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Oakmark Bond Fund
OAKMARK BOND FUND
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The Fund seeks to maximize both current income and total return, consistent with prudent investment and principal protection management.

FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND

Below are the fees and expenses that you would pay if you buy, hold, and sell shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment) None.
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment).
Annual Fund Operating Expenses - Oakmark Bond Fund
Investor Class
Advisor Class
Institutional Class
R6 Class
Management fees 0.39% 0.39% 0.39% 0.39%
Distribution (12b-1) fees none none none none
Total Other Expenses 0.94% 0.73% 0.69% 0.63%
Shareholder Service Plan fees 0.12% [1] none none none
Other expenses 0.82% 0.73% 0.69% 0.63%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.33% 1.12% 1.08% 1.02%
Less: Fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements [2] 0.59% 0.58% 0.56% 0.58%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses after fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements 0.74% 0.54% 0.52% 0.44%
[1] Investor Class Shares of the Fund pay a service fee not to exceed 0.25% per annum of the average daily net assets of the Fund's Investor Class Shares. This service fee is paid to third-party intermediaries who provide services for and/or maintain shareholder accounts.
[2] Harris Associates L.P. (the "Adviser") has contractually undertaken to waive and/or reimburse certain fees and expenses of Investor Class, Advisor Class, Institutional Class, and R6 Class so that the total annual operating expenses (excluding taxes, interest, all commissions and other normal charges incident to the purchase and sale of portfolio securities, and extraordinary charges such as litigation costs, but including fees paid to the Adviser) ("annual operating expenses") of each class are limited to 0.74%, 0.54%, 0.52% and 0.44% of average net assets, respectively. Each of these undertakings lasts until January 27, 2025 and may only be modified by mutual agreement of the parties that, with respect to the Trust, includes a majority vote of the "non-interested" Trustees of the Trust. The Fund has agreed that each of Investor Class, Advisor Class, Institutional Class, and R6 Class will repay the Adviser for fees and expenses waived or reimbursed for the class provided that repayment does not cause annual operating expenses to exceed 0.74%, 0.54%, 0.52% and 0.44% of the class' average net assets, respectively, or to exceed any lower limit in effect at the time of recoupment. Any such repayment must be made within three years after the year in which the Adviser incurred the expense.
Example.

The Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses were those reflected in the table, inclusive of any fee waivers and/or expense reimbursements.

Although your actual returns and expenses may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your expenses would be:

Expense Example - Oakmark Bond Fund - USD ($)
Investor Class
Advisor Class
Institutional Class
R6 Class
1 Year $ 76 $ 55 $ 53 $ 45
3 Years 363 298 288 267
5 Years 672 561 541 507
10 Years $ 1,550 $ 1,311 $ 1,267 $ 1,195
Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Example, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 75% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY

The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of bonds and other fixed-income securities. These include, but are not limited to, investment grade corporate bonds; U.S. or non-U.S.-government and government-related obligations (such as, U.S. treasury securities); below investment-grade corporate bonds; agency and non-agency mortgage backed-securities; asset-backed securities; senior loans (such as, leveraged loans, bank loans, covenant lite loans, and/or floating rate loans); assignments; restricted securities (e.g., Rule 144A securities); and other fixed and floating rate instruments. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings made for investment purposes) in bonds and other fixed-income securities, and other investments that the Adviser believes have similar economic characteristics, including other investment companies that provide investment exposure to such securities. The Adviser may shift the level of these allocations among the different bond and other fixed-income asset classes depending on market conditions.

Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 25% of its assets in investment-grade fixed-income securities and may invest up to 35% of its assets in below investment-grade fixed-income securities (commonly known as "high-yield" or "junk bonds"). The Fund considers fixed-income securities to be investment-grade if, at the time of investment, they are rated Baa3 or higher by Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's"), BBB- or higher by S&P Global Ratings ("S&P") or Fitch Ratings, or equivalently rated by any other nationally recognized statistical rating

organization ("NRSRO"), or, if unrated, deemed to be of comparable quality by the Adviser. The Fund considers fixed-income securities to be below investment-grade if, at the time of investment, they are rated Ba1 or lower by Moody's, BB+ or lower by S&P, or equivalently rated by any NRSRO, or, if unrated, determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. Only one rating is required and if a security is split rated, the Adviser assigns the lowest rating. The Fund invests in senior loans that are typically rated below investment-grade and to bear interest at a floating rate that periodically resets. The Fund may also invest up to 10% of its net assets in defaulted corporate securities.

In seeking to achieve the objectives of the Fund, the Adviser may purchase securities on a when-issued basis and purchase or sell delayed-delivery securities. In addition, the Fund may invest in fixed income securities structured as fixed rate debt; floating rate debt; and debt that may not pay interest at the time of issuance. The Fund may also invest in inverse floaters, as well as interest-only and principal-only securities.

