N-CSR 1 d836091dncsr.htm OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM N-CSR

 

 

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-04797

 

 

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

 

Arthur S. Gabinet

OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

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

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

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

Date of fiscal year end: October 31

Date of reporting period: 10/31/2014

 

 

 


Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.


 

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Table of Contents

 

Fund Performance Discussion

 

    

 

3

 

  

 

Top Holdings and Allocations

 

    

 

7

 

  

 

Fund Expenses

 

    

 

10

 

  

 

Statement of Investments

 

    

 

12

 

  

 

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

 

    

 

26

 

  

 

Statement of Operations

 

    

 

28

 

  

 

Statements of Changes in Net Assets

 

    

 

30

 

  

 

Financial Highlights

 

    

 

31

 

  

 

Notes to Financial Statements

 

    

 

37

 

  

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

    

 

56

 

  

 

Federal Income Tax Information

 

    

 

57

 

  

 

Board Approval of the Fund’s Investment Advisory and Sub-Advisory Agreements

 

    

 

58

 

  

 

Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures; Updates to Statement of Investments

 

    

 

61

 

  

 

Trustees and Officers

 

    

 

62

 

  

 

Privacy Policy Notice

 

    

 

70

 

  

 

 

 

Class A Shares

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS AT 10/31/14

 

     Class A Shares of the Fund          
     Without Sales Charge    With Sales Charge   

Russell 1000 Value

Index

   S&P 500 Index    

1-Year

   14.19%       7.62%      16.46%      17.27%  

5-Year

   15.83         14.47         16.49         16.69     

10-Year

     9.24           8.59           7.90           8.20     

Performance data quoted represents past performance, which does not guarantee future results.    The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Fund returns include changes in share price, reinvested distributions, and a 5.75% maximum applicable sales charge except where “without sales charge” is indicated. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Returns do not consider capital gains or income taxes on an individual’s investment. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit oppenheimerfunds.com or call 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677).

 

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Fund Performance Discussion

The Fund’s Class A shares (without sales charge) produced a total return of 14.19% during the reporting period, underperforming the Russell 1000 Value Index (the “Index”), which returned 16.46% during the same period. The Fund’s underperformance versus the Index stemmed primarily from weaker relative stock selection and an overweight position in consumer discretionary, an underweight position in health care, and less favorable stock selection in financials. The Fund outperformed the Index in the telecommunication services and information technology sectors, due to stronger relative stock selection.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Equity markets were choppy for the one-year reporting period ended October 31, 2014. U.S. equities generally ended the reporting period with positive returns, and outperformed foreign equities, including European and emerging market equities. At the outset of the reporting period, U.S. stocks generally rallied as central banks throughout the world maintained their accommodative policies. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) maintained its open-ended

quantitative easing program involving monthly bond purchases of $85 billion. In December 2013, the Fed announced for the first time that it would reduce its monthly purchases by $10 billion effective the following month. This set the stage for the Fed’s much anticipated tapering of the program.

To start 2014, U.S. equities fell amid fears that political and economic instability in the

 

 

 

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

 

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world’s emerging markets might further dampen the U.S. economic recovery. While these fears generally failed to materialize, economic activity was constrained by unusually harsh winter weather over much of the U.S., which caused downturns in consumer spending, corporate investment, and business inventory replenishment. Despite additional cuts in quantitative easing and signs of ongoing strength in U.S. labor markets, U.S. Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) contracted at a surprising 2.1% annualized rate over the first quarter.

Equity markets in the U.S. then rebounded as economic data released in the second quarter was positive, with the economy finally regaining all of the jobs lost during the 2008 recession, and the U.S. stock market achieving record highs. The U.S. Department of Commerce later announced that U.S. GDP rebounded at a robust 4.6% annualized rate during the second quarter. Markets were also buoyed by additional stimulative monetary policies enacted by central banks throughout the world, including the European Central Bank (the “ECB”).

The upward march of U.S. equity prices then paused in the third quarter of 2014, with large-capitalization stocks mostly moving sideways, mid-capitalization stocks declining modestly, and small-capitalization stocks falling significantly. Smaller-capitalization stocks generally exhibit greater sensitivity to the domestic economy and as the noise around expected Fed tightening got louder, the market worried that a slowing in

domestic growth would negatively impact these stocks. Other macroeconomic concerns over the third quarter included geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East, and falling oil prices. However, domestic equity markets rallied again in the closing weeks of the reporting period, eliminating the losses experienced over the third quarter. In addition, the reporting period ended with the U.S. Department of Commerce announcing that U.S. GDP grew at an estimated 3.5% over the third quarter of 2014. That figure was later revised to 3.9%.

FUND REVIEW

Top performing stocks for the Fund this reporting period included Apple, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Microsoft Corp. Apple rallied strongly in April 2014 after iPhone sales came in higher than analysts anticipated and the company announced a 7-for-1 stock split and increased both its dividend and share repurchases. In addition, excitement surrounding the introduction of two new iPhones, and the upcoming introduction of a new iWatch product, resulted in strong performance. At period end, while we reduced our position modestly, we continue to like the risk/reward in Apple. The stock is currently trading at a low earnings multiple, has a large cash balance, an attractive dividend yield, a large share buyback and a promising slate of new products. JPMorgan Chase & Co. rallied in the beginning of the reporting period, benefiting both from an improving outlook for economic growth and better investor sentiment. The sentiment improvement was

 

 

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driven by the announcement of several litigation and regulatory settlements that largely addressed the overhang of “headline” risk that had plagued the stock. The company also released positive earnings announcements during the reporting period. Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, announced cost cutting measures and has discontinued unpromising products, placing more emphasis on cloud-computing software delivered via the web. Microsoft also saw signs of improvement in the personal computer market, which drives sales of Windows and Office software.

Detractors from performance this reporting period included General Cable Corp., Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. (“GM”). General Cable is a leading manufacturer and distributor of copper wire and cable for the telecom and utility industries. Inconsistent results and weak copper prices have driven the stock and convertible bond lower during the past few months. The company has initiated a restructuring program to reduce costs and we believe that pent up demand for utility spending should materialize during the next few quarters. Auto stocks, such as Ford Motor and GM, suffered over the first quarter of 2014 as investors became concerned that the sales momentum from last year would not be sustained. In addition, Ford Motor announced disappointing guidance for 2015 at its analyst day in late September 2014. Higher losses in Russia and South America, coupled with conservative commentary on the margin outlook in North America, resulted in a material decline in 2015 earnings guidance.

While we were disappointed by the guidance, at period end, we continue to believe that the U.S. auto market remains very healthy and Ford’s new aluminum truck has the potential to drive sales and profits in 2015 and 2016. A healthy dividend yield and modest valuation may also provide downside protection. General Motors was also negatively impacted by recalls announced during the reporting period, as they hurt both the consumer’s perception of manufacturing quality and the company’s profitability. While GM’s recall may negatively impact the short-term outlook, longer term we believe the company can regain its sales momentum. We also remain positive on the outlook for autos in general because we expect pent-up demand to continue to drive sales higher.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK

The Fund aims to provide shareholders with long-term growth of capital and a competitive level of income. It invests primarily in the common stocks of large, dividend-paying companies, but may also own income-oriented investments such as preferred shares, convertible bonds and other types of fixed income securities. Through intensive fundamental research and the careful management of portfolio risks, the Fund aims to deliver strong returns compared to its peers.

While we were surprised by the extent of the market weakness during the third and early fourth calendar quarters, we remain optimistic about the market as we enter 2015. While Europe’s weakness is a concern,

 

 

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we believe the strength in the U.S. economy can continue to improve, driven by low interest rates, easy monetary policy, strong corporate balance sheets and profitability, and better consumer balance sheets. We believe corporate earnings should continue to improve and dividends should continue to increase in line with earnings. We expect interest rates to ultimately begin to move higher, which can result in flat to negative returns for most fixed income asset classes and make equities look even more appealing. Wildcards remain, including commodity prices and geopolitical risk, but overall our outlook for equities remains constructive at period end.

 

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Michael S. Levine, CFA

Portfolio Manager

 

 

 

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Top Holdings and Allocations

 

TOP TEN COMMON STOCK HOLDINGS

 

                

Citigroup, Inc.

   4.3%

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

   3.9    

Chevron Corp.

   2.7    

MetLife, Inc.

   2.5    

Ford Motor Co.

   2.2    

Apple, Inc.

   2.2    

CenturyLink, Inc.

   2.1    

Assured Guaranty Ltd.

   2.1    

General Motors Co.

   2.0    

Best Buy Co., Inc.

   1.9    

Portfolio holdings and allocations are subject to change. Percentages are as of October 31, 2014, and are based on net assets. For more current Fund holdings, please visit oppenheimerfunds.com.

TOP TEN COMMON STOCK INDUSTRIES

 

                

Commercial Banks

   11.2%

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels

   9.1    

Insurance

   5.9    

Diversified Telecommunication Services

   5.2    

Pharmaceuticals

   5.1    

Automobiles

   4.2    

Capital Markets

   4.0    

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

   3.7    

Specialty Retail

   3.4    

Electric Utilities

   2.6    

Portfolio holdings and allocations are subject to change. Percentages are as of October 31, 2014, and are based on net assets.

PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION

 

Common Stocks

     80.7%   

Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes

     7.7       

Structured Securities

     6.5       

Preferred Stocks

     2.8       

Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes

     1.3       

Investment Companies

  

  Oppenheimer Institutional Money

  

  Market Fund

     0.7       

Rights, Warrants and Certificates

     0.2       

Mortgage-Backed Obligations

  

  Government Agency

     —*       

  Non-Agency

     0.1       

Exchange-Traded Options Purchased

     —*       

U.S. Government Obligations

     —*       

* Represents a value of less than 0.005%.

Portfolio holdings and allocations are subject to change. Percentages are as of October 31, 2014, and are based on the total market value of investments.

 

 

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Share Class Performance

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS WITHOUT SALES CHARGE AS OF 10/31/14

 

      Inception Date    1-Year      5-Year     10-Year          

Class A (OAEIX)

   2/13/87      14.19%         15.83%        9.24%         

Class B (OBEIX)

   3/3/97      13.28%         14.79%        8.66%         

Class C (OCEIX)

   3/3/97      13.33%         14.93%        8.34%         

Class I (OIEIX)

   2/28/12      14.66%         17.46%     N/A             

Class R (ONEIX)

   3/1/01      13.85%         15.39%        8.82%         

Class Y (OYEIX)

   2/28/11      14.46%         12.28%     N/A             

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS WITH SALES CHARGE AS OF 10/31/14

 

      Inception Date    1-Year      5-Year     10-Year          

Class A (OAEIX)

   2/13/87      7.62%         14.47%        8.59%         

Class B (OBEIX)

   3/3/97      8.28%         14.56%        8.66%         

Class C (OCEIX)

   3/3/97      12.33%         14.93%        8.34%         

Class I (OIEIX)

   2/28/12      14.66%         17.46%     N/A             

Class R (ONEIX)

   3/1/01      12.85%         15.39%        8.82%         

Class Y (OYEIX)

   2/28/11      14.46%         12.28%     N/A             

* Shows performance since inception.

Performance data quoted represents past performance, which does not guarantee future results.  The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Returns do not consider capital gains or income taxes on an individual’s investment. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit oppenheimerfunds.com or call 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677). Fund returns include changes in share price, reinvested distributions, and the applicable sales charge: for Class A shares, the current maximum initial sales charge of 5.75%; for Class B shares, the contingent deferred sales charge of 5% (1-year) and 2% (5-year); and for Class C shares, the contingent deferred sales charge (“CDSC”) of 1% for the 1-year period. Prior to 7/1/14, Class R shares were named Class N shares. Beginning 7/1/14, new purchases of Class R shares will no longer be subject to a CDSC upon redemption (any CDSC will remain in effect for purchases prior to 7/1/14). There is no sales charge for Class I and Class Y shares. Because Class B shares convert to Class A shares 72 months after purchase, the 10-year return for Class B shares uses Class A performance for the period after conversion.

The Fund’s performance is compared to the performance of the Russell 1000 Value Index and the S&P 500 Index. The Russell 1000 Value Index measures the performance of the large-cap value segment of the U.S. equity universe. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower expected growth values. The S&P 500 Index is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks intended to be a representative sample of leading companies in leading industries within the U.S. economy. The indices are unmanaged and cannot be purchased directly by investors. While index comparisons may be useful to provide a benchmark for the Fund’s performance, it must be noted that the Fund’s investments are not limited to the investments comprising the indices. Index performance includes

 

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reinvestment of income, but does not reflect transaction costs, fees, expenses or taxes. Index performance is shown for illustrative purposes only as a benchmark for the Fund’s performance, and does not predict or depict performance of the Fund. The Fund’s performance reflects the effects of the Fund’s business and operating expenses.

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

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

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

 

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Fund Expenses

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

The examples are based on an investment of $1,000.00 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire 6-month period ended October 31, 2014.

Actual Expenses. The first section of the table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this section for the class of shares you hold, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expense that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000.00 (for example, an $8,600.00 account value divided by $1,000.00 = 8.60), then multiply the result by the number in the first section under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During 6 Months Ended October 31, 2014” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

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

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

 

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Actual  

Beginning

Account

Value

May 1, 2014

 

Ending

Account

Value

October 31, 2014

 

Expenses

Paid During

6 Months Ended

October 31, 2014

Class A

  $  1,000.00   $  1,055.20   $        5.35

Class B

      1,000.00       1,051.40             9.35

Class C

      1,000.00       1,051.60             9.35

Class I

      1,000.00       1,057.60             3.06

Class R

      1,000.00       1,054.00             6.70

Class Y

      1,000.00       1,056.60             4.10

 

Hypothetical

(5% return before expenses)

              

Class A

      1,000.00       1,020.01              5.26

Class B

      1,000.00       1,016.13              9.19

Class C

      1,000.00       1,016.13              9.19

Class I

      1,000.00       1,022.23              3.01

Class R

      1,000.00       1,018.70              6.58

Class Y

      1,000.00       1,021.22              4.03

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio for that class, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). Those annualized expense ratios, excluding indirect expenses from affiliated funds, based on the 6-month period ended October 31, 2014 are as follows:

 

Class    Expense Ratios          

Class A

     1.03%       

Class B

     1.80          

Class C

     1.80          

Class I

     0.59          

Class R

     1.29          

Class Y

     0.79          

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

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS October 31, 2014

 

      Shares     Value  

Common Stocks—81.2%

                

Consumer Discretionary—14.0%

                

Auto Components—2.0%

                

American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc.1

     665,000        $         12,854,450     

Lear Corp.

     1,230,000          113,775,000     
       126,629,450     
                  

Automobiles—4.2%

                

Ford Motor Co.

     9,920,000          139,772,800     

General Motors Co.2

     4,125,000          129,525,000     
       269,297,800     
                  

Household Durables—1.3%

                

MDC Holdings, Inc.

     2,225,000          54,334,500     

Standard Pacific Corp.1

     3,538,700          26,186,380     
       80,520,880     
                  

Media—1.1%

                

Time Warner Cable, Inc.

     460,000          67,716,600     
                  

Multiline Retail—2.0%

                

J.C. Penney Co., Inc.1,2

     250,000          1,902,500     

Kohl’s Corp.

     1,000,000          54,220,000     

Target Corp.2

     1,112,500          68,774,750     
       124,897,250     
                  

Specialty Retail—3.4%

                

Best Buy Co., Inc.2

     3,590,000          122,562,600     

Foot Locker, Inc.2

     1,304,500          73,065,045     

Staples, Inc.2

     1,350,000          17,118,000     
       212,745,645     
                  

Consumer Staples—3.8%

                

Beverages—0.6%

                

Molson Coors Brewing Co.

     270,000          20,082,600     

PepsiCo, Inc.2

     180,500          17,358,685     
       37,441,285     
                  

Food & Staples Retailing—1.6%

                

CVS Health Corp.2

     150,000          12,871,500     

Kroger Co. (The)2

     750,000          41,782,500     

Walgreen Co.

     680,000          43,669,600     
       98,323,600     
                  

Food Products—1.1%

                

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.2

     410,000          19,270,000     

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

     610,000          20,953,500     

Pinnacle Foods, Inc.

