scope and supplement the research activities of the Manager. That research provides additional views and comparisons for consideration, and helps the Manager to obtain market information for the valuation of securities that are either held in the Fund's portfolio or are being considered for purchase. The Manager provides information to the Board about the commissions paid to brokers furnishing such services, together with the Manager's representation that the amount of such commissions was reasonably related to the value or benefit of such services.

     During the fiscal years ended October 31, 2006, 2007 and 2008, the Fund paid the total brokerage commissions indicated in the chart below. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2008, the Fund paid $667,114 in commissions to firms that provide brokerage and research services to the Fund with respect to $498,013,707 of aggregate portfolio transactions. All such transactions were on a "best execution" basis, as described above. The provision of research services was not necessarily a factor in the placement of all such transactions.

Fiscal Year Ended 10/31:	Total Brokerage Commissions Paid by the Fund*
2006	$527,737
2007	$913,324
2008	$716,754

* Amounts do not include spreads or commissions on principal transactions on a net trade basis.

Distribution and Service Plans

The Distributor. Under its General Distributor's Agreement with the Fund, the Distributor acts as the Fund's principal underwriter in the continuous public offering of the Fund's classes of shares. The Distributor bears the expenses normally attributable to sales, including advertising and the cost of printing and mailing prospectuses, other than those furnished to existing shareholders. The Distributor is not obligated to sell a specific number of shares.
 

     The sales charges and concessions paid to, or retained by, the Distributor from the sale of shares and the contingent deferred sales charges retained by the Distributor on the redemption of shares during the Fund's three most recent fiscal years are shown in the tables below.

Fiscal Year Ended 10/31:	Aggregate Front-End Sales Charges on Class A Shares	Class A Front-End Sales Charges Retained by Distributor*
2006	$840,552	$240,266
2007	$733,788	$194,320
2008	$473,783	$127,555

*     Includes amounts retained by a broker-dealer that is an affiliate or a parent of the Distributor.

Fiscal Year Ended 10/31:	Concessions on Class A Shares Advanced by Distributor*	Concessions on Class B Shares Advanced by Distributor*	Concessions on Class C Shares Advanced by Distributor*	Concessions on Class N Shares Advanced by Distributor*
2006	$18,920	$270,936	$66,755	$11,156
2007	$31,495	$195,426	$35,382	$11,411
2008	$25,094	$121,335	$24,100	$5,733

*     The Distributor advances concession payments to financial intermediaries for certain sales of Class A shares and for sales of Class B, Class C and Class N shares from its own resources at the time of sale.

Fiscal Year Ended 10/31:	Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charges Retained by Distributor	Class B Contingent Deferred Sales Charges Retained by Distributor	Class C Contingent Deferred Sales Charges Retained by Distributor	Class N Contingent Deferred Sales Charges Retained by Distributor
2006	$7,369	$124,391	$18,111	$4,783
2007	$890	$105,692	$3,642	$448
2008	$1,686	$77,367	$3,213	$1,847

Distribution and Service Plans. The Fund has adopted a Service Plan for Class A shares and Distribution and Service Plans for Class B, Class C and Class N shares under Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act. Under those plans the Fund pays the Distributor for all or a portion of its costs incurred in connection with the distribution and/or servicing of the shares of the particular class. Each plan has been approved by a vote of the Board of Directors, including a majority of the Independent Directors¹, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on that plan.
 

     Under the Plans, the Manager and the Distributor may make payments to affiliates. In their sole discretion, they may also from time to time make substantial payments from their own resources, which include the profits the Manager derives from the advisory fees it receives from the Fund, to compensate brokers, dealers, financial institutions and other intermediaries for providing distribution assistance and/or administrative services or that otherwise promote sales of the Fund's shares. These payments, some of which may be referred to as "revenue sharing," may relate to the Fund's inclusion on a financial intermediary's preferred list of funds offered to its clients.
 
     Unless a plan is terminated as described below, the plan continues in effect from year to year but only if the Fund's Board of Directors and its Independent Directors specifically vote annually to approve its continuance. Approval must be by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on continuing the plan. A plan may be terminated at any time by the vote of a majority of the Independent Directors or by the vote of the holders of a "majority" (as defined in the Investment Company Act) of the outstanding shares of that class.
 
     The Board of Directors and the Independent Directors must approve all material amendments to a plan. An amendment to increase materially the amount of payments to be made under a plan must be approved by shareholders of the class affected by the amendment. Because Class B shares of the Fund automatically convert into Class A shares 72 months after purchase, the Fund must obtain the approval of both Class A and Class B shareholders for a proposed material amendment to the Class A plan that would materially increase payments under the plan. That approval must be by a majority of the shares of each class, voting separately by class.
 
     While the plans are in effect, the Treasurer of the Fund shall provide separate written reports on the plans to the Board of Directors at least quarterly for its review. The reports shall detail the amount of all payments made under a plan and the purpose for which the payments were made. Those reports are subject to the review and approval of the Independent Directors.
 
     Each plan states that while it is in effect, the selection and nomination of those Directors of the Fund who are not "interested persons" of the Fund is committed to the discretion of the Independent Directors. This does not prevent the involvement of others in the selection and nomination process as long as the final decision as to selection or nomination is approved by a majority of the Independent Directors.

     Under the plans for a class, no payment will be made to any recipient in any period in which the aggregate net asset value of all Fund shares of that class held by the recipient for itself and its customers does not exceed a minimum amount, if any, that may be set from time to time by a majority of the Independent Directors.

n      Class A Distribution and Service Plan Fees. Under the Class A service plan, the Distributor currently uses the fees it receives from the Fund to pay brokers, dealers and other financial institutions (referred to as "recipients") for personal services and account maintenance services they provide for their customers who hold Class A shares. The services include, among others, answering customer inquiries about the Fund, assisting in establishing and maintaining accounts in the Fund, making the Fund's investment plans available and providing other services at the request of the Fund or the Distributor. The Class A service plan permits compensation to the Distributor calculated at an annual rate of 0.25% of daily net assets of Class A shares. The Distributor makes payments to recipients periodically at an annual rate not to exceed 0.25% of the average annual net assets of Class A shares held in the accounts of the recipients or their customers.

     The Distributor does not receive or retain the service fee on Class A shares in accounts for which the Distributor has been listed as the broker-dealer of record. While the plan permits the Board to authorize payments to the Distributor to reimburse itself for services under the plan, the Board has not yet done so, except in the case of shares purchased prior to March 1, 2007 with respect to certain group retirement plans that were established prior to March 1, 2001 ("grandfathered retirement plans"). Prior to March 1, 2007, the Distributor paid the 0.25% service fee for grandfathered retirement plans in advance for the first year and retained the first year's service fee paid by the Fund with respect to those shares. After the shares were held for a year, the Distributor paid the ongoing service fees to recipients on a periodic basis. Such shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge if they are redeemed within 18 months. If Class A shares purchased in a grandfathered retirement plan prior to March 1, 2007 are redeemed within the first year after their purchase, the recipient of the service fees on those shares will be obligated to repay the Distributor a pro rata portion of the advance payment of those fees. For Class A shares purchased in grandfathered retirement plans on or after March 1, 2007, the Distributor does not make any payment in advance and does not retain the service fee for the first year. Such shares are not subject to the contingent deferred sales charge.

     Under the Class A distribution plan, the plan provides for the fund to pay an asset-based sales charge to the Distributor calculated at an annual rate of 0.25% of the daily net assets of Class A shares of the Fund. Effective January 1, 2003, the Board set that rate to zero. Prior to that date, the Fund paid the Distributor an annual asset-based sales charge equal to 0.15% of average annual net assets representing Class A shares purchased before September 1, 1993, and 0.10% of average annnual net assets representing Class A shares purchased on or after that date. The Distributor paid the entire asset-based sales charge to brokers, dealers and financial institutions.

     For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2008 payments under the Class A distribution and service plan totaled $704,443, of which $303 were service fee payments retained by the Distributor in connection with the grandfathered retirement accounts described above, and $38,697 were paid to an affiliate of the Distributor's parent company. No asset-based sales charges were retained. Any unreimbursed expenses the Distributor incurs with respect to Class A shares in any fiscal year cannot be recovered in subsequent years. The Distributor may not use payments received under the Class A plan to pay any of its interest expenses, carrying charges, or other financial costs, or allocation of overhead.

n      Class B, Class C and Class N Distribution and Service Plan Fees. Under each plan, distribution and service fees are computed on the average of the net asset value of shares in the respective class, determined as of the close of each regular business day during the period. Each plan provides for the Distributor to be compensated at a flat rate, whether the Distributor's distribution expenses are more or less than the amounts paid by the Fund under the plan during the period for which the fee is paid. The types of services that recipients provide are similar to the services provided under the Class A service plan, described above.

     Each plan permits the Distributor to retain both the asset-based sales charges and the service fees or to pay recipients the service fee on a periodic basis, without payment in advance. However, the Distributor currently intends to pay the service fee to recipients in advance for the first year after Class B, Class C and Class N shares are purchased. After the first year Class B, Class C or Class N shares are outstanding, after their purchase, the Distributor makes service fee payments periodically on those shares. The advance payment is based on the net asset value of shares sold. Shares purchased by exchange do not qualify for the advance service fee payment. If Class B, Class C or Class N shares are redeemed during the first year after their purchase, the recipient of the service fees on those shares will be obligated to repay the Distributor a pro rata portion of the advance payment of the service fee made on those shares. Class B, Class C or Class N shares may not be purchased by a new investor directly from the Distributor without the investor designating another registered broker-dealer. If a current investor no longer has another broker-dealer of record for an existing account, the Distributor is automatically designated as the broker-dealer of record, but solely for the purpose of acting as the investor's agent to purchase the shares. In those cases, the Distributor retains the asset-based sales charge paid on Class B, Class C and Class N shares, but does not retain any service fees as to the assets represented by that account.
 
     The asset-based sales charge and service fees increase Class B and Class C expenses by 1.00% and the asset-based sales charge and service fees increase Class N expenses by 0.50% of the net assets per year of the respective classes.
 

     The Distributor retains the asset-based sales charge on Class B and Class N shares. The Distributor retains the asset-based sales charge on Class C shares during the first year the shares are outstanding. It pays the asset-based sales charge as an ongoing concession to the recipient on Class C shares outstanding for a year or more. If a dealer has a special agreement with the Distributor, the Distributor will pay the Class B, Class C or Class N service fee and the asset-based sales charge to the dealer periodically in lieu of paying the sales concession and service fee in advance at the time of purchase.

     The asset-based sales charge on Class B, Class C and Class N shares allow investors to buy shares without a front-end sales charge while allowing the Distributor to compensate dealers that sell those shares. The Fund pays the asset-based sales charge to the Distributor for its services rendered in distributing Class B, Class C and Class N shares. The payments are made to the Distributor in recognition that the Distributor:

·      pays sales concessions to authorized brokers and dealers at the time of sale and pays service fees as described above,

·      may finance payment of sales concessions and/or the advance of the service fee payment to recipients under the plans, or may provide such financing from its own resources or from the resources of an affiliate,

·      employs personnel to support distribution of Class B, Class C and Class N shares,

·      bears the costs of sales literature, advertising and prospectuses (other than those furnished to current shareholders) and state "blue sky" registration fees and certain other distribution expenses,

·      may not be able to adequately compensate dealers that sell Class B, Class C and Class N shares without receiving payment under the plans and therefore may not be able to offer such Classes for sale absent the plans,

·      receives payments under the plans consistent with the service fees and asset-based sales charges paid by other non-proprietary funds that charge 12b-1 fees,

·      may use the payments under the plan to include the Fund in various third-party distribution programs that may increase sales of Fund shares,

·      may experience increased difficulty selling the Fund's shares if payments under the plan are discontinued because most competitor funds have plans that pay dealers for rendering distribution services as much or more than the amounts currently being paid by the Fund, and

·      may not be able to continue providing, at the same or at a lesser cost, the same quality distribution sales efforts and services, or to obtain such services from brokers and dealers, if the plan payments were to be discontinued.

The Distributor's actual expenses in selling Class B, Class C and Class N shares may be more than the payments it receives from the contingent deferred sales charges collected on redeemed shares and from the Fund under the plans. If either the Class B, Class C or Class N plan is terminated by the Fund, the Board of Directors may allow the Fund to continue payments of the asset-based sales charge to the Distributor for distributing shares before the plan was terminated.

Distribution and Service Fees Paid to the Distributor for the Fiscal Year Ended 10/31/08
Class:	Total Payments Under Plan	Amount Retained by Distributor	Distributor's Aggregate Unreimbursed Expenses Under Plan	Distributor's Unreimbursed Expenses as % of Net Assets of Class
Class B Plan	$420,3121	$326,906	None	N/A
Class C Plan	$437,9252	$40,389	$768,527	2.60%
Class N Plan	$76,2203	$27,187	$299,174	2.98%

1.      Includes $5,809 paid to an affiliate of the Distributor's parent company.

2.      Includes $13,442 paid to an affiliate of the Distributor's parent company.

3.      Includes $6,296 paid to an affiliate of the Distributor's parent company.

     All payments under the plans are subject to the limitations imposed by the Conduct Rules of FINRA on payments of asset-based sales charges and service fees.

Payments to Fund Intermediaries

Financial intermediaries may receive various forms of compensation or reimbursement from the Fund in the form of 12b-1 plan payments as described in the preceding section of this SAI. They may also receive payments or concessions from the Distributor, derived from sales charges paid by the clients of the financial intermediary, also as described in this SAI. Additionally, the Manager and/or the Distributor (including their affiliates) may make payments to financial intermediaries in connection with their offering and selling shares of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds, providing marketing or promotional support, transaction processing and/or administrative services. Among the financial intermediaries that may receive these payments are brokers and dealers who sell and/or hold shares of the Fund, banks (including bank trust departments), registered investment advisers, insurance companies, retirement plan and qualified tuition program administrators, third party administrators, and other institutions that have selling, servicing or similar arrangements with the Manager or Distributor. The payments to intermediaries vary by the types of product sold, the features of the Fund share class and the role played by the intermediary.

Possible types of payments to financial intermediaries include, without limitation, those discussed below.

·      Payments made by the Fund, or by an investor buying or selling shares of the Fund may include:

·      depending on the share class that the investor selects, contingent deferred sales charges or initial front-end sales charges, all or a portion of which front-end sales charges are payable by the Distributor to financial intermediaries (see " About Your Account" in the Prospectus);

·      ongoing asset-based payments attributable to the share class selected, including fees payable under the Fund's distribution and/or service plans adopted under Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act, which are paid from the Fund's assets and allocated to the class of shares to which the plan relates (see "About the Fund -- Distribution and Service Plans" above);

·      shareholder servicing payments for providing omnibus accounting, recordkeeping, networking, sub-transfer agency or other administrative or shareholder services, including retirement plan and 529 plan administrative services fees, which are paid from the assets of a Fund as reimbursement to the Manager or Distributor for expenses they incur on behalf of the Fund.

·      Payments made by the Manager or Distributor out of their respective resources and/or assets, which may include revenues or profits the Manager derives from investment advisory fees paid by the Fund. These payments are made at the discretion of the Manager and/or the Distributor. These payments, often referred to as "revenue sharing" payments, may be in addition to the payments by the Fund listed above.

·      These types of payments may reflect compensation for marketing support, support provided in offering the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds through certain trading platforms and programs, transaction processing or other services;

·      The Manager and Distributor each may also pay other compensation to the extent the payment is not prohibited by law or by any self-regulatory agency, such as FINRA. Payments are made based on the guidelines established by the Manager and Distributor, subject to applicable law.

These payments may provide an incentive to financial intermediaries to actively market or promote the sale of shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds, or to support the marketing or promotional efforts of the Distributor in offering shares of the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds. In addition, some types of payments may provide a financial intermediary with an incentive to recommend the Fund or a particular share class. Financial intermediaries may earn profits on these payments, since the amount of the payment may exceed the cost of providing the service. Certain of these payments are subject to limitations under applicable law. Financial intermediaries may categorize and disclose these arrangements to their clients and to members of the public in a manner different from the disclosures in the Fund's Prospectus and this SAI. You should ask your financial intermediary for information about any payments it receives from the Fund, the Manager or the Distributor and any services it provides, as well as the fees and commissions it charges.

Although brokers or dealers that sell Fund shares may also act as a broker or dealer in connection with the execution of the purchase or sale of portfolio securities by the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds, a financial intermediary's sales of shares of the Fund or such other Oppenheimer funds is not a consideration for the Manager when choosing brokers or dealers to effect portfolio transactions for the Fund or such other Oppenheimer funds.

Revenue sharing payments can pay for distribution-related or asset retention items including, without limitation,

·      transactional support, one-time charges for setting up access for the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds on particular trading systems, and paying the intermediary's networking fees;

·      program support, such as expenses related to including the Oppenheimer funds in retirement plans, college savings plans, fee-based advisory or wrap fee programs, fund "supermarkets," bank or trust company products or insurance companies' variable annuity or variable life insurance products;

·      placement on the dealer's list of offered funds and providing representatives of the Distributor with access to a financial intermediary's sales meetings, sales representatives and management representatives.

Additionally, the Manager or Distributor may make payments for firm support, such as business planning assistance, advertising, and educating a financial intermediary's sales personnel about the Oppenheimer funds and shareholder financial planning needs.

For the year ended December 31, 2008, the following financial intermediaries and/or their respective affiliates offered shares of the Oppenheimer funds and received revenue sharing or similar distribution-related payments from the Manager or the Distributor for marketing or program support:

1st Global Capital Company	Lincoln Benefit National Life
Advantage Capital Corporation	Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation
Aegon USA	Lincoln Investment Planning, Inc.
Aetna Life Insurance & Annuity Company	Linsco Private Ledger Financial
AG Edwards & Sons, Inc.	Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
AIG Financial Advisors	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated
AIG Life Variable Annuity Company	Merrill Lynch Insurance Group
Allianz Life Insurance Company	MetLife Investors Insurance Company
Allmerica Financial Life Insurance & Annuity Company	MetLife Investors Insurance Company - Security First
Allstate Life Insurance Company	MetLife Securities, Inc.
American General Annuity Insurance Company	Minnesota Life Insurance Company
American Enterprise Life Insurance Company	MML Investor Services, Inc.
American Portfolios Financial Services, Inc.	Mony Life Insurance Company
Ameritas Life Insurance Company	Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc.
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.	Multi-Financial Securities Corporation
Annuity Investors Life Insurance Company	Mutual Service Corporation
Associated Securities Corporation	NFP Securities, Inc.
AXA Advisors LLC	NRP Financial, Inc.
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company	Nathan & Lewis Securities, Inc.
Banc of America Investment Services	National Planning Holdings, Inc.
CCO Investment Services Corporation	National Planning Corporation
Cadaret Grant & Company, Inc.	Nationwide Investment Services, Inc.
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.	New England Securities, Inc.
Chase Investment Services Corporation	New York Life Insurance & Annuity Company
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.	Oppenheimer & Company, Inc.
CitiStreet Advisors LLC	PFS Investments, Inc.
Citizen's Bank of Rhode Island	Park Avenue Securities LLC
Columbus Life Insurance Company	Pershing LLC
Commonwealth Financial Network	Phoenix Life Insurance Company
Compass Group Investment Advisors	Plan Member Securities
CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc.	Prime Capital Services, Inc.
CUNA Mutual Insurance Society	Primevest Financial Services, Inc.
CUSO Financial Services, LLP	Protective Life Insurance Company
E*TRADE Clearing LLC	Prudential Investment Management Services LLC
Edward D. Jones & Company	Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Essex National Securities, Inc.	Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.
Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company	RBC Dain Rauscher Inc.
Financial Network	Riversource Life Insurance Company
Financial Services Corporation	Royal Alliance Associates, Inc.
GE Financial Assurance	Securities America, Inc.
GE Life & Annuity Company	Security Benefit Life Insurance Company
Genworth Financial, Inc.	Signator Investments, Inc.
GlenBrook Life and Annuity Company	SII Investments, Inc.
Great West Life Insurance Company	Sorrento Pacific Financial LLC
GWFS Equities, Inc.	State Farm VP Management Corporation
Hartford Life Insurance Company	Sun Life Annuity Company Ltd.
HD Vest Investment Services, Inc.	Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
Hewitt Associates LLC	Sun Life Insurance & Annuity Company of New York
HSBC Securities USA, Inc.	Sun Life Insurance Company
IFMG Securities, Inc.	Sun Trust Securities, Inc.
ING Financial Advisers LLC	Thrivent Financial Services, Inc.
ING Financial Partners, Inc.	UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Invest Financial Corporation	Union Central Life Insurance Company
Investment Centers of America	Uvest
Jefferson Pilot Life Insurance Company	Valic
Jefferson Pilot Securities Corporation	Wachovia Securities, Inc.
John Hancock Life Insurance Company	Walnut Street Securities, Inc.
JP Morgan Securities, Inc.	Waterstone Financial Group
Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company	Wells Fargo Investments
Legend Equities Company	Wescom Financial Services

For the year ended December 31, 2008, the following firms, which in some cases are broker-dealers, received payments from the Manager or the Distributor for administrative or other services provided (other than revenue sharing arrangements), as described above:

1st Global Capital Company	Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
AG Edwards & Sons, Inc.	Linsco Private Ledger Financial
ACS HR Solutions	Marshall & Ilsley Trust Company, Inc.
ADP	Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Administrative Management Group	Matrix Settlement & Clearance Services
Aetna Life Insurance & Annuity Company	Mercer HR Services
Alliance Benefit Group	Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated
American Diversified Distributors	Mesirow Financial, Inc.
American Funds	MetLife Securities, Inc.
American Stock & Transfer	MFS Investment Management
American United Life Insurance Company	Mid Atlantic Capital Company
Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.	Milliman USA
Ameritrade, Inc.	Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.
Ascensus	Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc.
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company	Mutual of Omaha Life Insurance Company
Benefit Administration, Inc.	Nathan & Lewis Securities, Inc.
Benefit Plans Administration	National City Bank
Benetech, Inc.	National Deferred Company
Boston Financial Data Services	National Financial
Ceridian	National Planning Corporation
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.	Nationwide Life Insurance Company
Citigroup Global Markets Inc	Newport Retirement Services, Inc.
CitiStreet	Northwest Plan Services, Inc.
City National Investments	NY Life Benefits
Clark Consulting	Oppenheimer & Co, Inc.
Columbia Management	Peoples Securities, Inc.
CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc.	Pershing LLC
DA Davidson & Company	PFPC
Daily Access. Com, Inc.	Plan Administrators, Inc.
Davenport & Company, LLC	Plan Member Securities
David Lerner Associates, Inc.	Primevest Financial Services, Inc.
Digital Retirement Solutions, Inc.	Princeton Retirement Services
Diversified Investment Advisors Inc.	Principal Life Insurance Company
DR, Inc.	Prudential Investment Management Services LLC
Dyatech, LLC	PSMI Group, Inc.
E*TRADE Clearing LLC	Quads Trust Company
Edward D. Jones & Company	Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
ERISA Administrative Services, Inc.	Reliance Trust Company
ExpertPlan.com	Reliastar Life Insurance Company
FASCore, LLC	Robert W. Baird & Company
Ferris Baker Watts, Inc.	RSM McGladrey
Fidelity	Scott & Stringfellow, Inc.
First Clearing LLC	Scottrade, Inc.
First Southwest Company	SII Investments, Inc.
First Trust – Datalynx	Southwest Securities, Inc.
First Trust Corporation	Standard Insurance Company
Geller Group	Stanley, Hunt, Dupree & Rhine
Great West Life Insurance Company	Stanton Group, Inc.
H&R Block Financial Advisors, Inc.	Sterne Agee & Leach, Inc.
Hartford Life Insurance Company	Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc.
HD Vest Investment Services	Sun Trust Securities, Inc.
Hewitt Associates LLC	Symetra Financial Corporation
HSBC Brokerage USA, Inc.	T. Rowe Price
ICMA - RC Services	The 401k Company
Independent Plan Coordinators	The Retirement Plan Company, LLC
Ingham Group	Transamerica Retirement Services
Interactive Retirement Systems	TruSource Union Bank of CA
Intuition	UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Invesmart	Unified Fund Services
Invest Financial Corporation	Union Bank
Janney Montgomery Scott, Inc.	US Clearing Company
JJB Hillard W. L. Lyons, Inc.	USAA Investment Management Company
John Hancock Life Insurance Company	USI Consulting Group
JP Morgan Securities, Inc.	Valic Retirement Services
July Business Services	Vanguard Group
Kaufman & Goble	Wachovia Securities, Inc.
Legend Equities Company	Wedbush Morgan Securities
Lehman Brothers, Inc.	Wells Fargo Investments
Liberty Funds Distributor, Inc.	Wilmington Trust
Lincoln Investment Planning, Inc.

Performance of the Fund

Explanation of Performance Terminology. The Fund uses a variety of terms to illustrate its investment performance. Those terms include "cumulative total return," "average annual total return," "average annual total return at net asset value" and "total return at net asset value." An explanation of how total returns are calculated is set forth below. The charts below show the Fund's performance as of the Fund's most recent fiscal year end. You can obtain current performance information by calling the Fund's Transfer Agent at 1.800.225.5677 or by visiting the OppenheimerFunds website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

The Fund's illustrations of its performance data in advertisements must comply with rules of the SEC. Those rules describe the types of performance data that may be used and how it is to be calculated. In general, any advertisement by the Fund of its performance data must include the average annual total returns for the advertised class of shares of the Fund.

Use of standardized performance calculations enables an investor to compare the Fund's performance to the performance of other funds for the same periods. However, a number of factors should be considered before using the Fund's performance information as a basis for comparison with other investments:

·      Total returns measure the performance of a hypothetical account in the Fund over various periods and do not show the performance of each shareholder's account. Your account's performance will vary from the model performance data if your dividends are received in cash, or you buy or sell shares during the period, or you bought your shares at a different time and price than the shares used in the model.

·      The Fund's performance returns may not reflect the effect of taxes on dividends and capital gains distributions.

·      An investment in the Fund is not insured by the FDIC or any other government agency.

·      The principal value of the Fund's shares, and total returns are not guaranteed and normally will fluctuate on a daily basis.

·      When an investor's shares are redeemed, they may be worth more or less than their original cost.

·      Total returns for any given past period represent historical performance information and are not, and should not be considered, a prediction of future returns.

     The performance of each class of shares is shown separately, because the performance of each class of shares will usually be different. That is because of the different kinds of expenses each class bears. The total returns of each class of shares of the Fund are affected by market conditions, the quality of the Fund's investments, the maturity of those investments, the types of investments the Fund holds, and its operating expenses that are allocated to the particular class.

|X|     Total Return Information. There are different types of "total returns" to measure the Fund's performance. Total return is the change in value of a hypothetical investment in the Fund over a given period, assuming that all dividends and capital gains distributions are reinvested in additional shares and that the investment is redeemed at the end of the period. Because of differences in expenses for each class of shares, the total returns for each class are separately measured. The cumulative total return measures the change in value over the entire period (for example, ten years). An average annual total return shows the average rate of return for each year in a period that would produce the cumulative total return over the entire period. However, average annual total returns do not show actual year-by-year performance. The Fund uses standardized calculations for its total returns as prescribed by the SEC. The methodology is discussed below.