The Fund will prioritize differentiation through bottom-up, single-security selection across the major fixed income asset classes with a secondary focus on top-down asset allocation and interest rate and duration management. When selecting individual securities, the Adviser uses a bottom-up approach and seeks relative price appreciation by selecting securities the Adviser believes to be undervalued based on research and fundamental analysis and by making gradual adjustment in the average duration of the Fund's portfolio. The Adviser's investment strategy is a bottom-up process that first looks for opportunities by focusing on an individual issuer's default risk pricing and then incorporates top-down considerations such as interest rate forecasting, curve selection, and other macros factors.

The Adviser utilizes an investment approach that considers a quantitative valuation model combined with a qualitative ratings framework. The Fund's portfolio selection process uses a ranking structure with a defined "buy" and "sell" discipline that allocates investments among a list of approved issuers and considers an individual investment's risk reward profile, legal structure, and/or downside risk, among other factors. The Adviser actively manages the portfolio's asset class exposure using a top-down view of sector fundamentals. The Adviser rotates Fund portfolio assets among sectors in various markets in an effort to maximize return.

Under normal market conditions, the Adviser seeks to maintain an investment portfolio with a weighted average effective duration of no less than two years and no more than eight years. The duration of the Fund's portfolio may vary materially from its target, from time to time, and there is no assurance that the duration of the Fund's portfolio will meet its target.

The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in equity securities, such as common stocks and preferred stocks. The Fund may also hold cash or short-term debt securities from time to time and for temporary defensive purposes.

The Fund may invest in derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards (including forward foreign currency contracts), and swap agreements (including credit default swaps, interest rate swaps, and total return swaps), for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, managing the Fund's duration or its exposure to fixed income securities with different maturities, currencies, interest rates, individual issuers, or sectors. The Fund may also use options, including, but

not limited to, buying and selling (writing) put and call options on individual stocks and indexes, when such use is desirable because of tax or other considerations.

In deciding which fixed income securities to buy and sell, the Adviser attempts to emphasize securities issued by companies with strong fundamentals and relatively limited anticipated volatility. These securities are selected with the same bottom-up investment process that underpins all of the Oakmark funds. The Fund uses a value investment philosophy in selecting its securities. This value investment philosophy, in the context of fixed-income securities, is based upon the belief that, over time, a company's credit default risk will converge with the Adviser's estimate of the credit default risk associated with a company's intrinsic value. By "intrinsic value," the Adviser means its estimate of the value a knowledgeable buyer would pay to acquire the entire business. The Adviser believes that investing in securities that have credit risk priced significantly below what it believes the company's intrinsic value implies, allows the best opportunity to achieve the Fund's investment objective.

In an effort to achieve its goal, the Fund may engage in active and frequent trading. The Fund's investment objective may be changed without shareholder approval. The Fund will not alter its policy to invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings made for investment purposes) in bonds and other fixed-income securities, and other investments that the Adviser believes have similar economic characteristics, including other investment companies that provide investment exposure to such securities, without providing shareholders at least 60 days' notice. This test is applied at the time the Fund invests; later percentage changes caused by a change in Fund assets, market values or company circumstances will not require the Fund to dispose of a holding.

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT RISKS
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

The bar chart and performance table below can help you evaluate the potential risk and reward of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the performance of the Fund's Institutional Class Shares from year to year. The Fund's past performance (before and after taxes), as provided by the bar chart and performance table that follow, is not an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. The performance table illustrates the volatility of the Fund's historical returns over

various lengths of time and shows how the Fund's average annual returns compare with those of one or more broad measures of market performance. The indices, which are described in "Descriptions of Indices" in the prospectus, have characteristics relevant to the Fund's investment strategy. The Fund's Advisor Class and Institutional Class each commenced operations on June 10, 2020, the R6 Class commenced operations on December 15, 2020 and the Investor Class commenced operations on January 28, 2022. Updated performance information is available on Oakmark.com or by calling 1-800-OAKMARK (625-6275).

Institutional Class Shares Total Returns for Years Ended December 31 (%)
Bar Chart

  Since 2020, the highest and lowest quarterly returns for the Fund's Institutional Class Shares were:
• Highest quarterly return: 7.1%, during the quarter ended December 31, 2023
• Lowest quarterly return: -5.7%, during the quarter ended June 30, 2022
 
Average Annual Total Returns for Periods Ended December 31, 2023
Average Annual Returns - Oakmark Bond Fund
Average Annual Returns, 1 Year
Average Annual Returns, 5 Years
Average Annual Returns, 10 Years
Institutional Class 6.90% none none
Advisor Class 6.99% none none
R6 Class 6.99% none none
Investor Class 6.68% none none
After Taxes on Distributions | Institutional Class 4.92% none none
After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | Institutional Class 4.05% none none
Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (does not reflect the deduction of fees, expenses or taxes) 5.53% none none
Lipper Core Plus Bond Funds Index (does not reflect the deduction of fees, expenses or taxes) 6.41% none none

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans, qualified plans, education savings accounts or individual retirement accounts. In some cases, the after-tax returns may exceed the return before taxes due to an assumed tax benefit from any losses on a sale of Fund shares at the end of the measurement period. After-tax returns are shown only for Institutional Class Shares. After-tax returns for Advisor Class Shares, and R6 Class Shares will vary from returns shown for Institutional Class Shares.