     852,500          28,814,500     
       69,038,000     
                  

Tobacco—0.5%

                

Philip Morris International, Inc.2

     377,500          33,601,275     

 

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      Shares     Value  

Energy—10.6%

                

Energy Equipment & Services—1.5%

                

Ensco plc, Cl. A

     1,135,100        $         46,073,709     

Halliburton Co.

     817,100          45,054,894     
       91,128,603     
    

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—9.1%

                

Apache Corp.

     610,000          47,092,000     

BP plc, Sponsored ADR

     1,750,000          76,055,000     

Chevron Corp.

     1,430,000          171,528,500     

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP

     17,250          1,618,050     

Kinder Morgan Management LLC1

     380,569          36,207,335     

Kinder Morgan, Inc.

     2,920,000          113,004,000     

Marathon Oil Corp.

     562,500          19,912,500     

Royal Dutch Shell plc, Cl. A, Sponsored ADR

     800,000          57,432,000     

Williams Cos., Inc. (The)

     985,000          54,677,350     
       577,526,735     
    

Financials—25.2%

                

Capital Markets—4.0%

                

Apollo Global Management LLC, Cl. A

     112,500          2,559,375     

Credit Suisse Group AG, Sponsored ADR1

     1,305,000          34,765,200     

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

     470,000          89,295,300     

KKR & Co. LP

     2,400,000          51,744,000     

Morgan Stanley2

     2,175,000          76,016,250     
       254,380,125     
    

Commercial Banks—11.2%

                

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Sponsored ADR

     1,310,000          14,619,600     

Bank of America Corp.

     1,325,000          22,737,000     

CIT Group, Inc.2

     775,000          37,920,750     

Citigroup, Inc.2

     5,099,100          272,954,823     

JPMorgan Chase & Co.2

     4,112,500          248,724,000     

M&T Bank Corp.

     27,250          3,329,405     

Wells Fargo & Co.2

     2,022,500          107,374,525     
       707,660,103     
    

Insurance—5.9%

                

American International Group, Inc.

     225,000          12,053,250     

Assured Guaranty Ltd.

     5,775,000          133,287,000     

Genworth Financial, Inc., Cl. A1

     313,900          4,391,461     

MBIA, Inc.1

     1,713,675          16,725,468     

MetLife, Inc.

     2,889,873          156,746,711     

XL Group plc, Cl. A

     1,430,500          48,465,340     
       371,669,230     
    

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—3.7%

                

Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.

     1,825,000          30,003,000     

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.

     2,090,000          23,617,000     

Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc., Cl. A

     554,225          15,473,962     

Colony Financial, Inc.

     2,825,000          62,941,000     

Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

     42,500          2,932,075     

Starwood Property Trust, Inc.

     3,045,000          68,695,200     

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

      Shares     Value  

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (Continued)

                

Two Harbors Investment Corp.

     3,075,000        $         31,149,750     
       234,811,987     
    

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance—0.4%

                

MGIC Investment Corp.1

     1,350,000          12,042,000     

Radian Group, Inc.

     897,600          15,124,560     
       27,166,560     
    

Health Care—6.8%

                

Health Care Equipment & Supplies—0.9%

                

Baxter International, Inc.

     287,500          20,165,250     

Medtronic, Inc.

     520,000          35,443,200     
       55,608,450     
    

Health Care Providers & Services—0.8%

                

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.2

     525,000          49,880,250     
    

Pharmaceuticals—5.1%

                

AbbVie, Inc.

     137,500          8,725,750     

GlaxoSmithKline plc, Sponsored ADR2

     905,000          41,168,450     

Merck & Co., Inc.2

     1,987,500          115,155,750     

Pfizer, Inc.

     3,757,500          112,537,125     

Roche Holding AG, Sponsored ADR

     75,000          2,760,750     

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Sponsored ADR2

     800,000          45,176,000     
       325,523,825     
    

Industrials—3.2%

                

Aerospace & Defense—1.0%

                

General Dynamics Corp.2

     267,500          37,385,800     

Textron, Inc.2

     545,000          22,633,850     
       60,019,650     
    

Commercial Services & Supplies—0.8%

                

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

     2,860,000          49,907,000     
    

Electrical Equipment—0.2%

                

General Cable Corp.

     1,050,000          14,878,500     
    

Industrial Conglomerates—0.4%

                

General Electric Co.

     830,000          21,422,300     
    

Machinery—0.4%

                

Navistar International Corp.1

     711,690          25,172,475     
    

Marine—0.2%

                

Costamare, Inc.

     682,500          14,039,025     
    

Road & Rail—0.2%

                

CSX Corp.2

     380,000          13,539,400     
    

Information Technology—5.2%

                

Communications Equipment—0.8%

                

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     1,250,000          30,587,500     

 

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      Shares     Value  

Communications Equipment (Continued)

                

QUALCOMM, Inc.2

     250,000        $         19,627,500     
       50,215,000     
    

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—0.1%

                

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.2

     135,000          3,960,900     
    

Software—1.9%

                

CA, Inc.

     45,000          1,307,700     

Microsoft Corp.2

     2,537,500          119,135,625     
       120,443,325     
    

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—2.4%

                

Apple, Inc.2

     1,260,000          136,080,000     

EMC Corp.

     300,000          8,619,000     

Seagate Technology plc

     157,500          9,895,725     
       154,594,725     
    

Materials—4.3%

                

Chemicals—1.2%

                

Celanese Corp., Series A

     450,000          26,428,500     

LyondellBasell Industries NV, Cl. A

     195,000          17,867,850     

Mosaic Co. (The)2

     305,000          13,514,550     

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.2

     490,000          16,743,300     
       74,554,200     
    

Metals & Mining—0.7%

                

Allegheny Technologies, Inc.

     537,947          17,671,559     

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.2

     1,073,250          30,587,625     
       48,259,184     
    

Paper & Forest Products—2.4%

                

Domtar Corp.

     1,482,500          60,886,275     

International Paper Co.2

     1,375,000          69,602,500     

Louisiana-Pacific Corp.1

     1,472,655          21,500,763     
       151,989,538     
    

Telecommunication Services—5.4%

                

Diversified Telecommunication Services—5.2%

                

AT&T, Inc.2

     1,650,000          57,486,000     

CenturyLink, Inc.2

     3,215,000          133,358,200     

Verizon Communications, Inc.

     1,245,000          62,561,250     

Windstream Holdings, Inc.

     7,500,000          78,600,000     
       332,005,450     
    

Wireless Telecommunication Services—0.2%

                

Telephone & Data Systems, Inc.

     389,250          9,980,370     
    

Utilities—2.7%

                

Electric Utilities—2.6%

                

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

     662,500          38,650,250     

Edison International2

     692,500          43,336,650     

Exelon Corp.

     297,500          10,885,525     

FirstEnergy Corp.

     900,000          33,606,000     

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

      Shares     Value  

Electric Utilities (Continued)

                

PPL Corp.2

     1,110,000        $         38,838,900     
       165,317,325     
    

Independent Power and Renewable Electricity Producers—0.1%

                

NRG Energy, Inc.

     240,000          7,195,200     

Total Common Stocks (Cost $4,093,718,064)

       5,133,061,220     
    

Preferred Stocks—2.8%

                

Alcoa, Inc., 5.375% Cv., Non-Vtg.1

     157,200          8,190,120     

American Homes 4 Rent, 5% Cum., Series A, Non-Vtg.

     498,900          12,307,863     

American Homes 4 Rent, 5% Cum., Series B, Non-Vtg.

     675,800          16,421,940     

Beazer Homes USA, Inc., 7.50% Cv.

     1,691,800          47,235,056     

Dominion Resources, Inc., 6.375% Cv.

     145,000          7,300,750     

iStar Financial, Inc., 4.50% Cv., Non-Vtg.

     753,200          46,148,564     

Post Holdings, Inc., 2.50% Cv.3

     13,825          1,077,486     

Post Holdings, Inc., 3.75% Cv.3

     109,900          9,877,812     

Post Holdings, Inc., 5.25% Cv.1

     372,550          31,490,646     

Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $182,493,552)

       180,050,237     
    
     Units        

Rights, Warrants and Certificates—0.2%

                

General Motors Co. Wts.Strike Price $18.33, Exp. 7/10/191

     187,500          2,675,625     

Kinder Morgan, Inc. Wts.Strike Price $40, Exp. 5/25/171

     2,585,000          8,995,800     

Total Rights, Warrants and Certificates (Cost $9,350,786)

       11,671,425     
    
      Principal Amount         

Mortgage-Backed Obligations—0.1%

                

Alternative Loan Trust, Series 2005-29CB, Cl. A4, 5%, 7/25/35

   $ 1,029,262          905,725     

Banc of America Funding Trust, Series 2007-C, Cl. 1A4, 5.369%, 5/20/364

     112,447          108,368     

Banc of America Mortgage Trust, Series 2004-E, Cl. 2A6, 2.696%, 6/25/344

     180,175          179,896     

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Gold Pool:

    

8.00%, 4/1/16

     1,910          1,950     

9.00%, 8/1/22

     1,024          1,101     

9.00%, 8/1/22

     21          23     

9.00%, 3/1/24

     413          456     

9.00%, 3/1/24

     130          132     

9.00%, 1/1/25

     378          455     

9.00%, 5/1/25

     76          88     

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Interest-Only Stripped Mtg.-Backed Security:

    

Series 183, Cl. IO, 12.367%, 4/1/275

     109,193          17,679     

Series 192, Cl. IO, 6.701%, 2/1/285

     31,699          6,015     

Series 243, Cl. 6, 0.00%, 12/15/325,6

     117,616          22,303     
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Principal-Only Stripped Mtg.-Backed Security, Series 176, Cl. PO, 4.13%, 6/1/267      32,900          32,048     
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Real Estate Mtg. Investment Conduit Multiclass Pass-Through Certificates, Series 151, Cl. F, 9%, 5/15/21      6,735          7,554     
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Real Estate Mtg. Investment Conduit Multiclass Pass-Through Certificates,
Interest-Only Stripped Mtg.-Backed Security:
   

Series 2130, Cl. SC, 50.03%, 3/15/295

     106,421          21,565     

Series 2796, Cl. SD, 49.504%, 7/15/265

     150,647          27,350     

 

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      Principal Amount     Value  

Mortgage-Backed Obligations (Continued)

                

Federal National Mortgage Assn. Pool:

    

7.50%, 1/1/33

   $ 117,352        $             136,811     

8.50%, 7/1/32

     6,240          7,241     

Federal National Mortgage Assn., Interest-Only Stripped Mtg.-Backed Security:

    

Series 214, Cl. 2, 39.23%, 3/25/235

     188,704          31,946     

Series 222, Cl. 2, 18.736%, 6/25/235

     236,084          51,198     

Series 247, Cl. 2, 41.737%, 10/25/235

     66,529          16,368     

Series 252, Cl. 2, 39.214%, 11/25/235

     219,700          38,950     

Series 319, Cl. 2, 0.87%, 2/25/325

     56,867          10,480     

Series 320, Cl. 2, 6.277%, 4/25/325

     324,510          65,356     

Series 331, Cl. 9, 11.29%, 2/25/335

     26,480          5,962     

Series 334, Cl. 17, 11.865%, 2/25/335

     126,530          27,327     

Series 339, Cl. 12, 0.00%, 6/25/335,6

     230,401          48,750     

Series 343, Cl. 13, 0.00%, 9/25/335,6

     225,102          43,079     

Series 343, Cl. 18, 0.00%, 5/25/345,6

     33,471          5,744     

Series 345, Cl. 9, 0.00%, 1/25/345,6

     190,818          37,843     

Series 351, Cl. 10, 0.00%, 4/25/345,6

     54,780          10,738     

Series 351, Cl. 8, 0.00%, 4/25/345,6

     115,485          19,130     

Series 356, Cl. 10, 0.00%, 6/25/355,6

     86,905          18,379     

Series 356, Cl. 12, 0.00%, 2/25/355,6

     42,331          7,061     

Series 362, Cl. 13, 0.00%, 8/25/355,6

     498,729          80,789     

Series 364, Cl. 16, 0.00%, 9/25/355,6

     190,958          32,565     
Federal National Mortgage Assn., Real Estate Mtg. Investment Conduit Multiclass Pass-Through Certificates, Interest-Only Stripped Mtg.-Backed Security:   

Series 2001-63, Cl. SD, 27.27%, 12/18/315

     3,277          800     

Series 2001-65, Cl. S, 22.777%, 11/25/315

     210,562          40,754     

Series 2001-68, Cl. SC, 27.176%, 11/25/315

     2,064          411     

Series 2001-81, Cl. S, 22.652%, 1/25/325

     52,555          11,491     

Series 2002-47, Cl. NS, 30.063%, 4/25/325

     127,959          26,532     

Series 2002-51, Cl. S, 30.261%, 8/25/325

     117,495          23,817     

Series 2002-52, Cl. SD, 32.679%, 9/25/325

     165,998          35,048     

Series 2002-7, Cl. SK, 21.566%, 1/25/325

     3,677          654     

Series 2002-77, Cl. BS, 20.925%, 12/18/325

     6,902          1,509     

Series 2002-77, Cl. SH, 32.62%, 12/18/325

     81,626          16,448     

Series 2002-9, Cl. MS, 24.936%, 3/25/325

     79,331          16,808     

Series 2002-90, Cl. SN, 25.619%, 8/25/325

     5,683          947     

Series 2002-90, Cl. SY, 32.434%, 9/25/325

     3,082          507     

Series 2003-4, Cl. S, 26.866%, 2/25/335

     125,786          27,118     

Series 2003-46, Cl. IH, 0.00%, 6/25/235,6

     765,766          102,870     

Series 2004-54, Cl. DS, 37.227%, 11/25/305

     147,398          25,566     

Series 2005-14, Cl. SE, 36.857%, 3/25/355

     181,873          30,914     

Series 2005-93, Cl. SI, 13.527%, 10/25/355

     109,575          19,951     
Federal National Mortgage Assn., Real Estate Mtg. Investment Conduit Multiclass Pass- Through Certificates, Principal-Only Stripped Mtg.-Backed Security, Series 1993-184, Cl. M, 4.88%, 9/25/237      93,456          89,549     

Government National Mortgage Assn. I Pool:

    

7.00%, 1/15/24

     15,416          16,041     

7.00%, 4/15/26

     31,101          34,494     

7.50%, 5/15/27

     218,516          252,087     

8.00%, 5/15/17

     3,302          3,404     

8.50%, 8/15/17

     337          360     

8.50%, 11/15/17

     346          367     

8.50%, 12/15/17

     403          431     

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

      Principal Amount     Value  

Mortgage-Backed Obligations (Continued)

                

Government National Mortgage Assn. I Pool: (Continued)

    

8.50%, 12/15/17

   $ 1,276        $                 1,356     

Government National Mortgage Assn. II Pool, 1.625%, 3/20/264

     8,079          8,382     
Government National Mortgage Assn., Interest-Only Stripped Mtg.-Backed Security, Series 2002-15, Cl. SM, 59.27%, 2/16/325      199,863          34,290     

JP Morgan Mortgage Trust, Series 2007-S3, Cl. 1A90, 7%, 8/25/37

     476,274          440,441     

MASTR Adjustable Rate Mortgages Trust, Series 2004-13, Cl. 2A2, 2.643%, 4/21/344

     190,477          194,796     

RALI Trust:

    

Series 2003-QS1, Cl. A2, 5.75%, 1/25/33

     43,827          44,360     

Series 2006-QS13, Cl. 1A8, 6.00%, 9/25/36

     30,344          24,097     

WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Trust, Series 2005-AR14, Cl. 1A4, 2.357%, 12/25/354

     261,119          253,930     

Wells Fargo Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust, Series 2006-AR14, Cl. 1A2, 5.708%, 10/25/364

     247,189          240,851     
    

 

 

 

Total Mortgage-Backed Obligations (Cost $4,056,459)

       4,049,806     
    

U.S. Government Obligation—0.0%

                

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Nts., 5.25%, 4/18/16 (Cost $437,526)

     425,000          455,431     
    

Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes—1.3%

                

Agrium, Inc., 6.125% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 1/15/41

     240,000          286,885     

Airgas, Inc., 3.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/1/15

     481,000          492,068     

Altria Group, Inc., 10.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/6/39