In calculating total returns for Class A shares, the current maximum sales charge of 5.75% (as a percentage of the offering price) is deducted from the initial investment ("P" in the formula below) (unless the return is shown without sales charge, as described below). Unless otherwise noted, Class A shares total returns reflect the historical performance of the Class A shares of the Fund (formerly Capital shares; see the section entitled "Organization and History") as adjusted for the fees and expenses of Class A shares in effect as of 3/3/97 (without giving effect to any fee waivers). Class A shares are subject to a maximum annual 0.25% asset-based sales charge currently. The asset-based sales charge is subject to a voluntary waiver of a portion or all of the charge as described in the Prospectus, and the Board of Directors has set the rate at zero. For Class B shares, payment of the applicable contingent deferred sales charge is applied, depending on the period for which the return is shown: 5.0% in the first year, 4.0% in the second year, 3.0% in the third and fourth years, 2.0% in the fifth year, 1.0% in the sixth year and none thereafter. For Class C shares, the 1.0% contingent deferred sales charge is deducted for returns for the one-year period. For Class N shares, the 1.0% contingent deferred sales charge is deducted for returns for the one-year period, and total returns for the periods prior to 03/01/01 (the inception date for Class N shares) are based on the Fund's Class A returns, adjusted to reflect the higher Class N 12b-1 fees.

·      Average Annual Total Return. The "average annual total return" of each class is an average annual compounded rate of return for each year in a specified number of years. It is the rate of return based on the change in value of a hypothetical initial investment of $1,000 ("P" in the formula below) held for a number of years ("n" in the formula) to achieve an Ending Redeemable Value ("ERV" in the formula) of that investment, according to the following formula:

ERV l/n	- 1	= Average Annual Total Return
P

·      Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions). The "average annual total return (after taxes on distributions)" of Class A shares is an average annual compounded rate of return for each year in a specified number of years, adjusted to show the effect of federal taxes (calculated using the highest individual marginal federal income tax rates in effect on any reinvestment date) on any distributions made by the Fund during the specified period. It is the rate of return based on the change in value of a hypothetical initial investment of $1,000 ("P" in the formula below) held for a number of years ("n" in the formula) to achieve an ending value ("ATV_D" in the formula) of that investment, after taking into account the effect of taxes on Fund distributions, but not on the redemption of Fund shares, according to the following formula:

ATVD l/n	- 1	= Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions)
P

·      Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions and Redemptions). The "average annual total return (after taxes on distributions and redemptions)" of Class A shares is an average annual compounded rate of return for each year in a specified number of years, adjusted to show the effect of federal taxes (calculated using the highest individual marginal federal income tax rates in effect on any reinvestment date) on any distributions made by the Fund during the specified period and the effect of capital gains taxes or capital loss tax benefits (each calculated using the highest federal individual capital gains tax rate in effect on the redemption date) resulting from the redemption of the shares at the end of the period. It is the rate of return based on the change in value of a hypothetical initial investment of $1,000 ("P" in the formula below) held for a number of years ("n" in the formula) to achieve an ending value ("ATV_DR" in the formula) of that investment, after taking into account the effect of taxes on Fund distributions and on the redemption of Fund shares, according to the following formula:

ATVDR l/n	- 1	= Average Annual Total Return (After Taxes on Distributions and Redemptions)
P

·      Cumulative Total Return. The "cumulative total return" calculation measures the change in value of a hypothetical investment of $1,000 over an entire period of years. Its calculation uses some of the same factors as average annual total return, but it does not average the rate of return on an annual basis. Cumulative total return is determined as follows:

ERV - P	= Total Return
P

·      Total Returns at Net Asset Value. From time to time the Fund may also quote a cumulative or an average annual total return "at net asset value" (without deducting sales charges) for Class A, Class B, Class C or Class N shares. Each is based on the difference in net asset value per share at the beginning and the end of the period for a hypothetical investment in that class of shares (without considering front-end or contingent deferred sales charges) and takes into consideration the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions.

The Fund's Total Returns for the Periods Ended 10/31/2008
Class of Shares	Cumulative Total Returns (10 years or life-of-class)		Average Annual Total Returns
			1-Year		5-Years		10-Years (or life of class if less)
	After Sales Charge	Without Sales Charge	After Sales Charge	Without Sales Charge	After Sales Charge	Without Sales Charge	After Sales Charge	Without Sales Charge
Class A1	32.30%	40.38%	-40.88%	-37.27%	-0.61%	0.57%	2.84%	3.45%
Class B2	34.87%	34.87%	-40.39%	-37.81%	-0.57%	-0.32%	3.04%	3.04%
Class C3	30.11%	30.11%	-38.34%	-37.83%	-0.31%	-0.31%	2.67%	2.67%
Class N4	4.35%	4.35%	-38.00%	-37.48%	0.17%	0.17%	0.56%	0.56%

1.     Inception of Class A: 2/13/87.
2.     Inception of Class B: 3/3/97.
3.     Inception of Class C: 3/3/97.
4.     Inception of Class N: 3/1/01.

Average Annual Total Returns for Class A1 Shares (After Sales Charge) For the Periods Ended 10/31/200 8
	1-Year	5-Years	10-Years
After Taxes on Distributions	-42.79%	-2.22%	0.63%
After Taxes on Distributions and Redemption of Fund Shares	-23.67%	-0.24%	1.96%

1.     Inception of Class A: 2/13/87

Other Performance Comparisons. The Fund compares its performance annually to that of an appropriate broadly-based market index in its Annual Report to shareholders. You can obtain that information by contacting the Transfer Agent at the addresses or telephone numbers shown on the cover of this SAI. The Fund may also compare its performance to that of other investments, including other mutual funds, or use rankings of its performance by independent ranking entities. Examples of these performance comparisons are set forth below.

n     Lipper Rankings. From time to time the Fund may publish the ranking of the performance of its classes of shares by Lipper, Inc. ("Lipper"). Lipper is a widely-recognized independent mutual fund monitoring service. Lipper monitors the performance of regulated investment companies, including the Fund, and ranks their performance for various periods in categories based on investment styles. The Lipper performance rankings are based on total returns that include the reinvestment of capital gain distributions and income dividends but do not take sales charges or taxes into consideration. Lipper also publishes "peer-group" indices of the performance of all mutual funds in a category that it monitors and averages of the performance of the funds in particular categories.

n     Morningstar Ratings. From time to time the Fund may publish the star rating of the performance of its classes of shares by Morningstar, Inc. ("Morningstar"), an independent mutual fund monitoring service. Morningstar rates mutual funds in their specialized market sector. The Fund is rated among large value funds.

     Morningstar proprietary star ratings reflect historical risk-adjusted total investment return. For each fund with at least a three-year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating™ based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a fund's monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges and loads), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. (Each share class is counted as a fraction of one fund within this scale and rated separately, which may cause slight variations in the distribution percentages.) The Overall Morningstar Rating for a fund is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-and ten-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics.
 

|X|     Performance Rankings and Comparisons by Other Entities and Publications. From time to time the Fund may include in its advertisements and sales literature performance information about the Fund cited in newspapers and other periodicals such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, or similar publications. That information may include performance quotations from other sources, including Lipper and Morningstar. The performance of the Fund's classes of shares may be compared in publications to the performance of various market indices or other investments, and averages, performance rankings or other benchmarks prepared by recognized mutual fund statistical services.

Investors may also wish to compare the returns on the Fund's share classes to the return on fixed-income investments available from banks and thrift institutions. Those include certificates of deposit, ordinary interest-paying checking and savings accounts, and other forms of fixed or variable time deposits, and various other instruments such as Treasury bills. However, the Fund's returns and share price are not guaranteed or insured by the FDIC or any other agency and will fluctuate daily, while bank depository obligations may be insured by the FDIC and may provide fixed rates of return. Repayment of principal and payment of interest on Treasury securities is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.

From time to time, the Fund may publish rankings or ratings of the Manager or Transfer Agent, and of the investor services provided by them to shareholders of the Oppenheimer funds, other than performance rankings of the Oppenheimer funds themselves. Those ratings or rankings of shareholder and investor services by third parties may include comparisons of their services to those provided by other mutual fund families selected by the rating or ranking services. They may be based upon the opinions of the rating or ranking service itself, using its research or judgment, or based upon surveys of investors, brokers, shareholders or others.

From time to time the Fund may include in its advertisements and sales literature the total return performance of a hypothetical investment account that includes shares of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds. The combined account may be part of an illustration of an asset allocation model or similar presentation. The account performance may combine total return performance of the Fund and the total return performance of other Oppenheimer funds included in the account. Additionally, from time to time, the Fund's advertisements and sales literature may include, for illustrative or comparative purposes, statistical data or other information about general or specific market and economic conditions. That may include, for example,

·      information about the performance of certain securities or commodities markets or segments of those markets,

·      information about the performance of the economies of particular countries or regions,

·      the earnings of companies included in segments of particular industries, sectors, securities markets, countries or regions,

·      the availability of different types of securities or offerings of securities,

·      information relating to the gross national or gross domestic product of the United States or other countries or regions,

·      comparisons of various market sectors or indices to demonstrate performance, risk, or other characteristics of the Fund.

ABOUT your account

How to Buy Shares

Additional information is presented below about the methods that can be used to buy shares of the Fund. Appendix A contains more information about the special sales charge arrangements offered by the Fund, and the circumstances in which sales charges may be reduced or waived for certain classes of investors.
 
When you purchase shares of the Fund, your ownership interest in the shares of the Fund will be recorded as a book entry on the records of the Fund. The Fund will not issue or re-register physical share certificates.
 

AccountLink. When shares are purchased through AccountLink, each purchase must be at least $50 and shareholders must invest at least $500 before an Asset Builder Plan (described below) can be established on a new account. Accounts established prior to November 1, 2002 will remain at $25 for additional purchases. Shares will be purchased on the regular business day the Distributor is instructed to initiate the Automated Clearing House ("ACH") transfer to buy the shares. Dividends will begin to accrue on shares purchased with the proceeds of ACH transfers on the business day the Fund receives Federal Funds for the purchase through the ACH system before the close of the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE"). The NYSE normally closes at 4:00 p.m., but may close earlier on certain days. If Federal Funds are received on a business day after the close of the NYSE, the shares will be purchased and dividends will begin to accrue on the next regular business day. The proceeds of ACH transfers are normally received by the Fund three days after the transfers are initiated. If the proceeds of the ACH transfer are not received on a timely basis, the Distributor reserves the right to cancel the purchase order. The Distributor and the Fund are not responsible for any delays in purchasing shares resulting from delays in ACH transmissions.

Reduced Sales Charges. As discussed in the Prospectus, a reduced sales charge rate may be obtained for Class A shares under Right of Accumulation and Letters of Intent because of the economies of sales efforts and reduction in expenses realized by the Distributor, dealers and brokers making such sales. No sales charge is imposed in certain other circumstances described in Appendix A to this SAI because the Distributor or dealer or broker incurs little or no selling expenses.

The Oppenheimer Funds. The Oppenheimer funds are those mutual funds for which the Distributor acts as the distributor and currently include the following:

Oppenheimer AMT-Free Municipals	Oppenheimer Pennsylvania Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipals	Oppenheimer Portfolio Series:
Oppenheimer Balanced Fund	Active Allocation Fund
Oppenheimer Baring China Fund	Equity Investor Fund
Oppenheimer Baring Japan Fund	Conservative Investor Fund
Oppenheimer Baring SMA International Fund	Moderate Investor Fund
Oppenheimer Core Bond Fund	Oppenheimer Portfolio Series Fixed Income Active Allocation Fund
Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund	Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund
Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund	Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund II
Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund	Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund III
Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund	Oppenheimer Quest Balanced Fund
Oppenheimer Commodity Strategy Total Return Fund	Oppenheimer Quest International Value Fund, Inc.
Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund	Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund
Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund	Oppenheimer Real Estate Fund
Oppenheimer Discovery Fund	Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc.
Oppenheimer Emerging Growth Fund	Oppenheimer Rochester Arizona Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer Equity Fund, Inc.	Oppenheimer Rochester Maryland Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.	Oppenheimer Rochester Massachusetts Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer Global Fund	Oppenheimer Rochester Michigan Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Fund	Oppenheimer Rochester Minnesota Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer Global Value Fund	Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund	Oppenheimer Rochester North Carolina Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer International Bond Fund	Oppenheimer Rochester Ohio Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer International Diversified Fund	Oppenheimer Rochester Virginia Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer International Growth Fund	Oppenheimer Select Value Fund
Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund	Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund
Oppenheimer Limited Term California Municipal Fund	Oppenheimer Small- & Mid- Cap Value Fund
Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund	Oppenheimer SMA Core Bond Fund
Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Fund	Oppenheimer SMA International Bond Fund
Oppenheimer Main Street Fund	Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund
Oppenheimer Main Street Opportunity Fund	Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust
Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund	Oppenheimer Value Fund
Oppenheimer MidCap Fund	Limited-Term New York Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund	Rochester Fund Municipals
LifeCycle Funds
Oppenheimer Transition 2010 Fund
Oppenheimer Transition 2015 Fund
Oppenheimer Transition 2020 Fund
Oppenheimer Transition 2025 Fund
Oppenheimer Transition 2030 Fund
Oppenheimer Transition 2040 Fund
Oppenheimer Transition 2050 Fund
And the following money market funds:
Oppenheimer Cash Reserves	Centennial Government Trust
Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund	Centennial Money Market Trust
Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc.

     There is an initial sales charge on the purchase of Class A shares of each of the Oppenheimer funds described above except the money market funds. Under certain circumstances described in this SAI, redemption proceeds of certain money market fund shares may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge.

Letter of Intent. Under a Letter of Intent (a "Letter"), you may be able to 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 or Class A, Class B, Class C, Class G and Class H units purchased in advisor sold Section 529 plans, for which the Manager or the Distributor serves as the Program Manager or Program Distributor. A Letter is an investor's statement in writing to the Distributor of his or her intention to purchase a specified value of those shares or units during a 13-month period (the "Letter period"), which begins on the date of the investor's first share purchase following the establishment of the Letter. The sales charge on each purchase of Class A shares during the Letter period will be at the rate that would apply to a single lump-sum purchase of shares in the amount intended to be purchased. In submitting a Letter, the investor makes no commitment to purchase shares. However, if the investor does not fulfill the terms of the Letter within the Letter period, he or she agrees to pay the additional sales charges that would have been applicable to the purchases that were made. The investor agrees that shares equal in value to 2% of the intended purchase amount will be held in escrow by the Transfer Agent for that purpose, as described in "Terms of Escrow" below. It is the responsibility of the dealer of record and/or the investor to advise the Distributor about the Letter when placing purchase orders during the Letter period. The investor must also notify the Distributor or his or her financial intermediary of any qualifying 529 plan holdings.
 
     To determine whether an investor has fulfilled the terms of a Letter, the Transfer Agent will count purchases of "qualified" Class A, Class B and Class C shares and Class A, Class B, Class C, Class G and Class H units during the Letter period. Purchases of Class N or Class Y shares, purchases made by reinvestment of dividends or capital gains distributions from the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds, purchases of Class A shares with redemption proceeds under the Reinvestment Privilege, and purchases of Class A shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. or Oppenheimer Cash Reserves on which a sales charge has not been paid do not count as "qualified" shares for satisfying the terms of a Letter. An investor will also be considered to have fulfilled the Letter if the value of the investor's total holdings of qualified shares on the last day of the Letter period, calculated at the net asset value on that day, equals or exceeds the intended purchase amount.
 

If the terms of the Letter are not fulfilled within the Letter period, the concessions previously paid to the dealer of record for the account and the amount of sales charge retained by the Distributor will be adjusted on the first business day following the expiration of the Letter period to reflect the sales charge rates that are applicable to the actual total purchases.

If total eligible purchases during the Letter period exceed the intended purchase amount and also exceed the amount needed to qualify for the next sales charge rate reduction (stated in the Prospectus), the sales charges paid may be adjusted to that lower rate. That adjustment will only be made if and when the dealer returns to the Distributor the amount of the excess concessions allowed or paid to the dealer over the amount of concessions that are applicable to the actual amount of purchases. The reduced sales charge adjustment will be made by adding to the investors account the number of additional shares that would have been purchased if the lower sales charge rate had been used. Those additional shares will be determined using the net asset value per share in effect on the date of such adjustment.

By establishing a Letter, the investor agrees to be bound by the terms of the Prospectus, this SAI and the application used for a Letter, and if those terms are amended to be bound by the amended terms and that any amendments by the Fund will apply automatically to existing Letters. Group retirement plans qualified under section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code may not establish a Letter, however defined benefit plans and Single K sole proprietor plans may do so.

n      Terms of Escrow That Apply to Letters of Intent.

     1.     Out of the initial purchase, or out of subsequent purchases if necessary, the Transfer Agent will hold in escrow Fund shares equal to 2% of the intended purchase amount specified in the Letter. For example, if the intended purchase amount is $50,000, the escrow amount would be shares valued at $1,000 (computed at the offering price for a $50,000 share purchase). Any dividends and capital gains distributions on the escrowed shares will be credited to the investor's account.

     2.     If the Letter applies to more than one fund account, the investor can designate the fund from which shares will be escrowed. If no fund is selected, the Transfer Agent will escrow shares in the fund account that has the highest dollar balance on the date of the first purchase under the Letter. If there are not sufficient shares to cover the escrow amount, the Transfer Agent will escrow shares in the fund account(s) with the next highest balance(s). If there are not sufficient shares in the accounts to which the Letter applies, the Transfer Agent may escrow shares in other accounts that are linked for Right of Accumulation purposes. Additionally, if there are not sufficient shares available for escrow at the time of the first purchase under the Letter, the Transfer Agent will escrow future purchases until the escrow amount is met.
 
     3.     If, during the Letter period, an investor exchanges shares of the Fund for shares of another fund (as described in the Prospectus section titled "How to Exchange Shares"), the Fund shares held in escrow will automatically be exchanged for shares of the other fund and the escrow obligations will also be transferred to that fund.
 
     4.     If the total purchases under the Letter are less than the intended purchases specified, on the first business day after the end of the Letter period the Distributor will redeem escrowed shares equal in value to the difference between the dollar amount of the sales charges actually paid and the amount of the sales charges that would have been paid if the total purchases had been made at a single time. Any shares remaining after such redemption will be released from escrow.
 
     5.     If the terms of the Letter are fulfilled, the escrowed shares will be promptly released to the investor at the end of the Letter period.
 
     6.     By signing the Letter, the investor irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Transfer Agent as attorney-in-fact to surrender for redemption any or all escrowed shares.
 

Asset Builder Plans. As explained in the Prospectus, you must initially establish your account with $500. Subsequently, you can establish an Asset Builder Plan to automatically purchase additional shares directly from a bank account for as little as $50. For those accounts established prior to November 1, 2002 and which have previously established Asset Builder Plans, additional purchases will remain at $25. Shares purchased by Asset Builder Plan payments from bank accounts are subject to the redemption restrictions for recent purchases described in the Prospectus. Asset Builder Plans are available only if your bank is an ACH member. Asset Builder Plans may not be used to buy shares for OppenheimerFunds employer-sponsored qualified retirement accounts.
 
     If you make payments from your bank account to purchase shares of the Fund, your bank account will be debited automatically. Normally the debit will be made two business days prior to the investment dates you selected on your application. Neither the Distributor, the Transfer Agent nor the Fund shall be responsible for any delays in purchasing shares that result from delays in ACH transmissions.

Before you establish Asset Builder payments, you should obtain a prospectus of the selected fund(s) from your financial advisor (or the Distributor) and request an application from the Distributor. Complete the application and return it. You may change the amount of your Asset Builder payment or you can terminate these automatic investments at any time by writing to the Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent requires a reasonable period (approximately 10 days) after receipt of your instructions to implement them. The Fund reserves the right to amend, suspend or discontinue offering Asset Builder plans at any time without prior notice.

Retirement Plans. Certain types of retirement plans are entitled to purchase shares of the Fund without sales charges or at reduced sales charge rates, as described in Appendix A to this SAI. Certain special sales charge arrangements described in that Appendix apply to retirement plans whose records are maintained on a daily valuation basis by Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. ("Merrill Lynch") or an independent record keeper that has a contract or special arrangement with Merrill Lynch. If, on the date the plan sponsor signed the Merrill Lynch record keeping service agreement, the plan had less than $1 million in assets invested in applicable investments (other than assets invested in money market funds), then the retirement plan may purchase only Class C shares of the Oppenheimer funds. If, on the date the plan sponsor signed the Merrill Lynch record keeping service agreement, the plan had $1 million or more in assets but less than $5 million in assets invested in applicable investments (other than assets invested in money market funds), then the retirement plan may purchase only Class N shares of the Oppenheimer funds. If, on the date the plan sponsor signed the Merrill Lynch record keeping service agreement, the plan had $5 million or more in assets invested in applicable investments (other than assets invested in money market funds), then the retirement plan may purchase only Class A shares of the Oppenheimer funds.

OppenheimerFunds has entered into arrangements with certain record keepers whereby the Transfer Agent compensates the record keeper for its record keeping and account servicing functions that it performs on behalf of the participant accounts in a retirement plan. While such compensation may act to reduce the record keeping fees charged by the retirement plan's record keeper, that compensation arrangement may be terminated at any time, potentially affecting the record keeping fees charged by the retirement plan's record keeper.

Cancellation of Purchase Orders. Cancellation of purchase orders for the Fund's shares (for example, when a purchase check is returned to the Fund unpaid) causes a loss to be incurred when the net asset values of the Fund's shares on the cancellation date is less than on the purchase date. That loss is equal to the amount of the decline in the net asset value per share multiplied by the number of shares in the purchase order. The investor is responsible for that loss. If the investor fails to compensate the Fund for the loss, the Distributor will do so. The Fund may reimburse the Distributor for that amount by redeeming shares from any account registered in that investor's name, or the Fund or the Distributor may seek other redress.

Classes of Shares. Each class of shares of the Fund represents an interest in the same portfolio of investments of the Fund. However, each class has different shareholder privileges and features. The net income attributable to Class B, Class C or Class N shares and the dividends payable on Class B, Class C or Class N shares will be reduced by incremental expenses borne solely by that class. Those expenses include the asset-based sales charges to which Class B, Class C and Class N shares are subject.
 
     The availability of different classes of shares permits an investor to choose the method of purchasing shares that is more appropriate for the investor. That may depend on the amount of the purchase, the length of time the investor expects to hold shares, and other relevant circumstances. Class A shares normally are sold subject to an initial sales charge. While Class B, Class C and Class N shares have no initial sales charge, the purpose of the deferred sales charge and asset-based sales charge on Class B, Class C and Class N shares is the same as that of the initial sales charge on Class A shares – to compensate the Distributor and brokers, dealers and financial institutions that sell shares of the Fund. A salesperson who is entitled to receive compensation from his or her firm for selling Fund shares may receive different levels of compensation for selling one class of shares rather than another.
 
     The Distributor will not accept a purchase order of more than $100,000 for Class B shares or a purchase order of $1 million or more to purchase Class C shares on behalf of a single investor (not including dealer "street name" or omnibus accounts).
 

Class B, Class C or Class N shares may not be purchased by a new investor directly from the Distributor without the investor designating another registered broker-dealer.

Class A Shares Subject to a Contingent Deferred Sales Charge. Under a special arrangement with the Distributor, for purchases of Class A shares at net asset value, whether or not subject to a contingent deferred sales charge as described in the Prospectus, no sales concessions will be paid to the broker-dealer of record on sales of Class A shares purchased with the redemption proceeds of shares of another mutual fund offered as an investment option in a retirement plan in which Oppenheimer funds are also offered as investment options, if the purchase occurs more than 30 days after the Oppenheimer funds are added as an investment option under that plan. Additionally, that concession will not be paid on Class A share purchases by a retirement plan that are made with the redemption proceeds of Class N shares of an Oppenheimer fund held by the plan for more than 18 months.

|X|     Class B Conversion. Under current interpretations of applicable federal income tax law by the Internal Revenue Service, the conversion of Class B shares to Class A shares 72 months after purchase is not treated as a taxable event for the shareholder. If those laws or the IRS interpretation of those laws should change, the automatic conversion feature may be suspended. In that event, no further conversions of Class B shares would occur while that suspension remained in effect. Although Class B shares could then be exchanged for Class A shares on the basis of relative net asset value of the two classes, without the imposition of a sales charge or fee, such exchange could constitute a taxable event for the shareholder, and absent such exchange, Class B shares might continue to be subject to the asset-based sales charge for longer than six years.

|X|     Availability of Class N Shares. In addition to the description of the types of retirement plans which may purchase Class N shares contained in the Prospectus, Class N shares also are offered to the following:

·      to all rollover IRAs (including SEP IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs),

·      to all rollover contributions made to Individual 401(k) plans, Profit-Sharing Plans and Money Purchase Pension Plans,

·      to all direct rollovers from OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Pinnacle and Ascender retirement plans,

·      to all trustee-to-trustee IRA transfers,

·      to all 90-24 type 403(b) transfers,

·      to Group Retirement Plans (as defined in Appendix A to this SAI) which have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor for that purpose,

·      to Retirement Plans qualified under Sections 401(a) or 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code, the recordkeeper or the plan sponsor for which has entered into a special agreement with the Distributor,

·      to Retirement Plans of a plan sponsor where the aggregate assets of all such plans invested in the Oppenheimer funds is $500,000 or more,

·      to Retirement Plans with at least 100 eligible employees or $500,000 or more in plan assets,

·      to OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Ascender 401(k) plans that pay for the purchase with the redemption proceeds of Class A shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds, and

·      to certain customers of broker-dealers and financial advisors that are identified in a special agreement between the broker-dealer or financial advisor and the Distributor for that purpose.

The sales concession and the advance of the service fee, as described in the Prospectus, will not be paid to dealers of record on sales of Class N shares on:

·      purchases of Class N shares in amounts of $500,000 or more by a retirement plan that pays for the purchase with the redemption proceeds of Class A shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds (other than rollovers from an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Pinnacle or Ascender 401(k) plan to any IRA invested in the Oppenheimer funds),

·      purchases of Class N shares in amounts of $500,000 or more by a retirement plan that pays for the purchase with the redemption proceeds of Class C shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds held by the plan for more than one year (other than rollovers from an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Pinnacle or Ascender 401(k) plan to any IRA invested in the Oppenheimer funds), and

·      on purchases of Class N shares by an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Pinnacle or Ascender 401(k) plan made with the redemption proceeds of Class A shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds.

     No sales concessions will be paid to the broker-dealer of record, as described in the Prospectus, on sales of Class N shares purchased with the redemption proceeds of shares of another mutual fund offered as an investment option in a retirement plan in which Oppenheimer funds are also offered as investment options under a special arrangement with the Distributor, if the purchase occurs more than 30 days after the Oppenheimer funds are added as an investment option under that plan.

|X|     Allocation of Expenses. The Fund pays expenses related to its daily operations, such as custodian fees, Directors' fees, transfer agency fees, legal fees and auditing costs. Those expenses are paid out of the Fund's assets and are not paid directly by shareholders. However, those expenses reduce the net asset values of shares, and therefore are indirectly borne by shareholders through their investment.