     415,000          713,156     

American Tower Corp., 7% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/17

     370,000          419,246     

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., 6.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/40

     343,000          412,662     

Arrow Electronics, Inc., 3.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/15

     990,000          1,014,323     

Bank of America Corp.:

    

5.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/5/21

     210,000          242,915     

7.75% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/14/38

     369,000          514,539     

Blackstone Holdings Finance Co. LLC, 6.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/193

     940,000          1,120,395     

BNP Paribas SA, 5.186% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds3,4,8

     170,000          172,125     

British Telecommunications plc, 9.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/30

     325,000          514,120     

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp., 8.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/19

     365,000          452,457     

Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, 5.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/1/40

     143,000          170,789     

Capital One Financial Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/21

     262,000          288,770     

Celgene Corp., 5.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/40

     344,000          401,813     

CenturyLink, Inc., 7.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/39

     193,000          195,895     

CNA Financial Corp.:

    

5.75% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 8/15/21

     462,000          529,905     

5.875% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 8/15/20

     540,000          621,192     

Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., 9.455% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/22

     317,000          454,993     

CSX Corp., 5.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/41

     148,000          174,183     

DIRECTV Holdings LLC/DIRECTV Financing Co., Inc., 6.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/41

     431,000          505,521     

El Paso Pipeline Partners Operating Co. LLC, 6.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/20

     782,000          898,496     

Energizer Holdings, Inc., 4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/19/21

     552,000          564,451     

Ensco plc, 4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/21

     461,000          486,087     

 

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      Principal Amount     Value  

Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes (Continued)

                

Family Dollar Stores, Inc., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/21

   $ 301,000        $             315,081     

FirstEnergy Solutions Corp., 6.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/39

     317,000          354,372     

Frontier Communications Corp., 8.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/17

     465,000          523,706     

General Electric Capital Corp., 6.375% Unsec. Sub. Nts., 11/15/674

     1,005,000          1,075,350     

Glen Meadow Pass-Through Trust, 6.505% Jr. Sub. Nts., 2/12/674,9

     631,000          623,901     

Glencore Canada Corp.:

    

5.375% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 6/1/15

     170,000          174,431     

6.00% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 10/15/15

     411,000          430,070     

Glencore Finance Canada Ltd., 5.80% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 11/15/163

     78,000          84,419     

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The), 5.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/27/21

     169,000          188,510     

Harris Corp., 6.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/40

     168,000          195,703     

HSBC Finance Capital Trust IX, 5.911% Unsec. Sub. Nts., 11/30/354

     1,330,000          1,363,250     

Huntington Bancshares, Inc., 7% Sub. Nts., 12/15/20

     493,000          592,772     

International Lease Finance Corp., 5.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/16

     539,000          562,918     

J.C. Penney Corp., Inc., 5.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/20

     15,370,000          12,718,675     

JPMorgan Chase & Co., 7.90% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds, Series 14,8

     900,000          979,875     

Juniper Networks, Inc., 5.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/41

     219,000          243,236     

Kinross Gold Corp., 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/1/16

     419,000          433,708     

KLA-Tencor Corp., 6.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/1/18

     373,000          432,196     

Liberty Mutual Group, Inc., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/213

     808,000          888,028     

Lincoln National Corp., 6.05% Jr. Unsec. Sub. Nts., 4/20/674

     1,102,000          1,126,795     

Lloyds Bank plc, 6.50% Sub. Nts., 9/14/203

     598,000          692,468     

Lorillard Tobacco Co., 7% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/4/41

     354,000          442,129     

Macquarie Bank Ltd., 6.625% Unsec. Sub. Nts., 4/7/213

     735,000          844,627     

Marriott International, Inc., 6.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/16

     580,000          626,804     

MBIA Insurance Corp.:

    

11.491% Sub. Nts., 1/15/333,10

     34,085,000          23,603,863     

11.491% Sub. Nts., 1/15/3310

     100,000          69,250     

McKesson Corp., 6% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 3/1/41

     288,000          354,457     

Morgan Stanley:

    

5.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/24/20

     218,000          246,883     

5.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/27/17

     1,275,000          1,396,914     

Mylan, Inc., 6% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/183

     565,000          582,094     

Nabors Industries, Inc., 6.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/18

     680,000          766,454     

Navient Corp., 6.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/25/16

     739,000          770,408     

Nexen Energy ULC, 6.40% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 5/15/37

     573,000          716,213     

NII Capital Corp., 7.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/2110

     13,530,000          2,773,650     

Nomura Holdings, Inc., 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/19/16

     520,000          539,379     

Oncor Electric Delivery Co. LLC, 7% Sr. Sec. Nts., 9/1/22

     470,000          596,791     

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc., 5.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/40

     323,000          387,661     

PPL WEM Holdings Ltd., 5.375% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 5/1/213

     763,000          861,913     

Quest Diagnostics, Inc., 5.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/30/40

     345,000          381,550     

Rent-A-Center, Inc., 6.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/20

     569,000          551,930     

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC, 3.90% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 4/15/159

     930,000          931,163     

Rowan Cos, Inc., 5% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/1/17

     579,000          623,878     

Standard Chartered plc, 6.409% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds3,4,8

     400,000          419,250     

Swiss Re Capital I LP, 6.854% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds4,8,9

     1,077,000          1,134,889     

Symantec Corp., 4.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/20

     625,000          633,288     

Texas-New Mexico Power Co., 6.95% Sec. Nts., 4/1/433

     540,000          721,297     

Time Warner Entertainment Co. LP, 8.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/33

     279,000          415,793     

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

      Principal Amount     Value  

Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes (Continued)

                

UBS Preferred Funding Trust V, 6.243% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds,

    

Series 14,8

   $             243,000      $             253,157   

Vale Canada Ltd., 5.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/15

     31,000        32,458   

Verizon Communications, Inc., 6.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/38

     318,000        390,088   

Virgin Media Secured Finance plc, 5.25% Sr. Sec. Nts., 1/15/21

     307,000        319,280   

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 5.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/41

     338,000        421,650   

Weatherford International Ltd. (Bermuda), 5.125% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 9/15/20

     576,000        628,899   

Wells Fargo & Co., 7.98% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds, Series K4,8

     382,000        419,780   

Willis Group Holdings plc, 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 3/15/16

     563,000        583,635   

Woodside Finance Ltd., 4.60% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 5/10/213

     390,000        423,179   

ZFS Finance USA Trust V, 6.50% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/9/374,9

     598,000        645,840   

Total Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes (Cost $80,018,162)

      

 

81,156,944

 

  

 

Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes—7.7%

                

General Cable Corp., 4.50% Cv. Unsec. Sub. Nts., 11/15/294

     62,860,000        41,762,612   

iStar Financial, Inc., 3% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/16

     10,985,000        14,356,022   

MGIC Investment Corp.:

    

5.00% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/1/17

     24,250,000        27,129,687   

9.00% Cv. Jr. Sub. Nts., 4/1/633

     103,965,000        132,685,331   

Micron Technology, Inc., 3% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/43

     36,248,000        46,805,230   

Molycorp, Inc., 6% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/1/17

     15,250,000        5,490,000   

Navistar International Corp.:

    

4.50% Cv. Sr. Sub. Nts., 10/15/18

     42,395,000        41,537,052   

4.75% Cv. Sr. Sub. Nts., 4/15/193

     20,723,000        20,735,952   

Peabody Energy Corp., 4.75% Cv. Jr. Sub. Nts., 12/15/41

     53,233,000        35,533,028   

Radian Group, Inc., 2.25% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/19

     33,498,000        54,643,613   

United Airlines, Inc., 4.50% Cv. Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/15

     23,704,000        66,311,940   

Total Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes (Cost $411,644,663)

       486,990,467   
      Shares         

Structured Securities—6.6%

                

Bank of America Corp., American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 11/3/143

     574,713        10,564,388   

Bank of America Corp., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Equity Linked Nts., 2/4/153

     274,876        15,726,463   

Barclays Bank plc, Radian Group, Inc. Yield Enhanced Equity Linked Debt Securities, 11/24/14

     1,314,000        20,599,415   
Barclays Bank plc, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Yield Enhanced Equity Linked Debt Securities, 3/12/15      200,000        11,065,912   

Citigroup, Inc., Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 3/30/153

     243,575        26,054,386   

Citigroup, Inc., J.C. Penney Co., Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 11/19/143

     1,645,444        13,251,099   

Credit Suisse AG (New York Branch), Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 1/9/15

     261,152        27,735,452   

Credit Suisse AG (New York Branch), Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 12/3/14

     39,915        28,725,266   

Credit Suisse AG (New York Branch), Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 3/11/15

     150,436        16,108,819   

Credit Suisse AG (New York Branch), J.C. Penney Co., Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 11/21/14

     1,054,350        8,527,765   

 

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      Shares      Value  

Structured Securities (Continued)

                 

Credit Suisse AG (New York Branch), Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 5/1/1511

     701,754       $     10,156,839   

Credit Suisse AG (New York Branch), Rite Aid Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 3/25/15

     2,403,615         12,577,884   

Credit Suisse AG (New York Branch), Standard Pacific Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 11/7/14

     1,902,286         14,309,142   

Deutsche Bank AG (London Branch), J.C. Penney Co., Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 12/24/143

     1,158,752         9,094,865   

Deutsche Bank AG (London Branch). American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 3/11/153

     549,147         10,468,541   

Goldman Sachs Group (The), Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 2/4/153,11

     694,658         10,120,692   

Goldman Sachs Group (The), MBIA, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 2/4/1511

     1,059,680         10,199,030   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The), Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 12/5/143

     31,495         22,828,314   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The), Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 2/27/153

     197,765         21,137,716   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The), MBIA, Inc. Equity Lnked Nts., 1/2/153

     844,238         8,409,478   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The), Standard Pacific Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 3/9/153

     2,302,000         17,288,483   

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Navistar International Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 11/25/143

     265,252         9,635,814   

Merrill Lynch International & Co. CV Curacao, Standard Pacific Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 11/12/14

     1,314,474         9,870,446   

Merrill Lynch International & Co. CV, Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 12/9/14

     23,171         17,111,185   

Merrill Lynch International & Co. CV, Apple, Inc. Equity Linked Nts., 3/12/153

     152,125         16,251,528   

Merrill Lynch International & Co. CV, Best Buy Co., Inc., Equity Linked Nts., 1/23/153

     472,144         15,955,132   

Morgan Stanley, Rite Aid Corp. Performance Equity Linked Redemption Quarterly-pay Securities, 12/15/143

     1,726,766         9,392,763   

Wells Fargo & Co., Navistar International Corp. Equity Linked Nts., 3/9/153

     379,367         13,554,569   

Total Structured Securities (Cost $407,991,612)

             416,721,386   

 

             

Exercise

Price

     Expiration
Date
               Contracts            

Exchange-Traded Options Purchased—0.0%

                                                         

AbbVie, Inc. Put1

     USD         50.000         11/22/14         USD           1,500           6,000   

Apache Corp. Put1

     USD         72.500         1/17/15         USD           1,250           305,000   

AT&T, Inc. Put1

     USD         31.000         11/22/14         USD           2,000           6,000   

Baxter International, Inc. Put1

     USD         65.000         11/22/14         USD           3,000           30,000   

Chevron Corp. Put1

     USD         105.000         11/22/14         USD           4,000           44,000   

Ensco plc Put1

     USD         35.000         11/22/14         USD           1,750           35,000   

Ensco plc Put1

     USD         39.000         11/22/14         USD           3,500           227,500   

General Electric Co. Put1

     USD         24.000         11/22/14         USD           1,000           4,000   

Genworth Financial, Inc. Put1

     USD         12.000         11/22/14         USD           3,500           38,500   

GlaxoSmithKline plc Put1

     USD         42.000         11/22/14         USD           2,250           29,250   

GlaxoSmithKline plc Put1

     USD         42.000         12/20/14         USD           2,000           65,000   

Halliburton Co. Put1

     USD         47.500         11/22/14         USD           2,000           35,000   

KB Home Put1

     USD         15.000         12/20/14         USD           1,000           50,000   

 

21        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

              Exercise
Price
     Expiration
Date
             Contracts     Value  

Exchange-Traded Options Purchased (Continued)

                                                    

KB Home Put1

     USD         15.000         11/22/14         USD         1,000      $ 22,000   

Marathon Oil Corp. Put1

     USD         33.000         11/22/14         USD         2,500        92,500   

Marathon Oil Corp. Put1

     USD         32.000         11/22/14         USD         2,000        74,000   

MBIA, Inc. Call1

     USD         13.000         11/22/14         USD         5,000        17,500   

Medtronic, Inc. Put1

     USD         57.500         11/22/14         USD         2,500        17,500   

Merck & Co., Inc. Put1

     USD         50.000         12/20/14         USD         8,250        140,250   

Merck & Co., Inc. Put1

     USD         50.000         11/22/14         USD         3,500        31,500   

MGIC Investment Corp. Put1

     USD         7.000         11/22/14         USD         1,750        7,000   

Micron Technology, Inc. Put1

     USD         26.000         11/22/14         USD         4,000        20,000   

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Put1

     USD         75.000         11/22/14         USD         1,500        8,250   

Williams Cos., Inc. (The) Put1

     USD         50.000         11/22/14         USD         250        10,500   

Williams Cos., Inc. (The) Put1

     USD         46.000         11/22/14         USD         2,500        52,500   

Total Exchange-Traded Options Purchased (Cost $4,276,563)

  

          1,368,750   
                                      Shares         

Investment Company—0.8%

                                                    

Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, Cl. E, 0.08%12,13 (Cost $47,505,748)

  

              47,505,748        47,505,748   

Total Investments, at Value (Cost $5,241,493,135)

  

              100.7%        6,363,031,414   

Net Other Assets (Liabilities)

  

        (0.7)        (42,930,216

Net Assets

  

        100.0%      $   6,320,101,198   
                            

Footnotes to Statement of Investments

1. Non-income producing security.

2. All or a portion of the security position is held in segregated accounts and pledged to cover margin requirements with respect to outstanding written options. The aggregate market value of such securities is $617,197,394. See Note 6 of the accompanying Notes.

3. Represents securities sold under Rule 144A, which are exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities have been determined to be liquid under guidelines established by the Board of Trustees. These securities amount to $424,524,470 or 6.72% of the Fund’s net assets as of October 31, 2014.

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

5. Interest-Only Strips represent the right to receive the monthly interest payments on an underlying pool of mortgage loans. These securities typically decline in price as interest rates decline. Most other fixed income securities increase in price when interest rates decline. The principal amount of the underlying pool represents the notional amount on which current interest is calculated. The price of these securities is typically more sensitive to changes in prepayment rates than traditional mortgage-backed securities (for example, GNMA pass-throughs). Interest rates disclosed represent current yields based upon the current cost basis and estimated timing and amount of future cash flows. These securities amount to $1,063,012 or 0.02% of the Fund’s net assets as of October 31, 2014.

6. Interest rate is less than 0.0005%.

7. Principal-Only Strips represent the right to receive the monthly principal payments on an underlying pool of mortgage loans. The value of these securities generally increases as interest rates decline and prepayment rates rise. The price of these securities is typically more volatile than that of coupon-bearing bonds of the same maturity. Interest rates disclosed represent current yields based upon the current cost basis and estimated timing of future cash flows. These securities amount to $121,597 or 0.00% of the Fund’s net assets as of October 31, 2014.

8. This bond has no contractual maturity date, is not redeemable and contractually pays an indefinite stream of interest. Rate reported represents the current interest rate for this variable rate security.

 

22        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


Footnotes to Statements of Investments (Continued)

 

9. Restricted security. The aggregate value of restricted securities as of October 31, 2014 was $3,335,793, which represents 0.05% of the Fund’s net assets. See Note 7 of the accompanying Notes. Information concerning restricted securities is as follows:

 

Security    Acquisition  
Dates  
     Cost                         Value      Unrealized
Appreciation/
 (Depreciation)
 

Glen Meadow Pass-Through Trust, 6.505% Jr. Sub. Nts., 2/12/67

     1/5/11       $ 539,967       $ 623,901       $ 83,934   

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC, 3.90% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 4/15/15

     11/10/10-5/20/11         932,054         931,163         (891

Swiss Re Capital I LP, 6.854% Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds

     3/10/10-5/06/11         996,032         1,134,889         138,857   

ZFS Finance USA Trust V, 6.50% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/9/37

     2/24/11-7/26/11         600,502         645,840         45,338   
     

 

 

 
      $     3,068,555       $     3,335,793       $ 267,238   
     

 

 

 

10. This security is not accruing income because the issuer has missed an interest payment on it and/or is not anticipated to make future interest and or principal payments. The rate shown is the original contractual interest rate. See Note 1 of the accompanying Notes.

11. All or a portion of the security position is when-issued or delayed delivery to be delivered and settled after October 31, 2014. See Note 1 of the accompanying Notes.

12. Is or was an affiliate, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, at or during the period ended October 31, 2014, 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
October 31, 2013
     Gross
Additions
     Gross
Reductions
     Shares
October 31, 2014
 

Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, Cl. E

     86,179,484           781,838,161         820,511,897         47,505,748     
                      Value      Income  

Oppenheimer Institutional Money Market Fund, Cl. E

         $ 47,505,748         $ 20,943   

13. Rate shown is the 7-day yield as of October 31, 2014.

 

Exchange-Traded Options Written at October 31, 2014

                                                        
Description            Exercise
Price
     Expiration
Date
          Number of
Contracts
    Premiums
        Received
                 Value  

American Axle & Manufacturing

                  

Holdings, Inc. Put

     USD         18.000         11/22/14      USD      (1,850   $ 240,125       $ (64,750

Apache Corp. Put

     USD         95.000         1/17/15      USD      (1,000     1,276,933         (1,860,000

Apple, Inc. Call

     USD         108.000         11/22/14      USD      (1,000     118,960         (159,000

Apple, Inc. Call

     USD         106.000         11/22/14      USD      (2,500     472,536         (685,000

Apple, Inc. Call

     USD         105.000         11/22/14      USD      (5,000     750,766         (1,725,000

Apple, Inc. Call

     USD         107.000         11/22/14      USD      (1,500     171,389         (318,000

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Call

     USD         50.000         11/22/14      USD      (505     36,345         (8,585

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Call

     USD         47.500         11/22/14      USD      (500     21,531         (34,500

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Call

     USD         48.500         11/22/14      USD      (825     29,500         (30,525

 

23        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

Exchange Traded Options Written (Continued)

                                                         
Description            Exercise
Price
     Expiration
Date
           Number of
Contracts
    Premiums
Received
     Value  

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Call

     USD         49.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,500   $         90,656       $         (48,000)   

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Call

     USD         47.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,000     38,271         (105,000)   

Assured Guaranty Ltd. Put

     USD         22.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,925     282,544         (82,775)   

Assured Guaranty Ltd. Put

     USD         23.000         11/22/14       USD      (3,050     480,591         (239,425)   

Assured Guaranty Ltd. Put

     USD         24.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,950     516,764         (288,600)   

Baxter International, Inc. Put

     USD         72.500         12/20/14       USD      (1,900     988,499         (627,000)   

Baxter International, Inc. Put

     USD         67.500         11/22/14       USD      (1,100     150,700         (30,250)   

Baxter International, Inc. Put

     USD         72.500         11/22/14       USD      (1,000     151,179         (262,500)   

Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Put

     USD         17.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,000     95,960         (45,000)   

Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Put

     USD         18.000         1/17/15       USD      (225     56,691         (32,400)   

Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Put

     USD         20.000         11/22/14       USD      (4,775     1,436,367         (1,050,500)   

Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Put

     USD         18.000         11/22/14       USD      (2,000     204,580         (160,000)   

Best Buy Co., Inc. Call

     USD         36.000         11/22/14       USD      (500     24,190         (46,500)   

Best Buy Co., Inc. Call

     USD         37.000         11/22/14       USD      (2,000     106,422         (132,000)   

CenturyLink, Inc. Call

     USD         43.000         11/22/14       USD      (3,000     102,608         (81,000)   

CenturyLink, Inc. Call

     USD         42.000         11/22/14       USD      (250     7,240         (14,750)   

Chevron Corp. Put

     USD         115.000         11/22/14       USD      (2,000     519,914         (168,000)   

CSX Corp. Call

     USD         35.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,750     100,063         (183,750)   

CSX Corp. Call

     USD         34.000         11/22/14       USD      (500     28,451         (87,000)   

CVS Caremark Corp. Call

     USD         82.500         11/22/14       USD      (1,250     125,455         (543,750)   

Edison International Call

     USD         62.500         11/22/14       USD      (2,000     108,182         (200,000)   

Edison International Call

     USD         65.000         12/20/14       USD      (1,000     43,961         (50,000)   

Ensco plc Put

     USD         55.000         12/20/14       USD      (1,840     1,512,376         (2,824,400)   

Ensco plc Put

     USD         43.000         12/20/14       USD      (970     650,914         (392,850)   

Ensco plc Put

     USD         50.000         12/20/14       USD      (694     282,426         (770,340)   

Ensco plc Put

     USD         43.000         11/22/14       USD      (900     172,763         (283,500)   

Ensco plc Put

     USD         40.000         12/20/14       USD      (75     30,897         (18,375 )   

Ensco plc Put

     USD         44.000         12/20/14       USD      (427     108,013         (198,555)   

ExxonMobil Corp. Put

     USD         97.500         11/22/14       USD      (8,520     5,905,398         (2,112,960)   

Foot Locker, Inc. Call

     USD         55.000         11/22/14       USD      (2,250     780,650         (477,000)   

Foot Locker, Inc. Call

     USD         57.500         11/22/14       USD      (3,000     319,105         (264,000)   

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Call

     USD         30.000         11/22/14       USD      (75     2,922         (1,650)   

General Dynamics Corp. Call

     USD         135.000         11/22/14       USD      (2,500     343,848         (1,275,000)   

General Electric Co. Put

     USD         25.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,000     61,211         (12,000)   

General Motors Co. Put

     USD         38.000         12/20/14       USD      (750     363,348         (543,000)   

General Motors Co. Put

     USD         36.000         12/20/14       USD      (1,919     599,119         (945,108)   

Genworth Financial, Inc. Put

     USD         13.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,500     53,942         (27,000)   

Genworth Financial, Inc. Put

     USD         13.000         12/20/14       USD      (6,500     406,025         (221,000)   

Genworth Financial, Inc. Put

     USD         14.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,000     131,959         (51,000)   

Genworth Financial, Inc. Put

     USD         14.000         12/20/14       USD      (13,311     2,009,975         (891,837)   

GlaxoSmithKline plc Call

     USD         47.000         11/22/14       USD      (100     2,396         (1,400)   

GlaxoSmithKline plc Put

     USD         45.000         11/22/14       USD      (4,000     394,530         (300,000)   

Halliburton Co. Put

     USD         55.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,375     449,565         (233,750)   

International Paper Co. Call

     USD         52.500         11/22/14       USD      (2,500     117,020         (130,000)   

J.C. Penney, Inc. Call

     USD         9.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,000     13,881         (8,000)   

J.C. Penney, Inc. Call

     USD         10.000         11/22/14       USD      (1,000     51,961         (1,000)   

KB Home Put

     USD         16.000         11/22/14       USD      (2,000     125,421         (142,000)   

Kinder Morgan, Inc. Put

     USD         37.500         11/22/14       USD      (1,375     388,665         (61,875)   

Kroger Co. (The) Call

     USD         55.000         11/22/14       USD      (7,500     487,665         (862,500)   

Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Put

     USD         14.000         11/22/14       USD      (2,000     83,952         (60,000)   

LyondellBasell Industries NV Call

     USD         95.000         11/22/14       USD      (50     3,698         (5,500)   

M&T Bank Corp. Put

     USD         120.000         11/22/14       USD      (50     10,098         (4,600)   

Marathon Oil Corp. Put

     USD         40.000         1/17/15       USD      (5,500     3,525,217         (2,970,000)   

 

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Exchange Traded Options Written (Continued)

                                                             
Description            Exercise
Price
     Expiration
Date
             Number of
Contracts
    Premiums
Received
     Value  

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. Call

     USD         30.000         11/22/14         USD         (450   $ 19,782       $ (16,650

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. Call

     USD         29.000         11/22/14         USD         (50     2,948         (5,200

MBIA, Inc. Put

     USD         10.000         1/17/15         USD         (3,125     453,918         (250,000

MBIA, Inc. Put

     USD         10.000         11/22/14         USD         (6,957     902,107         (382,635

MBIA, Inc. Put

     USD         11.000         11/22/14         USD         (6,950     1,129,364         (917,400

MDC Holdings, Inc. Put

     USD         29.000         12/20/14         USD         (2,000     593,913         (1,010,000

Medtronic, Inc. Put

     USD         62.500         11/22/14         USD         (1,774     225,053         (26,610

Merck & Co., Inc. Put

     USD         53.500         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     99,960         (23,500

Merck & Co., Inc. Call

     USD         55.500         11/22/14         USD         (325     30,639         (89,375

Merck & Co., Inc. Put

     USD         55.000         11/22/14         USD         (4,500     523,919         (171,000

Merck & Co., Inc. Call

     USD         57.000         11/22/14         USD         (150     8,541         (27,900

Merck & Co., Inc. Put

     USD         57.500         11/22/14         USD         (1,100     209,305         (124,300

Merck & Co., Inc. Call

     USD         60.000         11/22/14         USD         (50     2,198         (3,100

Merck & Co., Inc. Call

     USD         55.000         11/22/14         USD         (56     8,230         (18,200

Merck & Co., Inc. Put

     USD         55.000         12/20/14         USD         (2,500     354,593         (217,500

Merck & Co., Inc. Put

     USD         52.500         12/20/14         USD         (1,000     94,160         (37,000

Merck & Co., Inc. Put

     USD         54.000         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     144,959         (28,000

MGIC Investment Corp. Put

     USD         8.000         11/22/14         USD         (4,500     168,075         (36,000

Micron Technology, Inc. Put

     USD         30.000         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     45,961         (23,000

Micron Technology, Inc. Put

     USD         29.000         11/22/14         USD         (3,000     548,876         (45,000

Microsoft Corp. Call

     USD         48.000         11/22/14         USD         (6,000     310,015         (162,000

Microsoft Corp. Call

     USD         47.500         11/22/14         USD         (1,750     36,833         (71,750

Morgan Stanley Call

     USD         36.000         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     21,961         (26,000

Mosaic Co. (The) Put

     USD         50.000         12/20/14         USD         (120     60,474         (74,400

Mosaic Co. (The) Call

     USD         45.500         11/22/14         USD         (1,500     46,942         (51,000

PepsiCo, Inc. Call

     USD         97.500         11/22/14         USD         (1,250     98,571         (67,500

Pfizer, Inc. Put

     USD         28.000         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     36,971         (5,000

Philip Morris International, Inc. Call

     USD         87.500         11/22/14         USD         (2,550     134,475         (459,000

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.

                   

Call

     USD         35.000         11/22/14         USD         (3,250     108,484         (91,000

PPL Corp. Call

     USD         34.000         11/22/14         USD         (250     16,240         (29,375

QUALCOMM, Inc. Call

     USD         75.000         11/22/14         USD         (50     6,248         (20,250

Standard Pacific Corp. Put

     USD         8.000         11/22/14         USD         (863     55,198         (47,465

Staples, Inc. Call

     USD         13.000         11/22/14         USD         (2,250     76,033         (81,000

Target Corp. Call

     USD         65.000         11/22/14         USD         (6,500     250,527         (182,000

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

                   

Call

     USD         55.000         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     70,511         (202,000

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

                   

Call

     USD         56.000         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     69,261         (136,000

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

                   

Call

     USD         55.500         11/22/14         USD         (3,500     227,052         (612,500

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

                   

Call

     USD         56.500         11/22/14         USD         (500     27,980         (54,500

Textron, Inc. Call

     USD         42.000         11/22/14         USD         (500     19,331         (37,000

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Put

     USD         80.000         11/22/14         USD         (1,000     146,959         (5,000

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Call

     USD         94.000         11/22/14         USD         (2,750     590,625         (563,750

UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Call

     USD         92.500         11/22/14         USD         (1,250     57,656         (391,250

Williams Cos., Inc. (The) Put

     USD         57.500         11/22/14         USD         (2,425     1,489,355         (683,850
                

 

 

 

Total of Exchange-Traded Options Written

                 $     37,690,536       $     (32,959,720
                

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES October 31, 2014

 

Assets

       

Investments, at value—see accompanying statement of investments:

 

Unaffiliated companies (cost $5,193,987,387)

  $ 6,315,525,666   

Affiliated companies (cost $47,505,748)

    47,505,748   
      6,363,031,414   

Cash

    2,731,704   

Receivables and other assets:

 

Shares of beneficial interest sold

    19,534,401   

Investments sold

    18,843,741   

Interest and dividends

    13,089,063   

Other

    272,696   

Total assets

   

 

6,417,503,019

 

  

 

Liabilities

 

Options written, at value (premiums received $37,690,536)

    32,959,720   

Payables and other liabilities:

 

Investments purchased (including $29,973,187 purchased on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis)

    49,122,105   

Shares of beneficial interest redeemed

    13,646,949   

Distribution and service plan fees

    1,192,422   

Trustees’ compensation

    399,709   

Shareholder communications

    27,440   

Other

    53,476   

Total liabilities

   

 

97,401,821

 

  

 

Net Assets

  $   6,320,101,198   
       
 

Composition of Net Assets

       

Par value of shares of beneficial interest

  $ 19,526   

Additional paid-in capital

    4,968,984,445   

Accumulated net investment loss

    (15,788,524

Accumulated net realized gain on investments

    240,618,169   

Net unrealized appreciation on investments and translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies

    1,126,267,582   

Net Assets

  $ 6,320,101,198   
       

 

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Net Asset Value Per Share

       

Class A Shares:

 
Net asset value and redemption price per share (based on net assets of $4,121,447,543 and 122,650,399 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)     $33.60   
Maximum offering price per share (net asset value plus sales charge of 5.75% of offering price)     $35.65   
Class B Shares:  
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $158,954,981 and 5,678,762 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)     $27.99   
Class C Shares:  
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $1,012,403,623 and 36,120,475 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)     $28.03   
Class I Shares:  
Net asset value, redemption price and offering price per share (based on net assets of $125,156,950 and 3,727,723 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)     $33.57   
Class R Shares:  
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $205,038,738 and 6,327,111 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)     $32.41   
Class Y Shares:  
Net asset value, redemption price and offering price per share (based on net assets of $697,099,363 and 20,759,108 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)     $33.58   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS For the Year Ended October 31, 2014

 

Investment Income

       

Dividends:

 

Unaffiliated companies (net of foreign withholding taxes of $904,164)

  $     179,478,225   

Affiliated companies

    20,943   

Interest (net of foreign withholding taxes of $1,084)

    22,385,641   

Total investment income

 

   

 

201,884,809

 

  

 

Expenses

       

Management fees

    31,993,616   

Distribution and service plan fees:

 

Class A

    9,856,486   

Class B

    1,671,259   

Class C

    9,356,867   

Class R1

    999,232   

Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees:

 

Class A

    7,996,773   

Class B

    402,614   

Class C

    1,854,039   

Class I

    26,438   

Class R1

    485,871   

Class Y

    959,417   

Shareholder communications:

 

Class A

    246,133   

Class B

    21,182   

Class C

    61,289   

Class I

    850   

Class R1

    9,150   

Class Y

    12,383   

Trustees’ compensation

    130,291   

Custodian fees and expenses

    37,745   

Other

    676,016   

Total expenses

    66,797,651   

Less waivers and reimbursements of expenses

    (24,123

Net expenses

    66,773,528   

Net Investment Income

    135,111,281   

 

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Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

       

Net realized gain on:

 

Investments from unaffiliated companies (includes premiums on options exercised)

  $   304,507,830   

Closing and expiration of option contracts written

    95,595,801   

Net realized gain

    400,103,631   

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on:

 

Investments

    233,022,917   

Translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies

    (972

Option contracts written

    (2,898,977

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

    230,122,968   

Net Increase in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

  $ 765,337,880   
       

1. Effective July 1, 2014, Class N shares were renamed Class R. See Note 1 of the accompanying Notes.

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

 

      Year Ended
October 31, 2014
     Year Ended
October 31, 2013
 

Operations

     