The methodology for calculating the net asset value, dividends and distributions of the Fund's share classes recognizes two types of expenses. General expenses that do not pertain specifically to any one class are allocated pro rata to the shares of all classes. The allocation is based on the percentage of the Fund's total assets that is represented by the assets of each class, and then equally to each outstanding share within a given class. Such general expenses include management fees, legal, bookkeeping and audit fees, printing and mailing costs of shareholder reports, Prospectuses, Statements of Additional Information and other materials for current shareholders, fees to unaffiliated Directors, custodian expenses, share issuance costs, organization and start-up costs, interest, taxes and brokerage commissions, and non-recurring expenses, such as litigation costs.

Other expenses that are directly attributable to a particular class are allocated equally to each outstanding share within that class. Examples of such expenses include distribution and service plan (12b-1) fees, transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees and expenses, and shareholder meeting expenses (to the extent that such expenses pertain only to a specific class).

Fund Account Fees. As stated in the Prospectus, a $12 annual "Minimum Balance Fee" is assessed on each Fund account with a share balance valued under $500. The Minimum Balance Fee is automatically deducted from each such Fund account in September.

Listed below are certain cases in which the Fund has elected, in its discretion, not to assess the Fund Account Fees. These exceptions are subject to change:

·      A fund account whose shares were acquired after September 30^th of the prior year;

·      A fund account that has a balance below $500 due to the automatic conversion of shares from Class B to Class A shares. However, once all Class B shares held in the account have been converted to Class A shares the new account balance may become subject to the Minimum Balance Fee;

·      Accounts of shareholders who elect to access their account documents electronically via eDoc Direct;

·      A fund account that has only certificated shares and, has a balance below $500 and is being escheated;

·      Accounts of shareholders that are held by broker-dealers under the NSCC Fund/SERV system in Networking level 1 and 3 accounts;

·      Accounts held under the Oppenheimer Legacy Program and/or holding certain Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds;

·      Omnibus accounts holding shares pursuant to the Pinnacle, Ascender, Custom Plus, Record(k)eeper Pro and Pension Alliance Retirement Plan programs;

·      A fund account that falls below the $500 minimum solely due to market fluctuations within the 12-month period preceding the date the fee is deducted; and

·      Accounts held in the Portfolio Builder Program which is offered through certain broker/dealers to qualifying shareholders.

To access account documents electronically via eDocs Direct, please visit our website homepage at www.oppenheimerfunds.com and click the hyperlink "Sign Up for Electronic Document Delivery (eDoc Direct)" under the heading "I want to…" in the left hand column, or call 1.888.470.0862 for instructions.

The Fund reserves the authority to modify Fund Account Fees in its discretion.

Determination of Net Asset Values Per Share. The net asset values per share of each class of shares of the Fund are determined as of the close of business of the NYSE on each day that the NYSE is open. The calculation is done by dividing the value of the Fund's net assets attributable to a class by the number of shares of that class that are outstanding. The NYSE normally closes at 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, but may close earlier on some other days (for example, in case of weather emergencies or on days falling before a U.S. holiday). All references to time in this SAI mean "Eastern time." The NYSE's most recent annual announcement (which is subject to change) states that it will close on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. It may also close on other days.
 
     Dealers other than NYSE members may conduct trading in certain securities on days on which the NYSE is closed (including weekends and holidays) or after 4:00 p.m. on a regular business day. Because the Fund's net asset values will not be calculated on those days, the Fund's net asset values per share may be significantly affected on such days when shareholders may not purchase or redeem shares. Additionally, trading on many foreign stock exchanges and over-the-counter markets normally is completed before the close of the NYSE.
 

Changes in the values of securities traded on foreign exchanges or markets as a result of events that occur after the prices of those securities are determined, but before the close of the NYSE, will not be reflected in the Fund's calculation of its net asset values that day unless the Manager determines that the event is likely to effect a material change in the value of the security. The Manager, or an internal valuation committee established by the Manager, as applicable, may establish a valuation, under procedures established by the Board and subject to the approval, ratification and confirmation by the Board at its next ensuing meeting.

|X|      Securities Valuation. The Fund's Board of Directors has established procedures for the valuation of the Fund's securities. In general those procedures are as follows:

·      Equity securities traded on a U.S. securities exchange are valued as follows:

(1)      if last sale information is regularly reported, they are valued at the last reported sale price on the principal exchange on which they are traded, on that day, or

(2)      if last sale information is not available on a valuation date, they are valued at the last reported sale price preceding the valuation date if it is within the spread of the closing "bid" and "asked" prices on the valuation date or, if not, at the closing "bid" price on the valuation date.

·      Equity securities traded on a foreign securities exchange generally are valued in one of the following ways:

(1)      at the last sale price available to the pricing service approved by the Board of Directors, or

(2)      at the last sale price obtained by the Manager from the report of the principal exchange on which the security is traded at its last trading session on or immediately before the valuation date, or

(3)      at the mean between the "bid" and "asked" prices obtained from the principal exchange on which the security is traded or, on the basis of reasonable inquiry, from two market makers in the security.

·      Long-term debt securities having a remaining maturity in excess of 60 days are valued based on the mean between the "bid" and "asked" prices determined by a portfolio pricing service approved by the Fund's Board of Directors or obtained by the Manager from two active market makers in the security on the basis of reasonable inquiry.

·      The following securities are valued at the mean between the "bid" and "asked" prices determined by a pricing service approved by the Fund's Board of Directors or obtained by the Manager from two active market makers in the security on the basis of reasonable inquiry:

(1)      debt instruments that have a maturity of more than 397 days when issued,

(2)      debt instruments that had a maturity of 397 days or less when issued and have a remaining maturity of more than 60 days, and

(3)      non-money market debt instruments that had a maturity of 397 days or less when issued and which have a remaining maturity of 60 days or less.

·      The following securities are valued at cost, adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts:

(1)      money market debt securities held by a non-money market fund that had a maturity of less than 397 days when issued that have a remaining maturity of 60 days or less, and

(2)      debt instruments held by a money market fund that have a remaining maturity of 397 days or less.

·      Securities (including restricted securities) not having readily-available market quotations are valued at fair value determined under the Board's procedures. If the Manager is unable to locate two market makers willing to give quotes, a security may be priced at the mean between the "bid" and "asked" prices provided by a single active market maker (which in certain cases may be the "bid" price if no "asked" price is available).

In the case of U.S. Government securities, mortgage-backed securities, corporate bonds and foreign government securities, when last sale information is not generally available, the Manager may use pricing services approved by the Board of Directors. The pricing service may use "matrix" comparisons to the prices for comparable instruments on the basis of quality, yield and maturity. Other special factors may be involved (such as the tax-exempt status of the interest paid by municipal securities). The Manager will monitor the accuracy of the pricing services. That monitoring may include comparing prices used for portfolio valuation to actual sales prices of selected securities.

The closing prices in the New York foreign exchange market on a particular business day that are provided to the Manager by a bank, dealer or pricing service that the Manager has determined to be reliable are used to value foreign currency, including forward contracts, and to convert to U.S. dollars securities that are denominated in foreign currency.

Puts, calls, and futures are valued at the last sale price on the principal exchange on which they are traded, as determined by a pricing service approved by the Board of Directors or by the Manager. If there were no sales that day, they shall be valued at the last sale price on the preceding trading day if it is within the spread of the closing "bid" and "asked" prices on the principal exchange on the valuation date. If not, the value shall be the closing bid price on the principal exchange on the valuation date. If the put, call or future is not traded on an exchange, it shall be valued by the mean between "bid" and "asked" prices obtained by the Manager from two active market makers. In certain cases that may be at the "bid" price if no "asked" price is available.

When the Fund writes an option, an amount equal to the premium received is included in the Fund's Statement of Assets and Liabilities as an asset. An equivalent credit is included in the liability section. The credit is adjusted ("marked-to-market") to reflect the current market value of the option. In determining the Fund's gain on investments, if a call or put written by the Fund is exercised, the proceeds are increased by the premium received. If a call or put written by the Fund expires, the Fund has a gain in the amount of the premium. If the Fund enters into a closing purchase transaction, it will have a gain or loss, depending on whether the premium received was more or less than the cost of the closing transaction. If the Fund exercises a put it holds, the amount the Fund receives on its sale of the underlying investment is reduced by the amount of premium paid by the Fund.

How to Sell Shares

The information below supplements the terms and conditions for redeeming shares set forth in the Prospectus.

Sending Redemption Proceeds by Federal Funds Wire. The Federal Funds wire of redemption proceeds may be delayed if the Fund's custodian bank is not open for business on a day when the Fund would normally authorize the wire to be made, which is usually the Fund's next regular business day following the redemption. In those circumstances, the wire will not be transmitted until the next bank business day on which the Fund is open for business. No dividends will be paid on the proceeds of redeemed shares awaiting transfer by Federal Funds wire.

Reinvestment Privilege. Within six months of a redemption, a shareholder may reinvest all or part of the redemption proceeds of:

·      Class A shares purchased subject to an initial sales charge or Class A shares on which a contingent deferred sales charge was paid, or

·      Class B shares that were subject to the Class B contingent deferred sales charge when redeemed.

     The reinvestment may be made without sales charge only in Class A shares of the Fund or any of the other Oppenheimer funds into which shares of the Fund are exchangeable as described in "How to Exchange Shares" below. Reinvestment will be at the net asset value next computed after the Transfer Agent receives the reinvestment order. The shareholder must ask the Transfer Agent for that privilege at the time of reinvestment. This privilege does not apply to Class C and Class N shares. The Fund may amend, suspend or cease offering this reinvestment privilege at any time as to shares redeemed after the date of such amendment, suspension or cessation. This reinvestment privilege does not apply to reinvestment purchases made through automatic investment options.
 
     Any capital gain that was realized when the shares were redeemed is taxable, and reinvestment will not alter any capital gains tax payable on that gain. If there has been a capital loss on the redemption, some or all of the loss may not be tax deductible, depending on the timing and amount of the reinvestment. Under the Internal Revenue Code, if the redemption proceeds of Fund shares on which a sales charge was paid are reinvested in shares of the Fund or another of the Oppenheimer funds within 90 days of payment of the sales charge, the shareholder's basis in the shares of the Fund that were redeemed may not include the amount of the sales charge paid. That would reduce the loss or increase the gain recognized from the redemption. However, in that case the sales charge would be added to the basis of the shares acquired by the reinvestment of the redemption proceeds.

Payments "In Kind." The Prospectus states that payment for shares tendered for redemption is ordinarily made in cash. However, under certain circumstances, the Board of Directors of the Fund may determine that it would be detrimental to the best interests of the remaining shareholders of the Fund to make payment of a redemption order wholly or partly in cash. In that case, the Fund may pay the redemption proceeds in whole or in part by a distribution "in kind" of liquid securities from the portfolio of the Fund, in lieu of cash.
 
     The Fund has elected to be governed by Rule 18f-1 under the Investment Company Act. Under that rule, the Fund is obligated to redeem shares solely in cash up to the lesser of $250,000 or 1% of the net assets of the Fund during any 90-day period for any one shareholder. If shares are redeemed in kind, the redeeming shareholder might incur brokerage or other costs in selling the securities for cash. The Fund will value securities used to pay redemptions in kind using the same method the Fund uses to value its portfolio securities described above under "Determination of Net Asset Values Per Share." That valuation will be made as of the time the redemption price is determined.
 

Involuntary Redemptions. The Fund's Board of Directors has the right to cause the involuntary redemption of the shares held in any account if the aggregate net asset value of those shares is less than $500 or such lesser amount as the Board may fix. The Board will not cause the involuntary redemption of shares in an account if the aggregate net asset value of such shares has fallen below the stated minimum solely as a result of market fluctuations. If the Board exercises this right, it may also fix the requirements for any notice to be given to the shareholders in question (not less than 30 days). The Board may alternatively set requirements for the shareholder to increase the investment, or set other terms and conditions so that the shares would not be involuntarily redeemed.
 

Transfers of Shares. A transfer of shares to a different registration is not an event that triggers the payment of sales charges. Therefore, shares are not subject to the payment of a contingent deferred sales charge of any class at the time of transfer to the name of another person or entity. It does not matter whether the transfer occurs by absolute assignment, gift or bequest, as long as it does not involve, directly or indirectly, a public sale of the shares. When shares subject to a contingent deferred sales charge are transferred, the transferred shares will remain subject to the contingent deferred sales charge. It will be calculated as if the transferee shareholder had acquired the transferred shares in the same manner and at the same time as the transferring shareholder.
 
     If less than all shares held in an account are transferred, and some but not all shares in the account would be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge if redeemed at the time of transfer, the priorities described in the Prospectus under "How to Buy Shares" for the imposition of the Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charge will be followed in determining the order in which shares are transferred.

Distributions From Retirement Plans. Requests for distributions from OppenheimerFunds-sponsored IRAs, SEP-IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs, 403(b)(7) custodial plans, 401(k) plans or pension or profit-sharing plans should be addressed to "Trustee, OppenheimerFunds Retirement Plans," c/o the Transfer Agent at its address listed in "How To Sell Shares" in the Prospectus or on the back cover of this SAI. The request must:

(1)      state the reason for the distribution;

(2)      state the owner's awareness of tax penalties if the distribution is premature; and

(3)      conform to the requirements of the plan and the Fund's other redemption requirements.

     Participants (other than self-employed plan sponsors) in OppenheimerFunds-sponsored pension or profit-sharing plans with shares of the Fund held in the name of the plan or its fiduciary may not directly request redemption of their accounts. The plan administrator or fiduciary must sign the request.

Distributions from pension and profit sharing plans are subject to special requirements under the Internal Revenue Code and certain documents (available from the Transfer Agent) must be completed and submitted to the Transfer Agent before the distribution may be made. Distributions from retirement plans are subject to withholding requirements under the Internal Revenue Code, and IRS Form W-4P (available from the Transfer Agent) must be submitted to the Transfer Agent with the distribution request, or the distribution may be delayed. Unless the shareholder has provided the Transfer Agent with a certified tax identification number, the Internal Revenue Code requires that tax be withheld from any distribution even if the shareholder elects not to have tax withheld. The Fund, the Manager, the Distributor, and the Transfer Agent assume no responsibility to determine whether a distribution satisfies the conditions of applicable tax laws and will not be responsible for any tax penalties assessed in connection with a distribution.

Special Arrangements for Repurchase of Shares from Dealers and Brokers. The Distributor is the Fund's agent to repurchase its shares from authorized dealers or brokers on behalf of their customers. Shareholders should contact their broker or dealer to arrange this type of redemption. The repurchase price per share will be the net asset value next computed after the Distributor receives an order placed by the dealer or broker. However, if the Distributor receives a repurchase order from a dealer or broker after the close of the NYSE on a regular business day, it will be processed at that day's net asset value if the order was received by the dealer or broker from its customers prior to the time the NYSE closes. Normally, the NYSE closes at 4:00 p.m., but may do so earlier on some days.
 
     Ordinarily, for accounts redeemed by a broker-dealer under this procedure, payment will be made within three business days after the shares have been redeemed upon the Distributor's receipt of the required redemption documents in proper form. The signature(s) of the registered owners on the redemption documents must be guaranteed as described in the Prospectus.
 

Automatic Withdrawal and Exchange Plans. Investors can authorize the Transfer Agent to redeem shares (having a value of at least $50) automatically on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan. Shares will be redeemed three business days prior to the date requested by the shareholder for receipt of the payment. Automatic withdrawals of up to $1,500 per month may be requested by telephone if payments are to be made by check payable to all shareholders of record. Payments must also be sent to the address of record for the account and the address must not have been changed within the prior 30 days. Required minimum distributions from OppenheimerFunds-sponsored retirement plans may not be arranged on this basis.
 
     Payments are normally made by check, but shareholders having AccountLink privileges (see "How To Buy Shares") may arrange to have Automatic Withdrawal Plan payments transferred to the bank account designated on the account application or by signature-guaranteed instructions sent to the Transfer Agent. Shares are normally redeemed pursuant to an Automatic Withdrawal Plan three business days before the payment transmittal date you select in the account application. If a contingent deferred sales charge applies to the redemption, the amount of the check or payment will be reduced accordingly.
 
     The Fund cannot guarantee receipt of a payment on the date requested. The Fund reserves the right to amend, suspend or discontinue offering these plans at any time without prior notice. Because of the sales charge assessed on Class A share purchases, shareholders should not make regular additional Class A share purchases while participating in an Automatic Withdrawal Plan. Class B, Class C and Class N shareholders should not establish automatic withdrawal plans, because of the potential imposition of the contingent deferred sales charge on such withdrawals (except where the Class B, Class C or Class N contingent deferred sales charge is waived as described in Appendix A to this SAI).
 

By requesting an Automatic Withdrawal or Exchange Plan, the shareholder agrees to the terms and conditions that apply to such plans, as stated below. These provisions may be amended from time to time by the Fund and/or the Distributor. When adopted, any amendments will automatically apply to existing Plans.

|X|     Automatic Exchange Plans. Shareholders can authorize the Transfer Agent to automatically exchange a pre-determined amount of shares of the Fund for shares (of the same class) of other Oppenheimer funds that offer the exchange privilege on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis under an Automatic Exchange Plan. The minimum amount that may be exchanged to each other fund account is $50. Instructions should be provided on the OppenheimerFunds application or signature-guaranteed instructions. Exchanges made under these plans are subject to the restrictions that apply to exchanges as set forth in "How to Exchange Shares" in the Prospectus and below in this SAI.

|X|Automatic Withdrawal Plans. Fund shares will be redeemed as necessary to meet withdrawal payments. Shares acquired without a sales charge will be redeemed first. Shares acquired with reinvested dividends and capital gains distributions will be redeemed next, followed by shares acquired with a sales charge, to the extent necessary to make withdrawal payments. Depending upon the amount withdrawn, the investor's principal may be depleted. Payments made under these plans should not be considered as a yield or income on your investment.

The Transfer Agent will administer the investor's Automatic Withdrawal Plan as agent for the shareholder(s) (the "Planholder") who executed the plan authorization and application submitted to the Transfer Agent. Neither the Fund nor the Transfer Agent shall incur any liability to the Planholder for any action taken or not taken by the Transfer Agent in good faith to administer the plan. Share certificates will not be issued for shares of the Fund purchased for and held under the plan, but the Transfer Agent will credit all such shares to the account of the Planholder on the records of the Fund. Any share certificates held by a Planholder may be surrendered unendorsed to the Transfer Agent with the plan application so that the shares represented by the certificate may be held under the plan.

For accounts subject to Automatic Withdrawal Plans, distributions of capital gains must be reinvested in shares of the Fund, which will be done at net asset value without a sales charge. Dividends on shares held in the account may be paid in cash or reinvested.

Shares will be redeemed to make withdrawal payments at the net asset value per share determined on the redemption date. Checks or AccountLink payments representing the proceeds of Plan withdrawals will normally be transmitted three business days prior to the date selected for receipt of the payment, according to the choice specified in writing by the Planholder. Receipt of payment on the date selected cannot be guaranteed.

The amount and the interval of disbursement payments and the address to which checks are to be mailed or AccountLink payments are to be sent may be changed at any time by the Planholder by writing to the Transfer Agent. The Planholder should allow at least two weeks' time after mailing such notification for the requested change to be put in effect. The Planholder may, at any time, instruct the Transfer Agent by written notice to redeem all, or any part of, the shares held under the plan. That notice must be in proper form in accordance with the requirements of the then-current Prospectus of the Fund. In that case, the Transfer Agent will redeem the number of shares requested at the net asset value per share in effect and will mail a check for the proceeds to the Planholder.

The Planholder may terminate a plan at any time. The Fund may also give directions to the Transfer Agent to terminate a plan. The Transfer Agent will also terminate a plan upon its receipt of evidence satisfactory to it that the Planholder has died or is legally incapacitated. Upon termination of a plan by the Transfer Agent or the Fund, shares that have not been redeemed will be held in uncertificated form in the name of the Planholder. The account will continue as a dividend-reinvestment, uncertificated account unless and until proper instructions are received from the Planholder, his or her executor or guardian, or another authorized person.

If the Transfer Agent ceases to act as transfer agent for the Fund, the Planholder will be deemed to have appointed any successor transfer agent to act as agent in administering the plan.

How to Exchange Shares

As stated in the Prospectus, shares of a particular class of Oppenheimer funds having more than one class of shares may be exchanged only for shares of the same class of other Oppenheimer funds. Shares of Oppenheimer funds that have a single class without a class designation are deemed "Class A" shares for this purpose. The prospectus of each of the Oppenheimer funds indicates which share class or classes that fund offers and provides information about limitations on the purchase of particular share classes, as applicable for the particular fund. You can also obtain a current list showing which funds offer which classes of shares by calling the Distributor at the telephone number indicated on the front cover of this SAI.

The Fund may amend, suspend or terminate the exchange privilege at any time. Although the Fund may impose those changes at any time, it will provide you with notice of the changes whenever it is required to do so by applicable law. It may be required to provide 60 days' notice prior to materially amending or terminating the exchange privilege, except in extraordinary circumstances.

|X|     How Exchanges Affect Contingent Deferred Sales Charges. No contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on exchanges of shares of any class purchased subject to a contingent deferred sales charge, with the following exceptions:

·      When Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund acquired by exchange of Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund purchased subject to a Class A contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed within 18 months measured from the beginning of the calendar month of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class A shares, the Class A contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the redeemed shares. Except, however, with respect to Class A shares of Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals and Rochester Fund Municipals acquired prior to October 22, 2007, in which case the Class A contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the acquired shares if they are redeemed within 24 months measured from the beginning of the calendar month of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class A shares.

·      When Class A shares of Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals and Rochester Fund Municipals acquired prior to October 22, 2007 by exchange of Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund purchased subject to a Class A contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed within 24 months of the beginning of the calendar month of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class A shares, the Class A contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the redeemed shares.

·      If any Class A shares of another Oppenheimer fund that are exchanged for Class A shares of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge of the other Oppenheimer fund at the time of exchange, the holding period for that Class A contingent deferred sales charge will carry over to the Class A shares of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund acquired in the exchange. The Class A shares of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund acquired in that exchange will be subject to the Class A Early Withdrawal Charge of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund if they are repurchased before the expiration of the holding period.

·      When Class A shares of Oppenheimer Cash Reserves and Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. acquired by exchange of Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund purchased subject to a Class A contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed within the Class A holding period of the fund from which the shares were exchanged, the Class A contingent deferred sales charge of the fund from which the shares were exchanged is imposed on the redeemed shares.

·      Except with respect to the Class B shares described in the next two paragraphs, the contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on Class B shares acquired by exchange if they are redeemed within six years of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class B shares.

·      With respect to Class B shares of Oppenheimer Limited Term California Municipal Fund, Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund, Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Fund, Limited Term New York Municipal Fund and Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund, the Class B contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the acquired shares if they are redeemed within five years of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class B shares.

·      With respect to Class B shares of Oppenheimer Cash Reserves that were acquired through the exchange of Class B shares initially purchased in the Oppenheimer Capital Preservation Fund, the Class B contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the acquired shares if they are redeemed within five years of that initial purchase.

·      With respect to Class C shares, the Class C contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on Class C shares acquired by exchange if they are redeemed within 12 months of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class C shares.

·      With respect to Class N shares, a 1% contingent deferred sales charge will be imposed if the retirement plan (not including IRAs and 403(b) plans) is terminated or Class N shares of all Oppenheimer funds are terminated as an investment option of the plan and Class N shares are redeemed within 18 months after the plan's first purchase of Class N shares of any Oppenheimer fund or with respect to an individual retirement plan or 403(b) plan, Class N shares are redeemed within 18 months of the plan's first purchase of Class N shares of any Oppenheimer fund.

·      When Class B, Class C or Class N shares are redeemed to effect an exchange, the priorities described in "How To Buy Shares" in the Prospectus for the imposition of the Class B, Class C or Class N contingent deferred sales charge will be followed in determining the order in which the shares are exchanged. Before exchanging shares, shareholders should take into account how the exchange may affect any contingent deferred sales charge that might be imposed in the subsequent redemption of remaining shares.

     Shareholders owning shares of more than one class must specify which class of shares they wish to exchange.

     |X|     Telephone Exchange Requests. When exchanging shares by telephone, a shareholder must have an existing account in the fund to which the exchange is to be made. Otherwise, the investors must obtain a prospectus of that fund before the exchange request may be submitted. If all telephone lines are busy (which might occur, for example, during periods of substantial market fluctuations), shareholders might not be able to request exchanges by telephone and would have to submit written exchange requests.

Processing Exchange Requests. Shares to be exchanged are redeemed on the regular business day the Transfer Agent receives an exchange request in proper form (the "Redemption Date"). Normally, shares of the fund to be acquired are purchased on the Redemption Date, but such purchases may be delayed by either fund up to five business days if it determines that it would be disadvantaged by an immediate transfer of the redemption proceeds. The Fund reserves the right, in its discretion, to refuse any exchange request that may disadvantage it. For example, if the receipt of multiple exchange requests might require the disposition of portfolio securities at a time or at a price that might be disadvantageous to the Fund, the Fund may refuse the request.

      When you exchange some or all of your shares from one fund to another, any special account features that are available in the new fund (such as an Asset Builder Plan or Automatic Withdrawal Plan) will be switched to the new fund account unless you tell the Transfer Agent not to do so.

In connection with any exchange request, the number of shares exchanged may be less than the number requested if the exchange or the number requested would include shares subject to a restriction cited in the Prospectus or this SAI, or would include shares covered by a share certificate that is not tendered with the request. In those cases, only the shares available for exchange without restriction will be exchanged.

The different Oppenheimer funds available for exchange have different investment objectives, policies and risks. A shareholder should assure that the fund selected is appropriate for his or her investment and should be aware of the tax consequences of an exchange. For federal income tax purposes, an exchange transaction is treated as a redemption of shares of one fund and a purchase of shares of another. "Reinvestment Privilege," above, discusses some of the tax consequences of reinvestment of redemption proceeds in such cases. The Fund, the Distributor, and the Transfer Agent are unable to provide investment, tax or legal advice to a shareholder in connection with an exchange request or any other investment transaction.

Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes

Dividends and Distributions. The Fund has no fixed dividend rate and there can be no assurance as to the payment of any dividends or the realization of any capital gains. The dividends and distributions paid by a class of shares will vary from time to time depending on market conditions, the composition of the Fund's portfolio, and expenses borne by the Fund or borne separately by a class. Dividends are calculated in the same manner, at the same time, and on the same day for each class of shares. However, dividends on Class B, Class C and Class N shares are expected to be lower than dividends on Class A shares. That is because of the effect of the asset-based sales charge on Class B, Class C and Class N shares. Those dividends will also differ in amount as a consequence of any difference in the net asset values of the different classes of shares.
 
     If a dividend check or a check representing an automatic withdrawal payment is returned to the Transfer Agent by the Postal Service as undeliverable, it will be reinvested in shares of the Fund. Returned checks for the proceeds of other redemptions will be invested in shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. Reinvestment will be made as promptly as possible after the return of such checks to the Transfer Agent. Unclaimed accounts may be subject to state escheatment laws, and the Fund and the Transfer Agent will not be liable to shareholders or their representatives for compliance with those laws in good faith.

Tax Status of the Fund's Dividends, Distributions and Redemptions of Shares. The federal tax treatment of the Fund's dividends and capital gains distributions is briefly highlighted in the Prospectus. The following is only a summary of certain additional tax considerations generally affecting the Fund and its shareholders.