Net investment income

   $ 135,111,281          $ 105,502,369      

Net realized gain

     400,103,631            252,127,888      

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     230,122,968            615,555,976      

Net increase in net assets resulting from operations

    

 

765,337,880   

 

  

 

    

 

973,186,233   

 

  

 

Dividends and/or Distributions to Shareholders

     

Dividends from net investment income:

     

Class A

     (113,128,097)           (86,102,360)     

Class B

     (4,428,841)           (3,959,576)     

Class C

     (24,661,251)           (16,106,656)     

Class I

     (2,631,065)           (926,195)     

Class R1

     (5,197,287)           (3,960,895)     

Class Y

     (14,461,727)           (8,068,147)     
      

 

(164,508,268)  

 

  

 

    

 

(119,123,829)  

 

  

 

Distributions from net realized gain:

     

Class A

     (133,430,617)           (26,642,670)     

Class B

     (6,950,474)           (1,790,002)     

Class C

     (34,341,006)           (5,758,698)     

Class I

     (2,191,840)           (100,130)     

Class R1

     (6,743,063)           (1,368,886)     

Class Y

     (13,098,566)           (2,106,354)     
      

 

(196,755,566)  

 

  

 

    

 

(37,766,740)  

 

  

 

Beneficial Interest Transactions

     

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

     

Class A

     86,669,799            663,130,448      

Class B

     (18,990,044)           (6,605,046)     

Class C

     153,182,685            233,752,259      

Class I

     59,270,424            42,440,350      

Class R1

     8,473,777            29,932,968      

Class Y

     302,864,877            112,261,454      
      

 

591,471,518   

 

  

 

    

 

1,074,912,433   

 

  

 

Net Assets

     

Total increase

     995,545,564            1,891,208,097      

Beginning of period

     5,324,555,634            3,433,347,537      
End of period (including accumulated net investment income (loss) of $(15,788,524) and $5,343,628, respectively)    $         6,320,101,198          $         5,324,555,634      
                 

1. Effective July 1, 2014, Class N shares were renamed Class R. See Note 1 of the accompanying Notes.

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

Class A    Year Ended
October 31,
2014  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2013  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2012  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2011  
     Year Ended
October 29,
20101  
 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

   $ 31.35         $ 25.80         $ 22.95         $ 22.87         $ 19.23     

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income2

     0.78           0.75           0.61           0.51           0.40     

Net realized and unrealized gain

     3.50           5.89           2.97           0.11           3.65     

Total from investment operations

     4.28           6.64           3.58           0.62           4.05     

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.92)          (0.82)          (0.73)          (0.54)          (0.41)    

Distributions from net realized gain

     (1.11)          (0.27)          0.00           0.00           0.00     

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (2.03)          (1.09)          (0.73)          (0.54)          (0.41)    

Net asset value, end of period

   $ 33.60         $ 31.35         $ 25.80         $ 22.95         $ 22.87     
                                            
                                              

Total Return, at Net Asset Value3

     14.19%         26.57%         15.94%         2.64%         21.25%   
                                              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

              

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

   $   4,121,447       $   3,748,273       $   2,494,276       $   2,116,802       $   918,456   

Average net assets (in thousands)

   $ 4,041,525       $ 3,048,993       $ 2,276,255       $ 1,591,296       $ 593,104   

Ratios to average net assets:4

              

Net investment income

     2.42%         2.62%         2.51%         2.13%         1.86%   

Total expenses5

     1.00%         1.01%         1.06%         1.09%         1.21%   
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      1.00%         1.01%         1.06%         1.09%         1.21%   

Portfolio turnover rate

     40%         31%         30%         37%6         60%   

1. October 29, 2010 represents the last business day of the Fund’s reporting period.

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

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

4. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

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

 

Year Ended October 31, 2014

     1.00

Year Ended October 31, 2013

     1.01

Year Ended October 31, 2012

     1.06

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     1.09

Year Ended October 29, 2010

     1.21

6. The portfolio turnover rate excludes purchase and sale transactions of To Be Announced (TBA) mortgage-related securities as follows:

 

      Purchase Transactions      Sale Transactions  

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     $—         $68,139,011   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (Continued)

 

Class B    Year Ended
October 31,
2014  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2013  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2012  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2011  
     Year Ended
October 29,
20101  
 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

   $ 26.45         $ 21.95         $ 19.64         $ 19.68         $ 16.61     

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income2

     0.44           0.41           0.32           0.25           0.18     

Net realized and unrealized gain

     2.93           4.98           2.55           0.08           3.15     

Total from investment operations

     3.37           5.39           2.87           0.33           3.33     

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.72)          (0.62)          (0.56)          (0.37)          (0.26)    

Distributions from net realized gain

     (1.11)          (0.27)          0.00           0.00           0.00     

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (1.83)          (0.89)          (0.56)          (0.37)          (0.26)    

Net asset value, end of period

   $ 27.99         $ 26.45         $ 21.95         $ 19.64         $ 19.68     
                                            
                                              

Total Return, at Net Asset Value3

     13.28%         25.35%         14.90%         1.61%         20.22%   
                                              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

              

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

   $   158,955       $   168,407       $   146,117       $   128,777       $     65,791   

Average net assets (in thousands)

   $ 166,435       $ 155,005       $ 138,448       $ 96,706       $ 48,363   

Ratios to average net assets:4

              

Net investment income

     1.64%         1.72%         1.56%         1.20%         0.96%   

Total expenses5

     1.81%         1.94%         2.02%         2.06%         2.25%   
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      1.81%         1.94%         2.02%         2.02%         2.13%   

Portfolio turnover rate

     40%         31%         30%         37%6         60%   

1. October 29, 2010 represents the last business day of the Fund’s reporting period.

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

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

4. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

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

 

Year Ended October 31, 2014

     1.81

Year Ended October 31, 2013

     1.94

Year Ended October 31, 2012

     2.02

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     2.06

Year Ended October 29, 2010

     2.25

6. The portfolio turnover rate excludes purchase and sale transactions of To Be Announced (TBA) mortgage-related securities as follows:

 

      Purchase Transactions      Sale Transactions  

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     $—         $68,139,011   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

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Class C    Year Ended
October 31,
2014
     Year Ended
October 31,
2013
     Year Ended
October 31,
2012
     Year Ended
October 31,
2011
     Year Ended
October 29,
20101
 

Per Share Operating Data

              

Net asset value, beginning of period

   $ 26.50         $ 21.99         $ 19.68         $ 19.72         $ 16.65     

Income (loss) from investment operations:

              

Net investment income2

     0.44           0.45           0.35           0.28           0.19     

Net realized and unrealized gain

     2.94           5.00           2.55           0.09           3.16     

Total from investment operations

     3.38           5.45           2.90           0.37           3.35     

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

              

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.74)          (0.67)          (0.59)          (0.41)          (0.28)    

Distributions from net realized gain

     (1.11)          (0.27)          0.00           0.00           0.00     

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (1.85)          (0.94)          (0.59)          (0.41)          (0.28)    

Net asset value, end of period

   $ 28.03         $ 26.50         $ 21.99         $ 19.68         $ 19.72     
                 
     

Total Return, at Net Asset Value3

     13.33%         25.62%         15.05%         1.79%         20.30%   
                                              

Ratios/Supplemental Data

              

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

   $   1,012,404       $ 803,867       $ 458,291       $ 365,942       $ 128,951   

Average net assets (in thousands)

   $ 932,089       $ 607,483       $ 408,320       $ 269,739       $ 80,931   

Ratios to average net assets:4

              

Net investment income

     1.64%         1.83%         1.72%         1.36%         1.02%   

Total expenses5

     1.76%         1.77%         1.85%         1.86%         2.05%   
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      1.76%         1.77%         1.85%         1.86%         2.05%   

Portfolio turnover rate

     40%         31%         30%         37%6         60%   

1. October 29, 2010 represents the last business day of the Fund’s reporting period.

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

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

4. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

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

 

Year Ended October 31, 2014

     1.76

Year Ended October 31, 2013

     1.77

Year Ended October 31, 2012

     1.85

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     1.86

Year Ended October 29, 2010

     2.05

6. The portfolio turnover rate excludes purchase and sale transactions of To Be Announced (TBA) mortgage-related securities as follows:

 

      Purchase Transactions      Sale Transactions  

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     $—         $68,139,011   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

33        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS (Continued)

 

                                      
Class I    Year Ended
October 31,
2014  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2013  
     Period Ended
October 31,
20121  
 

Per Share Operating Data

        

Net asset value, beginning of period

   $ 31.32         $ 25.78         $ 24.90     

Income (loss) from investment operations:

        

Net investment income2

     0.88           0.83           0.43     

Net realized and unrealized gain

     3.53           5.92           0.93     

Total from investment operations

     4.41           6.75           1.36     

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

        

Dividends from net investment income

     (1.05)          (0.94)          (0.48)    

Distributions from net realized gain

     (1.11)          (0.27)          0.00     

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (2.16)          (1.21)          (0.48)    

Net asset value, end of period

   $ 33.57         $ 31.32         $ 25.78     
        
        

Total Return, at Net Asset Value3

     14.66%         27.06%         5.57%   
                            

Ratios/Supplemental Data

        

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

   $ 125,157       $ 59,332       $ 10,147   

Average net assets (in thousands)

   $ 87,786       $ 34,913       $ 414   

Ratios to average net assets:4

        

Net investment income

     2.73%         2.85%         2.73%   

Total expenses5

     0.59%         0.61%         0.63%   
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      0.59%         0.61%         0.63%   

Portfolio turnover rate

     40%         31%         30%   

1. For the period from February 28, 2012 (inception of offering) to October 31, 2012.

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

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

4. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

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

Year Ended October 31, 2014

     0.59

Year Ended October 31, 2013

     0.61

Period Ended October 31, 2012

     0.63

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

34        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


 

Class R   Year Ended
October 31,
2014  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2013  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2012  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2011  
     Year Ended
October 29,
20101  
 

Per Share Operating Data

             

Net asset value, beginning of period

  $ 30.31         $ 24.99         $ 22.25         $ 22.21         $ 18.70     

Income (loss) from investment operations:

             

Net investment income2

    0.66           0.63           0.49           0.41           0.30     

Net realized and unrealized gain

    3.38           5.70           2.89           0.08           3.55     

Total from investment operations

    4.04           6.33           3.38           0.49           3.85     

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

             

Dividends from net investment income

    (0.83)          (0.74)          (0.64)          (0.45)          (0.34)    

Distributions from net realized gain

    (1.11)          (0.27)          0.00           0.00           0.00     

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

    (1.94)          (1.01)          (0.64)          (0.45)          (0.34)    

Net asset value, end of period

  $ 32.41         $ 30.31         $ 24.99         $ 22.25         $ 22.21     
       
 

Total Return, at Net Asset Value3

    13.85%         26.11%         15.51%         2.14%         20.77%   
             

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                           

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

  $ 205,039       $ 182,858       $ 124,081       $ 96,121       $ 40,582   

Average net assets (in thousands)

  $ 199,409       $ 150,952       $ 111,920       $ 73,231       $ 25,675   

Ratios to average net assets:4

             

Net investment income

    2.11%         2.27%         2.08%         1.73%         1.48%   

Total expenses5

    1.30%         1.36%         1.48%         1.55%         1.83%   
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses     1.30%         1.36%         1.48%         1.50%         1.58%   

Portfolio turnover rate

    40%         31%         30%         37%6         60%   

1. October 29, 2010 represents the last business day of the Fund’s reporting period.

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

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

4. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

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

 

Year Ended October 31, 2014

     1.30

Year Ended October 31, 2013

     1.36

Year Ended October 31, 2012

     1.48

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     1.55

Year Ended October 29, 2010

     1.83

6. The portfolio turnover rate excludes purchase and sale transactions of To Be Announced (TBA) mortgage-related securities as follows:

 

      Purchase Transactions      Sale Transactions  

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     $—         $68,139,011   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

35        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued

 

Class Y   Year Ended
October 31,
2014  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2013  
     Year Ended
October 31,
2012  
     Period Ended
October 31,
20111  
 

Per Share Operating Data

          

Net asset value, beginning of period

  $ 31.34         $ 25.79         $ 22.94         $ 25.76     

Income (loss) from investment operations:

          

Net investment income2

    0.84           0.84           0.66           0.36     

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.52           5.89           2.99           (2.78)    

Total from investment operations

    4.36           6.73           3.65           (2.42)    

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

          

Dividends from net investment income

    (1.01)          (0.91)          (0.80)          (0.40)    

Distributions from net realized gain

    (1.11)          (0.27)          0.00           0.00     

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

    (2.12)          (1.18)          (0.80)          (0.40)    

Net asset value, end of period

  $ 33.58         $ 31.34         $ 25.79         $ 22.94     
       
         

Total Return, at Net Asset Value3

    14.46%         26.97%         16.30%         (9.45)%   
                                    

Ratios/Supplemental Data

          

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

  $ 697,099       $ 361,819       $ 200,436       $ 109,193   

Average net assets (in thousands)

  $ 487,585       $ 258,619       $ 131,940       $ 50,333   

Ratios to average net assets:4

          

Net investment income

    2.60%         2.89%         2.73%         2.32%   

Total expenses5

    0.75%         0.71%         0.76%         0.80%   
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses     0.75%         0.71%         0.76%         0.80%   

Portfolio turnover rate

    40%         31%         30%         37%6   

1. For the period from February 28, 2011 (inception of offering) to October 31, 2011.

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

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

4. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

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

 

Year Ended October 31, 2014

     0.75

Year Ended October 31, 2013

     0.71

Year Ended October 31, 2012

     0.76

Period Ended October 31, 2011

     0.80

6. The portfolio turnover rate excludes purchase and sale transactions of To Be Announced (TBA) mortgage-related securities as follows:

 

      Purchase Transactions      Sale Transactions  

Year Ended October 31, 2011

     $—         $68,139,011   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

36        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS October 31, 2014

 

 

1. Significant Accounting Policies

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

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

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently followed by the Fund.

Equity Security Risk. Stocks and other equity securities fluctuate in price. The value of the Fund’s portfolio may be affected by changes in the equity markets generally. Equity markets may experience significant short-term volatility and may fall sharply at times. Different markets may behave differently from each other and U.S. equity markets may move in the opposite direction from one or more foreign stock markets.

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

 

37        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

1. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

Structured Securities. The Fund invests in structured securities whose market values, interest rates and/or redemption prices are linked to the performance of underlying foreign currencies, interest rate spreads, stock market indices, prices of individual securities, commodities or other financial instruments or the occurrence of other specific events. The structured securities are often leveraged, increasing the volatility of each note’s market value relative to the change in the underlying linked financial element or event. Fluctuations in value of these securities are recorded as unrealized gains and losses in the accompanying Statement of Operations. The Fund records a realized gain or loss when a structured security is sold or matures.

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

As of October 31, 2014, the Fund had purchased securities issued on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis as follows:

 

      When-Issued or
Delayed Delivery
Basis Transactions
 

Purchased securities

     $29,973,187   

Credit Risk. The Fund invests in high-yield, non-investment-grade bonds, which may be subject to a greater degree of credit risk. Credit risk relates to the ability of the issuer to meet interest or principal payments or both as they become due. The Fund may acquire securities that have missed an interest payment, and is not obligated to dispose of securities whose issuers or underlying obligors subsequently miss an interest payment. Information concerning securities not accruing interest as of October 31, 2014 is as follows:

 

Cost

     $30,231,296   

Market Value

     $26,446,763   

Market Value as % of Net Assets

     0.42%   

 

38        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


 

1. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

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 or for defensive purposes. IMMF is a registered open-end management investment company, regulated as a money market fund under the 1940 Act. The Manager is the investment adviser of IMMF, and the Sub-Adviser provides investment and related advisory services to IMMF. When applicable, the Fund’s investment in IMMF is included in the Statement of Investments. Shares of IMMF are valued at their net asset value per share. 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.

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 New York Stock Exchange (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 Trustees.

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.

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

 

39        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

1. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

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 remain 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.

Undistributed

Net Investment

Income

   Undistributed
Long-Term
Gain
     Accumulated
Loss
Carryforward1,2,3,4
     Net Unrealized
Appreciation
Based on cost of
Securities and
Other Investments
for Federal Income
Tax Purposes
 

$164,477,545

     $202,396,276         $89,770,556         $1,058,258,781   

1. As of October 31, 2014, the Fund had $63,322,525 of net capital loss carryforward available to offset future realized capital gains, if any, and thereby reduce future taxable gain distributions. Details of the capital loss carryforwards are included in the table below. Capital loss carryovers with no expiration, if any, must be utilized prior to those with expiration dates.

 

Expiring        

2017

   $             63,322,525  

All of these losses are subject to loss limitation rules resulting from merger activity. These limitations generally reduce the utilization of these losses to a maximum of $21,332,975 per year and have an expiration date of October 31, 2017.

2. The Fund had $26,448,031 of straddle losses which were deferred.

3. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014, the Fund utilized $21,332,975 of capital loss carryforward to offset capital gains realized in that fiscal year.

4. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2013, the Fund utilized $21,332,975 of capital loss carryforward to offset capital gains realized in that fiscal year.

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, 2014. Net assets of the Fund were unaffected by the reclassifications.

 

Increase

to Paid-in Capital

   Reduction
to Accumulated
Net Investment
Loss
    

Reduction
to Accumulated Net
Realized Gain

on Investments5

 

$36,261,357

     $8,264,835         $44,526,192   

 

40        OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND


 

1. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

5. $36,411,991, including $21,646,555 of long-term capital gain, was distributed in connection with Fund share redemptions.

The tax character of distributions paid during the years ended October 31, 2014 and October 31, 2013 was as follows:

 

     Year Ended
October 31, 2014
     Year Ended
October 31, 2013
 

 

 

Distributions paid from:

     

Ordinary income

    $ 254,958,087          $ 128,865,329     

Long-term capital gain

     106,305,747           28,025,240     
  

 

 

 

Total

    $             361,263,834          $             156,890,569     
  

 

 

 

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, 2014 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

   $ 5,283,053,905      

Federal tax cost of other investments

    26,448,031      
 

 

 

 

Total federal tax cost

   $   5,309,501,936      
 

 

 

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

   $ 1,218,057,395      

Gross unrealized depreciation

    (159,798,614)     
 

 

 

 

Net unrealized appreciation

   $ 1,058,258,781      
 

 

 

 

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 distributions, if any, are declared and paid quarterly. Capital gain distributions, if any, are declared and paid annually.

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

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

1. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

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

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. 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.

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

Valuation Methods and Inputs

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

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

Securities traded on a registered U.S. securities exchange (including exchange-traded derivatives other than futures and futures options) are valued based on the last sale price of the security reported on the principal exchange on which it is traded, prior to the time when

 

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2. Securities Valuation (Continued)

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 current day’s closing “bid” and “asked” prices, and if not, at the current day’s closing bid price. A security of a foreign issuer traded on a foreign exchange, but not listed on a registered U.S. securities exchange, is valued based on the last sale price on the principal exchange on which the security is traded, as identified by the third party pricing service used by the Manager, prior to the time when the Fund’s assets are valued. If the last sale price is unavailable, the security is valued at the most recent official closing price on the principal exchange on which it is traded. If the last sales price or official closing price for a foreign security is not available, the security is valued at the mean between the bid and asked price per the exchange or, if not available from the exchange, obtained from two dealers. If bid and asked prices are not available from either the exchange or two dealers, the security is valued by using one of the following methodologies (listed in order of priority): (1) using a bid from the exchange, (2) the mean between the bid and asked price as provided by a single dealer, or (3) a bid from a single dealer.

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

Corporate and government debt securities (of U.S. or foreign issuers) and municipal debt securities, event-linked bonds, loans, mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, and asset-backed securities are valued at the mean between the “bid” and “asked” prices utilizing evaluated prices obtained from third party pricing services or broker-dealers who may use matrix pricing methods to determine the evaluated prices.

Short-term money market type debt securities with a remaining maturity 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. Short-term debt securities with a remaining maturity in excess of sixty days are valued at the mean between the “bid” and “asked” prices utilizing evaluated prices obtained from third party pricing services or broker-dealers.

Structured securities, swaps, swaptions, and other over-the-counter derivatives are valued utilizing evaluated prices obtained from third party pricing services or broker-dealers.

A description of the standard inputs that may generally be considered by the third party pricing vendors in determining their evaluated prices is provided below.

Security Type  

Standard inputs generally considered by third-party

pricing vendors

Corporate debt, government debt, municipal, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities   Reported trade data, broker-dealer price quotations, benchmark yields, issuer spreads on comparable securities, the credit quality, yield, maturity, and other appropriate factors.

Loans

  Information obtained from market participants regarding reported trade data and broker-dealer price quotations.

Event-linked bonds

  Information obtained from market participants regarding reported trade data and broker-dealer price quotations.

Structured securities

  Relevant market information such as the price of underlying financial instruments, stock market indices, foreign currencies, interest rate spreads, commodities, or the occurrence of other specific events.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

2. Securities Valuation (Continued)

Security Type (Continued)  

Standard inputs generally considered by third-party

pricing vendors

Swaps

  Relevant market information, including underlying reference assets such as credit spreads, credit event probabilities, index values, individual security values, forward interest rates, variable interest rates, volatility measures, and forward currency rates.

If a market value or price cannot be determined for a security using the methodologies described above, or if, in the “good faith” opinion of the Manager, the market value or price obtained does not constitute a “readily available market quotation,” or a significant event has occurred that would materially affect the value of the security the security is fair valued either (i) by a standardized fair valuation methodology applicable to the security type or the significant event as previously approved by the Valuation Committee and the Fund’s Board or (ii) as determined in good faith by the Manager’s Valuation Committee. The Valuation Committee considers all relevant facts that are reasonably available, through either public information or information available to the Manager, when determining the fair value of a security. Fair value determinations by the Manager are subject to review, approval and ratification by the Fund’s Board at its next regularly scheduled meeting covering the calendar quarter in which the fair valuation was determined. Those fair valuation standardized methodologies include, but are not limited to, valuing securities at the last sale price or initially at cost and subsequently adjusting the value based on: changes in company specific fundamentals, changes in an appropriate securities index, or changes in the value of similar securities which may be further adjusted for any discounts related to security-specific resale restrictions. When possible, such methodologies use observable market inputs such as unadjusted quoted prices of similar securities, observable interest rates, currency rates and yield curves. The methodologies used for valuing securities are not necessarily an indication of the risks associated with investing in those securities nor can it be assured that the Fund can obtain the fair value assigned to a security if it were to sell the security.

To assess the continuing appropriateness of security valuations, the Manager, or its third party service provider who is subject to oversight by the Manager, regularly compares prior day prices, prices on comparable securities, and sale prices to the current day prices and challenges those prices exceeding certain tolerance levels with the third party pricing service or broker source. For those securities valued by fair valuations, whether through a standardized fair valuation methodology or a fair valuation determination, the Valuation Committee reviews and affirms the reasonableness of the valuations based on such methodologies and fair valuation determinations on a regular basis after considering all relevant information that is reasonably available.

Classifications

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

 

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2. Securities Valuation (Continued)

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

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

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

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

The table below categorizes amounts that are included in the Fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities as of October 31, 2014 based on valuation input level:

      Level 1—
Unadjusted
Quoted Prices
   

Level 2—

Other Significant
Observable Inputs

     Level 3—
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
     Value  

Assets Table

          

Investments, at Value:

          

Common Stocks

          

Consumer Discretionary

   $ 881,807,625      $       $       $ 881,807,625   

Consumer Staples

     238,404,160                        238,404,160   

Energy

     668,655,338                        668,655,338   

Financials

     1,595,688,005                        1,595,688,005   

Health Care

     431,012,525                        431,012,525   

Industrials

     198,978,350                        198,978,350   

Information Technology

     329,213,950                        329,213,950   

Materials

     274,802,922                        274,802,922   

Telecommunication Services

     341,985,820                        341,985,820   

Utilities

     172,512,525                        172,512,525   

Preferred Stocks

     122,946,375        57,103,862                 180,050,237   

Rights, Warrants and Certificates

     11,671,425                        11,671,425   

Mortgage-Backed Obligations

            4,049,806                 4,049,806   

U.S. Government Obligation

            455,431                 455,431   

Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and

          

Notes

            81,156,944                 81,156,944   

Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes

            486,990,467                 486,990,467   

Structured Securities

            416,721,386                 416,721,386   

Exchange-Traded Options Purchased

     1,368,750                        1,368,750   

Investment Company

     47,505,748                        47,505,748   
  

 

 

 

Total Assets

   $   5,316,553,518      $   1,046,477,896       $       $   6,363,031,414   
  

 

 

 

 

Liabilities Table

          

Other Financial Instruments:

          

Options written, at value

   $ (32,959,720   $       $       $ (32,959,720
  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

   $ (32,959,720   $       $       $ (32,959,720
  

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

2. Securities Valuation (Continued)

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

 

 

3. Shares of Beneficial Interest

The Fund has authorized an unlimited number of $0.0001 par value shares of beneficial interest of each class. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest were as follows:

     Year Ended October 31, 2014     Year Ended October 31, 2013  
      Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  

Class A

        

Sold

     28,954,874      $ 929,967,066        44,058,350      $ 1,272,584,370   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     7,320,767        229,684,433        3,861,959        103,823,368   

Redeemed

     (33,179,393     (1,072,981,700     (25,031,471     (713,277,290

Net increase

     3,096,248      $ 86,669,799        22,888,838      $ 663,130,448   
                                
                                  

Class B

        

Sold

     527,504      $ 14,119,917        1,072,954      $ 26,323,574   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     412,049        10,770,325        242,309        5,423,354   

Redeemed

     (1,626,788     (43,880,286     (1,607,231     (38,351,974

Net decrease

     (687,235   $ (18,990,044     (291,968   $ (6,605,046
                                
                                  

Class C

        

Sold

     9,462,490      $ 254,126,781        13,051,163      $ 321,164,661   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     1,999,540        52,460,603        856,332        19,486,539   

Redeemed

     (5,676,585     (153,404,699     (4,410,736     (106,898,941

Net increase

     5,785,445      $ 153,182,685        9,496,759      $ 233,752,259   
                                
                                  

Class I

        

Sold

     2,165,533      $ 70,112,057        1,690,581      $ 47,799,309   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     127,927        4,032,356        32,165        903,370   

Redeemed

     (459,945     (14,873,989     (222,094     (6,262,329

Net increase

     1,833,515      $ 59,270,424        1,500,652      $ 42,440,350   
                                
                                  

Class R1

        

Sold

     2,041,358      $ 63,272,262        2,588,728      $ 71,817,339   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     363,027        10,987,311        185,993        4,820,526   

Redeemed

     (2,110,737     (65,785,796     (1,706,947     (46,704,897

Net increase

     293,648      $ 8,473,777        1,067,774      $ 29,932,968   
                                

 

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3. Shares of Beneficial Interest (Continued)

     Year Ended October 31, 2014     Year Ended October 31, 2013  
      Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  

Class Y

        

Sold

     13,124,327      $ 429,226,516        7,590,332      $ 219,492,586   

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     710,600        22,493,536        286,727        7,766,987   

Redeemed

     (4,622,093     (148,855,175     (4,101,879     (114,998,119

Net increase

     9,212,834      $     302,864,877        3,775,180      $     112,261,454   
                                

1. Effective July 1, 2014, Class N shares were renamed Class R.

 

 

4. 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, 2014 were as follows:

 

      Purchases      Sales  

Investment securities

   $ 2,867,523,859       $ 2,341,745,868   

U.S. government and government agency obligations

             110,293   

 

 

5. 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          

  Next $3.0 billion

     0.50          

  Next $5.0 billion

     0.45          

  Over $10.0 billion

     0.42          

The Fund’s management fee for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014 was 0.54% of average annual net assets before any applicable waivers.

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

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

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates (Continued)

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

Trustees’ Compensation. The Fund has adopted an unfunded retirement plan (the “Plan”) for the Fund’s Independent Trustees. Benefits are based on years of service and fees paid to each Trustee during their period of service. The Plan was frozen with respect to adding new participants effective December 31, 2006 (the “Freeze Date”) and existing Plan Participants as of the Freeze Date will continue to receive accrued benefits under the Plan. Active Independent Trustees as of the Freeze Date have each elected a distribution method with respect to their benefits under the Plan. During the year ended October 31, 2014, the Fund’s projected benefit obligations, payments to retired Trustees and accumulated liability were as follows:

 

Projected Benefit Obligations Increased

   $                 37,741  

Payments Made to Retired Trustees

     28,731  

Accumulated Liability as of October 31, 2014

     205,162  

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

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.

Distribution and Service Plan for Class A Shares. The Fund has adopted a Distribution and Service Plan (the “Plan”) for Class A shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Under the Plan, the Fund pays a service fee to the Distributor at an annual rate of 0.25% of the daily net assets of Class A shares. The Distributor currently uses all of those fees to pay

 

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5. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates (Continued)

dealers, brokers, banks and other financial institutions periodically for providing personal services and maintenance of accounts of their customers that hold Class A shares. Under the Plan, the Fund may also pay an asset-based sales charge to the Distributor. However, the Fund’s Board has currently set the rate at zero. 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 R Shares. The Fund has adopted Distribution and Service Plans (the “Plans”) for Class B, Class C and Class R shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act to compensate the Distributor for distributing those share classes, maintaining accounts and providing shareholder services. Under the Plans, the Fund pays the Distributor an annual asset-based sales charge of 0.75% on Class B and Class C shares daily net assets and 0.25% on Class R shares daily net assets. The Fund also pays a service fee under the Plans at an annual rate of 0.25% of daily net assets. The Plans continue in effect from year to year only if the Fund’s Board of Trustees vote annually to approve its continuance at an in person meeting called for that purpose. Fees incurred by the Fund under the Plans are detailed in the Statement of Operations.

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

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

October 31, 2014

     $1,957,425         $40,721         $201,890         $101,303         $6,370   

Waivers and Reimbursements of Expenses. 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, 2014, the Manager waived fees and/or reimbursed the Fund $24,123 for IMMF management fees.

The Transfer Agent has contractually agreed to limit transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees for Classes B, C, R and Y shares to 0.35% of average annual net assets per class and for Class A shares to 0.30% of average annual net assets of the class. The limit was removed on February 28, 2014.

These undertakings may be modified or terminated as set forth according to the terms in the prospectus.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

6. Risk Exposures and the Use of Derivative Instruments

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

Market Risk Factors. In accordance with its investment objectives, the Fund may use derivatives to increase or decrease its exposure to one or more of the following market risk factors:

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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6. Risk Exposures and the Use of Derivative Instruments (Continued)

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

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

The Fund’s actual exposures to these market risk factors and associated risks during the period are discussed in further detail, by derivative type, below.

Option Activity

The Fund may buy and sell put and call options, or write put and call options. When an option is written, the Fund receives a premium and becomes obligated to sell or purchase the underlying security, currency or other underlying financial instrument at a fixed price, upon exercise of the option.

Options can be traded through an exchange or through a privately negotiated arrangement with a dealer in an OTC transaction. Options traded through an exchange are generally cleared through a clearinghouse (such as The Options Clearing Corporation). 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.

The Fund has purchased call options on individual equity securities and/or equity indexes to increase exposure to equity risk. A purchased call option becomes more valuable as the price of the underlying financial instrument appreciates relative to the strike price.

The Fund has purchased put options on individual equity securities and/or equity indexes to decrease exposure to equity risk. A purchased put option becomes more valuable as the price of the underlying financial instrument depreciates relative to the strike price.

During the year ended October 31, 2014, the Fund had an ending monthly average market value of $1,242,904 and $710,403 on purchased call options and purchased put options, respectively.

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

6. Risk Exposures and the Use of Derivative Instruments (Continued)

Options written, if any, are reported in a schedule following the Statement of Investments and as a liability in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Securities held in collateral accounts to cover potential obligations with respect to outstanding written options are noted in the Statement of Investments.

The risk in writing a call option is that the market price of the security increases and if the option is exercised, the Fund must either purchase the security at a higher price for delivery or, if the Fund owns the underlying security, give up the opportunity for profit. 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.

The Fund has written put options on individual equity securities and/or equity indexes to increase exposure to equity risk. A written put option becomes more valuable as the price of the underlying financial instrument appreciates relative to the strike price.