     The tax discussion in the Prospectus and this SAI is based on tax law in effect on the date of the Prospectus and this SAI. Those laws and regulations may be changed by legislative, judicial, or administrative action, sometimes with retroactive effect. State and local tax treatment of ordinary income dividends and capital gain dividends from regulated investment companies may differ from the treatment under the Internal Revenue Code described below. Potential purchasers of shares of the Fund are urged to consult their tax advisors with specific reference to their own tax circumstances as well as the consequences of federal, state and local tax rules affecting an investment in the Fund.

Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company. The Fund has elected to be taxed as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. As a regulated investment company, the Fund is not subject to federal income tax on the portion of its net investment income (that is, taxable interest, dividends, and other taxable ordinary income, net of expenses) and capital gain net income (that is, the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses) that it distributes to shareholders. That qualification enables the Fund to "pass through" its income and realized capital gains to shareholders without having to pay tax on them. This avoids a "double tax" on that income and capital gains, since shareholders normally will be taxed on the dividends and capital gains they receive from the Fund (unless their Fund shares are held in a retirement account or the shareholder is otherwise exempt from tax).

     The Internal Revenue Code contains a number of complex tests relating to qualification that the Fund might not meet in a particular year. If it did not qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund would be treated for tax purposes as an ordinary corporation and would receive no tax deduction for payments made to shareholders.

To qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund must distribute at least 90% of its investment company taxable income (in brief, net investment income and the excess of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital loss) for the taxable year. The Fund must also satisfy certain other requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, some of which are described below. Distributions by the Fund made during the taxable year or, under specified circumstances, within 12 months after the close of the taxable year, will be considered distributions of income and gains for the taxable year and will therefore count toward satisfaction of the above-mentioned requirement.

     To qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund must derive at least 90% of its gross income from dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans, gains from the sale or other disposition of stock or securities or foreign currencies (to the extent such currency gains are directly related to the regulated investment company's principal business of investing in stock or securities) and certain other income including net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership.
 
     In addition to satisfying the requirements described above, the Fund must satisfy an asset diversification test in order to qualify as a regulated investment company. Under that test, at the close of each quarter of the Fund's taxable year, at least 50% of the value of the Fund's assets must consist of cash and cash items (including receivables), U.S. Government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and securities of other issuers. As to each of those issuers, the Fund must not have invested more than 5% of the value of the Fund's total assets in securities of each such issuer and the Fund must not hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of each such issuer. No more than 25% of the value of its total assets may be invested in the securities of any one issuer (other than U.S. Government securities and securities of other regulated investment companies), or in two or more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same or similar trades or businesses or in the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships. For purposes of this test, obligations issued or guaranteed by certain agencies or instrumentalities of the U.S. Government are treated as U.S. Government securities.
 

Excise Tax on Regulated Investment Companies. Under the Internal Revenue Code, by December 31 each year, the Fund must distribute 98% of its taxable investment income earned from January 1 through December 31 of that year and 98% of its capital gains realized in the period from November 1 of the prior year through October 31 of the current year. If it does not, the Fund must pay an excise tax on the amounts not distributed. It is presently anticipated that the Fund will meet those requirements. To meet this requirement, in certain circumstances the Fund might be required to liquidate portfolio investments to make sufficient distributions to avoid excise tax liability. However, the Board of Directors and the Manager might determine in a particular year that it would be in the best interests of shareholders for the Fund not to make such distributions at the required levels and to pay the excise tax on the undistributed amounts. That would reduce the amount of income or capital gains available for distribution to shareholders.

Taxation of Fund Distributions. The Fund anticipates distributing substantially all of its investment company taxable income for each taxable year. Those distributions will be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income and treated as dividends for federal income tax purposes.

     Special provisions of the Internal Revenue Code govern the eligibility of the Fund's dividends for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders. Long-term capital gains distributions are not eligible for the deduction. The amount of dividends paid by the Fund that may qualify for the deduction is limited to the aggregate amount of qualifying dividends that the Fund derives from portfolio investments that the Fund has held for a minimum period, usually 46 days. A corporate shareholder will not be eligible for the deduction on dividends paid on Fund shares held for 45 days or less. To the extent the Fund's dividends are derived from gross income from option premiums, interest income or short-term gains from the sale of securities or dividends from foreign corporations, those dividends will not qualify for the deduction.

     The Fund may either retain or distribute to shareholders its net capital gain for each taxable year. The Fund currently intends to distribute any such amounts. If net long-term capital gains are distributed and designated as a capital gain distribution, it will be taxable to shareholders as a long-term capital gain and will be properly identified in reports sent to shareholders in January of each year. Such treatment will apply no matter how long the shareholder has held his or her shares or whether that gain was recognized by the Fund before the shareholder acquired his or her shares.
 
     If the Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, the Fund will be subject to tax on it at the 35% corporate tax rate. If the Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, the Fund will provide to shareholders of record on the last day of its taxable year information regarding their pro rata share of the gain and tax paid. As a result, each shareholder will be required to report his or her pro rata share of such gain on their tax return as long-term capital gain, will receive a refundable tax credit for his/her pro rata share of tax paid by the Fund on the gain, and will increase the tax basis for his/her shares by an amount equal to the deemed distribution less the tax credit.
 
     Investment income that may be received by the Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes withheld at the source. The United States has entered into tax treaties with many foreign countries which entitle the Fund to a reduced rate of, or exemption from, taxes on such income. The Fund may be subject to U.S. federal income tax, and an interest charge, on certain distributions or gains from the sale of shares of a foreign company considered to be a PFIC, even if those amounts are paid out as dividends to shareholders. To avoid imposition of the interest charge, the Fund may elect to "mark to market" all PFIC shares that it holds at the end of each taxable year. In that case, any increase or decrease in the value of those shares would be recognized as ordinary income or as ordinary loss (but only to the extent of previously recognized "mark-to-market" gains).
 
     Distributions by the Fund that do not constitute ordinary income dividends or capital gain distributions will be treated as a return of capital to the extent of the shareholder's tax basis in their shares. Any excess will be treated as gain from the sale of those shares, as discussed below. Shareholders will be advised annually as to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of distributions made (or deemed made) during the year. If prior distributions made by the Fund must be re-characterized as a non-taxable return of capital at the end of the fiscal year as a result of the effect of the Fund's investment policies, they will be identified as such in notices sent to shareholders.

     Distributions by the Fund will be treated in the manner described above regardless of whether the distributions are paid in cash or reinvested in additional shares of the Fund (or of another fund). Shareholders receiving a distribution in the form of additional shares will be treated as receiving a distribution in an amount equal to the fair market value of the shares received, determined as of the reinvestment date.

     The Fund will be required in certain cases to withhold 28% of ordinary income dividends, capital gains distributions and the proceeds of the redemption of shares, paid to any shareholder (1) who has failed to provide a correct taxpayer identification number or to properly certify that number when required, (2) who is subject to backup withholding for failure to report the receipt of interest or dividend income properly, or (3) who has failed to certify to the Fund that the shareholder is not subject to backup withholding or is an "exempt recipient" (such as a corporation). Any tax withheld by the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and all income and any tax withheld is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in January of each year with a copy sent to the IRS.
 

Tax Effects of Redemptions of Shares. If a shareholder redeems all or a portion of his/her shares, the shareholder will recognize a gain or loss on the redeemed shares in an amount equal to the difference between the proceeds of the redeemed shares and the shareholder's adjusted tax basis in the shares. All or a portion of any loss recognized in that manner may be disallowed if the shareholder purchases other shares of the Fund within 30 days before or after the redemption.

In general, any gain or loss arising from the redemption of shares of the Fund will be considered capital gain or loss, if the shares were held as a capital asset. It will be long-term capital gain or loss if the shares were held for more than one year. However, any capital loss arising from the redemption of shares held for six months or less will be treated as a long-term capital loss to the extent of the amount of capital gain dividends received on those shares. Special holding period rules under the Internal Revenue Code apply in this case to determine the holding period of shares and there are limits on the deductibility of capital losses in any year.

Foreign Shareholders. Under U.S. tax law, taxation of a shareholder who is a foreign person (to include, but not limited to, a nonresident alien individual, a foreign trust, a foreign estate, a foreign corporation, or a foreign partnership) primarily depends on whether the foreign person's income from the Fund is effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business. Typically, ordinary income dividends paid from a mutual fund are not considered "effectively connected" income.

Ordinary income dividends that are paid by the Fund (and are deemed not "effectively connected income") to foreign persons will be subject to a U.S. tax withheld by the Fund at a rate of 30%, provided the Fund obtains a properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status. The tax rate may be reduced if the foreign person's country of residence has a tax treaty with the U.S. allowing for a reduced tax rate on ordinary income dividends paid by the Fund. Any tax withheld by the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and all income and any tax withheld is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in March of each year with a copy sent to the IRS.

If the ordinary income dividends from the Fund are effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business, then the foreign person may claim an exemption from the U.S. tax described above provided the Fund obtains a properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status. If the foreign person fails to provide a certification of his/her foreign status, the Fund will be required to withhold U.S. tax at a rate of 28% on ordinary income dividends, capital gains distributions and the proceeds of the redemption of shares, paid to any foreign person. Any tax withheld by the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and all income and any tax withheld is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in January of each year with a copy sent to the IRS.

     The tax consequences to foreign persons entitled to claim the benefits of an applicable tax treaty may be different from those described herein. Foreign shareholders are urged to consult their own tax advisors or the U.S. Internal Revenue Service with respect to the particular tax consequences to them of an investment in the Fund, including the applicability of the U.S. withholding taxes described above.

Dividend Reinvestment in Another Fund. Shareholders of the Fund may elect to reinvest all dividends and/or capital gains distributions in shares of the same class of any of the other Oppenheimer funds into which you may exchange shares. Reinvestment will be made without sales charge at the net asset value per share in effect at the close of business on the payable date of the dividend or distribution. To elect this option, the shareholder must notify the Transfer Agent or his or her financial intermediary and must have an existing account in the fund selected for reinvestment. Otherwise the shareholder first must obtain a prospectus for that fund and an application from the Distributor to establish an account. Dividends and/or distributions from shares of certain other Oppenheimer funds may be invested in shares of this Fund on the same basis.

Additional Information About the Fund

The Distributor. The Fund's shares are sold through dealers, brokers and other financial institutions that have a sales agreement with OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., a subsidiary of the Manager that acts as the Fund's Distributor. The Distributor also distributes shares of the other Oppenheimer funds and is sub-distributor for funds managed by a subsidiary of the Manager.
 

The Transfer Agent. OppenheimerFunds Services, the Fund's Transfer Agent, is a division of the Manager. It is responsible for maintaining the Fund's shareholder registry and shareholder accounting records, and for paying dividends and distributions to shareholders. It also handles shareholder servicing and administrative functions. It serves as the Transfer Agent for an annual per account fee. It also acts as shareholder servicing agent for the other Oppenheimer funds. Shareholders should direct inquiries about their accounts to the Transfer Agent at the address and toll-free numbers shown on the back cover.

The Custodian. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is the custodian of the Fund's assets. The custodian's responsibilities include safeguarding and controlling the Fund's portfolio securities and handling the delivery of such securities to and from the Fund. It is the practice of the Fund to deal with the custodian in a manner uninfluenced by any banking relationship the custodian may have with the Manager and its affiliates. The Fund's cash balances with the custodian in excess of $100,000 ($250,000 through December 31, 2009) are not protected by federal deposit insurance. Those uninsured balances at times may be substantial.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. KPMG llp serves as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Fund. KPMG llp audits the Fund's financial statements and performs other related audit and tax services. KPMG llp also acts as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Manager and certain other funds advised by the Manager and its affiliates. Audit and non-audit services provided by KPMG LLP to the Fund must be pre-approved by the Audit Committee.

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors and Shareholders of Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc., including the statement of investments, as of October 31, 2008, 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 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 October 31, 2008, by correspondence with the custodian 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 Equity Income Fund, Inc. as of October 31, 2008, 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 in the five-year period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

/s/ KPMG LLP

KPMG llp

Denver, Colorado
December 16, 2008

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS October 31, 2008

	Shares		Value
Common Stocks—86.4%
Consumer Discretionary—2.6%
Media—1.8%
Cablevision Systems Corp. New York Group, Cl. A		100,000	$	1,773,000
Cinemark Holdings, Inc.		290,000		2,404,100
Time Warner Cable, Inc., Cl. A1		25,000		489,500
				4,666,600
Specialty Retail—0.8%
OfficeMax, Inc.		275,000		2,213,750
Consumer Staples—17.1%
Beverages—0.9%
Coca-Cola Co. (The)2		55,000		2,423,300
Food & Staples Retailing—1.7%
CVS Caremark Corp.		100,000		3,065,000
SUPERVALU, Inc.		92,500		1,317,200
				4,382,200
Food Products—1.2%
B&G Foods, Inc.		328,750		3,287,500
Tobacco—13.3%
Altria Group, Inc.		250,000		4,797,500
Lorillard, Inc.		265,000		17,452,900
Philip Morris International, Inc.		295,000		12,823,650
				35,074,050
Energy—20.7%
Energy Equipment & Services—2.2%
Halliburton Co.		115,000		2,275,850
Transocean, Inc.		42,500		3,499,025
				5,774,875
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—18.5%
BP plc, ADR		150,000		7,455,000
Capital Product Partners LP		125,000		1,421,250
Chevron Corp.		50,000		3,730,000
ConocoPhillips		175,000		9,103,500
Kinder Morgan Management LLC1		267,500		13,361,625
Marathon Oil Corp.		280,000		8,148,000
Southern Union Co.		146,250		2,518,425
Williams Cos., Inc. (The)		146,000		3,061,620
				48,799,420
Financials—13.9%
Capital Markets—1.0%
Bank of New York Mellon Corp.		80,000		2,608,000
Commercial Banks—1.5%
National City Corp.		1,500,000		4,050,000
Consumer Finance—0.6%
SLM Corp.1		150,000		1,600,500
Diversified Financial Services—2.5%
CIT Group, Inc.		275,000		1,138,500
Citigroup, Inc.		324,600		4,430,790
KKR Financial Holdings LLC		260,000		1,003,600
				6,572,890
Insurance—8.3%
ACE Ltd.		80,000		4,588,800
Everest Re Group Ltd.		192,500		14,379,750
Fidelity National Title Group, Inc., Cl. A		187,500		1,689,375
Genworth Financial, Inc., Cl. A		37,500		181,500
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)		95,000		980,400
				21,819,825
Health Care—6.2%
Pharmaceuticals—6.2%
Abbott Laboratories2		37,500		2,068,125
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.		210,000		4,315,500
Merck & Co., Inc.		103,500		3,203,325

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

	Shares		Value
Pharmaceuticals Continued
Pfizer, Inc.		375,000	$	6,641,250
Schering-Plough Corp.		5,000		72,450
				16,300,650
Industrials—7.3%
Aerospace & Defense—3.9%
Lockheed Martin Corp.		42,500		3,614,625
Raytheon Co.		80,000		4,088,800
United Technologies Corp.2		50,000		2,748,000
				10,451,425
Industrial Conglomerates—2.4%
General Electric Co.2		200,000		3,902,000
Siemens AG, Sponsored ADR		42,500		2,556,375
				6,458,375
Marine—0.5%
Eagle Bulk Shipping, Inc.		117,750		1,173,968
Seaspan Corp.		9,800		113,288
				1,287,256
Trading Companies & Distributors—0.5%
Aircastle Ltd.		175,900		1,222,505
Information Technology—3.4%
Communications Equipment—0.7%
Corning, Inc.		176,250		1,908,788
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—0.4%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR		125,000		1,032,500
Software—2.3%
Microsoft Corp.		275,000		6,140,750
Materials—1.2%
Chemicals—0.8%
BASF SE, Sponsored ADR		48,000		1,591,680
Lubrizol Corp. (The)		15,000		563,700
				2,155,380
Metals & Mining—0.4%
Teck Cominco Ltd., Cl. B		107,500		1,054,575
Telecommunication Services—10.4%
Diversified Telecommunication Services—10.4%
AT&T, Inc.		300,000		8,031,000
Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc.		425,000		4,377,500
Embarq Corp.		60,000		1,800,000
FairPoint Communications, Inc.		640,000		2,547,200
Frontier Communications Corp.		450,000		3,424,500
Qwest Communications International, Inc.		877,500		2,509,650
Windstream Corp.		625,000		4,693,750
				27,383,600
Utilities—3.6%
Electric Utilities—2.8%
Cleco Corp.		120,000		2,761,200
Exelon Corp.		2,500		135,600
FirstEnergy Corp.		85,000		4,433,600
				7,330,400
Multi-Utilities—0.8%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.		188,750		2,174,400
Total Common Stocks (Cost $323,919,459)				228,173,514
Preferred Stocks—9.2%
Bank of America Corp., 7.25% Non-Cum. Cv.		1,000		700,000
CIT Group, Inc.:
7.75% Cv. Non-Vtg.		259,000		1,489,250
8.75% Cv., Series C		275,000		5,876,750
Citigroup, Inc., 6.50% Cv., Series T, Non-Vtg.		62,500		2,013,125

	Shares		Value
Preferred Stocks Continued
National City Corp., 9.875% Cv., Series F, Non-Vtg.		25,000	$	523,750
NRG Energy, Inc., 5.75% Cv.		12,500		2,624,375
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Sponsored ADR		45,000		993,150
Schering-Plough Corp., 6% Cv.		31,950		4,270,757
SLM Corp., 7.25% Cum. Cv., Series C, Non-Vtg.		2,800		1,440,600
XL Capital Ltd., 10.75% Cv.		287,500		4,349,875
Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $25,242,028)				24,281,632

	Principal
	Amount		Value
Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes—5.3%
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc., 4.375% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/28	$	1,300,000	$	702,250
Hercules Offshore, Inc., 3.375% Cv. Sr. Nts., 6/1/383		1,500,000		819,375
KKR Financial Holdings LLC, 7% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/124		1,000,000		457,500
National City Corp., 4% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/11		3,500,000		2,935,625
Qwest Communications International, Inc., 3.50% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Bonds, 11/15/25		5,500,000		4,207,500
Rite Aid Corp., 8.50% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 5/15/15		4,375,000		2,466,405
Transocean, Inc., 1.50% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 12/15/37		3,000,000		2,298,750
Total Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes (Cost $14,593,516)				13,887,405

	Shares
Investment Company—1.2%
Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, Cl. E, 2.95%5,6 (Cost $3,337,854)		3,337,854			3,337,854
Total Investments, at Value (Cost $367,092,857)		102.1	%		269,680,405
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets		(2.1	)		(5,546,410	)
Net Assets		100.0	%	$	264,133,995

Industry classifications are unaudited.

Footnotes to Statement of Investments

1.	Non-income producing security.
2.	A sufficient amount of liquid assets has been designated to cover outstanding written call options. See Note 6 of accompanying Notes.
3.	Represents the current interest rate for a variable or increasing rate security.
4.	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 Directors. These securities amount to $457,500 or 0.17% of the Fund’s net assets as of October 31, 2008.

STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

Footnotes to Statement of Investments Continued

5. Is or was an affiliate, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, at or during the period ended October 31, 2008, 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 period in which the issuer was an affiliate are as follows:

	Shares		Gross		Gross		Shares
	October 31, 2007		Additions		Reductions		October 31, 2008
OFI Liquid Assets Fund, LLC		—		69,381,420		69,381,420		—
Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, Cl. E		3,483,696		87,040,569		87,186,411		3,337,854

	Value		Income
OFI Liquid Assets Fund, LLC	$	—	$	59,409	a
Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, Cl. E		3,337,854		229,414
	$	3,337,854	$	288,823

a.	Net of compensation to the securities lending agent and rebates paid to the borrowing counterparties.
6.	Rate shown is the 7-day yield as of October 31, 2008.

Written Options as of October 31, 2008 are as follows:

		Number of		Exercise		Expiration		Premiums
Description	Type	Contracts		Price		Date		Received		Value
Abbott Laboratories	Call		250	$	60.00		11/24/08	$	34,250	$	(11,250	)
Coca-Cola Co. (The)	Call		550		52.50		11/24/08		33,700		(8,250	)
General Electric Co.	Call		2,000		19.00		12/22/08		287,998		(416,000	)
United Technologies Corp.	Call		250		55.00		11/24/08		38,000		(80,000	)
								$	393,948	$	(515,500	)

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES October 31, 2008

Assets
Investments, at value—see accompanying statement of investments:
Unaffiliated companies (cost $363,755,003)	$	266,342,551
Affiliated companies (cost $3,337,854)		3,337,854
		269,680,405
Cash		1,680,185
Receivables and other assets:
Investments sold		3,890,467
Interest and dividends		1,336,055
Shares of capital stock sold		467,684
Other		44,827
Total assets		277,099,623
Liabilities
Options written, at value (premiums received $393,948)—see accompanying statement of investments		515,500
Payables and other liabilities:
Investments purchased		11,464,168
Shares of capital stock redeemed		685,658
Directors’ compensation		96,788
Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees		69,675
Shareholder communications		55,287
Distribution and service plan fees		42,908
Other		35,644
Total liabilities		12,965,628
Net Assets	$	264,133,995
Composition of Net Assets
Par value of shares of capital stock	$	1,741
Additional paid-in capital		403,275,370
Accumulated net investment income		2,394,390
Accumulated net realized loss on investments and foreign currency transactions		(44,005,984	)
Net unrealized depreciation on investments and translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies		(97,531,522	)
Net Assets	$	264,133,995

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 $199,649,736 and 12,758,762 shares of capital stock outstanding)	$	15.65
Maximum offering price per share (net asset value plus sales charge of 5.75% of offering price)	$	16.60
Class B Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $24,862,100 and 1,824,622 shares of capital stock outstanding)	$	13.63
Class C Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $29,599,504 and 2,166,951 shares of capital stock outstanding)	$	13.66
Class N Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $10,022,655 and 657,819 shares of capital stock outstanding)	$	15.24

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS For the Year Ended October 31, 2008

Investment Income
Dividends:
Unaffiliated companies (net of foreign withholding taxes of $92,004)	$	15,468,459
Affiliated companies		229,414
Interest		275,735
Income from investment of securities lending cash collateral, net:
Unaffiliated companies		75,037
Affiliated companies		59,409
Other income		11,339
Total investment income		16,119,393
Expenses
Management fees		2,758,254
Distribution and service plan fees:
Class A		704,443
Class B		420,312
Class C		437,925
Class N		76,220
Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees:
Class A		610,327
Class B		131,209
Class C		137,379
Class N		89,833
Shareholder communications:
Class A		150,262
Class B		33,029
Class C		23,325
Class N		3,785
Directors’ compensation		33,515
Custodian fees and expenses		20,862
Other		138,358
Total expenses		5,769,038
Less reduction to custodian expenses		(2,034	)
Less waivers and reimbursements of expenses		(43,177	)
Net expenses		5,723,827
Net Investment Income		10,395,566

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS Continued

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)
Net realized gain (loss) on:
Investments from unaffiliated companies (including premiums on options exercised)	$	(47,851,199	)
Closing and expiration of option contracts written		5,840,004
Foreign currency transactions		(20,513	)
Net realized loss		(42,031,708	)
Net change in unrealized depreciation on:
Investments		(137,616,643	)
Translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies		(3,104	)
Option contracts written		(121,552	)
Net change in unrealized depreciation		(137,741,299	)
Net Decrease in Net Assets Resulting from Operations	$	(169,377,441	)

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

Year Ended October 31,	2008			2007
Operations
Net investment income	$	10,395,566		$	2,340,384
Net realized gain (loss)		(42,031,708	)		75,488,564
Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation)		(137,741,299	)		(27,697,375	)
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations		(169,377,441	)		50,131,573
Dividends and/or Distributions to Shareholders
Dividends from net investment income:
Class A		(7,861,509	)		(455,828	)
Class B		(609,267	)		—
Class C		(672,747	)		—
Class N		(296,093	)		—
		(9,439,616	)		(455,828	)
Distributions from net realized gain:
Class A		(47,858,381	)		(27,989,679	)
Class B		(8,551,084	)		(6,130,440	)
Class C		(8,193,618	)		(4,420,958	)
Class N		(2,596,878	)		(1,429,839	)
		(67,199,961	)		(39,970,916	)
Capital Stock Transactions
Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from capital stock transactions:
Class A		18,966,911			(27,860,279	)
Class B		(8,544,939	)		(16,994,059	)
Class C		1,375,637			488,589
Class N		37,009			(101,286	)
		11,834,618			(44,467,035	)
Net Assets
Total decrease		(234,182,400	)		(34,762,206	)
Beginning of period		498,316,395			533,078,601
End of period (including accumulated net investment income of $2,394,390 and $2,287,637, respectively)	$	264,133,995		$	498,316,395

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Class A     Year Ended October 31,	2008			2007			2006			2005			2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$	29.86		$	29.15		$	27.34		$	26.89		$	23.71
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)		.63	1		.20	1		.09	1		(.05	)1		(.10	)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)		(10.24	)		2.67			4.61			2.58			3.45
Total from investment operations		(9.61	)		2.87			4.70			2.53			3.35
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income		(.62	)		(.03	)		—			—			—
Distributions from net realized gain		(3.98	)		(2.13	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders		(4.60	)		(2.16	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Net asset value, end of period	$	15.65		$	29.86		$	29.15		$	27.34		$	26.89
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2		(37.27	)%		10.43	%		18.43	%		9.80	%		14.22	%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$	199,650		$	362,740		$	382,512		$	339,703		$	252,661
Average net assets (in thousands)	$	292,638		$	370,916		$	369,074		$	309,617		$	225,711
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)		2.85	%		0.68	%		0.32	%		(0.19	)%		(0.37	)%
Total expenses		1.25	%4		1.28	%4		1.29	%		1.34	%		1.40	%
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses		1.25	%		1.28	%		1.28	%		1.34	%		1.40	%
Portfolio turnover rate		78	%		124	%		56	%		89	%		61	%

1.	Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2.	Assumes an 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.	Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:

Year Ended October 31, 2008	1.25	%
Year Ended October 31, 2007	1.28	%

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Class B     Year Ended October 31,	2008			2007			2006			2005			2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$	26.48		$	26.27		$	25.11		$	25.07		$	22.31
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)		.38	1		(.05	)1		(.14	)1		(.28	)1		(.29	)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)		(8.95	)		2.39			4.19			2.40			3.22
Total from investment operations		(8.57	)		2.34			4.05			2.12			2.93
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income		(.30	)		—			—			—			—
Distributions from net realized gain		(3.98	)		(2.13	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders		(4.28	)		(2.13	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Net asset value, end of period	$	13.63		$	26.48		$	26.27		$	25.11		$	25.07
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2		(37.81	)%		9.46	%		17.37	%		8.81	%		13.22	%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$	24,862		$	60,106		$	76,583		$	74,004		$	64,069
Average net assets (in thousands)	$	42,007		$	72,568		$	76,606		$	73,417		$	60,460
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)		1.94	%		(0.21	)%		(0.58	)%		(1.10	)%		(1.26	)%
Total expenses		2.14	%4,5,6,7		2.16	%4,5,6,7		2.19	%5,6		2.25	%5,6		2.30	%5,6
Portfolio turnover rate		78	%		124	%		56	%		89	%		61	%

1.	Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2.	Assumes an 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.	Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:

Year Ended October 31, 2008	2.14	%
Year Ended October 31, 2007	2.16	%

5.	Reduction to custodian expenses less than 0.005%.
6.	Voluntary waiver of transfer agent fees less than 0.005%.
7.	Waiver or reimbursement of indirect management fees less than 0.005%.

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued

Class C     Year Ended October 31,	2008			2007			2006			2005			2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$	26.54		$	26.31		$	25.14		$	25.10		$	22.34
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)		.39	1		(.04	)1		(.14	)1		(.27	)1		(.29	)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)		(8.99	)		2.40			4.20			2.39			3.22
Total from investment operations		(8.60	)		2.36			4.06			2.12			2.93
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income		(.30	)		—			—			—			—
Distributions from net realized gain		(3.98	)		(2.13	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders		(4.28	)		(2.13	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Net asset value, end of period	$	13.66		$	26.54		$	26.31		$	25.14		$	25.10
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2		(37.83	)%		9.53	%		17.39	%		8.80	%		13.20	%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$	29,599		$	56,130		$	54,971		$	46,560		$	34,414
Average net assets (in thousands)	$	43,817		$	56,496		$	51,822		$	42,635		$	32,051
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)		1.98	%		(0.17	)%		(0.57	)%		(1.09	)%		(1.26	)%
Total expenses		2.12	%4		2.13	%4		2.17	%		2.24	%		2.31	%
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses		2.11	%		2.13	%		2.17	%		2.24	%		2.31	%
Portfolio turnover rate		78	%		124	%		56	%		89	%		61	%

1.	Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2.	Assumes an 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.	Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:

Year Ended October 31, 2008	2.12	%
Year Ended October 31, 2007	2.13	%

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

Class N     Year Ended October 31,	2008			2007			2006			2005			2004
Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period	$	29.09		$	28.52		$	26.91		$	26.61		$	23.56
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss)		.54	1		.08	1		(.03	)1		(.16	)1		(.19	)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)		(9.97	)		2.62			4.53			2.54			3.41
Total from investment operations		(9.43	)		2.70			4.50			2.38			3.22
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income		(.44	)		—			—			—			—
Distributions from net realized gain		(3.98	)		(2.13	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders		(4.42	)		(2.13	)		(2.89	)		(2.08	)		(.17	)
Net asset value, end of period	$	15.24		$	29.09		$	28.52		$	26.91		$	26.61
Total Return, at Net Asset Value2		(37.48	)%		10.02	%		17.93	%		9.31	%		13.75	%
Ratios/Supplemental Data
Net assets, end of period (in thousands)	$	10,023		$	19,340		$	19,013		$	16,451		$	10,554
Average net assets (in thousands)	$	15,221		$	19,387		$	17,985		$	13,849		$	8,724
Ratios to average net assets:3
Net investment income (loss)		2.47	%		0.29	%		(0.12	)%		(0.61	)%		(0.78	)%
Total expenses		1.87	%4		1.91	%4		1.90	%		2.08	%		2.20	%
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses		1.63	%		1.67	%		1.72	%		1.76	%		1.81	%
Portfolio turnover rate		78	%		124	%		56	%		89	%		61	%

1.	Per share amounts calculated based on the average shares outstanding during the period.
2.	Assumes an 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.	Total expenses including indirect expenses from affiliated fund were as follows:

Year Ended October 31, 2008	1.87	%
Year Ended October 31, 2007	1.91	%

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. Significant Accounting Policies

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”), is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek total return. The Fund’s investment adviser is OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (the “Manager”).

     The Fund offers Class A, Class B, Class C and Class N shares. Class A shares are sold at their offering price, which is normally net asset value plus a front-end sales charge. Class B, Class C and Class N shares are sold without a front-end sales charge but may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”). Class N shares are sold only through retirement plans. Retirement plans that offer Class N shares may impose charges on those accounts. 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 N have separate distribution and/or service plans. 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 consistently followed by the Fund.

Securities Valuation. The Fund calculates the net asset value of its shares as of the close of the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”), normally 4:00 P.M. Eastern time, on each day the Exchange is open for trading. Securities may be valued primarily using dealer-supplied valuations or a portfolio pricing service authorized by the Board of Directors. Securities traded on a registered U.S. securities exchange are valued based on the last sale price of the security traded on that exchange prior to the time when the Fund’s assets are valued. Securities whose principal exchange is NASDAQ^® are valued based on the closing price reported by NASDAQ prior to the time when the Fund’s assets are valued. In the absence of a sale, the security is valued at the last sale price on the prior trading day, if it is within the spread of the closing “bid” and “asked” prices, and if not, at the closing bid price. Securities traded on foreign exchanges are valued based on the last sale price on the principal exchange on which the security is traded, as identified by the portfolio pricing service, prior to the time when the Fund’s assets are valued. In the absence of a sale, the security is valued at the official closing price on the principal exchange. Corporate, government and municipal debt instruments having a remaining maturity in excess of sixty days and all mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations and other asset-backed securities will be valued at the mean between the “bid” and “asked” prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available are valued at their fair value. Securities whose values have been materially affected by what the Manager identifies as a significant event occurring before the Fund’s assets are valued but after the close of their respective exchanges will be fair valued. Fair value is determined in good faith using consistently applied procedures under the supervision of the Board of Directors. Shares of a registered investment company that are not traded on an exchange are valued at the acquired investment company’s net asset value per share. “Money market-type” debt instruments with remaining maturities of sixty days or less are valued at cost adjusted by the amortization of discount or premium to maturity (amortized cost), which approximates market value.

Foreign Currency Translation. The Fund’s accounting records are maintained in U.S. dollars. The values of securities denominated in foreign currencies and amounts related to the purchase and sale of foreign securities and foreign investment income are translated into U.S. dollars as of the close of the Exchange, normally 4:00 P.M. Eastern time, on each day the Exchange is open for trading. Foreign exchange rates may be valued primarily using a reliable bank, dealer or service authorized by the Board of Directors.

     Reported net realized gains and losses from foreign currency transactions arise from sales of portfolio securities, sales and maturities of short-term securities, sales of foreign currencies, exchange rate fluctuations between the trade and settlement dates on securities transactions, and the difference between the amounts of dividends, interest, and foreign withholding taxes recorded on the Fund’s books and the U.S. dollar equivalent of the amounts actually received or paid. Net unrealized appreciation and depreciation on the translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies arise from changes in the values of assets and liabilities, including investments in securities at fiscal period end, resulting from changes in exchange rates.

     The effect of changes in foreign currency exchange rates on investments is separately identified from the fluctuations arising from changes in market values of securities held and reported with all other foreign currency gains and losses in the Fund’s Statement of Operations.

Investment in Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund. The Fund is permitted to invest daily available cash balances in an affiliated money market fund. The Fund may invest the available cash in Class E shares of Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund (“IMMF”) to seek current income while preserving liquidity. IMMF is a registered open-end management investment company, regulated as a money market fund under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Manager is also the investment adviser of IMMF. The Fund’s investment in IMMF is included in the Statement of Investments. As a shareholder, the Fund is subject to its proportional share of IMMF’s Class E expenses, including its 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 IMMF.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

1. Significant Accounting Policies Continued

Investments in OFI Liquid Assets Fund, LLC. The Fund is permitted to invest cash collateral received in connection with its securities lending activities. Pursuant to the Fund’s Securities Lending Procedures, the Fund may invest cash collateral in, among other investments, an affiliated money market fund. OFI Liquid Assets Fund, LLC (“LAF”) is a limited liability company whose investment objective is to seek current income and stability of principal. The Manager is also the investment adviser of LAF. LAF is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. However, LAF does comply with the investment restrictions applicable to registered money market funds set forth in Rule 2a-7 adopted under the Investment Company Act. The Fund’s investment in LAF is included in the Statement of Investments. As a shareholder, the Fund is subject to its proportional share of LAF’s expenses, including its management fee of 0.08%. As of October 31, 2008, the Fund had no holdings in LAF.

Investments With Off-Balance Sheet Market Risk. The Fund enters into financial instrument transactions (such as swaps, futures, options and other derivatives) that may have off-balance sheet market risk. Off-balance sheet market risk exists when the maximum potential loss on a particular financial instrument is greater than the value of such financial instrument, as reflected in the Fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities.

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.

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 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.

					Net Unrealized
					Depreciation
					Based on Cost of
					Securities and
Undistributed	Undistributed		Accumulated		Other Investments
Net Investment	Long-Term		Loss		for Federal Income
Income	Gain		Carryforward1,2,3		Tax Purposes
$2,737,279	$	—	$	39,017,790	$	99,563,419

1. As of October 31, 2008, the Fund had $39,017,790 of net capital loss carryforwards available to offset future realized capital gains, if any, and thereby reduce future taxable gain distributions. As of October 31, 2008, details of the capital loss carryforwards were as follows:

Expiring
2016	$	39,017,790

2.	During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2008, the Fund did not utilize any capital loss carryforward.
3.	During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007, 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 may differ from their ultimate characterization for federal income tax purposes. 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 October 31, 2008. Net assets of the Fund were unaffected by the reclassifications.

Reduction to	Reduction to
Accumulated	Accumulated Net
Net Investment	Realized Loss
Income	on Investments
$849,197	$	849,197

The tax character of distributions paid during the years ended October 31, 2008 and October 31, 2007 was as follows:

	Year Ended		Year Ended
	October 31, 2008		October 31, 2007
Distributions paid from:
Ordinary income	$	22,019,447	$	13,108,260
Long-term capital gain		54,620,130		27,318,484
Total	$	76,639,577	$	40,426,744

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 as of October 31, 2008 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	$	369,124,754
Federal tax cost of other investments		(393,948	)
Total federal tax cost	$	368,730,806
Gross unrealized appreciation	$	4,779,478
Gross unrealized depreciation		(104,342,897	)
Net unrealized depreciation	$	(99,563,419	)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

1. Significant Accounting Policies Continued

Directors’ Compensation. On November 19, 2007, the Fund’s Board of Directors voted to freeze participation in the retirement plan for the Board’s independent directors by not adding new participants to the plan after December 31, 2007. Active independent directors who have accrued benefits under the plan prior to the freeze date will elect a distribution method with respect to their benefits. Benefits already accrued under the plan for Directors who were participants prior to that freeze date are not affected.

During the year ended October 31, 2008, the Fund’s projected benefit obligations, payments to retired directors and accumulated liability were as follows:

Projected Benefit Obligations Increased	$	20,559
Payments Made to Retired Directors		2,714
Accumulated Liability as of October 31, 2008		86,625

The Board of Directors has adopted a compensation deferral plan for independent directors that enables directors 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 Director 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 Director. The Fund purchases shares of the funds selected for deferral by the Director 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 directors’ 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 to the compensation deferral plan.

Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders. Dividends and distributions to shareholders, which are determined in accordance with income tax regulations and may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and 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 market value of the securities received. 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%. 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 directors 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.

Other. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America 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.

2. Shares of Capital Stock

The Fund has authorized one billion shares of $0.0001 par value capital stock in aggregate to be apportioned among each class of shares. Transactions in shares of capital stock were as follows:

	Year Ended October 31, 2008						Year Ended October 31, 2007
	Shares			Amount			Shares			Amount
Class A
Sold		2,439,245		$	54,091,989			2,387,473		$	69,105,829
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested		2,122,974			50,400,156			936,594			25,924,915
Redeemed		(3,951,213	)		(85,525,234	)		(4,299,832	)		(122,891,023	)
Net increase (decrease)		611,006		$	18,966,911			(975,765	)	$	(27,860,279	)
Class B
Sold		307,757		$	5,822,651			378,962		$	9,748,673
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested		422,883			8,820,295			236,460			5,850,009
Redeemed		(1,175,511	)		(23,187,885	)		(1,261,269	)		(32,592,741	)
Net decrease		(444,871	)	$	(8,544,939	)		(645,847	)	$	(16,994,059	)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

2. Shares of Capital Stock Continued

	Year Ended October 31, 2008						Year Ended October 31, 2007
	Shares			Amount			Shares			Amount
Class C
Sold		502,313		$	9,584,133			415,826		$	10,744,598
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested		384,824			8,033,544			159,042			3,941,060
Redeemed		(835,367	)		(16,242,040	)		(549,261	)		(14,197,069	)
Net increase		51,770		$	1,375,637			25,607		$	488,589
Class N
Sold		193,203		$	4,218,546			176,220		$	4,961,134
Dividends and/or distributions reinvested		116,990			2,710,711			50,259			1,360,013
Redeemed		(317,208	)		(6,892,248	)		(228,310	)		(6,422,433	)
Net increase (decrease)		(7,015	)	$	37,009			(1,831	)	$	(101,286	)

3. Purchases and Sales of Securities

The aggregate cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other than short-term obligations and investments in IMMF, for the year ended October 31, 2008, were as follows:

	Purchases		Sales
Investment securities	$	305,315,495	$	345,553,971

4. 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:

Fee Schedule
Up to $400 million	0.70	%
Next $400 million	0.68
Next $400 million	0.65
Next $400 million	0.60
Next $400 million	0.55
Over $2.0 billion	0.50

Transfer Agent Fees. OppenheimerFunds Services (“OFS”), a division of the Manager, acts as the transfer and shareholder servicing agent for the Fund. The Fund pays OFS a per account fee. For the year ended October 31, 2008, the Fund paid $946,221 to OFS for services to the Fund.

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 under Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940. 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 0.25% of the average annual 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 B, Class C and Class N Shares. The Fund has adopted Distribution and Service Plans for Class B, Class C and Class N shares to compensate the Distributor for its services in connection with the distribution of those shares and servicing accounts. Under the plans, the Fund pays the Distributor an annual asset-based sales charge of 0.75% on Class B and Class C shares and 0.25% on Class N shares. The Distributor also receives a service fee of 0.25 % per year under each plan. If either the Class B, Class C or Class N plan is terminated by the Fund or by the shareholders of a class, the Board of Directors and its independent directors must determine whether the Distributor shall be entitled to payment from the Fund of all or a portion of the service fee and/or asset-based sales charge in respect to shares sold prior to the effective date of such termination. The Distributor determines its uncompensated expenses under the plan at calendar quarter ends. The Distributor’s aggregate uncompensated expenses under the plan at September 30, 2008 for Class C and Class N shares were $768,527 and $299,174, respectively. Fees incurred by the Fund under the plans are detailed in the Statement of Operations.

Sales Charges. Front-end sales charges and contingent deferred sales charges (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.

			Class A		Class B		Class C		Class N
	Class A		Contingent		Contingent		Contingent		Contingent
	Front-End		Deferred		Deferred		Deferred		Deferred
	Sales Charges		Sales Charges		Sales Charges		Sales Charges		Sales Charges
	Retained by		Retained by		Retained by		Retained by		Retained by
Year Ended	Distributor		Distributor		Distributor		Distributor		Distributor
October 31, 2008	$	127,555	$	1,686	$	77,367	$	3,213	$	1,847

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates Continued

Waivers and Reimbursements of Expenses. OFS has voluntarily agreed to limit transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees for all classes to 0.35% of average annual net assets per class. During the year ended October 31, 2008, OFS waived $345, $1,235 and $36,519 for Class B, Class C and Class N shares, respectively. This undertaking may be amended or withdrawn 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 investment in IMMF. During the year ended October 31, 2008, the Manager waived $5,078 for IMMF management fees.

5. Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts

The Fund may enter into foreign currency exchange contracts (“forward contracts”) for the purchase or sale of a foreign currency at a negotiated rate at a future date.

     Forward contracts are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments. Forward contracts will be valued daily based upon the closing prices of the forward currency rates determined at the close of the Exchange as provided by a bank, dealer or pricing service. The resulting unrealized appreciation (depreciation) is reported in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as a receivable or payable and in the Statement of Operations within the change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation). At contract close, the difference between the original cost of the contract and the value at the close date is recorded as a realized gain (loss) in the Statement of Operations.

     Risks to the Fund include both market and credit risk. Market risk is the risk that the value of the forward contract will depreciate due to unfavorable changes in the exchange rates. Credit risk arises from the possibility that the counterparty will default. If the counterparty defaults, the Fund’s loss will consist of the net amount of contractual payments that the Fund has not yet received.

     As of October 31, 2008, the Fund had no outstanding forward contracts.

6. Option Activity

The Fund may buy and sell put and call options, or write put and covered call options. When an option is written, the Fund receives a premium and becomes obligated to sell or purchase the underlying security at a fixed price, upon exercise of the option.

     Options are valued daily based upon the last sale price on the principal exchange on which the option is traded. The difference between the premium received or paid, and market value of the option, is recorded as unrealized appreciation or depreciation. The net change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation is reported in the Statement of Operations. When an option is exercised, the cost of the security purchased or the proceeds of the security sale are adjusted by the amount of premium received or paid. Upon the expiration or closing of the option transaction, a gain or loss is reported in the Statement of Operations.

     Securities designated to cover outstanding call or put options are noted in the Statement of Investments where applicable. Options written are reported in a schedule following the Statement of Investments and as a liability in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities.

     The risk in writing a call option is that the Fund gives up the opportunity for profit if the market price of the security increases and the option is exercised. The risk in writing a put option is that the Fund may incur a loss if the market price of the security decreases and the option is exercised. The risk in buying an option is that the Fund pays a premium whether or not the option is exercised. The Fund also has the additional risk that there may be an illiquid market where the Fund is unable to close the contract.

Written option activity for the year ended October 31, 2008 was as follows:

	Call Options						Put Options
	Number of			Amount of			Number of			Amount of
	Contracts			Premiums			Contracts			Premiums
Options outstanding as of October 31, 2007		—		$	—			—		$	—
Options written		158,528			14,154,431			1,500			259,182
Options closed or expired		(152,719	)		(13,126,037	)		(1,500	)		(259,182	)
Options exercised		(2,759	)		(634,446	)		—			—
Options outstanding as of October 31, 2008		3,050		$	393,948			—		$	—

7. Securities Lending

The Fund lends portfolio securities from time to time in order to earn additional income in the form of fees or interest on securities received as collateral or the investment of any cash received as collateral. The loans are secured by collateral (either securities, letters of credit, or cash) in an amount not less than 100% of the market value of the loaned securities during the period of the loan. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of each business day and any additional required collateral is delivered to the Fund on the next business day. If the borrower defaults on its obligation to return the securities loaned because of insolvency or other reasons, the Fund could experience delays and cost in recovering the securities loaned or in gaining access to the collateral. The Fund continues to receive the economic benefit of interest or dividends paid on the securities loaned in the form of a substitute payment received from the borrower and recognizes the gain or loss in the fair value of the securities loaned that may occur during the term of the loan. The Fund has the right under the lending agreement to recover the securities from the borrower on demand.

     As of October 31, 2008, the Fund had no securities on loan.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

8. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 157, Fair Value Measurements. This standard establishes a single authoritative definition of fair value, sets out a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to fair value measurements already required or permitted by existing standards. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods within those fiscal years. As of October 31, 2008, the Manager does not believe the adoption of SFAS No. 157 will materially impact the financial statement amounts; however, additional disclosures may be required about the inputs used to develop the measurements and the effect of certain of the measurements on changes in net assets for the period.

     In March 2008, FASB issued SFAS No. 161, Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities. This standard requires enhanced disclosures about derivative and hedging activities, including qualitative disclosures about how and why the Fund uses derivative instruments, how these activities are accounted for, and their effect on the Fund’s financial position, financial performance and cash flows. SFAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. At this time, management is evaluating the implications of SFAS No. 161 and its impact on the Fund’s financial statements and related disclosures.

Appendix A
 

OppenheimerFunds Special Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers

In certain cases, the initial sales charge that applies to purchases of Class A shares² of the Oppenheimer funds or the contingent deferred sales charge that may apply to Class A, Class B or Class C shares may be waived.³ That is because of the economies of sales efforts realized by OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., (referred to in this document as the "Distributor"), or by dealers or other financial institutions that offer those shares to certain classes of investors. Not all waivers apply to all funds.
 
For the purposes of some of the waivers described below and in the Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information of the applicable Oppenheimer funds, the term "Retirement Plan" refers to the following types of plans:

1)     plans created or qualified under Sections 401(a) or 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code,

2)     non-qualified deferred compensation plans,

3)     employee benefit plans⁴,
4)     Group Retirement Plans⁵,
5)     403(b)(7) custodial plan accounts, and
6)     Individual Retirement Accounts ("IRAs"), including traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs or SIMPLE plans

The interpretation of these provisions as to the applicability of a special arrangement or waiver in a particular case is in the sole discretion of the Distributor or the transfer agent (referred to in this document as the "Transfer Agent") of the particular Oppenheimer fund. These waivers and special arrangements may be amended or terminated at any time by a particular fund, the Distributor, and/or OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (referred to in this document as the "Manager").

Waivers that apply at the time shares are redeemed must be requested by the shareholder and/or dealer in the redemption request.

I.      Applicability of Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charges in Certain Cases

Purchases of Class A Shares of Oppenheimer Funds That Are Not Subject to Initial Sales Charge but May Be Subject to the Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (unless a waiver applies).
 

     There is no initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares of any of the Oppenheimer funds in the cases listed below. However, these purchases may be subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge if redeemed within 18 months (24 months in the case of shares of Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals and Rochester Fund Municipals purchased prior to October 22, 2007) of the beginning of the calendar month of their purchase, as described in the Prospectus (unless a waiver described elsewhere in this Appendix applies to the redemption). Additionally, on shares purchased under these waivers that are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge, the Distributor will pay the applicable concession described in the Prospectus under "Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge."⁶ This waiver provision applies to:

q      Purchases of Class A shares aggregating $1 million or more.

q      Purchases of Class A shares, prior to March 1, 2007, by a Retirement Plan that was permitted to purchase such shares at net asset value but subject to a contingent deferred sales charge prior to March 1, 2001. That included plans (other than IRA or 403(b)(7) Custodial Plans) that: 1) bought shares costing $500,000 or more, 2) had at the time of purchase 100 or more eligible employees or total plan assets of $500,000 or more, or 3) certified to the Distributor that it projects to have annual plan purchases of $200,000 or more.

q      Purchases by an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Rollover IRA, if the purchases are made:

1)     through a broker, dealer, bank or registered investment adviser that has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases, or

2)     by a direct rollover of a distribution from a qualified Retirement Plan if the administrator of that Plan has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.

q      Purchases of Class A shares by Retirement Plans that have any of the following record-keeping arrangements:

1)     The record keeping is performed by Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. ("Merrill Lynch") on a daily valuation basis for the Retirement Plan. On the date the plan sponsor signs the record-keeping service agreement with Merrill Lynch, the Plan must have $3 million or more of its assets invested in (a) mutual funds, other than those advised or managed by Merrill Lynch Investment Management, L.P. ("MLIM"), that are made available under a Service Agreement between Merrill Lynch and the mutual fund's principal underwriter or distributor, and (b) funds advised or managed by MLIM (the funds described in (a) and (b) are referred to as "Applicable Investments").

2)     The record keeping for the Retirement Plan is performed on a daily valuation basis by a record keeper whose services are provided under a contract or arrangement between the Retirement Plan and Merrill Lynch. On the date the plan sponsor signs the record keeping service agreement with Merrill Lynch, the Plan must have $5 million or more of its assets (excluding assets invested in money market funds) invested in Applicable Investments.

3)     The record keeping for a Retirement Plan is handled under a service agreement with Merrill Lynch and on the date the plan sponsor signs that agreement, the Plan has 500 or more eligible employees (as determined by the Merrill Lynch plan conversion manager).

II.      Waivers of Class A Sales Charges of Oppenheimer Funds

A.     Waivers of Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges for Certain Purchasers.

Class A shares purchased by the following investors are not subject to any Class A sales charges (and no concessions are paid by the Distributor on such purchases):

q      The Manager or its affiliates.

q      Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their "immediate families") of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, and retirement plans established by them for their employees. The term "immediate family" refers to one's spouse, children, grandchildren, grandparents, parents, parents-in-law, brothers and sisters, sons- and daughters-in-law, a sibling's spouse, a spouse's siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews; relatives by virtue of a remarriage (step-children, step-parents, etc.) are included.

q      Registered management investment companies, or separate accounts of insurance companies having an agreement with the Manager or the Distributor for that purpose.

q      Dealers or brokers that have a sales agreement with the Distributor, if they purchase shares for their own accounts or for retirement plans for their employees.

q      Employees and registered representatives (and their spouses) of dealers or brokers described above or financial institutions that have entered into sales arrangements with such dealers or brokers (and which are identified as such to the Distributor) or with the Distributor. The purchaser must certify to the Distributor at the time of purchase that the purchase is for the purchaser's own account (or for the benefit of such employee's spouse or minor children).

q      Dealers, brokers, banks or registered investment advisers that have entered into an agreement with the Distributor providing specifically for the use of shares of the Fund in particular investment products made available to their clients. Those clients may be charged a transaction fee by their dealer, broker, bank or advisor for the purchase or sale of Fund shares.

q      Investment advisers and financial planners who have entered into an agreement for this purpose with the Distributor and who charge an advisory, consulting or other fee for their services and buy shares for their own accounts or the accounts of their clients.

q      "Rabbi trusts" that buy shares for their own accounts, if the purchases are made through a broker or agent or other financial intermediary that has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.

q      Clients of investment advisers or financial planners (that have entered into an agreement for this purpose with the Distributor) who buy shares for their own accounts may also purchase shares without sales charge but only if their accounts are linked to a master account of their investment adviser or financial planner on the books and records of the broker, agent or financial intermediary with which the Distributor has made such special arrangements. Each of these investors may be charged a fee by the broker, agent or financial intermediary for purchasing shares.

q      Directors, trustees, officers or full-time employees of OpCap Advisors or its affiliates, their relatives or any trust, pension, profit sharing or other benefit plan which beneficially owns shares for those persons.

q      Accounts for which Oppenheimer Capital (or its successor) is the investment adviser (the Distributor must be advised of this arrangement) and persons who are directors or trustees of the company or trust which is the beneficial owner of such accounts.

q      A unit investment trust that has entered into an appropriate agreement with the Distributor.

q      Dealers, brokers, banks, or registered investment advisers that have entered into an agreement with the Distributor to sell shares to defined contribution employee retirement plans for which the dealer, broker or investment adviser provides administration services.

q      Retirement Plans and deferred compensation plans and trusts used to fund those plans (including, for example, plans qualified or created under sections 401(a), 401(k), 403(b) or 457 of the Internal Revenue Code), in each case if those purchases are made through a broker, agent or other financial intermediary that has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.

q      A TRAC-2000 401(k) plan (sponsored by the former Quest for Value Advisors) whose Class B or Class C shares of a Former Quest for Value Fund were exchanged for Class A shares of that Fund due to the termination of the Class B and Class C TRAC-2000 program on November 24, 1995.

q      A qualified Retirement Plan that had agreed with the former Quest for Value Advisors to purchase shares of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds at net asset value, with such shares to be held through DCXchange, a sub-transfer agency mutual fund clearinghouse, if that arrangement was consummated and share purchases commenced by December 31, 1996.

q      Effective March 1, 2007, purchases of Class A shares by a Retirement Plan that was permitted to purchase such shares at net asset value but subject to a contingent deferred sales charge prior to March 1, 2001. That included plans (other than IRA or 403(b)(7) Custodial Plans) that: 1) bought shares costing $500,000 or more, 2) had at the time of purchase 100 or more eligible employees or total plan assets of $500,000 or more, or 3) certified to the Distributor that it projects to have annual plan purchases of $200,000 or more.

q      Effective October 1, 2005, taxable accounts established with the proceeds of Required Minimum Distributions from Retirement Plans.

q      Purchases of Class A shares by former shareholders of Atlas Strategic Income Fund in any Oppenheimer fund into which shareholders of Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund may exchange.

q      Purchases prior to June 15, 2008 by former shareholders of Oppenheimer Tremont Market Neutral Fund, LLC or Oppenheimer Tremont Opportunity Fund, LLC, directly from the proceeds from mandatory redemptions.