The Fund has written call options on individual equity securities and/or equity indexes to decrease exposure to equity risk. A written call option becomes more valuable as the price of the underlying financial instrument depreciates relative to the strike price.

During the year ended October 31, 2014, the Fund had an ending monthly average market value of $4,767,166 and $15,025,584 on written call options and written put options, respectively.

Additional associated risks to the Fund include counterparty credit risk and liquidity risk.

Written option activity for the year ended October 31, 2014 was as follows:

     Call Options     Put Options  
          Number of    
Contracts
    Amount of
Premiums
        Number of    
Contracts
    Amount of
Premiums
 

Options outstanding as of October 31, 2013

     58,952      $ 8,369,646        169,269      $ 18,120,089   

Options written

     810,609        62,655,827        950,005        124,394,330   

Options closed or expired

     (519,511     (39,069,351     (554,246     (56,526,450

Options exercised

     (265,564     (25,215,367     (439,733     (55,038,188
  

 

 

 

Options outstanding as of October 31, 2014

     84,486      $ 6,740,755        125,295      $ 30,949,781   
  

 

 

 

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

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

The Fund’s risk of loss from counterparty credit risk on exchange-traded derivatives cleared through a clearinghouse and for centrally cleared swaps is generally considered lower than as compared to OTC derivatives. However, counterparty credit risk exists with respect to initial

 

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6. Risk Exposures and the Use of Derivative Instruments (Continued)

and variation margin deposited/paid by the Fund that is held in futures commission merchant, broker and/or clearinghouse accounts for such exchange-traded derivatives and for centrally cleared swaps.

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

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

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

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

The following table presents the valuations of derivative instruments by risk exposure as reported within the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as of October 31, 2014:

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

6. Risk Exposures and the Use of Derivative Instruments (Continued)

     Asset Derivatives     Liability Derivatives  
Derivatives Not Accounted for as Hedging Instruments    Statement of Assets and
Liabilities Location
   Value     Statement of Assets and
Liabilities Location
   Value  

Equity contracts

   Investments, at value    $   1,368,750   Options written, at value    $   32,959,720   

*Amounts relate to purchased option contracts.

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

Amount of Realized Gain or (Loss) Recognized on Derivatives

Derivatives Not

Accounted for as

Hedging Instruments

   Investment from unaffiliated
companies (including premiums on
options exercised)*
  Closing and expiration
of option contracts
written
   Total

Equity contracts

   $  (19,287,041)   $  95,595,801    $  76,308,760

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

 

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

Derivatives Not

Accounted for as

Hedging Instruments

   Investments*     Option
contracts
          written
                  Total  

Equity contracts

   $ (2,524,357   $ (2,898,978   $ (5,423,335

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

 

 

7. Restricted Securities

As of October 31, 2014, investments in securities included issues that are restricted. A restricted security may have a contractual restriction on its resale and is valued under methods approved by the Board of Trustees as reflecting fair value. Securities that are restricted are marked with an applicable footnote on the Statement of Investments. Restricted securities are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments.

 

 

8. Pending Litigation

In 2009, seven class action lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (“OFI”), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., the Fund’s principal underwriter and distributor (the “Distributor”), and certain funds (but not including the Fund) advised by OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. and distributed by the Distributor (the “Defendant Funds”). The lawsuits also named as defendants certain officers and current and former trustees of the respective Defendant Funds. The lawsuits raised claims under federal securities laws and alleged, among other things, that the disclosure documents of the respective Defendant Funds contained misrepresentations and omissions and that the respective Defendant Funds’ investment policies were not followed. The plaintiffs in these actions sought unspecified damages, equitable relief and awards of attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses. The Defendant Funds’ Boards of Trustees also engaged counsel to represent the Funds and the present and former Independent Trustees named in those suits.

 

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8. Pending Litigation (Continued)

In March 2014, the parties in six of these lawsuits executed stipulations and agreements of settlement resolving those actions. In July 2014, the court entered an order and final judgment approving the settlements as fair, reasonable and adequate. The settlements do not resolve a seventh outstanding lawsuit relating to Oppenheimer Rochester California Municipal Fund (the “California Fund Suit”). OFI believes the California Fund Suit is without legal merit and is defending the suit vigorously. While it is premature to render any opinion as to the outcome in the California Fund Suit, or whether any costs that OFI may bear in defending the California Fund Suit might not be reimbursed by insurance, OFI believes the California Fund Suit should not impair the ability of OFI or the Distributor to perform their respective duties to the Fund, and that the outcome of the California Fund Suit should not have any material effect on the operations of any of the Oppenheimer Funds.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

 

The Board of Trustees and Shareholders of Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund, including the statement of investments, as of October 31, 2014, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years or periods in the five-year period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of October 31, 2014, by correspondence with the custodian, transfer agent and brokers, or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund as of October 31, 2014, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years or periods in the five-year period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

 

 

 

LOGO

Denver, Colorado

December 22, 2014

 

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FEDERAL INCOME TAX INFORMATION Unaudited

 

 

In early 2014, if applicable, shareholders of record received information regarding all dividends and distributions paid to them by the Fund during calendar year 2013.

Capital gain distributions of $0.5971 per share were paid to Class A, Class B, Class C, Class I, Class R and Class Y shareholders, respectively, on December 11, 2013. Whether received in stock or in cash, the capital gain distribution should be treated by shareholders as a gain from the sale of the capital assets held for more than one year (long-term capital gains).

Dividends, if any, paid by the Fund during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014 which are not designated as capital gain distributions should be multiplied by the maximum amount allowable but not less than 42.59% to arrive at the amount eligible for the corporate dividend-received deduction.

A portion, if any, of the dividends paid by the Fund during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014 which are not designated as capital gain distributions are eligible for lower individual income tax rates to the extent that the Fund has received qualified dividend income as stipulated by recent tax legislation. The maximum amount allowable but not less than $156,649,950 of the Fund’s fiscal year taxable income may be eligible for the lower individual income tax rates. In early 2014, shareholders of record received information regarding the percentage of distributions that are eligible for lower individual income tax rates.

Recent tax legislation allows a regulated investment company to designate distributions not designated as capital gain distributions, as either interest related dividends or short-term capital gain dividends, both of which are exempt from the U.S. withholding tax applicable to non U.S. taxpayers. For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2014, the maximum amount allowable but not less than $35,902,707 of the ordinary distributions to be paid by the Fund qualifies as an interest related dividend and the maximum amount allowable but not less than $152,822,931 of the short-term capital gain distribution to be paid by the Fund qualifies as a short-term capital gain dividend.

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

 

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BOARD APPROVAL OF THE FUND’S INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND

SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENTS Unaudited

 

 

The Fund has entered into an investment advisory agreement with OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (“OFI Global” or the “Adviser”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (“OFI” or the “Sub-Adviser”) (“OFI Global” and “OFI” together the “Managers”) and OFI Global has entered into a sub-advisory agreement with OFI whereby OFI provides investment sub-advisory services to the Fund (collectively, the “Agreements”). Each year, the Board of Trustees (the “Board”), including a majority of the independent Trustees, is required to determine whether to renew the Agreements. The Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, requires that the Board request and evaluate, and that the Managers provide, such information as may be reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the Agreements. The Board employs an independent consultant to prepare a report that provides information, including comparative information that the Board requests for that purpose. In addition to in-person meetings focused on this evaluation, the Board receives information throughout the year regarding Fund services, fees, expenses and performance.

The Adviser, Sub-Adviser and the independent consultant provided information to the Board on the following factors: (i) the nature, quality and extent of the Managers’ services, (ii) the investment performance of the Fund and the Managers, (iii) the fees and expenses of the Fund, including comparative expense information, (iv) the profitability of the Managers and their affiliates, including an analysis of the cost of providing services, (v) whether economies of scale are realized as the Fund grows and whether fee levels reflect these economies of scale for Fund investors and (vi) other benefits to the Managers from their relationship with the Fund. The Board was aware that there are alternatives to retaining the Managers.

Outlined below is a summary of the principal information considered by the Board as well as the Board’s conclusions.

Nature, Quality and Extent of Services. The Board considered information about the nature, quality and extent of the services provided to the Fund and information regarding the Managers’ key personnel who provide such services. The Sub-Adviser’s duties include providing the Fund with the services of the portfolio manager and the Sub-Adviser’s investment team, who provide research, analysis and other advisory services in regard to the Fund’s investments; securities trading services; oversight of third-party service providers; monitoring compliance with applicable Fund policies and procedures and adherence to the Fund’s investment restrictions; and risk management. The Managers are responsible for providing certain administrative services to the Fund as well. Those services include providing and supervising all administrative and clerical personnel who are necessary in order to provide effective corporate administration for the Fund; compiling and maintaining records with respect to the Fund’s operations; preparing and filing reports required by the Securities and Exchange Commission; preparing periodic reports regarding the operations of the Fund for its shareholders; preparing proxy materials for shareholder meetings; and preparing the registration statements required by Federal and state securities laws for the sale of the Fund’s shares. The Managers also provide the Fund with office space, facilities and equipment.

The Board also considered the quality of the services provided and the quality of the Managers’ resources that are available to the Fund. The Board took account of the fact that the Sub-Adviser has had over fifty years of experience as an investment adviser and that its assets under management rank it among the top mutual fund managers in the United States. The Board evaluated the Sub-Adviser’s advisory, administrative, accounting, legal, compliance

 

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services and risk management, and information the Board has received regarding the experience and professional qualifications of the Managers’ key personnel and the size and functions of its staff. In its evaluation of the quality of the portfolio management services provided, the Board considered the experience of Michael Levine, the portfolio manager for the Fund, and the Sub-Adviser’s investment team and analysts. The Board members also considered the totality of their experiences with the Managers as directors or trustees of the Fund and other funds advised by the Managers. The Board considered information regarding the quality of services provided by affiliates of the Managers, which its members have become knowledgeable about in connection with the renewal of the Fund’s service agreements. The Board concluded, in light of the Managers’ experience, reputation, personnel, operations and resources that the Fund benefits from the services provided under the Agreements.

Investment Performance of the Adviser and the Fund. Throughout the year, the Adviser provided information on the investment performance of the Fund, including comparative performance information. The Board also reviewed information, prepared by the Adviser and by the independent consultant, comparing the Fund’s historical performance to relevant market indices and to the performance of other retail funds in the large value category. The Board noted that the Fund’s one-, five-, and ten-year performance was better than its category median although its three-year performance was below its category median.

Costs of Services by the Adviser. The Board reviewed the fees paid to the Adviser and the other expenses borne by the Fund. The independent consultant provided comparative data in regard to the fees and expenses of the Fund and other retail front-end load large value funds with comparable asset levels and distribution features. The Fund’s contractual management fees and total expenses were lower than its peer group median and category median.

Economies of Scale and Profits Realized by the Managers. The Board considered information regarding OFI Global’s costs in serving as the Fund’s investment adviser, including the costs associated with the personnel and systems necessary to manage the Fund, and information regarding the Managers’ profitability from their relationship with the Fund. The Board reviewed whether the Managers may realize economies of scale in managing and supporting the Fund. The Board noted that the Fund currently has management fee breakpoints, which are intended to share with Fund shareholders economies of scale that may exist as the Fund’s assets grow.

Other Benefits to the Managers. In addition to considering the profits realized by the Managers, the Board considered information that was provided regarding the direct and indirect benefits the Managers receive as a result of their relationship with the Fund, including compensation paid to the Managers’ affiliates and research provided to the Adviser in connection with permissible brokerage arrangements (soft dollar arrangements).The Board also considered that the Managers must be able to pay and retain experienced professional personnel at competitive rates to provide quality services to the Fund.

Conclusions. These factors were also considered by the independent Trustees meeting separately from the full Board, assisted by experienced counsel to the Fund and to the independent Trustees. Fund counsel and the independent Trustees’ counsel are independent of the Managers within the meaning and intent of the Securities and Exchange Commission Rules.

 

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BOARD APPROVAL OF THE FUND’S INVESTMENT ADVISORY AND

SUB-ADVISORY AGREEMENTS Unaudited / Continued

Based on its review of the information it received and its evaluations described above, the Board, including a majority of the independent Trustees, decided to continue the Agreements through September 30, 2015. In arriving at its decision, the Board did not identify any factor or factors as being more important than others, but considered all of the above information, and considered the terms and conditions of the Agreements, including the management fees, in light of all the surrounding circumstances.

 

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PORTFOLIO PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES;

UPDATED TO STATEMENTS OF INVESTMENTS Unaudited

 

 

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

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

Householding—Delivery of Shareholder Documents

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

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

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited

 

 

Name, Position(s) Held with the Fund, Length of Service, Year of Birth    Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years; Other Trusteeships/Directorships Held; Number of Portfolios in the Fund Complex Currently Overseen
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    The address of each Trustee in the chart below is 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924. Each Trustee serves for an indefinite term, or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Brian F. Wruble,

Chairman of the Board of

Trustees (since 2007),

Trustee (since 2001)

Year of Birth: 1943

   Director and Vice Chairman of Community Foundation of the Florida Keys (non-profit) (since July 2012); Trustee of the Board of Trustees, The Jackson Laboratory (non-profit) (1991-2011 and since May 2014); Chairman Emeritus (since August 2011) of The Jackson Laboratory (non-profit); Director of Special Value Opportunities Fund, LLC (registered investment company) (affiliate of the Sub-Adviser’s parent company) (since September 2004); Member of Zurich Insurance Group’s Investment Management Advisory Council (insurance) (since 2004); Treasurer (since 2007) and Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study (non-profit educational institute) (since May 1992); General Partner of Odyssey Partners, L.P. (hedge fund) (September 1995-December 2007); Special Limited Partner of Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC (private equity investment) (January 1999-September 2004). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Wruble has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since April 2001, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

David K. Downes,

Trustee (since 2005)

Year of Birth: 1940

   Director of THL Credit Inc. (since June 2009); Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Community Capital Management (investment management company) (since January 2004); President of The Community Reinvestment Act Qualified Investment Fund (investment management company) (since 2004); Director of Actua Corporation (information technology company) (since October 2003); formerly, Independent Chairman GSK Employee Benefit Trust (April 2006-June2013); Director of Correctnet (January 2006-2007); Independent Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Quaker Investment Trust (registered investment 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).

 

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David K. Downes,

Continued

   Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Downes has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since December 2005, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Matthew P. Fink,

Trustee (since 2009)

Year of Birth: 1941

   Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development (policy research foundation) (2005-2011); Director of ICI Education Foundation (education foundation) (October 1991-August 2006); President of the Investment Company Institute (trade association) (October 1991-June 2004); Director of ICI Mutual Insurance Company (insurance company) (October 1991-June 2004); Author of The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider’s View published by Oxford University Press (second edition 2010). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Fink has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since January 2005, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.,

Trustee (since 2013)

Year of Birth: 1948

   Advisory Board Member of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University (since April 2012); Director of Mercury Defense Systems Inc. (information technology) (August 2011-February 2013); Trustee of the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation (since November 2010); Advisory Board Member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (federally-funded research development center) (since May 2010); Director of The Boeing Company (aerospace and defense) (since October 2009); Trustee of MITRE Corporation (federally-funded research development center) (since September 2008); Independent Director of QinetiQ Group Plc (defense technology and security) (February 2008-August 2011); Director of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (on-line career services) (since January 2008, Lead Director since June 2011); Chairman of Alenia North America, Inc. (military and defense products) (January 2008-October 2009); Director of SRA International, Inc. (information technology and services) (January 2008-July 2011); President of Giambastiani Group LLC (national security and energy consulting) (since October 2007); United States Navy, career nuclear submarine officer (June 1970-October 2007), Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2005-October 2007), NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (2003-2005), Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command (2002-2005). Since his retirement from the U.S. Navy in October 2007, Admiral Giambastiani has also served on numerous U.S. Government advisory boards, investigations and task forces for the Secretaries of Defense, State and Interior and the Central Intelligence Agency. Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Admiral Giambastiani has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since February 2013, including as an Advisory Board Member for certain Oppenheimer funds, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations. For purposes of this report, Admiral Giambastiani is identified as a Trustee.