B.     Waivers of the Class A Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges in Certain Transactions.

1.      Class A shares issued or purchased in the following transactions are not subject to sales charges (and no concessions are paid by the Distributor on such purchases):

q      Shares issued in plans of reorganization, such as mergers, asset acquisitions and exchange offers, to which the Fund is a party.

q      Shares purchased by the reinvestment of dividends or other distributions reinvested from the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds or unit investment trusts for which reinvestment arrangements have been made with the Distributor.

q      Shares purchased by certain Retirement Plans that are part of a retirement plan or platform offered by banks, broker-dealers, financial advisors or insurance companies, or serviced by recordkeepers.

q      Shares purchased by the reinvestment of loan repayments by a participant in a Retirement Plan for which the Manager or an affiliate acts as sponsor.

q      Shares purchased in amounts of less than $5.

2.      Class A shares issued and purchased in the following transactions are not subject to sales charges (a dealer concession at the annual rate of 0.25% is paid by the Distributor on purchases made within the first 6 months of plan establishment):

q      Retirement Plans that have $5 million or more in plan assets.

q      Retirement Plans with a single plan sponsor that have $5 million or more in aggregate assets invested in Oppenheimer funds.

C.     Waivers of the Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge for Certain Redemptions.

The Class A contingent deferred sales charge is also waived if shares that would otherwise be subject to the contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed in the following cases:

q      To make Automatic Withdrawal Plan payments that are limited annually to no more than 12% of the account value adjusted annually.

q      Involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law or involuntary redemptions of small accounts (please refer to "Shareholder Account Rules and Policies," in the applicable fund Prospectus).

q      For distributions from Retirement Plans, deferred compensation plans or other employee benefit plans for any of the following purposes:

1)     Following the death or disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) of the participant or beneficiary. The death or disability must occur after the participant's account was established.

2)     To return excess contributions.

3)     To return contributions made due to a mistake of fact.

4)      Hardship withdrawals, as defined in the plan.⁷

5)     Under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code, or, in the case of an IRA, a divorce or separation agreement described in Section 71(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.

6)     To meet the minimum distribution requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.

7)     To make "substantially equal periodic payments" as described in Section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code.

8)     For loans to participants or beneficiaries.

9)     Separation from service.⁸

10)     Participant-directed redemptions to purchase shares of a mutual fund (other than a fund managed by the Manager or a subsidiary of the Manager) if the plan has made special arrangements with the Distributor.

11)     Plan termination or "in-service distributions," if the redemption proceeds are rolled over directly to an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored IRA.

q      For distributions from 401(k) plans sponsored by broker-dealers that have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor allowing this waiver.

q      For distributions from retirement plans that have $10 million or more in plan assets and that have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor.

q      For distributions from retirement plans which are part of a retirement plan product or platform offered by certain banks, broker-dealers, financial advisors, insurance companies or record keepers which have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor.

q      At the sole discretion of the Distributor, the contingent deferred sales charge may be waived for redemptions of shares requested by the shareholder of record within 60 days following the termination by the Distributor of the selling agreement between the Distributor and the shareholder of record's broker-dealer of record for the account.

III.      Waivers of Class B, Class C and Class N Sales Charges of Oppenheimer Funds

The Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charges will not be applied to shares purchased in certain types of transactions or redeemed in certain circumstances described below.

 

A.     Waivers for Redemptions in Certain Cases.

The Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charges will be waived for redemptions of shares in the following cases:

q      Shares redeemed involuntarily, as described in "Shareholder Account Rules and Policies," in the applicable Prospectus.

q      Redemptions from accounts other than Retirement Plans following the death or disability of the last surviving shareholder. The death or disability must have occurred after the account was established, and for disability you must provide evidence of a determination of disability by the Social Security Administration.

q      The contingent deferred sales charges are generally not waived following the death or disability of a grantor or trustee for a trust account. The contingent deferred sales charges will only be waived in the limited case of the death of the trustee of a grantor trust or revocable living trust for which the trustee is also the sole beneficiary. The death or disability must have occurred after the account was established, and for disability you must provide evidence of a determination of disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code).

q      Distributions from accounts for which the broker-dealer of record has entered into a special agreement with the Distributor allowing this waiver.

q      At the sole discretion of the Distributor, the contingent deferred sales charge may be waived for redemptions of shares requested by the shareholder of record within 60 days following the termination by the Distributor of the selling agreement between the Distributor and the shareholder of record's broker-dealer of record for the account.

q      Redemptions of Class B shares held by Retirement Plans whose records are maintained on a daily valuation basis by Merrill Lynch or an independent record keeper under a contract with Merrill Lynch.

q      Redemptions of Class C shares of Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust from accounts of clients of financial institutions that have entered into a special arrangement with the Distributor for this purpose.

q      Redemptions of Class C shares of an Oppenheimer fund in amounts of $1 million or more requested in writing by a Retirement Plan sponsor and submitted more than 12 months after the Retirement Plan's first purchase of Class C shares, if the redemption proceeds are invested to purchase Class N shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds.

q      Distributions⁹ from Retirement Plans or other employee benefit plans for any of the following purposes:

1)     Following the death or disability (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) of the participant or beneficiary. The death or disability must occur after the participant's account was established in an Oppenheimer fund.

2)     To return excess contributions made to a participant's account.

3)     To return contributions made due to a mistake of fact.

4)     To make hardship withdrawals, as defined in the plan.¹⁰
5)     To make distributions required under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order or, in the case of an IRA, a divorce or separation agreement described in Section 71(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.
6)     To meet the minimum distribution requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.
7)     To make "substantially equal periodic payments" as described in Section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code.
8)     For loans to participants or beneficiaries.¹¹
9)     On account of the participant's separation from service.¹²
10)     Participant-directed redemptions to purchase shares of a mutual fund (other than a fund managed by the Manager or a subsidiary of the Manager) offered as an investment option in a Retirement Plan if the plan has made special arrangements with the Distributor.
11)     Distributions made on account of a plan termination or "in-service" distributions, if the redemption proceeds are rolled over directly to an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored IRA.
12)     For distributions from a participant's account under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan after the participant reaches age 59½, as long as the aggregate value of the distributions does not exceed 10% of the account's value, adjusted annually.
13)     Redemptions of Class B shares under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan for an account other than a Retirement Plan, if the aggregate value of the redeemed shares does not exceed 10% of the account's value, adjusted annually.
14)     For distributions from 401(k) plans sponsored by broker-dealers that have entered into a special arrangement with the Distributor allowing this waiver.

q      Redemptions of Class B shares or Class C shares under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan from an account other than a Retirement Plan if the aggregate value of the redeemed shares does not exceed 10% of the account's value annually.

q      Redemptions of Class B shares by a Retirement Plan that is either created or qualified under Section 401(a) or 401(k) (excluding owner-only 401(k) plans) of the Internal Revenue Code or that is a non-qualified deferred compensation plan, either (1) purchased after June 30, 2008, or (2) beginning on July 1, 2011, held longer than three years.

q      Redemptions by owner-only 401(k) plans of Class B shares purchased after June 30, 2008.

B.     Waivers for Shares Sold or Issued in Certain Transactions.

The contingent deferred sales charge is also waived on Class B and Class C shares sold or issued in the following cases:

q      Shares sold to the Manager or its affiliates.

q      Shares sold to registered management investment companies or separate accounts of insurance companies having an agreement with the Manager or the Distributor for that purpose.

q      Shares issued in plans of reorganization to which the Fund is a party.

q      Shares sold to present or former officers, directors, trustees or employees (and their "immediate families" as defined above in Section I.A.) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates and retirement plans established by them for their employees.

IV.      Special Sales Charge Arrangements for Shareholders of Certain Oppenheimer Funds Who Were Shareholders of Former Quest for Value Funds

The initial and contingent deferred sales charge rates and waivers for Class A, Class B and Class C shares described in the Prospectus or Statement of Additional Information of the Oppenheimer funds are modified as described below for certain persons who were shareholders of the former Quest for Value Funds. To be eligible, those persons must have been shareholders on November 24, 1995, when OppenheimerFunds, Inc. became the investment adviser to those former Quest for Value Funds. Those funds include:

Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc.          Oppenheimer Small- & Mid- Cap Value Fund

Oppenheimer Quest Balanced Fund               Oppenheimer Quest International Value Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund

     These arrangements also apply to shareholders of the following funds when they merged (were reorganized) into various Oppenheimer funds on November 24, 1995:

Quest for Value U.S. Government Income Fund     Quest for Value New York Tax-Exempt Fund

Quest for Value Investment Quality Income Fund     Quest for Value National Tax-Exempt Fund

Quest for Value Global Income Fund          Quest for Value California Tax-Exempt Fund

     All of the funds listed above are referred to in this Appendix as the "Former Quest for Value Funds." The waivers of initial and contingent deferred sales charges described in this Appendix apply to shares of an Oppenheimer fund that are either:

q      acquired by such shareholder pursuant to an exchange of shares of an Oppenheimer fund that was one of the Former Quest for Value Funds, or

q      purchased by such shareholder by exchange of shares of another Oppenheimer fund that were acquired pursuant to the merger of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds into that other Oppenheimer fund on November 24, 1995.

A.     Reductions or Waivers of Class A Sales Charges.

n      Reduced Class A Initial Sales Charge Rates for Certain Former Quest for Value Funds Shareholders.

Purchases by Groups and Associations. The following table sets forth the initial sales charge rates for Class A shares purchased by members of "Associations" formed for any purpose other than the purchase of securities. The rates in the table apply if that Association purchased shares of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds or received a proposal to purchase such shares from OCC Distributors prior to November 24, 1995.
 

Number of Eligible Employees or Members	Initial Sales Charge as a % of Offering Price	Initial Sales Charge as a % of Net Amount Invested	Concession as % of Offering Price
9 or Fewer	2.50%	2.56%	2.00%
At least 10 but not more than 49	2.00%	2.04%	1.60%

     For purchases by Associations having 50 or more eligible employees or members, there is no initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares, but those shares are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge described in the applicable fund's Prospectus.
 
     Purchases made under this arrangement qualify for the lower of either the sales charge rate in the table based on the number of members of an Association, or the sales charge rate that applies under the Right of Accumulation described in the applicable fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information. Individuals who qualify under this arrangement for reduced sales charge rates as members of Associations also may purchase shares for their individual or custodial accounts at these reduced sales charge rates, upon request to the Distributor.
 

n      Waiver of Class A Sales Charges for Certain Shareholders. Class A shares purchased by the following investors are not subject to any Class A initial or contingent deferred sales charges:

·      Shareholders who were shareholders of the AMA Family of Funds on February 28, 1991 and who acquired shares of any of the Former Quest for Value Funds by merger of a portfolio of the AMA Family of Funds.

·      Shareholders who acquired shares of any Former Quest for Value Fund by merger of any of the portfolios of the Unified Funds.

n      Waiver of Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge in Certain Transactions. The Class A contingent deferred sales charge will not apply to redemptions of Class A shares purchased by the following investors who were shareholders of any Former Quest for Value Fund:

     Investors who purchased Class A shares from a dealer that is or was not permitted to receive a sales load or redemption fee imposed on a shareholder with whom that dealer has a fiduciary relationship, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and regulations adopted under that law.
 

B.     Class A, Class B and Class C Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers.
 

n      Waivers for Redemptions of Shares Purchased Prior to March 6, 1995. In the following cases, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for redemptions of Class A, Class B or Class C shares of an Oppenheimer fund. The shares must have been acquired by the merger of a Former Quest for Value Fund into the fund or by exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Quest for Value Fund or into which such fund merged. Those shares must have been purchased prior to March 6, 1995 in connection with:

·      withdrawals under an automatic withdrawal plan holding only either Class B or Class C shares if the annual withdrawal does not exceed 10% of the initial value of the account value, adjusted annually; and

·      liquidation of a shareholder's account if the aggregate net asset value of shares held in the account is less than the required minimum value of such accounts.

n      Waivers for Redemptions of Shares Purchased on or After March 6, 1995 but Prior to November 24, 1995. In the following cases, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for redemptions of Class A, Class B or Class C shares of an Oppenheimer fund. The shares must have been acquired by the merger of a Former Quest for Value Fund into the fund or by exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Quest For Value Fund or into which such Former Quest for Value Fund merged. Those shares must have been purchased on or after March 6, 1995, but prior to November 24, 1995:

·      redemptions following the death or disability of the shareholder(s) (as evidenced by a determination of total disability by the U.S. Social Security Administration);

·      withdrawals under an automatic withdrawal plan (but only for Class B or Class C shares) where the annual withdrawals do not exceed 10% of the initial value of the account value; adjusted annually; and

·      liquidation of a shareholder's account if the aggregate net asset value of shares held in the account is less than the required minimum account value.

A shareholder's account will be credited with the amount of any contingent deferred sales charge paid on the redemption of any Class A, Class B or Class C shares of the Oppenheimer fund described in this section if the proceeds are invested in the same Class of shares in that fund or another Oppenheimer fund within 90 days after redemption.

V.      Special Sales Charge Arrangements for Shareholders of Certain Oppenheimer Funds Who Were Shareholders of Connecticut Mutual Investment Accounts, Inc.

The initial and contingent deferred sales charge rates and waivers for Class A and Class B shares described in the respective Prospectus (or this Appendix) of the following Oppenheimer funds (each is referred to as a "Fund" in this section):

Oppenheimer U. S. Government Trust,
Oppenheimer Core Bond Fund,
Oppenheimer Value Fund

and are modified as described below for those Fund shareholders who were shareholders of the following funds (referred to as the "Former Connecticut Mutual Funds") on March 1, 1996, when OppenheimerFunds, Inc. became the investment adviser to the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds:

Connecticut Mutual Liquid Account               Connecticut Mutual Total Return Account

Connecticut Mutual Government Securities Account     CMIA LifeSpan Capital Appreciation Account

Connecticut Mutual Income Account          CMIA LifeSpan Balanced Account
Connecticut Mutual Growth Account          CMIA Diversified Income Account
 

A.     Prior Class A CDSC and Class A Sales Charge Waivers.

n      Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge. Certain shareholders of a Fund and the other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds are entitled to continue to make additional purchases of Class A shares at net asset value without a Class A initial sales charge, but subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge that was in effect prior to March 18, 1996 (the "prior Class A CDSC"). Under the prior Class A CDSC, if any of those shares are redeemed within one year of purchase, they will be assessed a 1% contingent deferred sales charge on an amount equal to the current market value or the original purchase price of the shares sold, whichever is smaller (in such redemptions, any shares not subject to the prior Class A CDSC will be redeemed first).

Those shareholders who are eligible for the prior Class A CDSC are:

1)     persons whose purchases of Class A shares of a Fund and other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds were $500,000 prior to March 18, 1996, as a result of direct purchases or purchases pursuant to the Fund's policies on Combined Purchases or Rights of Accumulation, who still hold those shares in that Fund or other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds, and

2)     persons whose intended purchases under a Statement of Intention entered into prior to March 18, 1996, with the former general distributor of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds to purchase shares valued at $500,000 or more over a 13-month period entitled those persons to purchase shares at net asset value without being subject to the Class A initial sales charge.

Any of the Class A shares of a Fund and the other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds that were purchased at net asset value prior to March 18, 1996, remain subject to the prior Class A CDSC, or if any additional shares are purchased by those shareholders at net asset value pursuant to this arrangement they will be subject to the prior Class A CDSC.

n      Class A Sales Charge Waivers. Additional Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased without a sales charge, by a person who was in one (or more) of the categories below and acquired Class A shares prior to March 18, 1996, and still holds Class A shares:

1)     any purchaser, provided the total initial amount invested in the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds totaled $500,000 or more, including investments made pursuant to the Combined Purchases, Statement of Intention and Rights of Accumulation features available at the time of the initial purchase and such investment is still held in one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds or a Fund into which such Fund merged;

2)     any participant in a qualified plan, provided that the total initial amount invested by the plan in the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds totaled $500,000 or more;

3)     Directors of the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds and members of their immediate families;

4)     employee benefit plans sponsored by Connecticut Mutual Financial Services, L.L.C. ("CMFS"), the prior distributor of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds, and its affiliated companies;

5)     one or more members of a group of at least 1,000 persons (and persons who are retirees from such group) engaged in a common business, profession, civic or charitable endeavor or other activity, and the spouses and minor dependent children of such persons, pursuant to a marketing program between CMFS and such group; and

6)     an institution acting as a fiduciary on behalf of an individual or individuals, if such institution was directly compensated by the individual(s) for recommending the purchase of the shares of the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds, provided the institution had an agreement with CMFS.

Purchases of Class A shares made pursuant to (1) and (2) above may be subject to the Class A CDSC of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds described above.

Additionally, Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased without a sales charge by any holder of a variable annuity contract issued in New York State by Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company through the Panorama Separate Account which is beyond the applicable surrender charge period and which was used to fund a qualified plan, if that holder exchanges the variable annuity contract proceeds to buy Class A shares of the Fund.

B.     Class A and Class B Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers.

In addition to the waivers set forth in the Prospectus and in this Appendix, above, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for redemptions of Class A and Class B shares of a Fund and exchanges of Class A or Class B shares of a Fund into Class A or Class B shares of a Former Connecticut Mutual Fund provided that the Class A or Class B shares of the Fund to be redeemed or exchanged were (i) acquired prior to March 18, 1996 or (ii) were acquired by exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Connecticut Mutual Fund. Additionally, the shares of such Former Connecticut Mutual Fund must have been purchased prior to March 18, 1996:

1)     by the estate of a deceased shareholder;

2)     upon the disability of a shareholder, as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code;

3)     for retirement distributions (or loans) to participants or beneficiaries from retirement plans qualified under Sections 401(a) or 403(b)(7)of the Code, or from IRAs, deferred compensation plans created under Section 457 of the Code, or other employee benefit plans;

4)      as tax-free returns of excess contributions to such retirement or employee benefit plans;

5)     in whole or in part, in connection with shares sold to any state, county, or city, or any instrumentality, department, authority, or agency thereof, that is prohibited by applicable investment laws from paying a sales charge or concession in connection with the purchase of shares of any registered investment management company;

6)     in connection with the redemption of shares of the Fund due to a combination with another investment company by virtue of a merger, acquisition or similar reorganization transaction;

7)     in connection with the Fund's right to involuntarily redeem or liquidate the Fund;

8)     in connection with automatic redemptions of Class A shares and Class B shares in certain retirement plan accounts pursuant to an Automatic Withdrawal Plan but limited to no more than 12% of the original value annually; or

9)     as involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law, or under procedures set forth in the Fund's Articles of Incorporation, or as adopted by the Board of Directors of the Fund.

VI.      Special Reduced Sales Charge for Former Shareholders of Advance America Funds, Inc.

Shareholders of Oppenheimer AMT-Free Municipals, Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust, Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund and Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund who acquired (and still hold) shares of those funds as a result of the reorganization of series of Advance America Funds, Inc. into those Oppenheimer funds on October 18, 1991, and who held shares of Advance America Funds, Inc. on March 30, 1990, may purchase Class A shares of those four Oppenheimer funds at a maximum sales charge rate of 4.50%.

VII.      Sales Charge Waivers on Purchases of Class M Shares of Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund

Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund (referred to as the "Fund" in this section) may sell Class M shares at net asset value without any initial sales charge to the classes of current Class M shareholders, listed below who, prior to March 11, 1996, owned shares of the Fund's then-existing Class A and were permitted to purchase those shares at net asset value without a sales charge:

q      the Manager and its affiliates,

q      present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and their "immediate families" as defined in the Fund's Statement of Additional Information) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, and retirement plans established by them or the prior investment adviser of the Fund for their employees,

q      registered management investment companies or separate accounts of insurance companies that had an agreement with the Fund's prior investment adviser or distributor for that purpose,

q      dealers or brokers that have a sales agreement with the Distributor, if they purchase shares for their own accounts or for retirement plans for their employees,

q      employees and registered representatives (and their spouses) of dealers or brokers described in the preceding section or financial institutions that have entered into sales arrangements with those dealers or brokers (and whose identity is made known to the Distributor) or with the Distributor, but only if the purchaser certifies to the Distributor at the time of purchase that the purchaser meets these qualifications,

q      dealers, brokers, or registered investment advisers that had entered into an agreement with the Distributor or the prior distributor of the Fund specifically providing for the use of Class M shares of the Fund in specific investment products made available to their clients, and

q      dealers, brokers or registered investment advisers that had entered into an agreement with the Distributor or prior distributor of the Fund's shares to sell shares to defined contribution employee retirement plans for which the dealer, broker, or investment adviser provides administrative services.

Appendix B

RATINGS DEFINITIONS

Below are summaries of the rating definitions used by the Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations ("NRSROs") listed below. Those ratings represent the opinion of the NRSRO as to the credit quality of issues that they rate. The summaries below are based upon publicly available information provided by the NRSROs.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's")

Long-Term Ratings: Bonds and Preferred Stock Issuer Ratings

Aaa: Bonds and preferred stock rated "Aaa" are judged to be the best quality. They carry the smallest degree of investment risk. Interest payments are protected by a large or by an exceptionally stable margin and principal is secure. While the various protective elements are likely to change, the changes that can be expected are most unlikely to impair the fundamentally strong position of such issues.
 

Aa: Bonds and preferred stock rated "Aa" are judged to be of high quality by all standards. Together with the "Aaa" group, they comprise what are generally known as high-grade bonds. They are rated lower than the best bonds because margins of protection may not be as large as with "Aaa" securities or fluctuation of protective elements may be of greater amplitude or there may be other elements present which make the long-term risk appear somewhat larger than that of "Aaa" securities.
 

A: Bonds and preferred stock rated "A" possess many favorable investment attributes and are to be considered as upper-medium grade obligations. Factors giving security to principal and interest are considered adequate but elements may be present which suggest a susceptibility to impairment some time in the future.
 

Baa: Bonds and preferred stock rated "Baa" are considered medium-grade obligations; that is, they are neither highly protected nor poorly secured. Interest payments and principal security appear adequate for the present but certain protective elements may be lacking or may be characteristically unreliable over any great length of time. Such bonds lack outstanding investment characteristics and have speculative characteristics as well.
 

Ba: Bonds and preferred stock rated "Ba" are judged to have speculative elements. Their future cannot be considered well-assured. Often the protection of interest and principal payments may be very moderate and thereby not well safeguarded during both good and bad times over the future. Uncertainty of position characterizes bonds in this class.
 

B: Bonds and preferred stock rated "B" generally lack characteristics of the desirable investment. Assurance of interest and principal payments or of maintenance of other terms of the contract over any long period of time may be small.
 

Caa: Bonds and preferred stock rated "Caa" are of poor standing. Such issues may be in default or there may be present elements of danger with respect to principal or interest.

Ca: Bonds and preferred stock rated "Ca" represent obligations which are speculative in a high degree. Such issues are often in default or have other marked shortcomings.
 

C: Bonds and preferred stock rated "C" are the lowest class of rated bonds and can be regarded as having extremely poor prospects of ever attaining any real investment standing.
 
Moody's applies numerical modifiers 1, 2, and 3 in each generic rating classification from "Aa" through "Caa." The modifier "1" indicates that the obligation ranks in the higher end of its generic rating category; the modifier "2" indicates a mid-range ranking; and the modifier "3" indicates a ranking in the lower end of that generic rating category. Advanced refunded issues that are secured by certain assets are identified with a # symbol.

Prime Rating System (Short-Term Ratings – Taxable Debt)

These ratings are opinions of the ability of issuers to honor senior financial obligations and contracts. Such obligations generally have an original maturity not exceeding one year, unless explicitly noted.

Prime-1: Issuer has a superior ability for repayment of senior short-term debt obligations.
 

Prime-2: Issuer has a strong ability for repayment of senior short-term debt obligations. Earnings trends and coverage ratios, while sound, may be more subject to variation. Capitalization characteristics, while appropriate, may be more affected by external conditions. Ample alternate liquidity is maintained.
 

Prime-3: Issuer has an acceptable ability for repayment of senior short-term obligations. The effect of industry characteristics and market compositions may be more pronounced. Variability in earnings and profitability may result in changes in the level of debt protection measurements and may require relatively high financial leverage. Adequate alternate liquidity is maintained.
 

Not Prime: Issuer does not fall within any Prime rating category.
 

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services ("Standard & Poor's"), a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings

Issue credit ratings are based in varying degrees, on the following considerations:

·      Likelihood of payment-capacity and willingness of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on an obligation in accordance with the terms of the obligation;

·      Nature of and provisions of the obligation; and

·      Protection afforded by, and relative position of, the obligation in the event of bankruptcy, reorganization, or other arrangement under the laws of bankruptcy and other laws affecting creditors' rights.

The issue ratings definitions are expressed in terms of default risk. As such, they pertain to senior obligations of an entity. Junior obligations are typically rated lower than senior obligations, to reflect the lower priority in bankruptcy, as noted above.

AAA: An obligation rated "AAA" has the highest rating assigned by Standard & Poor's. The obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is extremely strong.

AA: An obligation rated "AA" differs from the highest rated obligations only in small degree. The obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is very strong.
 

A: An obligation rated "A" is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher-rated categories. However, the obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is still strong.
 

BBB: An obligation rated "BBB" exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

BB, B, CCC, CC, and C: Obligations rated "BB," "B," "CCC," "CC," and "C" are regarded as having significant speculative characteristics. "BB" indicates the least degree of speculation and "C" the highest. While such obligations will likely have some quality and protective characteristics, these may be outweighed by large uncertainties or major exposures to adverse conditions.

BB: An obligation rated "BB" is less vulnerable to nonpayment than other speculative issues. However, they face major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse business, financial, or economic conditions which could lead to the obligor's inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

B: An obligation rated "B" is more vulnerable to nonpayment than obligations rated "BB," but the obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. Adverse business, financial, or economic conditions will likely impair the obligor's capacity or willingness to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

CCC: An obligation rated "CCC" is currently vulnerable to nonpayment, and are dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation. In the event of adverse business, financial, or economic conditions, the obligor is not likely to have the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

CC: An obligation rated "CC" is currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment.

C: Subordinated debt or preferred stock obligations rated "C" are currently highly vulnerable to nonpayment. The "C" rating may be used to cover a situation where a bankruptcy petition has been filed or similar action taken, but payments on this obligation are being continued. A "C" also will be assigned to a preferred stock issue in arrears on dividends or sinking fund payments, but that is currently paying.
 
D: An obligation rated "D" is in payment default. The "D" rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due even if the applicable grace period has not expired, unless Standard & Poor's believes that such payments will be made during such grace period. The "D" rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action if payments on an obligation are jeopardized.
 