Elizabeth Krentzman,

Trustee (since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1959

   Advisory Board Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society (since 2007); held the following positions at Deloitte & Touche LLP: Principal and Chief Regulatory Advisor for Asset Management Services (2007 - 2014) and U.S. Mutual Fund Leader (2011 - 2014); General Counsel of the Investment Company Institute (trade association) (June 2004 - April 2007); held

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited / Continued

 

Elizabeth Krentzman, Continued    the following positions at Deloitte & Touche LLP: National Director of the Investment Management Regulatory Consulting Practice (1997 - 2004), Principal (2003 - 2004), Director (1998 - 2003) and Senior Manager (1997 - 1998); Assistant Director of the Division of Investment Management – Office of Disclosure and Investment Adviser Regulation (1996 - 1997) and various positions with the Division of Investment Management – Office of Regulatory Policy (1991 - 1996) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Associate at Ropes & Gray (1987 - 1991); former Chair of the Investment Management Subcommittee of the Washington, D.C. Bar. Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Ms. Krentzman has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since August 2014, during which time she has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Mary F. Miller,

Trustee (since 2009)

Year of Birth: 1942

   Trustee of International House (not-for-profit) (since June 2007); Trustee of the American Symphony Orchestra (not-for-profit) (October 1998-November 2011); and Senior Vice President and General Auditor of American Express Company (financial services company) (July 1998-February 2003). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Ms. Miller has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since August 2004, during which time she has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Joel W. Motley,

Trustee (since 2009)

Year of Birth: 1952

   Member of the Vestry of Trinity Wall Street (since April 2012); Director of Southern Africa Legal Services Foundation (since March 2012); Board Member of Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting (non-profit journalism) (since December 2010); Managing Director of Public Capital Advisors, LLC (privately-held financial advisor) (since January 2006); Managing Director of Carmona Motley, Inc. (privately-held financial advisor) (since January 2002); Director of Columbia Equity Financial Corp. (privately-held financial advisor) (2002-2007); Managing Director of Carmona Motley Hoffman Inc. (privately-held financial advisor) (January 1998-December 2001); Member of the Finance and Budget Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Investment Committee and Board of Human Rights Watch and Member of the Investment Committee and Board of Historic Hudson Valley. Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Motley has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since October 2002, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

Joanne Pace,

Trustee (since 2012)

Year of Birth: 1958

   Board Director of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (since November 2012); Advisory Board Director of The Alberleen Group LLC (since March 2012); Advisory Board Director of The Agile Trading Group LLC (since March 2012); Advisory Council Member of 100 Women in Hedge Funds (non-profit) (since December 2012); Advisory Council Member of Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital (non-profit) (since May 2012); Board Director of The Komera Project (non-profit) (since April 2012); New York Advisory Board Director of Peace First (non-profit) (since March 2010); Senior Advisor of SECOR Asset Management, LP (2010-2011); Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (2006-2010); Partner and Chief Operating Officer of FrontPoint Partners, LLC (hedge fund) (2005-2006); held the following positions

 

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Joanne Pace,

Continued

   at Credit Suisse: Managing Director (2003-2005); Global Head of Human Resources and member of Executive Board and Operating Committee (2004-2005), Global Head of Operations and Product Control (2003-2004); held the following positions at Morgan Stanley: Managing Director (1997-2003), Controller and Principal Accounting Officer (1999-2003); Chief Financial Officer (temporary assignment) for the Oversight Committee, Long Term Capital Management (1998-1999). Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Audit and Nominating Committee of The Global Chartist Fund, LLC of Oppenheimer Asset Management (2011-2012); Board Director of Managed Funds Association (2008-2010); Board Director of Morgan Stanley Foundation (2007-2010) and Investment Committee Chair (2008-2010). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Ms. Pace has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since November 2012, including as an Advisory Board Member for certain Oppenheimer funds, during which time she has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Board’s deliberations. For purposes of this report, Ms. Pace is identified as a Trustee.

Peter I. Wold,

Trustee (since 2009)

Year of Birth: 1948

  

Director of Arch Coal, Inc. (since 2010); President of Wold Oil Properties, Inc. (oil and gas exploration and production company) (since 1994); Vice President of American Talc Company, Inc. (talc mining and milling) (since 1999); Managing Member of Hole-in-the-Wall Ranch (cattle ranching) (since 1979); Director and Chairman of Wyoming Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute Commission (enhanced oil recovery study) (2004-2012); Director and Chairman of the Denver Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1993-1999); and Director of PacifiCorp. (electric utility) (1995-1999). Oversees 52 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Wold has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since August 2005, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

 

 

INTERESTED TRUSTEE

  

 

Mr. Glavin is an “Interested Trustee” because he is affiliated with the Manager and the Sub-Adviser by virtue of his positions as director of the Sub-Adviser, and as a shareholder of the Sub-Adviser’s parent company. As a Trustee, he serves for an indefinite term, or until his resignation, retirement, death or removal. Mr. Glavin’s address is 225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1008.

William F. Glavin, Jr.,

Trustee (since 2009)

Year of Birth: 1958

   Chairman of the Sub-Adviser (since July 2014 and December 2009-December 2012) and Director of the Sub-Adviser (since January 2009); Chairman, Director and Chief Executive Officer (January 2013-June 2014) of the Manager; President of the Manager (January 2013-May 2013); Chief Executive Officer (January 2009-December 2012); President of the Sub-Adviser (May 2009-December 2012); Management Director (June 2009-June 2014), President (December 2009-June 2014) and Chief Executive Officer (January 2011-June 2014) of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (“OAC”) (the Sub-Adviser’s parent holding company); Director of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc. (March 2010-June 2014); Executive Vice President (March 2006-February 2009) and Chief Operating Officer (July 2007-February 2009) of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (OAC’s parent company); Director (May 2004-March 2006) and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer (May 2004-January 2005), President (January 2005-March 2006) and Chief Executive Officer (June

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited / Continued

 

William F. Glavin, Jr.,

Continued

  

2005-March 2006) of Babson Capital Management LLC; Director (March 2005-March 2006), President (May 2003-March 2006) and Chief Compliance Officer (July 2005-March 2006) of Babson Capital Securities, Inc. (a broker-dealer); President (May 2003-March 2006) of Babson Investment Company, Inc.; Director (May 2004-August 2006) of Babson Capital Europe Limited; Director (May 2004-October 2006) of Babson Capital Guernsey Limited; Director (May 2004-March 2006) of Babson Capital Management LLC; Non-Executive Director (March 2005-March 2007) of Baring Asset Management Limited; Director (February 2005-June 2006) Baring Pension Trustees Limited; Director and Treasurer (December 2003-November 2006) of Charter Oak Capital Management, Inc.; Director (May 2006-September 2006) of C.M. Benefit Insurance Company; Director (May 2008-June 2009) and Executive Vice President (June 2007-July 2009) of C.M. Life Insurance Company; President (March 2006-May 2007) of MassMutual Assignment Company; Director (January 2005-December 2006), Deputy Chairman (March 2005-December 2006) and President (February 2005-March 2005) of MassMutual Holdings (Bermuda) Limited; Director (May 2008-June 2009) and Executive Vice President (June 2007-July 2009) of MML Bay State Life Insurance Company; Chief Executive Officer and President (April 2007-January 2009) of MML Distributors, LLC; and Chairman (March 2006-December 2008) and Chief Executive Officer (May 2007-December 2008) of MML Investors Services, Inc. An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex. Mr. Glavin has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since December 2009, during which time he has become familiar with the Fund’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Boards’ deliberations.

 

 

OTHER OFFICERS OF THE FUND

  

 

The addresses of the Officers in the chart below are as follows: for Messrs. Levine, Steinmetz, Gabinet, Mss. Sexton and Picciotto, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008, for Mr. Wixted, 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.

Michael S. Levine,

Vice President (since 2007)

Year of Birth: 1965

   Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (since June 1998) and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Sub-Adviser (since September 2000). A portfolio manager and an officer of other portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Arthur P. Steinmetz,

President and Principal

Executive Officer

(since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1958

   CEO and Chairman of the Manager (since July 2014), President of the Manager (since May 2013), a Director of the Manager (since January 2013), Director of the Sub-Adviser (since July 2014), President, Management Director and CEO of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (the Sub-Adviser’s parent holding company) (since July 2014), and President and Director of OFI SteelPath, Inc. (since January 2013). Chief Investment Officer of the OppenheimerFunds advisory entities from (January 2013-December 2013); Executive Vice President of the Manager (January 2013-May 2013); Chief Investment Officer of the Sub-Adviser (October 2010-December 2012); Chief Investment Officer, Fixed-Income, of the Sub-Adviser (April 2009-October 2010); Executive Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (October 2009-December 2012); Director of Fixed Income of the Sub-Adviser (January 2009-April 2009); and a Senior Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (March 1993-September 2009). An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

 

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Arthur S. Gabinet,

Secretary and Chief Legal

Officer (since 2011)

Year of Birth: 1958

   Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of the Manager (since January 2013); General Counsel OFI SteelPath, Inc. (since January 2013); Executive Vice President (May 2010-December 2012) and General Counsel (since January 2011) of the Sub-Adviser; General Counsel of the Distributor (since January 2011); General Counsel of Centennial Asset Management Corporation (January 2011-December 2012); Executive Vice President (January 2011-December 2012) and General Counsel of HarbourView Asset Management Corporation (since January 2011); Assistant Secretary (since January 2011) and Director (since January 2011) of OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. and OppenheimerFunds plc; Director of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc. (January 2011-December 2012) and General Counsel (since January 2011); Executive Vice President (January 2011-December 2011) and General Counsel of Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since January 2011); Executive Vice President (January 2011-December 2012) and General Counsel of OFI Private Investments Inc. (since January 2011); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (January 2011-December 2011); Executive Vice President (January 2011-December 2012) and General Counsel of OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2011); General Counsel, Asset Management of the Sub-Adviser (May 2010-December 2010); Principal, The Vanguard Group (November 2005-April 2010); District Administrator, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (January 2003-October 2005). An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Jennifer Sexton,

Vice President and Chief

Business Officer (since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1969

   Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (since June 2014); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (April 2006-June 2014); Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (January 1998-March 2006); Assistant Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (October 1991-December 1998). An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Mary Ann Picciotto,

Chief Compliance Officer and

Chief Anti-Money Laundering

Officer (since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1973

   Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Manager (since March 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of the Sub-Adviser, OFI SteelPath, Inc., OFI Global Trust Company, OFI Global Institutional, Inc., Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., OFI Private Investments, Inc., Harborview Asset Management Corporation, Trinity Investment Management Corporation, and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since March 2014); Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. and certain of its various affiliated entities; Chief Compliance Officer of various Morgan Stanley Funds (May 2010-January 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. (April 2007-January 2014). An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Brian W. Wixted,

Treasurer and Principal

Financial & Accounting Officer

(since 1999)

Year of Birth: 1959

   Senior Vice President of the Manager (since January 2013); Treasurer of the Sub-Adviser, HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc., and Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc. (March 1999-June 2008), OFI Private Investments, Inc. (March 2000-June 2008), OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. and OppenheimerFunds plc (since May 2000), OFI Institutional Asset Management, Inc. (November 2000-June 2008), and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (charitable trust program established by the Sub-Adviser) (June 2003-December 2011); Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of OFI Trust Company (since May 2000); Assistant Treasurer of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corporation (March 1999-June 2008). An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited / Continued

 

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

 

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OPPENHEIMER EQUITY INCOME FUND

 

Manager

   OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

Sub-Adviser

   OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

Distributor

   OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Transfer and Shareholder Servicing Agent    OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

Sub-Transfer Agent

  

Shareholder Services, Inc.

DBA OppenheimerFunds Services

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm    KPMG LLP

Legal Counsel

   Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

 

 

 

© 2014 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

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PRIVACY POLICY NOTICE

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

Information Sources

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

  Applications or other forms
  When you create a user ID and password for online account access
  When you enroll in eDocs Direct, our electronic document delivery service
  Your transactions with us, our affiliates or others
  A software program on our website, often referred to as a “cookie,” which indicates which parts of our site you’ve visited
  When you set up challenge questions to reset your password online

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

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

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

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

Protection of Information

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

Disclosure of Information

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

Right of Refusal

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

 

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Internet Security and Encryption

In general, the email services provided by our website are encrypted and provide a secure and private means of communication with us. To protect your own privacy, confidential and/or personal information should only be communicated via email when you are advised that you are using a secure website.

As a security measure, we do not include personal or account information in non-secure emails, and we advise you not to send such information to us in non-secure emails. Instead, you may take advantage of the secure features of our website to encrypt your email correspondence. To do this, you will need to use a browser that supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We do not guarantee or warrant that any part of our website, including files available for download, are free of viruses or other harmful code. It is your responsibility to take appropriate precautions, such as use of an anti-virus software package, to protect your computer hardware and software.

  All transactions, including redemptions, exchanges and purchases, are secured by SSL and 128-bit encryption. SSL is used to establish a secure connection between your PC and OppenheimerFunds’ server. It transmits information in an encrypted and scrambled format.
  Encryption is achieved through an electronic scrambling technology that uses a “key” to code and then decode the data. Encryption acts like the cable converter box you may have on your television set. It scrambles data with a secret code so that no one can make sense of it while it is being transmitted. When the data reaches its destination, the same software unscrambles the data.
  You can exit the secure area by either closing your browser, or for added security, you can use the Log Out button before you close your browser.

Other Security Measures

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

How You Can Help

You can also do your part to keep your account information private and to prevent unauthorized transactions. If you obtain a user ID and password for your account, do not allow it to be used by anyone else. Also, take special precautions when accessing your account on a computer used by others.

Who We Are

This joint notice describes the privacy policies of the Oppenheimer funds, OppenheimerFunds, Inc., each of its investment adviser subsidiaries, OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. and OFI Global Trust Co. It applies to all Oppenheimer fund accounts you presently have, or may open in the future, using your Social Security number—whether or not you remain a shareholder of our funds. This notice was last updated November 2014. In the event it is updated or changed, we will post an updated notice on our website at oppenheimerfunds.com. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, write to us at P.O. Box 5270, Denver, CO 80217-5270, email us by clicking on the Contact Us section of our website at oppenheimerfunds.com or call us at 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677).

 

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LOGO


Item 2. Code of Ethics.

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

Item 3. Audit Committee Financial Expert.

The Board of Trustees of the registrant has determined that David Downes, the Board’s Audit Committee Chairman, is an audit committee financial expert and that Mr. Downes is “independent” for purposes of this Item 3.

Item 4. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

 

(a) Audit Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $33,200 in fiscal 2014 and $32,500 in fiscal 2013.

 

(b) Audit-Related Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2014 and no such fees in fiscal 2013.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $1,042,959 in fiscal 2014 and $459,080 in fiscal 2013 to the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant.

Such services include: GIPS attestation procedures, system conversion testing, and entity reorganization

 

(c) Tax Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2014 and no such fees in fiscal 2013.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $467,462 in fiscal 2014 and $581,620 in fiscal 2013 to the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant.

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


(d) All Other Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2014 and no such fees in fiscal 2013.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2014 and no such fees in fiscal 2013 to the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant.

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

 

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

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

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

(2) 0%

 

(f) Not applicable as less than 50%.

 

(g) The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $1,510,421 in fiscal 2014 and $1,040,700 in fiscal 2013 to the registrant and the registrant’s investment adviser or any entity controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the adviser that provides ongoing services to the registrant related to non-audit fees. Those billings did not include any prohibited non-audit services as defined by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.


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

Item 5. Audit Committee of Listed Registrants

Not applicable.

Item 6. Schedule of Investments.

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

b) Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

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

Not applicable.

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

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

None


Item 11. Controls and Procedures.

Based on their evaluation of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c)) as of 10/31/2014, the registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer found the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures to provide reasonable assurances that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in the reports that it files under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (a) is accumulated and communicated to registrant’s management, including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, and (b) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

There have been no changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 12. Exhibits.

 

(a) (1) Exhibit attached hereto.

 

  (2) Exhibits attached hereto.

 

  (3) Not applicable.

 

(b) Exhibit attached hereto.


SIGNATURES

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

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund

 

By:  

/s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz

  Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Principal Executive Officer
Date:   12/12/2014

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

 

By:  

/s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz

  Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Principal Executive Officer
Date:   12/12/2014

 

By:  

/s/ Brian W. Wixted

  Brian W. Wixted
  Principal Financial Officer
Date:   12/12/2014