The ratings from "AA" to "CCC" may be modified by the addition of a plus (+) or minus (-) sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories.

c: The "c" subscript is used to provide additional information to investors that the bank may terminate its obligation to purchase tendered bonds if the long-term credit rating of the issuer is below an investment-grade level and/or the issuer's bonds are deemed taxable.

p: The letter "p" indicates that the rating is provisional. A provisional rating assumes the successful completion of the project financed by the debt being rated and indicates that payment of debt service requirements is largely or entirely dependent upon the successful, timely completion of the project. This rating, however, while addressing credit quality subsequent to completion of the project, makes no comment on the likelihood of or the risk of default upon failure of such completion. The investor should exercise his own judgment with respect to such likelihood and risk.

Continuance of the ratings is contingent upon Standard & Poor's receipt of an executed copy of the escrow agreement or closing documentation confirming investments and cash flows.

r: The "r" highlights derivative, hybrid, and certain other obligations that Standard & Poor's believes may experience high volatility or high variability in expected returns as a result of noncredit risks. Examples of such obligations are securities with principal or interest return indexed to equities, commodities, or currencies; certain swaps and options; and interest-only and principal-only mortgage securities. The absence of an "r" symbol should not be taken as an indication that an obligation will exhibit no volatility or variability in total return.

N.R. Not rated.

 

Debt obligations of issuers outside the United States and its territories are rated on the same basis as domestic corporate and municipal issues. The ratings measure the creditworthiness of the obligor but do not take into account currency exchange and related uncertainties.

Bond Investment Quality Standards

Under present commercial bank regulations issued by the Comptroller of the Currency, bonds rated in the top four categories ("AAA," "AA," "A," and "BBB," commonly known as investment-grade ratings) generally are regarded as eligible for bank investment. Also, the laws of various states governing legal investments impose certain rating or other standards for obligations eligible for investment by savings banks, trust companies, insurance companies, and fiduciaries in general
 

Short-Term Issue Credit Ratings

Short-term ratings are generally assigned to those obligations considered short-term in the relevant market. In the U.S., for example, that means obligations with an original maturity of no more than 365 days-including commercial paper.

A-1: A short-term obligation rated "A-1" is rated in the highest category by Standard & Poor's. The obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is strong. Within this category, certain obligations are designated with a plus sign (+). This indicates that the obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitment on these obligations is extremely strong.
 

A-2: A short-term obligation rated "A-2" is somewhat more susceptible to the adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic conditions than obligations in higher rating categories. However, the obligor's capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation is satisfactory.
 

A-3: A short-term obligation rated "A-3" exhibits adequate protection parameters. However, adverse economic conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a weakened capacity of the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

B: A short-term obligation rated "B" is regarded as having significant speculative characteristics. The obligor currently has the capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation; however, it faces major ongoing uncertainties which could lead to the obligor's inadequate capacity to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.
 

C: A short-term obligation rated "C" is currently vulnerable to nonpayment and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions for the obligor to meet its financial commitment on the obligation.

D: A short-term obligation rated "D" is in payment default. The "D" rating category is used when payments on an obligation are not made on the date due even if the applicable grace period has not expired, unless Standard & Poor's believes that such payments will be made during such grace period. The "D" rating also will be used upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition or the taking of a similar action if payments on an obligation are jeopardized.

Notes:
A Standard & Poor's note rating reflects the liquidity factors and market access risks unique to notes. Notes due in three years or less will likely receive a note rating. Notes maturing beyond three years will most likely receive a long-term debt rating. The following criteria will be used in making that assessment:

·      Amortization schedule - the larger the final maturity relative to other maturities, the more likely it will
be treated as a note; and

·      Source of payment - the more dependent the issue is on the market for its refinancing, the more likely
it will be treated as a note.

SP-1: Strong capacity to pay principal and interest. An issue with a very strong capacity to pay debt service is given a (+) designation.
 

SP-2: Satisfactory capacity to pay principal and interest, with some vulnerability to adverse financial and economic changes over the term of the notes.
 

SP-3: Speculative capacity to pay principal and interest.
 

Fitch, Inc.

International credit ratings assess the capacity to meet foreign currency or local currency commitments. Both "foreign currency" and "local currency" ratings are internationally comparable assessments. The local currency rating measures the probability of payment within the relevant sovereign state's currency and jurisdiction and therefore, unlike the foreign currency rating, does not take account of the possibility of foreign exchange controls limiting transfer into foreign currency.
 

International Long-Term Credit Ratings

The following ratings scale applies to foreign currency and local currency ratings.

Investment Grade:

AAA: Highest Credit Quality. "AAA" ratings denote the lowest expectation of credit risk. They are assigned only in the case of exceptionally strong capacity for timely payment of financial commitments. This capacity is highly unlikely to be adversely affected by foreseeable events.

AA: Very High Credit Quality. "AA" ratings denote a very low expectation of credit risk. They indicate a very strong capacity for timely payment of financial commitments. This capacity is not significantly vulnerable to foreseeable events.
 

A: High Credit Quality. "A" ratings denote a low expectation of credit risk. The capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is considered strong. This capacity may, nevertheless, be more vulnerable to changes in circumstances or in economic conditions than is the case for higher ratings.

BBB: Good Credit Quality. "BBB" ratings indicate that there is currently a low expectation of credit risk. The capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is considered adequate, but adverse changes in circumstances and in economic conditions are more likely to impair this capacity. This is the lowest investment-grade category.

Speculative Grade:

BB: Speculative. "BB" ratings indicate that there is a possibility of credit risk developing, particularly as the result of adverse economic change over time. However, business or financial alternatives may be available to allow financial commitments to be met. Securities rated in this category are not investment grade.
 

B: Highly Speculative. "B" ratings indicate that significant credit risk is present, but a limited margin of safety remains. Financial commitments are currently being met. However, capacity for continued payment is contingent upon a sustained, favorable business and economic environment.

CCC, CC, and C: High Default Risk. Default is a real possibility. Capacity for meeting financial commitments is solely reliant upon sustained, favorable business or economic developments. A "CC" rating indicates that default of some kind appears probable. "C" ratings signal imminent default.
 

DDD, DD, and D: Default. The ratings of obligations in this category are based on their prospects for achieving partial or full recovery in a reorganization or liquidation of the obligor. While expected recovery values are highly speculative and cannot be estimated with any precision, the following serve as general guidelines. "DDD" obligations have the highest potential for recovery, around 90%-100% of outstanding amounts and accrued interest. "DD" indicates potential recoveries in the range of 50%-90%, and "D" the lowest recovery potential, i.e., below 50%.
 

Entities rated in this category have defaulted on some or all of their obligations. Entities rated "DDD" have the highest prospect for resumption of performance or continued operation with or without a formal reorganization process. Entities rated "DD" and "D" are generally undergoing a formal reorganization or liquidation process; those rated "DD" are likely to satisfy a higher portion of their outstanding obligations, while entities rated "D" have a poor prospect for repaying all obligations.
 
Plus (+) and minus (-) signs may be appended to a rating symbol to denote relative status within the major rating categories. Plus and minus signs are not added to the "AAA" category or to categories below "CCC," nor to short-term ratings other than "F1" (see below).

International Short-Term Credit Ratings

The following ratings scale applies to foreign currency and local currency ratings. A short-term rating has a time horizon of less than 12 months for most obligations, or up to three years for U.S. public finance securities, and thus places greater emphasis on the liquidity necessary to meet financial commitments in a timely manner.

F1: Highest credit quality. Strongest capacity for timely payment of financial commitments. May have an added "+" to denote any exceptionally strong credit feature.

 

F2: Good credit quality. A satisfactory capacity for timely payment of financial commitments, but the margin of safety is not as great as in the case of higher ratings.
 

F3: Fair credit quality. Capacity for timely payment of financial commitments is adequate. However, near-term adverse changes could result in a reduction to non-investment grade.
 

B: Speculative. Minimal capacity for timely payment of financial commitments, plus vulnerability to near-term adverse changes in financial and economic conditions.
 

C: High default risk. Default is a real possibility. Capacity for meeting financial commitments is solely reliant upon a sustained, favorable business and economic environment.

D: Default. Denotes actual or imminent payment default.

¹ In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act, the term "Independent Directors" in this Statement of Additional Information refers to those Directors who are not "interested persons" of the Fund and who do not have any direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the distribution plan or any agreement under the plan.

² Certain waivers also apply to Class M shares of Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund.

³ In the case of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund, a continuously-offered closed-end fund, references to contingent deferred sales charges mean the Fund's Early Withdrawal Charges and references to "redemptions" mean "repurchases" of shares.

⁴ An "employee benefit plan" means any plan or arrangement, whether or not it is "qualified" under the Internal Revenue Code, under which Class N shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds are purchased by a fiduciary or other administrator for the account of participants who are employees of a single employer or of affiliated employers. These may include, for example, medical savings accounts, payroll deduction plans or similar plans. The fund accounts must be registered in the name of the fiduciary or administrator purchasing the shares for the benefit of participants in the plan.

⁵ The term "Group Retirement Plan" means any qualified or non-qualified retirement plan for employees of a corporation or sole proprietorship, members and employees of a partnership or association or other organized group of persons (the members of which may include other groups), if the group has made special arrangements with the Distributor and all members of the group participating in (or who are eligible to participate in) the plan purchase shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds through a single investment dealer, broker or other financial institution designated by the group. Such plans include 457 plans, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs, SIMPLE plans and 403(b) plans other than plans for public school employees. The term "Group Retirement Plan" also includes qualified retirement plans and non-qualified deferred compensation plans and IRAs that purchase shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds through a single investment dealer, broker or other financial institution that has made special arrangements with the Distributor.

⁶ However, that concession will not be paid on purchases of shares in amounts of $1 million or more (including any right of accumulation) by a Retirement Plan that pays for the purchase with the redemption proceeds of Class C shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds held by the Plan for more than one year.

⁷ This provision does not apply to IRAs.

⁸ This provision only applies to qualified retirement plans and 403(b)(7) custodial plans after your separation from service in or after the year you reached age 55.

⁹ The distribution must be requested prior to Plan termination or the elimination of the Oppenheimer funds as an investment option under the Plan.

¹⁰ This provision does not apply to IRAs.

¹¹ This provision does not apply to loans from 403(b)(7) custodial plans and loans from the OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Single K retirement plan.

¹² This provision does not apply to 403(b)(7) custodial plans if the participant is less than age 55, nor to IRAs.

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.

Internet Website:
     www.oppenheimerfunds.com

Investment Adviser

OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

Two World Financial Center
225 Liberty Street, 11^th Floor
New York, New York 10281-1008

Distributor

OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.

Two World Financial Center
225 Liberty Street, 11^th Floor
New York, New York 10281-1008

Transfer Agent

OppenheimerFunds Services
P.O. Box 5270
Denver, Colorado 80217
1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677)

Custodian Bank

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
40 Water Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109-3661

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

KPMG llp

707 Seventeenth Street

Denver, Colorado 80202

Legal Counsel

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

1177 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10036

1234

PX0835.001.0209

OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND, INC.

FORM N-1A

PART C
 
OTHER INFORMATION

Item 23. – Exhibits

(a)     (i) Articles of Amendment and Restatement of the Fund dated 3/3/97: Previously filed with Registrant’s Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2, 2/21/97, and incorporated herein by reference.
 

     (ii) Articles Supplementary dated 2/5/01 to Articles of Amendment and Restatement of the Fund: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 7, 2/08/01 and incorporated herein by reference.

     (iii) Articles of Amendment of the Fund dated 7/16/07, effective 8/1/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.

(b)     By-Laws as amended through 8/1/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.
 
(c)     (i) Specimen Class A Share Certificate: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 9, 12/23/02, and incorporated herein by reference.

     (ii) Specimen Class B Share Certificate: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 9, 12/23/02, and incorporated herein by reference.

     (iii) Specimen Class C Share Certificate: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 9, 12/23/02, and incorporated herein by reference.

     (iv) Specimen Class N Share Certificate: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 9, 12/23/02, and incorporated herein by reference.

(d)     (i) Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement of the Fund dated 8/1/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.

(e)     (i)     General Distributor's Agreement dated 8/1/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.

(ii)     Form of Dealer Agreement of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Main Street Funds, Inc. (Reg. No.33-17850), (10/23/06), and incorporated herein by reference.

(iii)     Form of Broker Agreement of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Main Street Funds, Inc. (Reg. No.33-17850), (10/23/06), and incorporated herein by reference.

(iv)     Form of Agency Agreement of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Main Street Funds, Inc. (Reg. No.33-17850), (10/23/06), and incorporated herein by reference.

     (v)     Form of Trust Company Fund/SERV Purchase Agreement of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 45 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer High Yield Fund (Reg. No. 2-62076), (10/26/01), and incorporated herein by reference.
 

     (vi)     Form of Trust Company Agency Agreement of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Main Street Funds, Inc. (Reg. No.33-17850), (10/23/06), and incorporated herein by reference.

(f)     (i)     Compensation Deferral Plan for Eligible Trustees as Amended & Restated, effective 1/1/08: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 15 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer MidCap Fund (Reg. No. 333-31533), ( 2/20/08), and incorporated herein by reference.

     (ii)     Amended and Restated Retirement Plan for Non-Interested Trustees and Directors, effective 11/1/07: Previously filed with Post Effective Amendment No. 15 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer MidCap Fund (Reg. No. 333-31533), (2/20/08), and incorporated herein by reference.

(g)      (i) Global Custody Agreement dated February 16, 2007: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 57 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc. (Reg. No. 2-65223), (7/31/07), and incorporated herein by reference.

     (ii) Amendment No. 1 dated 7/20/07 to the Global Custody Agreement: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 57 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc. (Reg. No. 2-65223), (7/31/07), and incorporated herein by reference.

(h)     Not applicable.

(i)     (a) Opinion and Consent of Counsel dated 2/13/87: Previously filed as Exhibit 10 to Registrant's Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2, 2/21/97 , and incorporated herein by reference.

     (b) Opinion and Consent of Counsel dated 2/21/97: Previously filed with Registrant’s Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2, 2/21/97, and incorporated herein by reference.

(j)     Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Consent: Filed Herewith.
 

(k)      Not applicable.

(l)     (i) Investment Letter dated 2/28/97 from OppenheimerFunds, Inc. to Registrant: Previously filed with Registrant’s Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2, 2/21/97, and incorporated herein by reference.

     (ii) Investment Letter dated 12/4/86 from Quest for Value Advisors, Inc.: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 1, 11/25/97, and incorporated herein by reference.
 

(m)     (i) Amended and Restated Distribution and Service Plan and Agreement for Class A shares dated 8/1/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.

     (ii) Amended and Restated Distribution and Service Plan and Agreement for Class B shares dated 8/1/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.

     (iii) Amended and Restated Distribution and Service Plan and Agreement for Class C shares dated 81/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.

     (iv) Amended and Restated Distribution and Service Plan and Agreement for Class N shares dated 8/1/07: Previously filed with Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 16, 7/31/07, and incorporated herein by reference.

(n)      Oppenheimer Funds Multiple Class Plan under Rule 18f-3 updated through 8/20/08: Previously filed with the Post-Effective Amendment No. 23 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund (Reg. No. 333-128848), (11/26/08), and incorporated herein by reference.

(o)     Power of Attorney for all Trustees/Directors and Principal Officers dated February 5, 2007: Previously filed with the Pre-effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc. (Reg No. 333-152572 ), (9/10/08), and incorporated herein by reference.

(p)     Amended and Restated Code of Ethics of the Oppenheimer Funds dated August 30, 2007 under Rule 17j-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940: Previously filed with the Initial Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Portfolio Series Fixed Income Investor Fund (Reg. No. 333-146105), (09/14/07), and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 24. - Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with the Fund

None.
 

Item 25. - Indemnification

Reference is made to the provisions of Article Seventh of Registrant's Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust filed as Exhibit 23(a) to this Registration Statement, and incorporated herein by reference.
 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to trustees, officers and controlling persons of Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a trustee, officer or controlling person of Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such trustee, officer or controlling person, Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

Item 26. - Business and Other Connections of the Investment Adviser

(a)     OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is the investment adviser of the Registrant; it and certain subsidiaries and affiliates act in the same capacity to other investment companies, including without limitation those described in Parts A and B hereof and listed in Item 26(b) below.
 
(b)     There is set forth below information as to any other business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature in which each officer and director of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is, or at any time during the past two fiscal years has been, engaged for his/her own account or in the capacity of director, officer, employee, partner or trustee.

Name and Current Position with OppenheimerFunds, Inc.	Other Business and Connections During the Past Two Years
Timothy L. Abbuhl, Vice President	Treasurer of Centennial Asset Management Corporation; Vice President and Assistant Treasurer of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Patrick Adams Vice President	None
Robert Agan, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Shareholders Services, Inc.; Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation and OFI Private Investments Inc.
Carl Algermissen, Vice President & Associate Counsel	Assistant Secretary of Centennial Asset Management Corporation.
Michael Amato, Vice President	None
Nicole Andersen, Assistant Vice President	None
Janette Aprilante, Vice President & Secretary	Secretary (since December 2001) of: Centennial Asset Management Corporation, OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., HarbourView Asset Management Corporation (since June 2003), Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., Trinity Investment Management Corporation (since January 2005), OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program, OFI Private Investments Inc. (since June 2003) and OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since June 2003). Assistant Secretary of OFI Trust Company (since December 2001).
Dmitri Artemiev Assistant Vice President	Formerly (until January 2007) Analyst/Developer at Fidelity Investments.
Hany S. Ayad, Vice President	None
Paul Aynsley, Vice President	Formerly Vice President at Kepler Equities (December 2006 – February 2008)
James F. Bailey, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of Shareholder Services, Inc. (since March 2006).
Robert Baker, Vice President	None
John Michael Banta, Assistant Vice President	None
Michael Barnes, Assistant Vice President	None
Adam Bass, Assistant Vice President	None
Kevin Baum, Vice President	None
Jeff Baumgartner, Vice President	Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
Marc Baylin, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Todd Becerra, Assistant Vice President	None
Kathleen Beichert, Senior Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Gerald B. Bellamy, Vice President	Vice President (Sales Manager of the International Division) of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Emanuele Bergagnine,      Assistant Vice President	Assistant Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Robert Bertucci,              Assistant Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Rajeev Bhaman, Senior Vice President	Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Craig Billings, Vice President	None
Mark Binning, Assistant Vice President	None
Julie Blanchard, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Fund Accounting Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (April 2006 – February 2008).
Beth Bleimehl, Assistant Vice President	None
Lisa I. Bloomberg, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel	Assistant Secretary of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.
Veronika Boesch, Vice President	None
Chad Boll, Vice President	None
Antulio N. Bomfim, Vice President	None
Michelle Borre Massick, Vice President	None
Lori E. Bostrom, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel	Assistant Secretary of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program.
David J. Bowers Assistant Vice President	Formerly (until July 2007) Analyst at Evergreen Investments.
John Boydell, Vice President	None
Richard Britton, Vice President	None
Garrett C. Broadrup, Vice President & Assistant Counsel	None
Michael Bromberg, Assistant Vice President	None
Holly Broussard, Vice President	None
Roger Buckley, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager in Finance (May 2006 – February 2008) at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Carla Buffulin, Assistant Vice President	None
Stephanie Bullington, Assistant Vice President	None
Paul Burke, Vice President	None
Mark Burns, Vice President	None
JoAnne Butler, Assistant Vice President	None
Geoffrey Caan, Vice President	None
Christine Calandrella, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Director of Empower Network (March 2007 – September 2007); formerly HR Manager of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (June 1998 – March 2007).
Patrick Campbell, Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc. and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc.
Debra Casey, Vice President	None
Lisa Chaffee, Vice President	None
Ronald Chibnik, Vice President	None
Patrick Sheng Chu, Assistant Vice President	None
Brett Clark, Vice President	None
Jennifer Clark, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (February 2006 – February 2008). Assistant Vice President at Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., and OFI Private Investments Inc.
H.C. Digby Clements, Senior Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Thomas Closs, Assistant Vice President	None
David Cole, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc (May 2006 – January 2008).
Eric Compton, Vice President	None
Gerald James Concepcion, Assistant Vice President	None
Susan Cornwell, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc.; Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program.
Cheryl Corrigan, Assistant Vice President	None
Belinda J. Cosper, Assistant Vice President	None
Scott Cottier, Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Geoffrey Craddock Senior Vice President	Formerly Senior Vice President and Head of Market Risk Management for CIBC.
Terry Crady, Assistant Vice President	Formerly IT Development Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
George Curry, Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Kevin Dachille, Vice President	None
Rushan Dagli, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc., Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc.
John Damian, Senior Vice President	None
Jason Davis, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Robert Dawson, Assistant Vice President	None
John Delano, Vice President	None
Kendra Delisa, Assistant Vice President	None
Damaris De Los Santos, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Senior Account Executive (July 2003 – February 2008).
Richard Demarco,               Assistant Vice President	None
Craig P. Dinsell, Executive Vice President	None
Randall C. Dishmon, Vice President	None
Rebecca K. Dolan, Vice President	None
Steven D. Dombrower, Vice President	Senior Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc.; Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Sara Donahue, Assistant Vice President	None
Alicia Dopico, Assistant Vice President	Formerly (until August 2007) Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Thomas Doyle, Assistant Vice President	None
Bruce C. Dunbar, Senior Vice President	None
Brian Dvorak, Vice President	None
Richard Edmiston, Vice President	None
Taylor Edwards, Vice President & Assistant Counsel	None
Venkat Eleswarapu, Vice President	None
Christopher Emanuel, Vice President	None
Daniel R. Engstrom, Vice President	None
James Robert Erven, Assistant Vice President	None
George R. Evans, Senior Vice President & Director of International Equities	None
Edward N. Everett, Vice President	None
Kathy Faber, Assistant Vice President	None
David Falicia, Assistant Vice President	Assistant Secretary (as of July 2004) of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
Rachel Fanopoulos, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager (until August 2007) at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Matthew Farkas, Vice President and Assistant Counsel	None
Kristie Feinberg, Vice President and Assistant Treasurer	Assistant Treasurer of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp., Centennial Asset Management Corp., OFI Institutional Asset Management Inc. and OFI Institutional Asset Management; Treasurer of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program, Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.
William Ferguson, Assistant Vice President	None
Emmanuel Ferreira, Vice President	None
Ronald H. Fielding, Senior Vice President; Chairman of the Rochester Division	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.; Director of ICI Mutual Insurance Company; Governor of St. John’s College; Chairman of the Board of Directors of International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.
Steven Fling, Assistant Vice President	None
David Foxhoven, Senior Vice President	Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program; Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
Colleen M. Franca, Vice President	None
Barbara Fraser, Vice President & Associate Counsel	Secretary of OFI Trust Company (since December 2007).
Dominic Freud, Vice President	None
Hazem Gamal, Vice President	None
Charles Gapay, Assistant Vice President	None
Seth Gelman, Vice President	None
Timothy Gerlach, Assistant Vice President	None
Alan C. Gilston, Vice President	None
Jacqueline Girvin-Harkins, Assistant Vice President	None
William F. Glavin, Jr., Chief Executive Officer	Formerly Executive Vice President and co-Chief Operating Officer of MassMutual Financial Group.
Jill E. Glazerman, Senior Vice President	None
Kevin Glenn, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Tax Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (December 2006 – February 2008).
Benjamin J. Gord, Vice President	Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation and of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Raquel Granahan, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc.; Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program.
Robert B. Grill, Senior Vice President	None
Marilyn Hall, Vice President	None
Kelly Haney, Assistant Vice President	None
Steve Hauenstein, Assistant Vice President	None
Thomas B. Hayes, Vice President	None
Bradley Hebert, Assistant Vice President	Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (October 2004 – February 2008).
Heidi Heikenfeld, Assistant Vice President	None
Annika Helgerson, Assistant Vice President	None
Daniel Herrmann, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc.
Benjamin Hetrick, Assistant Vice President	Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc (May 2006 – December 2007).
Dennis Hess, Vice President	None
Joseph Higgins, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Dorothy F. Hirshman, Vice President	None
Daniel Hoelscher, Assistant Vice President	None
Eivind Holte, Vice President	Formerly Vice President at U.S. Trust (June 2005 – October 2007)
Craig Holloway Assistant Vice President	None
Lucienne Howell, Vice President	None
Brian Hourihan, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel	Assistant Secretary of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since April 2006) and Trinity Investment Management Corporation.
Edward Hrybenko,                 Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Jason Hubersberger,               Vice President	None
Kevin Andrew Huddleston, Assistant Vice President	None
Scott T. Huebl, Vice President	Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program.
Douglas Huffman, Assistant Vice President	None
Margaret Hui,                        Vice President	None
Dana Hunter,                   Assistant Vice President	None
John Huttlin,                           Vice President	Senior Vice President (Director of the International Division) (since January 2004) of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.; Director (since June 2003) of OppenheimerFunds International Distributor Limited.
James G. Hyland, Assistant Vice President	None
Kelly Bridget Ireland, Vice President	None
Kathleen T. Ives, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Assistant Secretary	Vice President and Assistant Secretary of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc.; Assistant Secretary of Centennial Asset Management Corporation, OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc.
Frank V. Jennings, Senior Vice President	None
John Jennings, Vice President	None
Lisa Kadehjian,                   Assistant Vice President	None
Charles Kandilis,              Assistant Vice President	None
Rezo Kanovich,                    Assistant Vice President	None
Amee Kantesaria,            Assistant Vice President and Assistant Counsel	None
Thomas W. Keffer, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
James Kennedy, Senior Vice President	None
Michael Keogh, Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
John Kiernan, Vice President & Marketing Compliance Manager	None
Audrey Kiszla, Vice President	None
Richard Knott, Executive Vice President	President and Director of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.; Executive Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc.; Executive Vice President & Director of Centennial Asset Management Corporation.
Daniel Kohn, Vice President	None
Martin S. Korn, Senior Vice President	None
Tatyana Kosheleva, Assistant Vice President	Formerly (as of April 2007) Finance Manager at IBM Corp.
Michael Kotlartz, Vice President	None
Brian Kramer, Vice President	None
S. Arthur Krause, Assistant Vice President	None.
Alexander Kurinets, Assistant Vice President	None
Gloria LaFond, Assistant Vice President	None
Lisa Lamentino, Vice President	None
Tracey Lange, Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. and OFI Private Investments Inc.
Jeffrey P. Lagarce, Senior Vice President	President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. as of January 2005.
John Latino, Vice President	None
Gayle Leavitt, Assistant Vice President	None
Christopher M. Leavy, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc., OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc., and Trinity Investment Management Corporation
Randy Legg, Vice President & Associate Counsel	None
Michael S. Levine, Vice President	None
Brian Levitt, Vice President	None
Gang Li, Vice President	None
Shanquan Li, Vice President	None
Julie A. Libby, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of OFI Private Investments Inc.
Daniel Lifshey, Assistant Vice President	None
Mitchell J. Lindauer, Vice President & Assistant General Counsel	None
Bill Linden, Assistant Vice President	None
Malissa B. Lischin, Vice President	Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Justin Livengood, Vice President	None
Christina Loftus, Vice President	None
David P. Lolli, Assistant Vice President	None
Ian Loughlin, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Financial Analysis Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (June 2005 – February 2008).
Daniel G. Loughran Senior Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Patricia Lovett, Senior Vice President	Vice President of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Senior Vice President of Shareholder Services, Inc.
Misha Lozovik, Vice President	None
Dongyan Ma, Assistant Vice President	None
Matthew Maley, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Operations Manager at Bear Stearns (June 2005 – February 2008).
Daniel Martin, Assistant Vice President	None
Jerry Mandzij, Vice President	None
William T. Mazzafro, Vice President	None
Trudi McCanna, Vice President	None
Neil McCarthy, Vice President	None
Elizabeth McCormack, Vice President	Vice President and Assistant Secretary of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
John McCullough, Vice President	None
Joseph McDonnell, Vice President	None
Joseph McGovern, Vice President	None
Charles L. McKenzie, Senior Vice President	Chairman of the Board, Director, Chief Executive Officer and President of OFI Trust Company; Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Director of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.; Chief Executive Officer, President, Senior Managing Director and Director of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation; Chairman, President and Director of Trinity Investment Management Corporation and Vice President of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.
William McNamara, Assistant Vice President	None
Mary McNamee, Vice President	None
Michael Medev, Assistant Vice President	None
Jay Mewhirter, Vice President	None
Andrew J. Mika,                Senior Vice President	None
Jan Miller,                        Assistant Vice President	None
Scott Miller,                           Vice President	Formerly Assistant Vice President at AXA Distributors, LLC (July 2005 – February 2008).
Rejeev Mohammed,         Assistant Vice President	None
Sarah Morrison, Assistant Vice President	None
Jill Mulcahy, Vice President: Rochester Division	None
John V. Murphy, Chairman	Chief Executive Officer of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (from June 2001 until December 2008); President and Management Director of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.; President and Director of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.; Chairman and Director of Shareholder Services, Inc. and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc.; Director of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc., Trinity Investment Management Corporation, Tremont Group Holdings, Inc., HarbourView Asset Management Corporation and OFI Private Investments Inc.; Executive Vice President of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company; Director of DLB Acquisition Corporation; a member of the Investment Company Institute’s Board of Governors.
Suzanne Murphy, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc.
Thomas J. Murray, Vice President	None
Christina Nasta, Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Paul Newman, Assistant Vice President	None
William Norman, Assistant Vice President	None
James B. O’Connell, Assistant Vice President	None
Matthew O’Donnell, Vice President	None
Lisa Ogren, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Tony Oh, Assistant Vice President	None
John J. Okray, Vice President & Assistant Counsel	None
Kristina Olson, Vice President	None
Lerae A. Palumbo, Assistant Vice President	None
David P. Pellegrino, Senior Vice President	None
Robert H. Pemble, Vice President	None
Lori L. Penna, Vice President	None
Brian Petersen, Vice President	Assistant Treasurer of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program.
Marmeline Petion-Midy, Assistant Vice President	None
David Pfeffer, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer	Treasurer of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.; Senior Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation since February 2004.
James F. Phillips, Senior Vice President	None
Gary Pilc, Vice President	None
Jeaneen Pisarra, Vice President	None
Nicolas Pisciotti, Vice President	None
Christine Polak, Vice President	None
Sergei Polevikov, Assistant Vice President	None
Jeffrey Portnoy, Assistant Vice President	None
David Preuss, Assistant Vice President	None
Ellen Puckett, Assistant Vice President	None
Jodi Pullman, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Product Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (January 2007 – February 2008).
Paul Quarles, Assistant Vice President	None
Michael E. Quinn, Vice President	None
Julie S. Radtke, Vice President	None
Timothy Raeke, Assistant Vice President	Formerly (as of July 2007) Vice President at MFS Investment Management.
Norma J. Rapini, Assistant Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Corry E. Read, Assistant Vice President	None
Marc Reinganum, Vice President	None
Jill Reiter, Assistant Vice President	None
Jason Reuter, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (February 2006 – February 2008).
Eric Rhodes, Assistant Vice President	None
Maria Ribeiro De Castro, Vice President	None
Eric Richter, Vice President	Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
Grace Roberts, Assistant Vice President	None
David Robertson, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.; President and Director of Centennial Asset Management Corporation.
Robert Robis, Vice President	None
Antoinette Rodriguez, Vice President	None
Lucille Rodriguez, Assistant Vice President	None
Stacey Roode, Senior Vice President	None
Jeffrey S. Rosen, Vice President	None
Richard Royce, Vice President	None
Erica Rualo, Assistant Vice President	None
Adrienne Ruffle, Vice President & Assistant Counsel	Assistant Secretary of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program.
Kim Russomanno, Assistant Vice President	None
Gerald Rutledge, Vice President	None
Julie Anne Ryan, Vice President	None
Timothy Ryan, Vice President	None
Matthew Torpey, Assistant Vice President	None
Rohit Sah, Vice President	None
Gary Salerno, Assistant Vice President	Formerly (as of May 2007) Separate Account Business Liaison at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Valerie Sanders, Vice President	None
Kurt Savallo, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Senior Business Analyst at OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Mary Beth Schellhorn, Assistant Vice President	None
Ellen P. Schoenfeld, Vice President	None
Kathleen Schmitz, Assistant Vice President	Assistant Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation. Formerly Fund Accounting Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (November 2004 – February 2008).
Patrick Schneider, Assistant Vice President	None
Scott A. Schwegel, Assistant Vice President	None
Allan P. Sedmak, Assistant Vice President	None
Jennifer L. Sexton, Vice President	Senior Vice President of OFI Private Investments Inc.
Asutosh Shah, Vice President	None
Kamal Shah, Vice President	None
Navin Sharma, Vice President	None
Tammy Sheffer, Vice President	None
Mary Dugan Sheridan, Vice President	None
Nicholas Sherwood, Assistant Vice President	Formerly Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (February 2006 – February 2008).
David C. Sitgreaves, Assistant Vice President	None
Michael Skatrud, Assistant Vice President	Formerly (as of March 2007) Corporate Bond Analyst at Putnam Investments.
Enrique H. Smith, Vice President	None
Kevin Smith, Vice President	None
Paul Snogren Assistant Vice President	None
Louis Sortino, Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Keith J. Spencer, Senior Vice President	None
Marco Antonio Spinar, Assistant Vice President	None
Alice Stein, Vice President & Assistant Counsel	Director and Vice President at Morgan Stanley Investment Management from (2004 – 2008).
Brett Stein, Vice President	None
Richard A. Stein, Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Arthur P. Steinmetz, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation; Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Jennifer Stevens, Vice President	None
Benjamin Stewart, Assistant Vice President	None
Peter Strzalkowski, Vice President	Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management, Inc. Formerly (as of August 2007). Founder/Managing Partner at Vector Capital Management.
Michael Sussman, Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Thomas Swaney, Vice President	Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
Brian C. Szilagyi, Assistant Vice President	None
Vincent Toner, Vice President	None
Melinda Trujillo, Vice President	None
Leonid Tsvayg, Assistant Vice President	None
Keith Tucker, Vice President	None
Angela Uttaro, Assistant Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Mark S. Vandehey, Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation and Shareholder Services, Inc.; Chief Compliance Officer of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Trinity Investment Management Corporation, OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program, OFI Private Investments Inc. and OFI Trust Company and OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Maureen Van Norstrand, Vice President	None
Nancy Vann, Vice President & Associate Counsel	None
Rene Vecka, Assistant Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Vincent Vermette, Vice President	Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Elaine Villas-Obusan, Assistant Vice President	None
Ryan Virag, Assistant Vice President	None
Jake Vogelaar, Assistant Vice President	None
Phillip F. Vottiero, Vice President	None
Mark Wachter, Vice President	Formerly Manager at OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (March 2005 – February 2008).
Lisa Walsh, Assistant Vice President	None
Darren Walsh, Executive Vice President	President and Director of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc.
Richard Walsh, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Private Investments.
Thomas Waters, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Deborah Weaver, Vice President	None
Jerry A. Webman, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
Christopher D. Weiler, Vice President: Rochester Division	None
Christine Wells, Vice President	None
Joseph J. Welsh, Vice President	Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation.
Adam Wilde, Assistant Vice President	None
Troy Willis, Assistant Vice President, Rochester Division	None
Mitchell Williams, Vice President	None
Julie Wimer, Assistant Vice President	None
Donna M. Winn, Senior Vice President	President, Chief Executive Officer & Director of OFI Private Investments Inc.; Director & President of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program; Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Brian W. Wixted, Senior Vice President	Treasurer of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation; OppenheimerFunds International Ltd., Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., OFI Private Investments Inc., OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc., OppenheimerFunds plc and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program; Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of OFI Trust Company; Assistant Treasurer of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.
Carol E. Wolf, Senior Vice President	Senior Vice President of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation and of Centennial Asset Management Corporation; Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc; serves on the Board of the Colorado Ballet.
Meredith Wolff, Vice President	Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Oliver Wolff, Assistant Vice President	None
Kurt Wolfgruber, President, Chief Investment Officer & Director	Director of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., Director of Tremont Group Holdings, Inc., HarbourView Asset Management Corporation and OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since June 2003). Management Director of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (since December 2005).
Caleb C. Wong, Vice President	None
Edward C. Yoensky, Assistant Vice President	None
Geoff Youell, Assistant Vice President	None
Lucy Zachman, Vice President	None
Robert G. Zack,             Executive Vice President & General Counsel	General Counsel of Centennial Asset Management Corporation; General Counsel and Director of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.; Senior Vice President and General Counsel of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation and OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.; Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Director of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., OFI Private Investments Inc.; Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Director of OFI Trust Company; Director and Assistant Secretary of OppenheimerFunds International Limited; Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.; Director and Assistant Secretary of OppenheimerFunds International Distributor Limited; Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program; Vice President and Director of Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings Inc.; Director of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Ltd.
Anna Zatulovskaya, Assistant Vice President	None
Mark D. Zavanelli, Vice President	Vice President of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc.
Sara Zervos, Vice President	None
Alex Zhou, Assistant Vice President	None
Ronald Zibelli, Jr. Vice President	Formerly Managing Director and Small Cap Growth Team Leader at Merrill Lynch.

The Oppenheimer Funds include the following:
 
   Centennial Government Trust

Centennial Money Market Trust

 Limited Term New York Municipal Fund (a series of Rochester Portfolio Series)

OFI Tremont Core Strategies Hedge Fund

Oppenheimer Absolute Return Fund

Oppenheimer AMT-Free Municipals

Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipals

Oppenheimer Balanced Fund

Oppenheimer Baring China Fund

Oppenheimer Baring Japan Fund

Oppenheimer Baring SMA International Fund

Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund

Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund

Oppenheimer Cash Reserves

Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund

Oppenheimer Commodity Strategy Total Return Fund

Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund (a series of Bond Fund Series)

Oppenheimer Core Bond Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Integrity Funds)

Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund

Oppenheimer Discovery Fund

Oppenheimer Emerging Growth Fund

Oppenheimer Equity Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Global Fund

Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Fund

Oppenheimer Global Value Fund

Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund

Oppenheimer International Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund

Oppenheimer International Diversified Fund

Oppenheimer International Growth Fund

Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund

Oppenheimer Limited Term California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund

Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Municipal Fund)

Oppenheimer Main Street Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Main Street Funds, Inc.)

Oppenheimer Main Street Opportunity Fund

Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund

Oppenheimer Master Event-Linked Bond Fund, LLC

Oppenheimer Master Loan Fund, LLC

Oppenheimer Master International Value Fund, LLC

Oppenheimer MidCap Fund

Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust (3 series):

Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Pennsylvania Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals

Oppenheimer Portfolio Series (4 series)

Active Allocation Fund

Equity Investor Fund
Conservative Investor Fund

Moderate Investor Fund

Oppenheimer Portfolio Series Fixed Income Active Allocation Fund
Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Principal

Protected Trust)

Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund II (a series of Oppenheimer Principal

Protected Trust II)

Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund III (a series of Oppenheimer Principal

Protected Trust III)

Oppenheimer Quest For Value Funds (3 series)

Oppenheimer Quest Balanced Fund

Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund

Oppenheimer Small- & Mid-Cap Value Fund

Oppenheimer Quest International Value Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Real Estate Fund

Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Rochester Arizona Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Double Tax-Free Municipals

Oppenheimer Rochester General Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Maryland Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Massachusetts Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Michigan Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Minnesota Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester North Carolina Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Ohio Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Virginia Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Select Value Fund

Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund

Oppenheimer Series Fund, Inc. (1 series):

Oppenheimer Value Fund

Oppenheimer SMA Core Bond Fund

Oppenheimer SMA International Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2010 Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2015 Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2020 Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2025 Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2030 Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2040 Fund

Oppenheimer Transition 2050 Fund

Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust

Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds (11 series):

Oppenheimer Balanced Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Core Bond Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Global Securities Fund/VA

Oppenheimer High Income Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Main Street Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund/VA

Oppenheimer MidCap Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Money Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Strategic Bond Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Value Fund/VA

Panorama Series Fund, Inc. (3 series):

Growth Portfolio

Oppenheimer International Growth Fund/VA

Total Return Portfolio

Rochester Fund Municipals
 
The address of the Oppenheimer funds listed above, Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., Centennial Asset Management Corporation, and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program is 6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924.
The address of OppenheimerFunds, Inc., OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp., OFI Private Investments Inc., OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc. and OFI Trust Company is Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11^th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1008.
The address of OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. is 70 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland.
The address of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Ltd., is One Silk Road, London, England EC27 8HQ
The address of Trinity Investment Management Corporation is 301 North Spring Street, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 16823.

The address of OppenheimerFunds International Distributor Limited is 13^th Floor, Printing House, 6 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong.

Item 27. Principal Underwriter

(a)     OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. is the Distributor of the Registrant's shares. It is also the Distributor of each of the other registered open-end investment companies for which OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is the investment adviser, as described in Part A and Part B of this Registration Statement and listed in Item 26(b) above (except Panorama Series Fund, Inc.) and for MassMutual Institutional Funds.
 
(b)     The directors and officers of the Registrant's principal underwriter are:

Name & Principal Business Address	Position & Office with Underwriter	Position and Office with Registrant
Timothy Abbhul(1)	Vice President and Treasurer	None
Robert Agan(1)	Vice President	None
Anthony Allocco(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Janette Aprilante(2)	Secretary	None
James Barker 1723 W. Nelson Street Chicago, IL 60657	Vice President	None
Kathleen Beichert(1)	Senior Vice President	None
Rocco Benedetto(2)	Vice President	None
Christopher Bergeron	Vice President	None
Rick Bettridge 11504 Flowering Plum Lane Highland, UT 84003	Vice President	None
David A. Borrelli 105 Black Calla Ct. San Ramon, CA 94583	Vice President	None
Jeffrey R. Botwinick 4431 Twin Pines Drive Manlius, NY 13104	Vice President	None
Sarah Bourgraf(1)	Vice President	None
Bryan Bracchi 1124 Hampton Dr. Allen, TX. 75013	Vice President	None
Joshua Broad(2)	Vice President	None
Kevin E. Brosmith 5 Deer Path South Natlick, MA 01760	Senior Vice President	None
Jeffrey W. Bryan 1048 Malaga Avenue Coral Gables, FL 33134	Vice President	None
Ross Burkstaller 211 Tulane Drive SE Albuquerque, NM 87106	Vice President	None
Robert Caruso 15 Deforest Road Wilton, CT 06897	Vice President	None
Donelle Chisolm(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Andrew Chronofsky	Vice President	None
Angelanto Ciaglia(2)	Vice President	None
Melissa Clayton(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Craig Colby(2)	Vice President	None
Rodney Constable(1)	Vice President	None
Susan Cornwell(1)	Vice President	None
Neev Crane 1530 Beacon Street, Apt. #1403 Brookline, MA 02446	Vice President	None
Michael Daley 40W387 Oliver Wendell Holmes St St. Charles, IL 60175	Vice President	None
Fredrick Davis 14431 SE 61st Street Bellevue, WA 98006	Vice President	None
John Davis(2)	Vice President	None
Stephen J. Demetrovits(2)	Vice President	None
Steven Dombrower 13 Greenbrush Court Greenlawn, NY 11740	Vice President	None
Beth Arthur Du Toit(1)	Vice President	None
Kent M. Elwell 35 Crown Terrace Yardley, PA 19067	Vice President	None
Gregg A. Everett 4328 Auston Way Palm Harbor, FL 34685-4017	Vice President	None
George R. Fahey 9511 Silent Hills Lane Lone Tree, CO 80124	Senior Vice President	None
Eric C. Fallon 10 Worth Circle Newton, MA 02458	Vice President	None
Kristie Feinberg(2)	Assistant Treasurer	None
James Fereday	Vice President	None
Joseph Fernandez 1717 Richbourg Park Drive Brentwood, TN 37027	Vice President	None
Mark J. Ferro 104 Beach 221st Street Breezy Point, NY 11697	Senior Vice President	None
Ronald H. Fielding(3)	Vice President	None
Eric P. Fishel 725 Boston Post Rd., #12 Sudbury, MA 01776	Vice President	None
Patrick W. Flynn 14083 East Fair Avenue Englewood, CO 80111	Senior Vice President	None
John (“J”) Fortuna(2)	Vice President	None
Jayme D. Fowler 3818 Cedar Springs Road, #101-349 Dallas, TX 75219	Vice President	None
William Friebel 2919 St. Albans Forest Circle Glencoe, MO 63038	Vice President	None
Alyson Frost(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Charlotte Gardner(1)	Vice President	None
Lucio Giliberti 6 Cyndi Court Flemington, NJ 08822	Vice President	None
David Goldberg(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Michael Gottesman 255 Westchester Way Birmingham, MI 48009	Vice President	None
Raquel Granahan(2)	Vice President	None
Ralph Grant 10 Boathouse Close Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464	Senior Vice President	None
Kahle Greenfield(2)	Vice President	None
Robert Grill(2)	Senior Vice President	None
Eric Grossjung 4002 N. 194th Street Elkhorn, NE 68022	Vice President	None
Michael D. Guman 3913 Pleasant Avenue Allentown, PA 18103	Vice President	None
James E. Gunter 603 Withers Circle Wilmington, DE 19810	Vice President	None
Kevin J. Healy(2)	Vice President	None
Kenneth Henry(2)	Vice President	None
Wendy G. Hetson(2)	Vice President	None
Jennifer Hoelscher(1)	Assistant Vice President	None
Edward Hrybenko(2)	Vice President	None
Amy Huber(1)	Assistant Vice President	None
Brian F. Husch 37 Hollow Road Stonybrook, NY 11790	Vice President	None
Patrick Hyland(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Keith Hylind(2)	Vice President	None
Kathleen T. Ives(1)	Vice President & Assistant Secretary	Assistant Secretary
Shonda Rae Jaquez(2)	Vice President	None
Eric K. Johnson 8588 Colonial Drive Lone Tree, CO 80124	Vice President	None
Elyse Jurman 5486 NW 42 Ave Boca Raton, FL 33496	Vice President	None
Thomas Keffer(2)	Senior Vice President	None
Michael Keogh(2)	Vice President	None
Brian Kiley(2)	Vice President	None
Richard Klein 4820 Fremont Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55419	Senior Vice President	None
Richard Knott(1)	President and Director	None
Brent A. Krantz 61500 Tam McArthur Loop Bend, OR 97702	Senior Vice President	None
Eric Kristenson(2)	Vice President	None
David T. Kuzia 10258 S. Dowling Way Highlands Ranch, CO 80126	Vice President	None
Tracey Lange(2)	Vice President	None
John Laudadio	Vice President	None
Jesse Levitt(2)	Vice President	None
Julie Libby(2)	Senior Vice President	None
Eric J. Liberman 27 Tappan Ave., Unit West Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591	Vice President	None
Malissa Lischin(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Christina Loftus(2)	Vice President	None
Thomas Loncar 1401 North Taft Street, Apt. 726 Arlington, VA 22201	Vice President	None
Peter Maddox(2)	Vice President	None
Michael Malik 546 Idylberry Road San Rafael, CA 94903	Vice President	None
Steven C. Manns 1627 N. Hermitage Avenue Chicago, IL 60622	Vice President	None
Todd A. Marion 24 Midland Avenue Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724	Vice President	None
LuAnn Mascia(2)	Vice President	None
Michael McDonald 11749 S Cormorant Circle Parker, CO 80134	Vice President	None
John C. McDonough 533 Valley Road New Canaan, CT 06840	Senior Vice President	None
Kent C. McGowan 9510 190th Place SW Edmonds, WA 98020	Vice President	None
Brian F. Medina 3009 Irving Street Denver, CO 80211	Vice President	None
William Meerman 4939 Stonehaven Drive Columbus, OH 43220	Vice President	None
Saul Mendoza 503 Vincinda Crest Way Tampa FL 33619	Vice President	None
Mark Mezzanotte 16 Cullen Way Exeter, NH 03833	Vice President	None
Noah Miller(1)	Vice President	None
Clint Modler(1)	Vice President	None
Robert Moser 9650 East Aspen Hill Circle Lone Tree, CO 80124	Vice President	None
David W. Mountford 7820 Banyan Terrace Tamarac, FL 33321	Vice President	None
Gzim Muja 269 S. Beverly Dr. #807 Beverly Hills, CA 90212	Vice President	None
Matthew Mulcahy(2)	Vice President	None
Wendy Jean Murray 32 Carolin Road Upper Montclair, NJ 07043	Vice President	None
John S. Napier 17 Hillcrest Ave. Darien, CT 06820	Vice President	None
Christina Nasta(2)	Vice President	None
Kevin P. Neznek(2)	Vice President	None
Christopher Nicholson(2)	Vice President	None
Patrick Noble(2)	Vice President	None
Chad Noel	Vice President	None
Alan Panzer 6755 Ridge Mill Lane Atlanta, GA 30328	Vice President	None
Maria Paster(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Donald Pawluk(2)	Vice President	None
Brian C. Perkes 6 Lawton Ct. Frisco, TX 75034	Vice President	None
Wayne Perry 3900 Fairfax Drive Apt 813 Arlington, VA 22203	Vice President	None
Charles K. Pettit(2)	Vice President	None
Aaron Pisani(1)	Vice President	None
Rachel Powers(1)	Vice President	None
Nicole Pretzel(2)	Vice President	None
Minnie Ra 100 Dolores Street, #203 Carmel, CA 93923	Vice President	None
Dustin Raring 27 Blakemore Drive Ladera Ranch, CA 92797	Vice President	None
Michael A. Raso 3 Vine Place Larchmont, NY 10538	Vice President	None
Richard E. Rath 46 Mt. Vernon Ave. Alexandria, VA 22301	Vice President	None
Ramsey Rayan(2)	Vice President	None
William J. Raynor(4)	Vice President	None
Corry Read(2)	Vice President	None
David R. Robertson(2)	Senior Vice President	None
Ian M. Roche 7070 Bramshill Circle Bainbridge, OH 44023	Vice President	None
Michael Rock 9016 Stourbridge Drive Huntersville, NC 28078	Vice President	None
Stacy Roode(2)	Vice President	None
Thomas Sabow 6617 Southcrest Drive Edina, MN 55435	Vice President	None
John Saunders 2251 Chantilly Ave. Winter Park, FL 32789	Vice President	None
Thomas Schmitt 40 Rockcrest Rd Manhasset, NY 11030	Vice President	None
William Schories 3 Hill Street Hazlet, NJ 07730	Vice President	None
Jennifer Sexton(2)	Vice President	None
Eric Sharp 862 McNeill Circle Woodland, CA 95695	Vice President	None
Debbie A. Simon 55 E. Erie St., #4404 Chicago, IL 60611	Vice President	None
Bryant Smith	Vice President	None
Christopher M. Spencer 2353 W 118th Terrace Leawood, KS 66211	Vice President	None
John A. Spensley 375 Mallard Court Carmel, IN 46032	Vice President	None
Michael Staples 4255 Jefferson St Apt 328 Kansas City, MO 64111	Vice President	None
Alfred St. John(2)	Vice President	None
Bryan Stein 8 Longwood Rd. Voorhees, NJ 08043	Vice President	None
Wayne Strauss(3)	Assistant Vice President	None
Brian C. Summe 2479 Legends Way Crestview Hills, KY 41017	Vice President	None
Kenneth Sussi(2)	Vice President	None
Michael Sussman(2)	Vice President	None
George T. Sweeney 5 Smokehouse Lane Hummelstown, PA 17036	Senior Vice President	None
James Taylor(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Paul Temple(2)	Vice President	None
Troy Testa	Vice President	None
David G. Thomas 16628 Elk Run Court Leesburg, VA 20176	Vice President	None
Mark S. Vandehey(1)	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer	Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
Vincent Vermette(2)	Vice President	None
Teresa Ward(1)	Vice President	None
Janeanne Weickum(1)	Vice President	None
Michael J. Weigner 4905 W. San Nicholas Street Tampa, FL 33629	Vice President	None
Donn Weise 3249 Earlmar Drive Los Angeles, CA 90064	Vice President	None
Chris G. Werner 98 Crown Point Place Castle Rock, CO 80108	Vice President	None
Ryan Wilde(1)	Vice President	None
Julie Wimer(2)	Assistant Vice President	None
Donna Winn(2)	Senior Vice President	None
Peter Winters 911 N. Organce Ave, Pat. 514 Orlando, FL 32801	Vice President	None
Patrick Wisneski(1)	Vice President	None
Kurt Wolfgruber(2)	Director	None
Meredith Wolff(2)	Vice President	None
Michelle Wood(2)	Vice President	None
Cary Patrick Wozniak 18808 Bravata Court San Diego, CA 92128	Vice President	None
John Charles Young 3914 Southwestern Houston, TX 77005	Vice President	None
Jill Zachman(2)	Vice President	None
Robert G. Zack(2)	General Counsel & Director	Secretary
Steven Zito(1)	Vice President	None

⁽¹⁾6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112-3924

⁽²⁾Two World Financial Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11^th Floor, New York, NY 10281-1008

⁽³⁾350 Linden Oaks, Rochester, NY 14623

⁽⁴⁾Independence Wharf, 470 Atlantic Avenue, 11^th Floor, Boston, MA 02210
 
(c)     Not applicable.

Item 28. Location of Accounts and Records

The accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Registrant pursuant to Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and rules promulgated thereunder are in the possession of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. at its offices at 6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924.

Item 29. Management Services

Not applicable.
 

Item 30. Undertakings

Not applicable.
 
 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York and State of New York on the 27^th day of February, 2009.

                                                                                                           OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND, INC.

                                                                                                             By:     John V. Murphy*               

                                                                                                                      John V. Murphy, President,
                                                                                                                      Principal Executive Officer and Director

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities on the dates indicated:
 

Signatures                                                                      Title                                                   Date

Thomas W. Courtney*                                                     Chairman of the                                  February 27, 2009
Thomas W. Courtney                                                       Board of Directors

 John V. Murphy*                                                             President, Principal                              February 27, 2009
John V. Murphy                                                               Executive Officer and Director
 
 Brian W. Wixted*                                                           Treasurer, Principal                               February 27, 2009
Brian W. Wixted                                                              Financial & Accounting Officer
 
 David K. Downes*                                                          Director                                                 February 27, 2009

David K. Downes

Lacy B. Herrmann*                                                           Director                                                 February 27, 2009
Lacy B. Herrmann

Brian F. Wruble*                                                             Director                                                  February 27, 2009
Brian F. Wruble

*By:     /s/ Mitchell J. Lindauer     
     Mitchell J. Lindauer, Attorney-in-Fact

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, Inc.

Post-Effective Amendment No. 18
 
Registration Statement No. 333-16881

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.      Description

23(j)     Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm