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 811-22314

 

 

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

 

Cynthia Lo Bessette

OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

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

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

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

Date of fiscal year end: July  31

Date of reporting period: 7/31/2018

 

 

 


Item 1. Reports to Stockholders.


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Table of Contents

 

Fund Performance Discussion

     3  

Top Holdings and Allocations

     6  

Fund Expenses

     9  

Statement of Investments

     11  

Statement of Assets and Liabilities

     25  

Statement of Operations

     27  

Statements of Changes in Net Assets

     29  

Financial Highlights

     30  

Notes to Financial Statements

     35  

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     53  

Federal Income Tax Information

     54  
Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Guidelines; Updates to Statement of Investments      55  

Trustees and Officers

     56  

Privacy Notice

     61  

 

 

Class A Shares

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS AT 7/31/18

 

    Class A Shares of the Fund    
             Without Sales Charge                      With Sales Charge                 Bloomberg Barclays    
U.S. Aggregate  Bond
Index

 

1-Year

 

 

-1.67%

 

 

-6.35%

 

 

-0.80%

5-Year

  2.94     1.94      2.25   

Since Inception (8/2/10)

  4.40      3.77      2.63   

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 4.75% 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. Returns for periods of less than one year are cumulative and not annualized. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit oppenheimerfunds.com or call 1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677). See Fund prospectuses and summary prospectuses for more information on share classes and sales charges .

 

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Fund Performance Discussion

MARKET OVERVIEW

 

The U.S. economy continued to perform well during the reporting period. U.S. 2018 gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an estimated 4.2% annualized rate over the second quarter of 2018, significantly exceeding its 2% trend growth of this expansion. Private consumption, the driving force of the economy in recent years, is growing at a stable rate. Additionally, business fixed investment has gained momentum in recent months and is broadening across sectors. With increasingly less slack in the economy, strong profits, and the corporate tax cuts, we believe investment should support growth and productivity improvements.

 

The Federal Reserve (Fed) hiked the Fed Funds target rate by 25 basis points twice – in March and June – ending the period in a range of 1.75% - 2.00%. The Fed is on track to deliver 1-2 more hikes this year, as the economy is near the Fed’s dual mandate of full employment and price stability. On the inflation front, underlying inflation is around the Fed’s 2% target. The unemployment rate is at historical lows; however, the rising labor participation rate and stable wage growth suggest that there may still be some slack in the labor market. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) under new chair Jerome Powell’s leadership signaled that the Fed will remain cautious and tighten policy gradually,

 

 

 

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

 

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giving comfort to the markets. Thus far, the Fed’s hiking cycle has been orderly.

Despite the strength of the U.S. economy and the Fed’s orderly hiking cycle, international economic and geopolitical concerns were noticeable during the reporting period and caused some market turbulence. Trade tensions were on the rise and there were pockets of political issues. Such tensions, especially regarding trade, made an impact on some investment decisions, as noted in the Fed’s minutes. So far, the measures implemented are not of major economic significance, in our view. At this point, we believe there is more rhetoric than actual impactful decisions. The risk remains, however, that trade issues hit confidence or that retaliations could lead to more significant measures. While these are still not the baseline, risks are elevated and worth carefully monitoring.

In this environment, markets were volatile this reporting period. Equity markets in the U.S. produced positive results and outperformed international equities, with the S&P 500 Index returning 16.24% and the MSCI All Country

World Index returning 10.97%. In fixed income markets, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index produced a -0.80% return. Credit slightly outperformed for the

reporting period, with the Bloomberg Barclays Credit Index returning -0.66%.

FUND REVIEW

Against this backdrop, the Fund’s Class A shares (without sales charge) produced a return of -1.67% this reporting period, underperforming the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index’s (the “Index”) return of -0.80%.

The primary detractors from performance included security selection within the banking and technology sectors. Top contributors to the Fund’s performance included security selection within consumer cyclical and energy. Also contributing was the Fund’s allocation to high yield credit.

STRATEGY & OUTLOOK

We believe macroeconomic fundamentals should remain solid with a potential increase in U.S. growth due to the stimulus package and tax reform. We believe the Fed may raise interest rates two more times this year depending on economic data after the most recent increase in June.

We remain cautiously engaged in investment-grade corporate credit with modest exposure to typically high Sharpe Ratio BB-rated corporates. As a result, we continue to be less likely to meaningfully increase credit risk,

 

 

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absent specific relative value opportunities. We typically avoid B-rated and below high yield corporate bonds.

 

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    Krishna Memani

    Portfolio Manager

 

 

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Top Holdings and Allocations

 

CORPORATE BONDS & NOTES - TOP TEN INDUSTRIES

 

Commercial Banks     13.7 %   
Capital Markets     6.3  
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels     5.2  
Diversified Telecommunication Services     5.0  
Electric Utilities     4.4  
Beverages     3.6  
Media     3.5  
Insurance     3.5  
Food Products     2.9  
Software     2.8  

Portfolio holdings and allocations are subject to change. Percentages are as of July 31, 2018, and are based on net assets.

PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION

Non-Convertible Corporate Bonds and Notes     91.0
Investment Companies        

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund

    2.0  

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund

    4.3  
Short-Term Notes     2.6  

Mortgage-Backed Obligations Non-Agency

    0.1  

Portfolio holdings and allocations are subject to change. Percentages are as of July 31, 2018, and are based on the total market value of investments.

 

 

 

For more current Fund holdings, please visit oppenheimerfunds.com.

 

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Share Class Performance

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS WITHOUT SALES CHARGE AS OF 7/31/18

 

     Inception
Date
       1-Year        5-Year        Since
Inception
 

Class A (OFIAX)

     8/2/10          -1.67        2.94        4.40

Class C (OFICX)

     8/2/10          -2.32          2.19          3.59  

Class I (OFIIX)

     11/28/12          -1.18          3.43          2.99  

Class R (OFINX)

     8/2/10          -1.91          2.71          4.12  

Class Y (OFIYX)

     8/2/10          -1.35          3.24          4.63  

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS WITH SALES CHARGE AS OF 7/31/18

 

     Inception
Date
       1-Year        5-Year        Since
Inception
 

Class A (OFIAX)

     8/2/10          -6.35        1.94        3.77

Class C (OFICX)

     8/2/10          -3.28          2.19          3.59  

Class I (OFIIX)

     11/28/12          -1.18          3.43          2.99  

Class R (OFINX)

     8/2/10          -1.91          2.71          4.12  

Class Y (OFIYX)

     8/2/10          -1.35          3.24          4.63  

 

STANDARDIZED YIELDS

For the 30 Days Ended 7/31/18

Class A

     3.13        

Class C

     2.53          

Class I

     3.67          

Class R

     3.03          

Class Y

     3.51          

UNSUBSIDIZED STANDARDIZED YIELDS

For the 30 Days Ended 7/31/18

Class A

     3.11                 

Class C

     2.51                   

Class I

     3.65                   

Class R

     3.00                   

Class Y

     3.49                   
 

 

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 4.75%; for Class C shares, the contingent deferred sales charge of 1% for the 1-year period. There is no sales charge for Class I, Class R and Class Y shares. Returns for periods of less than one year are cumulative and not annualized. See Fund prospectuses and summary prospectuses for more information on share classes and sales charges .

Standardized yield is based on an SEC-standardized formula designed to approximate the Fund’s annualized hypothetical current income from securities less expenses for the 30-day period ended July 31, 2018 and that date’s maximum offering price (for Class A shares) or net asset value (for all other share classes). Each result is compounded semiannually and then annualized. Falling share prices will tend to artificially raise yields. The unsubsidized

 

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standardized yield is computed under an SEC-standardized formula based on net income earned for the 30-day period ended July 31, 2018. The calculation excludes any expense reimbursements and thus may result in a lower yield.

The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an index of U.S dollar-denominated, investment-grade U.S. corporate government and mortgage-backed securities. The Index is 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 Index. Index performance includes 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 views in the Fund Performance Discussion represent the opinions of this Fund’s portfolio manager(s) and are not intended as investment advice or to predict or depict the performance of any investment. These views are as of the close of business on July 31, 2018, and are subject to change based on subsequent developments. The Fund’s portfolio and strategies are subject to change.

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 and/or 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 July 31, 2018.

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 July 31, 2018” 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
February 1, 2018
   Ending
Account
Value
July 31, 2018
   Expenses
Paid During
6 Months Ended
July 31, 2018
       

Class A

   $    1,000.00    $    977.50    $          4.57         

Class C

         1,000.00          973.80                8.31         

Class I

         1,000.00          980.30                2.70         

Class R

         1,000.00          976.30                5.85         

Class Y

         1,000.00          978.60                3.39   

Hypothetical

           

(5% return before expenses)

                       

Class A

         1,000.00          1,020.18                4.67         

Class C

         1,000.00          1,016.41                8.48         

Class I

         1,000.00          1,022.07                2.76         

Class R

         1,000.00          1,018.89                5.97         

Class Y

         1,000.00          1,021.37                3.46   

Expenses are equal to the Fund’s annualized expense ratio for that class, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 181/365 (to reflect the one-half year period). Those annualized expense ratios, excluding indirect expenses from affiliated funds, based on the 6-month period ended July 31, 2018 are as follows:

 

Class    Expense Ratios                

Class A

     0.93%           

Class C

     1.69              

Class I

     0.55              

Class R

     1.19              

Class Y

     0.69              

The expense ratios reflect voluntary and/or contractual waivers and/or reimbursements of expenses by the Fund’s Manager and Transfer Agent. 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 July 31, 2018

 

    Principal Amount      Value   

Mortgage-Backed Obligations—0.1%

                
Banc of America Mortgage Trust, Series 2007-1, Cl. 1A24, 6.00%, 3/25/37   $ 31,832      $ 30,181   
WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Trust, Series 2005-AR14, Cl. 1A4, 3.431%, 12/25/35 1     58,798        59,440   
Wells Fargo Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust, Series 2006- AR2, Cl. 2A3, 3.863%, 3/25/36 1     42,862        43,451   
    

 

 

 
Total Mortgage-Backed Obligations (Cost $123,163)        133,072   
         
Corporate Bonds and Notes—90.3%                 
Consumer Discretionary—12.5%     
Auto Components—0.5%                 
Magna International, Inc., 4.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/1/25     1,000,000                        1,011,391   
         
Automobiles—1.9%                 
Daimler Finance North America LLC, 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/22/28 2     1,020,000        999,185   
Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC, 3.664% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/8/24     1,020,000        973,379   
General Motors Co., 6.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/2/43     403,000        422,285   
General Motors Financial Co., Inc., 3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/30/22     428,000        416,070   
Hyundai Capital America, 1.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/27/19 2     475,000        465,760   
Volkswagen Group of America Finance LLC, 2.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/20/19 2     510,000        504,766   
    

 

 

 
       3,781,445   
         
Diversified Consumer Services—0.5%                 
Service Corp. International, 4.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/27     1,084,000        1,032,510   
         
Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure—0.5%                 
Aramark Services, Inc., 5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/25 2     1,054,000        1,056,635   
         
Household Durables—1.1%                 
Lennar Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/30/25     413,000        403,191   
Newell Brands, Inc., 5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/23     410,000        416,976   
PulteGroup, Inc., 5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/27     753,000        710,644   
Toll Brothers Finance Corp.:     
4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/23     619,000        608,167   
4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/27     175,000        165,813   
    

 

 

 
       2,304,791   
         
Internet & Catalog Retail—1.2%                 
Amazon.com, Inc., 4.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/5/44     540,000        614,028   
QVC, Inc., 4.45% Sr. Sec. Nts., 2/15/25     1,940,000        1,862,066   
    

 

 

 
       2,476,094   
         
Media—3.5%                 
21st Century Fox America, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/46     741,000        791,724   

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

    Principal Amount      Value   
Media (Continued)                 
Charter Communications Operating LLC/Charter Communications Operating Capital, 5.375% Sr. Sec. Nts., 5/1/47   $ 745,000      $ 719,572   

Comcast Corp.:

    

2.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/27

    849,000        752,786   

4.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/48

    1,150,000        1,050,504   
Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The), 4.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/24     534,000        532,646   
Time Warner Cable LLC, 4.50% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 9/15/42     420,000        360,534   
Viacom, Inc., 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/43     500,000        440,011   
Virgin Media Secured Finance plc, 5.25% Sr. Sec. Nts., 1/15/26 2     1,148,000        1,083,425   
WPP Finance 2010, 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/19/24     1,590,000        1,529,655   
    

 

 

 
       7,260,857   
         
Multiline Retail—0.4%                 
Dollar Tree, Inc., 4.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/28     850,000        838,390   
         
Specialty Retail—2.0%                 
AutoZone, Inc., 1.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/21/19     78,000        77,427   
Best Buy Co., Inc., 5.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/21     799,000        835,147   
Home Depot, Inc. (The), 3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/56     390,000        345,457   
L Brands, Inc., 5.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/22     1,071,000        1,093,759   
Ross Stores, Inc., 3.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/24     697,000        683,721   
Signet UK Finance plc, 4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/24     1,022,000        964,364   
    

 

 

 
       3,999,875   
         
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods—0.9%                 
Hanesbrands, Inc., 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/26 2     1,055,000        1,024,669   
Levi Strauss & Co., 5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/1/25     882,000        888,615   
    

 

 

 
       1,913,284   
         
Consumer Staples—7.8%                 
Beverages—3.6%                 

Anheuser-Busch InBev Finance, Inc.:

    

3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/26

    1,206,000                        1,186,226   
4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/46     663,000        692,944   
Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide, Inc., 8.20% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 1/15/39     650,000        937,196   
Bacardi Ltd., 4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/28 2     811,000        806,827   
Diageo Capital plc, 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 4/29/43     410,000        392,971   
Keurig Dr Pepper, Inc., 4.597% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/25/28 2     805,000        821,362   

Molson Coors Brewing Co.:

    

1.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/19

    169,000        166,848   

2.10% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/21

    1,200,000        1,153,430   
4.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/46     140,000        128,125   

 

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    Principal Amount      Value   

Beverages (Continued)

                

Pernod Ricard SA, 4.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/22 2

  $     1,100,000      $     1,119,844   
    

 

 

 
       7,405,773   
         

Food & Staples Retailing—0.8%

                

Kroger Co. (The), 4.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/47

    700,000        652,364   

Walmart, Inc., 4.05% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/29/48

    900,000        918,016   
    

 

 

 
       1,570,380   
         

Food Products—2.9%

                

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., 4.016% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/16/43

    625,000        606,020   

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp.:

    

3.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/26

    810,000        740,577   

3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/24/20

    950,000        946,659   

General Mills, Inc., 4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/17/48

    339,000        335,324   

Kraft Heinz Foods Co., 3.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/25

    870,000        855,071   

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc., 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/26 2

    1,104,000        1,088,820   

Smithfield Foods, Inc.:

    

2.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/31/20 2

    237,000        233,333   

3.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/22 2

    287,000        277,121   

Tyson Foods, Inc., 3.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/2/27

    773,000        737,022   
    

 

 

 
                       5,819,947   
         

Tobacco—0.5%

                

Altria Group, Inc., 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/16/46

    695,000        625,404   

BAT Capital Corp., 3.557% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/27 2

    485,000        457,219   
    

 

 

 
       1,082,623   
         

Energy—5.7%

                

Energy Equipment & Services—0.5%

                

Halliburton Co., 5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/45

    423,000        458,310   

Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., 4.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/25

    640,000        659,292   
    

 

 

 
       1,117,602   
         

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels—5.2%

                

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.:

    

4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/44

    226,000        215,737   

6.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/40

    379,000        440,355   

Andeavor, 3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/28

    860,000        824,211   

Andeavor Logistics LP/Tesoro Logistics Finance Corp.:

    

4.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/27

    789,000        778,590   

5.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/25

    664,000        687,194   

Apache Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/43

    725,000        698,401   

Buckeye Partners LP, 3.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/26

    364,000        332,762   

ConocoPhillips Co.:

    

4.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/26

    90,000        97,111   

5.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/46

    330,000        420,913   

Devon Energy Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/42

    450,000        446,986   

Energy Transfer Partners LP, 5.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/47

    389,000        371,453   

 

13        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

    Principal Amount      Value   
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels (Continued)                 
Enterprise Products Operating LLC:     
4.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/42   $ 368,000      $ 379,274   
4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/46     325,000        336,274   
Kinder Morgan, Inc.:     
5.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/48     136,000        138,092   
5.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/45     840,000        884,783   
Noble Energy, Inc., 5.05% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/44     310,000        314,493   
Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC, 4.20% Sr. Sec. Nts., 3/15/28     705,000        690,786   
Shell International Finance BV, 4.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/10/46     505,000        501,173   
Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations LP, 4.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/1/27     850,000        812,909   
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., 7.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/39     464,000        628,924   
Williams Partners LP, 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/27     596,000        575,769   
    

 

 

 
                       10,576,190   
         
Financials—27.6%                 
Capital Markets—6.3%                 
Apollo Management Holdings LP, 4.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/30/24 2     330,000        326,143   
Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The), 3.00% Sub. Nts., 10/30/28     423,000        389,986   
Blackstone Holdings Finance Co. LLC, 3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/2/27 2     425,000        394,566   
Brookfield Asset Management, Inc., 4.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/25     331,000        324,822   
Credit Suisse Group AG, 3.869% [US0003M+141] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/12/29 2,3     624,000        597,213   
Credit Suisse Group Funding Guernsey Ltd.:     
3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/22     420,000        419,195   
3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/9/23     600,000        595,408   
E*TRADE Financial Corp., 5.875% [US0003M+443.5] Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds 3,4     1,062,000        1,091,205   
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The):     
3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/16/26     591,000        561,695   
3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/25/26     440,000        428,185   
5.15% Sub. Nts., 5/22/45     650,000        675,658   
Macquarie Group Ltd., 3.763% [US0003M+137.2] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/28/28 2,3     841,000        777,399   
Morgan Stanley:     
3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/27/26     1,370,000        1,351,584   
5.00% Sub. Nts., 11/24/25     1,414,000        1,471,994   
MSCI, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/1/26 2     1,078,000        1,067,220   
Northern Trust Corp., 3.375% [US0003M+113.1] Sub. Nts., 5/8/32 3     452,000        421,888   
Raymond James Financial, Inc., 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/26     650,000        624,422   
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., 3.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/27     578,000        555,095   

 

14        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


    Principal Amount      Value   
Capital Markets (Continued)                 
UBS Group Funding Switzerland AG, 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/24/25 2   $ 850,000      $ 851,139   
    

 

 

 
                       12,924,817   
         
Commercial Banks—13.7%                 
ABN AMRO Bank NV, 4.40% [USSW5+219.7] Sub. Nts., 3/27/28 3     1,150,000        1,133,660   
Bank of America Corp.:     
3.248% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/21/27     846,000        790,635   
4.271% [US0003M+131] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/23/29 3     628,000        631,036   
7.75% Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/14/38     901,000        1,241,280   
BB&T Corp., 2.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/26/24     855,000        816,121   
BNP Paribas SA, 4.625% Sub. Nts., 3/13/27 2     730,000        726,924   
BPCE SA, 4.50% Sub. Nts., 3/15/25 2     645,000        636,426   
Citigroup, Inc.:     
3.50% Sub. Nts., 5/15/23     370,000        365,987   
3.668% [US0003M+139] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/24/28 3     1,000,000        953,817   
4.281% [US0003M+183.9] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/24/48 3     484,000        469,801   
4.30% Sub. Nts., 11/20/26     445,000        436,880   
4.45% Sub. Nts., 9/29/27     419,000        414,446   
Citizens Bank NA (Providence RI):     
2.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/13/21     547,000        533,041   
2.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/26/22     232,000        223,918   
Compass Bank, 2.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/29/22     982,000        947,896   
Cooperatieve Rabobank UA, 2.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/10/23     1,100,000        1,062,199   
Credit Agricole SA, 4.375% Sub. Nts., 3/17/25 2     1,180,000        1,160,552   
Fifth Third Bank (Cincinnati OH), 3.85% Sub. Nts., 3/15/26     505,000        495,762   
First Republic Bank, 4.375% Sub. Nts., 8/1/46     437,000        414,056   
HSBC Holdings plc:     
3.95% [US0003M+98.72] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/18/24 3     340,000        339,629   
4.583% [US0003M+153.46] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/19/29 3     565,000        573,663   
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/14/27 2     862,000        754,297   
JPMorgan Chase & Co.:     
3.54% [US0003M+138] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/1/28 3     873,000        834,404   
3.782% [US0003M+133.7] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/28 3     1,749,000        1,703,653   
3.797% [US0003M+89] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/23/24 3     833,000        832,897   
3.897% [US0003M+122] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/23/49 3     500,000        458,210   
4.26% [US0003M+158] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/22/48 3     379,000        368,682   
KeyBank NA (Cleveland OH), 3.40% Sub. Nts., 5/20/26     760,000        721,227   
Lloyds Banking Group plc:     
6.413% [US0003M+149.5] Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds 2,3,4     105,000        110,250   
6.657% [US0003M+127] Jr. Sub. Perpetual Bonds 3,4,5     565,000        598,900   
PNC Bank NA, 4.05% Sub. Nts., 7/26/28     743,000        746,012   
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The), 3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/19/27     855,000        813,578   
Regions Financial Corp., 2.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/14/22     492,000        474,312   
SunTrust Bank (Atlanta GA), 3.30% Sub. Nts., 5/15/26     380,000        358,396   
Synovus Financial Corp., 3.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/22     625,000        598,556   
Toronto-Dominion Bank (The), 3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/19/23     833,000        831,767   

 

15        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

    Principal Amount      Value   
Commercial Banks (Continued)                 
US Bancorp:     
3.10% Sub. Nts., 4/27/26   $ 530,000      $ 501,236   
3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/27/27     231,000        221,247   
US Bank NA (Cincinnati OH), 3.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/24/23     1,327,000        1,321,483   
Wells Fargo & Co.:     
3.584% [US0003M+131] Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/22/28 3     773,000        742,029   
4.75% Sub. Nts., 12/7/46     608,000        614,861   
    

 

 

 
                       27,973,726   
         
Consumer Finance—0.8%                 
American Express Credit Corp., 3.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/3/27     579,000        562,897   
Capital One Financial Corp., 3.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/5/25     400,000        376,677   
Discover Financial Services, 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/4/25     462,000        443,128   
Electricite de France SA, 6.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/26/19 2     340,000        345,958   
    

 

 

 
       1,728,660   
         
Diversified Financial Services—1.4%                 
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.:     
2.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/18     127,000        126,817   
3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/48     368,000        336,969   
Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC, 4.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/48 6     515,000        521,856   
PacifiCorp, 4.125% Sec. Nts., 1/15/49     360,000        360,547   
Peachtree Corners Funding Trust, 3.976% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/25 2     381,000        369,286   
Voya Financial, Inc.:     
4.70% [US0003M+208.4] Jr. Sub. Nts., 1/23/48 2,3     231,000        204,146   
5.65% [US0003M+358] Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/15/53 3     873,000        882,568   
    

 

 

 
       2,802,189   
         
Insurance—3.5%                 
AXA Equitable Holdings, Inc., 4.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/20/28 2     581,000        568,668   
AXIS Specialty Finance plc, 5.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/45     666,000        654,817   
Boardwalk Pipelines LP, 4.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/24     785,000        802,327   
Brighthouse Financial, Inc., 3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/22/27     246,000        223,108   
CNA Financial Corp., 3.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/27     837,000        773,245   
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The), 4.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/48     657,000        648,139   
Lincoln National Corp., 3.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/28     653,000        634,846   
Manulife Financial Corp., 4.061% [USISDA05+164.7] Sub. Nts., 2/24/32 3     567,000        539,062   
Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc., 4.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/30/47     406,000        408,415   
Nuveen Finance LLC, 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/24 2     756,000        749,426   
Prudential Financial, Inc.:     
5.20% [US0003M+304] Jr. Sub. Nts., 3/15/44 3     725,000        720,469   
5.375% [US0003M+303.1] Jr. Sub. Nts., 5/15/45 3     435,000        437,719   
    

 

 

 
       7,160,241   

 

16        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


    Principal Amount      Value   
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)—1.9%                 
American Tower Corp.:     
2.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/20   $ 200,000      $ 198,131   
3.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/28     830,000        778,001   
5.05% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 9/1/20     330,000        340,809   
Crown Castle International Corp.:     
3.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/21     700,000        699,044   
3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/1/27     720,000        677,734   
Lamar Media Corp., 5.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/1/26     1,040,000        1,069,900   
VEREIT Operating Partnership LP, 3.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/6/19     180,000        179,954   
    

 

 

 
                       3,943,573   
         
Health Care—6.5%                 
Biotechnology—1.8%                 
AbbVie, Inc.:     
3.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/14/25     993,000        968,938   
4.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/14/45     301,000        296,758   
Amgen, Inc., 4.563% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/48     515,000        517,554   
Biogen, Inc., 5.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/45     335,000        362,846   
Celgene Corp.:     
3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/25     872,000        860,636   
5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/45     226,000        227,891   
Gilead Sciences, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/46     453,000        479,172   
    

 

 

 
       3,713,795   
         
Health Care Equipment & Supplies—2.1%                 
Abbott Laboratories, 3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/30/26     1,215,000        1,208,439   
Becton Dickinson & Co.:     
2.404% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/5/20     302,000        297,043   
3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/6/27     1,073,000        1,031,981   
Edwards Lifesciences Corp., 4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/28     804,000        809,029   
Hologic, Inc., 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/25 2     39,000        37,819   
Medtronic, Inc., 4.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/45     810,000        880,710   
    

 

 

 
       4,265,021   
         
Health Care Providers & Services—1.2%                 
CVS Health Corp., 5.05% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/25/48     1,232,000        1,281,521   
Fresenius Medical Care US Finance II, Inc., 5.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/31/22 2     1,215,000        1,286,849   
    

 

 

 
       2,568,370   
         
Life Sciences Tools & Services—0.8%                 
IQVIA, Inc., 5.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/26 2     940,000        940,423   
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., 3.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/27     723,000        677,803   
    

 

 

 
       1,618,226   
         
Pharmaceuticals—0.6%                 
Bayer US Finance II LLC, 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/28 2     1,128,000        1,144,918   

 

17        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

     Principal Amount      Value   

Industrials—6.4%

                

Aerospace & Defense—1.5%

                

BAE Systems Holdings, Inc., 3.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/25 2

  $ 1,180,000      $ 1,169,052   

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., 3.483% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/27

    1,005,000        955,403   

Northrop Grumman Corp., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/43

    450,000        475,482   

United Technologies Corp., 4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/42

    450,000        454,765   
    

 

 

 
       3,054,702   
         

Air Freight & Couriers—0.5%

                

CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc., 4.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/28

    825,000        815,106   

United Parcel Service, Inc., 6.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/38

    225,000        282,345   
    

 

 

 
       1,097,451   
         

Building Products—0.5%

                

Allegion US Holding Co., Inc., 3.55% Sec. Nts., 10/1/27

    1,113,000                        1,026,409   
         

Electrical Equipment—0.4%

                

Sensata Technologies BV, 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/23 2

    927,000        937,429   
         

Industrial Conglomerates—0.5%

                

3M Co., 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/47

    500,000        475,543   

GE Capital International Funding Co. Unlimited Co., 3.373% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/25

    507,000        487,237   
    

 

 

 
       962,780   
         

Machinery—0.9%

                

Caterpillar, Inc., 4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/44

    450,000        469,221   

Nvent Finance Sarl, 4.55% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/28 2

    832,000        817,140   

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., 2.451% Sub. Nts., 11/17/18

    101,000        100,969   

Wabtec Corp., 3.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/26

    605,000        557,778   
    

 

 

 
       1,945,108   
         

Professional Services—0.2%

                

IHS Markit Ltd., 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/1/23

    326,000        326,182   
         

Road & Rail—0.9%

                

Penske Truck Leasing Co. LP/PTL Finance Corp., 3.40% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/26 2

    1,129,000        1,057,669   

Ryder System, Inc., 3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/21 6

    122,000        122,193   

Union Pacific Corp., 4.05% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/15/45

    600,000        580,657   
    

 

 

 
       1,760,519   
         

Trading Companies & Distributors—1.0%

                

Air Lease Corp.:

    

3.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/1/25

    365,000        342,430   

3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/27

    409,000        379,574   

GATX Corp., 3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/28

    839,000        775,721   

 

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     Principal Amount      Value   

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors (Continued)

     

 

 

United Rentals North America, Inc., 4.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/25

   $ 515,000      $ 498,262   
     

 

 

 
       

 

            1,995,987 

 

 

 

 

 

Information Technology—6.9%

     

 

 

Communications Equipment—0.6%

     

 

 

Motorola Solutions, Inc., 4.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/23/28

    

 

            1,249,000

 

 

 

    

 

1,235,413 

 

 

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments, & Components—0.5%

     

 

 

Arrow Electronics, Inc., 3.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/12/28

     1,075,000        1,006,837   

 

 

CDW LLC/CDW Finance Corp., 5.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/1/24

     148,000        154,246   
     

 

 

 
       

 

1,161,083 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services—0.4%

     

 

 

VeriSign, Inc.:

     

4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/27

     495,000        473,344   

5.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/25

     271,000        278,114   
     

 

 

 
       

 

751,458 

 

 

 

 

 

IT Services—1.6%

     

 

 

DXC Technology Co.:

     

2.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/27/20

     343,000        339,838   

4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/27

     1,099,000        1,107,784   

 

 

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., 4.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/28

     806,000        809,593   

 

 

International Business Machines Corp., 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/12/24

     950,000        957,619   
     

 

 

 
       

 

3,214,834 

 

 

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment—0.3%

     

 

 

Intel Corp., 3.734% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/8/47

    

 

631,000

 

 

 

    

 

608,181 

 

 

 

 

 

Software—2.8%

     

 

 

Autodesk, Inc., 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/25

     430,000        434,809   

 

 

Dell International LLC/EMC Corp.:

     

4.42% Sr. Sec. Nts., 6/15/21 2

     450,000        457,169   

6.02% Sr. Sec. Nts., 6/15/26 2

     901,000        952,819   

 

 

Microsoft Corp., 3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/8/46

     500,000        488,168   

 

 

Open Text Corp., 5.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/23 2

     552,000        567,870   

 

 

Oracle Corp., 5.375% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 7/15/40

     570,000        662,303   

 

 

salesforce.com, Inc., 3.70% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/11/28

     1,100,000        1,105,017   

 

 

VMware, Inc.:

     

2.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/21/20

     500,000        489,410   

3.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/21/27

     741,000        699,277   
     

 

 

 
       

 

5,856,842 

 

 

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals—0.7%

     

 

 

Apple, Inc., 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/13/45

     775,000        814,292   

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

     Principal Amount      Value    

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals (Continued)

     

 

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., 3.60% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/20

   $ 550,000      $ 553,364    
     

 

 

 
       

 

            1,367,656  

 

 

 

 

 

Materials—5.9%

     

 

 

Chemicals—2.0%

     

 

 

Nutrien Ltd.:

     

3.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/25

     517,000        486,623    

4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/35

     296,000        276,192    

 

 

PolyOne Corp., 5.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/23

     915,000        939,019    

 

 

RPM International, Inc.:

     

3.45% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 11/15/22

     875,000        861,832    

3.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/27

     335,000        318,317    

 

 

Yara International ASA, 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/28 2

                 1,189,000        1,208,523    
     

 

 

 
       

 

4,090,506  

 

 

 

 

 

Construction Materials—0.8%

     

 

 

James Hardie International Finance DAC, 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/25 2

     900,000        885,636    

 

 

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., 3.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 12/15/27

     771,000        713,704    
     

 

 

 
       

 

1,599,340  

 

 

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging—1.6%

     

 

 

International Paper Co.:

     

3.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/27

     694,000        635,730    

4.80% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/44

     280,000        273,707    

 

 

Packaging Corp. of America:

     

3.65% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/24

     223,000        218,166    

4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/1/23

     650,000        670,092    

 

 

Silgan Holdings, Inc., 4.75% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/25

     660,000        632,775    

 

 

WestRock Co., 4.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/28 2

     816,000        806,062    
     

 

 

 
       

 

3,236,532  

 

 

 

 

 

Metals & Mining—1.1%

     

 

 

Anglo American Capital plc:

     

3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/11/24 2

     356,000        336,295    

4.00% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/11/27 2

     595,000        549,485    

 

 

ArcelorMittal, 6.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/25

     950,000        1,033,790    

 

 

Goldcorp, Inc., 5.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/9/44

     440,000        469,915    
     

 

 

 
       

 

2,389,485  

 

 

 

 

 

Paper & Forest Products—0.4%

     

 

 

Louisiana-Pacific Corp., 4.875% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/24

     811,000        804,918    
     

 

 

Telecommunication Services—5.6%

     

 

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services—5.0%

     

 

 

AT&T, Inc.:

     

4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/30 2

     1,039,000        992,950    

 

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     Principal Amount      Value    

 

 

Diversified Telecommunication Services (Continued)

     

 

 

AT&T, Inc.: (Continued)

4.35% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/45

   $ 855,000      $ 741,926    

4.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/9/48

                 1,375,000                    1,214,311    

 

 

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

     686,000        987,880    

 

 

Deutsche Telekom International Finance BV, 4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/21/28 2

     747,000        752,818    

 

 

Telecom Italia SpA, 5.303% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/30/24 2

     1,040,000        1,046,500    

 

 

Telefonica Emisiones SAU:

     

4.103% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/8/27

     128,000        125,432    

5.213% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/8/47

     203,000        206,600    

7.045% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 6/20/36

     595,000        730,365    

 

 

T-Mobile USA, Inc., 6.50% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/15/26

     975,000        1,024,969    

 

 

Verizon Communications, Inc.:

     

4.522% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/48

     1,567,000        1,490,338    

5.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/23

     800,000        857,010    
     

 

 

 
       

 

10,171,099  

 

 

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services—0.6%

     

 

 

Vodafone Group plc:

     

4.375% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/30/28

     788,000        790,848    

6.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/27/37

     490,000        559,923    
     

 

 

 
       

 

1,350,771  

 

 

 

 

 

Utilities—5.4%

     

 

 

Electric Utilities—4.4%

     

 

 

AEP Texas, Inc., 3.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/28 2

     806,000        807,250    

 

 

Alabama Power Co., 4.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 1/2/46

     350,000        351,957    

 

 

Duke Energy Corp., 3.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/15/27

     712,000        667,643    

 

 

Duke Energy Florida LLC, 3.85% Sec. Nts., 11/15/42

     620,000        592,166    

 

 

Edison International, 2.95% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 3/15/23

     772,000        743,585    

 

 

EDP Finance BV, 3.625% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/24 2

     989,000        948,652    

 

 

Emera US Finance LP, 2.15% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/15/19

     389,000        386,205    

 

 

Exelon Corp., 4.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/15/46

     386,000        382,535    

 

 

FirstEnergy Corp., 3.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/15/27

     880,000        859,531    

 

 

Florida Power & Light Co., 5.40% Sr. Sec. Nts., 9/1/35

     280,000        318,399    

 

 

ITC Holdings Corp., 5.30% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 7/1/43

     323,000        360,614    

 

 

Mid-Atlantic Interstate Transmission LLC, 4.10% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 5/15/28 2

     807,000        807,633    

 

 

NextEra Energy Operating Partners LP, 4.25% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 9/15/24 2

     84,000        81,270    

 

 

Oncor Electric Delivery Co. LLC, 5.30% Sr. Sec. Nts., 6/1/42

     350,000        404,996    

 

 

Pennsylvania Electric Co., 5.20% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 4/1/20

     125,000        127,797    

 

 

PPL WEM Ltd./Western Power Distribution Ltd., 5.375% Sr. Unsec. Unsub. Nts., 5/1/21 2

     500,000        519,480    

 

 

Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line Co., 3.85% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 6/1/25 2

     743,000        741,588    
     

 

 

 
        9,101,301    

 

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

     Principal Amount      Value    

 

 

Gas Utilities—0.3%

     

 

 

Atmos Energy Corp., 4.125% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 10/15/44

   $ 555,000      $ 549,725    
     

 

 

Multi-Utilities—0.7%

     

 

 

Boston Gas Co., 4.487% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/42 2

     275,000        283,607    

 

 

Dominion Energy, Inc.:

     

2.579% Jr. Sub. Nts., 7/1/20

     210,000        207,051    

4.90% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 8/1/41

     250,000        259,558    

 

 

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 2.721% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 11/28/22 2

     370,000        358,836    

 

 

Virginia Electric & Power Co., 4.45% Sr. Unsec. Nts., 2/15/44

     325,000        335,663    
     

 

 

 
        1,444,715    
     

 

 

 

Total Corporate Bonds and Notes (Cost $188,528,935)

        185,131,749    
     

 

 

Short-Term Notes—2.5%

     

 

 

Amphenol Corp., 2.15%, 8/1/18 7

                 1,000,000        999,940    

 

 

Avery Dennison, 2.201%, 8/6/18 7,8

     1,000,000        999,638    

 

 

Cabot Corp., 2.242%, 8/9/18 2,7,8

     1,000,000        999,451    

 

 

Johnson Controls International plc, 2.15%, 8/1/18 2,7,8

     250,000        249,986    

 

 

Magna International, Inc., 2.221%, 8/7/18 2,7,8

     1,000,000        999,575    

 

 

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., 2.211%, 8/1/18 7

     1,000,000        999,940    
     

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Notes (Cost $5,248,827)

        5,248,530    
     
     Shares         

 

 

Investment Companies—6.3%

     

 

 

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. E, 1.87% 9,10

     4,015,800        4,015,800    

 

 

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund, Cl. I 9

     1,973,482        8,821,466    
     

 

 

 

Total Investment Companies (Cost $13,048,134)

        12,837,266    

 

 

Total Investments, at Value (Cost $206,949,059)

     99.2%        203,350,617    

 

 

Net Other Assets (Liabilities)

     0.8           1,647,874    
  

 

 

 

Net Assets

     100.0%      $         204,998,491    
  

 

 

 

Footnotes to Statement of Investments

1. This interest rate resets periodically. Interest rate shown reflects the rate in effect at period end. The rate on this variable rate security is not based on a published reference rate and spread but is determined by the issuer or agent based on current market conditions.

2. 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 $42,323,333 or 20.65% of the Fund’s net assets at period end.

3. Represents the current interest rate for a variable or increasing rate security, determined as [Referenced Rate + Basis-point spread].

4. This bond has no contractual maturity date, is not redeemable and contractually pays an indefinite stream of interest.

5. Restricted security. The aggregate value of restricted securities at period end was $598,900, which represents 0.29% of the Fund’s net assets. See Note 4 of the accompanying Notes. Information concerning restricted securities is as follows:

 

22        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


 

 

Footnotes to Statement of Investments (Continued)

 

Security   

Acquisition

Dates

     Cost      Value      Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Lloyds Banking Group plc, 6.657%

           

[US0003M+127] Jr. Sub. Perpetual

     2/20/14           

Bonds

     – 10/24/14      $             569,143      $             598,900      $               29,757    

6. All or a portion of the security position is when-issued or delayed delivery to be delivered and settled after period end. See Note 4 of the accompanying Notes.

7. Current yield as of period end.

8. Security issued in an exempt transaction without registration under the Securities Act of 1933. Such securities amount to $3,248,650 or 1.58% of the Fund’s net assets, and have been determined to be liquid pursuant to guidelines adopted by the Board of Trustees.

9. Is or was an affiliate, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, at or during the reporting period, by virtue of the Fund owning at least 5% of the voting securities of the issuer or as a result of the Fund and the issuer having the same investment adviser. Transactions during the reporting period in which the issuer was an affiliate are as follows:

 

     

Shares

July 31, 2017

     Gross
Additions
     Gross
Reductions
    

Shares

July 31, 2018

 

Investment Companies

 

        

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. E

     4,171,368        85,027,087        85,182,655        4,015,800  

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund, Cl. I

     1,917,456        56,026               1,973,482  
      Value      Income     

Realized

Gain (Loss)

    

Change in
Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

 

Investment Companies

 

        

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, Cl. E

   $ 4,015,800      $ 53,953      $      $  

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund, Cl. I

     8,821,466        252,610               (193,916)  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $           12,837,266      $             306,563      $                     —      $             (193,916)  
  

 

 

 

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

 

Futures Contracts as of July 31, 2018

 

            Expiration      Number Notional Amount             Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 
Description    Buy/Sell      Date      of Contracts      (000’s)      Value  

United States Treasury Long Bonds

     Buy        9/19/18        52        USD 7,490      $ 7,434,375      $ (55,609

United States

                 

Treasury Nts., 10 yr.

     Sell        9/19/18        328        USD 39,300        39,170,375        129,977  

United States Treasury Nts., 2 yr.

     Sell        9/28/18        228        USD 48,263        48,193,500        69,002  

 

23        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Continued

 

Futures Contracts (Continued)

 

           

Expiration

Date

     Number Notional Amount            

Unrealized

Appreciation/
(Depreciation)

 
Description    Buy/Sell      of Contracts      (000’s)      Value  

United States Treasury Nts., 5 yr.

     Sell        9/28/18        52        USD 5,907      $         5,882,500       $ 24,362  
                 

 

 

 
                   $           167,732  
                 

 

 

 

Glossary:

Definitions

ICE LIBOR

   Intercontinental Exchange London Interbank Offered Rate   

US0003M

   ICE LIBOR USD 3 Month   

USISDA05

   USD ICE Swap Rate 11:00am NY 5 Year   

USSW5

   USD Swap Semi 30/360 5 Year   

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

24        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES July 31, 2018

 

Assets

        

Investments, at value—see accompanying statement of investments:

  

Unaffiliated companies (cost $193,900,925)

   $ 190,513,351  

Affiliated companies (cost $13,048,134)

     12,837,266  
  

 

 

 
     203,350,617  

Cash

     500,000  

Cash used for collateral on futures

     507,500  

Receivables and other assets:

  

Interest and dividends

     2,036,349  

Shares of beneficial interest sold

     111,020  

Variation margin receivable

     17,856  

Other

     26,290  
  

 

 

 

Total assets

     206,549,632  
  

Liabilities

        

Payables and other liabilities:

  

Shares of beneficial interest redeemed

     713,164  

Investments purchased (including $633,100 purchased on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis)

     656,529  

Distribution and service plan fees

     36,281  

Variation margin payable

     20,131  

Trustees’ compensation

     19,033  

Shareholder communications

     5,352  

Dividends

     4,278  

Other

     96,373  
  

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     1,551,141  
  

Net Assets

   $     204,998,491  
  

 

 

 
  

Composition of Net Assets

        

Par value of shares of beneficial interest

   $ 19,648  

Additional paid-in capital

     211,354,229  

Accumulated net investment income

     91,580  

Accumulated net realized loss on investments

     (3,036,256)  

Net unrealized depreciation on investments

     (3,430,710
  

 

 

 

Net Assets

   $ 204,998,491  
  

 

 

 

 

25        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES Continued

 

Net Asset Value Per Share

        

Class A Shares:

  
Net asset value and redemption price per share (based on net assets of $119,119,548 and 11,415,812 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.43    

Maximum offering price per share (net asset value plus sales charge of 4.75% of offering price)

   $ 10.95    

Class C Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $31,250,021 and 2,996,447 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.43    

Class I Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price and offering price per share (based on net assets of $7,783,371 and 745,824 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.44    

Class R Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $19,415,928 and 1,859,726 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.44    

Class Y Shares:

  
Net asset value, redemption price and offering price per share (based on net assets of $27,429,623 and 2,630,365 shares of beneficial interest outstanding)    $ 10.43    

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

26        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT

OF OPERATIONS For the Year Ended July 31, 2018

 

Investment Income

        

Interest (net of foreign withholding taxes of $488)

   $         7,770,807      

Dividends — affiliated companies

     306,563      
  

 

 

 

Total investment income

 

    

 

8,077,370    

 

 

 

Expenses

        

Management fees

     946,153      

Distribution and service plan fees:

  

Class A

     316,555      

Class C

     330,481      

Class R

     88,553      

Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees:

  

Class A

     248,641      

Class C

     63,407      

Class I

     1,678      

Class R

     34,160      

Class Y

     44,249      

Shareholder communications:

  

Class A

     16,505      

Class C

     4,188      

Class I

     346      

Class R

     2,227      

Class Y

     2,931      

Custodian fees and expenses

     23,338      

Trustees’ compensation

     16,881      

Borrowing fees

     7,409      

Other

     104,655      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses

     2,252,357      

Less reduction to custodian expenses

     (602)     

Less waivers and reimbursements of expenses

     (47,381)     
  

 

 

 

Net expenses

 

    

 

2,204,374    

 

 

 

Net Investment Income

     5,872,996      

 

27        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENT

OF OPERATIONS Continued

 

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

        

Net realized gain (loss) on:

  

Investment transactions in unaffiliated companies

   $ (895,030)     

Futures contracts

     470,054      

Swap contracts

     67,361      

Swaption contracts written

     14,608      
  

 

 

 

Net realized loss

     (343,007)     

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation on:

  

Investment transactions in:

  

Unaffiliated companies

     (9,304,711)     

Affiliated companies

     (193,916)     

Futures contracts

     156,157      

Swap contracts

     (149,670)     
  

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

    

 

(9,492,140)   

 

 

 

Net Decrease in Net Assets Resulting from Operations

   $         (3,962,151)     
  

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

28        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

 

     Year Ended
July 31, 2018
     Year Ended
July 31, 2017
 

Operations

                 

Net investment income

   $ 5,872,996        $ 4,945,680    

Net realized gain (loss)

     (343,007)                 2,151,387    

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

             (9,492,140)         (4,252,008)   
  

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in net assets resulting from operations

    

 

(3,962,151) 

 

 

 

    

 

2,845,059  

 

 

 

Dividends and/or Distributions to Shareholders

                 

Dividends from net investment income:

     

Class A

     (3,761,706)         (3,708,902)   

Class C

     (711,506)         (734,685)   

Class I

     (186,507)         (18,808)   

Class R

     (480,402)         (348,759)   

Class Y

     (749,702)         (390,596)   
  

 

 

 
    

 

(5,889,823) 

 

 

 

    

 

(5,201,750) 

 

 

 

Beneficial Interest Transactions

                 

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

     

Class A

     (4,812,097)         (7,394,506)   

Class C

     (637,324)         (4,261,994)   

Class I

     5,873,003          2,088,817    

Class R

     4,944,820          3,686,814    

Class Y

     10,822,468          6,789,107    
  

 

 

 
    

 

16,190,870  

 

 

 

    

 

908,238  

 

 

 

Net Assets

                 

Total increase (decrease)

     6,338,896          (1,448,453)   

Beginning of period

     198,659,595          200,108,048    
  

 

 

 

End of period (including accumulated net investment income (loss) of $91,580 and $(60,704), respectively)

   $ 204,998,491        $ 198,659,595    
  

 

 

 

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

29        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

Class A    Year Ended
     July 31, 2018
     Year Ended
July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
    Year Ended
July 31, 2014
 

Per Share Operating Data

             

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $10.92            $11.03            $10.66        $10.90       $10.74  

Income (loss) from investment operations:

             

Net investment income 1

     0.31            0.29            0.30        0.33       0.34  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.49)            (0.10)            0.37        (0.24)       0.44  
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     (0.18)            0.19            0.67        0.09       0.78  

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

             

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.31)            (0.30)            (0.30)        (0.33)       (0.34)  

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00        0.00       (0.28)  
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.31)            (0.30)            (0.30)        (0.33)       (0.62)  

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.43            $10.92            $11.03        $10.66       $10.90  
  

 

 

 
             

Total Return, at Net Asset Value 2

     (1.67)%            1.82%            6.45%        0.84%       7.56%  
             

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                           

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $119,119            $129,985            $139,018        $103,315       $86,231  

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $129,767            $132,043            $125,116        $101,748       $70,792  

Ratios to average net assets: 3

             

Net investment income

     2.89%            2.68%            2.83%        3.07%       3.19%  

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     0.97%            1.00%            1.02%        1.01%       1.03%  

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00% 4             0.00% 4             0.00% 4        0.00% 4       0.00%  
  

 

 

 

Total expenses 5

     0.97%            1.00%            1.02%        1.01%       1.03%  
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      0.95%            0.97%            1.00%        1.00%       0.99%  

Portfolio turnover rate

     57%            80%            73%        100%       119%  

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

2. 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.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

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

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2018

     0.99
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     1.02
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     1.03
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     1.02
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.04

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

30        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


Class C    Year Ended
     July 31, 2018
     Year Ended
July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
    Year Ended
July 31, 2014
 

Per Share Operating Data

             

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $10.91            $11.03            $10.65            $10.89           $10.73      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

             

Net investment income 1

     0.23            0.21            0.22            0.25           0.26      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.48)            (0.11)            0.38            (0.24)           0.44      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     (0.25)            0.10            0.60            0.01           0.70      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

             

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.23)            (0.22)            (0.22)            (0.25)           (0.26)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            0.00           (0.28)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.23)            (0.22)            (0.22)            (0.25)           (0.54)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.43            $10.91            $11.03            $10.65           $10.89      
  

 

 

 
             

Total Return, at Net Asset Value 2

     (2.32)%            0.97%            5.76%            0.08%           6.77%      
             

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                           

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $31,250            $33,420            $38,261            $27,706           $19,280      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $33,138            $35,836            $31,800            $24,595           $17,588      

Ratios to average net assets: 3

             

Net investment income

     2.14%            1.92%            2.07%            2.32%           2.45%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     1.72%            1.75%            1.77%            1.78%           1.81%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00% 4             0.00% 4            0.00% 4            0.00% 4            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses 5

     1.72%            1.75%            1.77%            1.78%           1.81%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      1.70%            1.72%            1.75%            1.75%           1.74%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     57%            80%            73%            100%           119%      

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

2. 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.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

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

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2018

     1.74
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     1.77
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     1.78
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     1.79
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.82

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

31        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued

 

 

Class I    Year Ended
     July 31, 2018
     Year Ended
July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
    Year Ended
July 31, 2014
 

Per Share Operating Data

             

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $10.92            $11.03            $10.65            $10.89           $10.73      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

             

Net investment income 1

     0.35            0.35            0.35            0.38           0.39      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.48)            (0.11)            0.38            (0.24)           0.44      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     (0.13)            0.24            0.73            0.14           0.83      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

             

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.35)            (0.35)            (0.35)            (0.38)           (0.39)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            0.00           (0.28)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.35)            (0.35)            (0.35)            (0.38)           (0.67)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.44            $10.92            $11.03            $10.65           $10.89      
  

 

 

 
             

Total Return, at Net Asset Value 2

     (1.18)%            2.27%            7.03%        1.29%       8.04%      
             

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                           

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $7,783            $2,189            $80            $110           $12      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $5,612            $563            $110            $105           $11      

Ratios to average net assets: 3

             

Net investment income

     3.30%            3.23%            3.28%            3.52%           3.65%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     0.56%            0.56%            0.57%            0.56%           0.56%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00% 4             0.00% 4             0.00% 4             0.00% 4            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses 5

     0.56%            0.56%            0.57%            0.56%           0.56%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      0.54%            0.54%            0.55%            0.55%           0.54%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     57%            80%            73%            100%           119%      

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

2. 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.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

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

 

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2018

     0.58
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     0.58
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     0.58
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     0.57
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     0.57

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

32        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


Class R    Year Ended
July 31, 2018
    Year Ended
July 31, 2017
    Year Ended
July 31, 2016
    Year Ended
July 31, 2015
    Year Ended
July 31, 2014
 

Per Share Operating Data

          

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $10.93           $11.04           $10.66           $10.90           $10.74      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

          

Net investment income 1

     0.28           0.26           0.27           0.31           0.32      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.49)           (0.09)           0.39           (0.24)           0.44      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     (0.21)           0.17           0.66           0.07           0.76      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

          

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.28)           (0.28)           (0.28)           (0.31)           (0.32)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00           0.00           0.00           0.00           (0.28)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.28)           (0.28)           (0.28)           (0.31)           (0.60)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.44           $10.93           $11.04           $10.66           $10.90      
  

 

 

 
          

Total Return, at Net Asset Value 2

     (1.91)%           1.58%           6.29%           0.59%           7.29%      
          

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                        

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $19,416           $15,318           $11,736           $6,189           $4,782      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $18,041           $13,530           $8,432           $5,572           $4,129      

Ratios to average net assets: 3

          

Net investment income

     2.65%           2.45%           2.55%           2.82%           2.94%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     1.21%           1.25%           1.27%           1.27%           1.30%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00% 4            0.00% 4            0.00% 4           
0.00% 4    
 
 
    0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses 5

     1.21%           1.25%           1.27%           1.27%           1.30%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      1.19%           1.22%           1.25%           1.25%           1.24%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     57%           80%           73%           100%           119%      

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

2. 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.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

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

 

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2018

     1.23
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     1.27
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     1.28
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     1.28
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.31

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

33        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued

 

Class Y    Year Ended
     July 31, 2018
     Year Ended
July 31, 2017
     Year Ended
July 31, 2016
     Year Ended
July 31, 2015
    Year Ended
July 31, 2014
 

Per Share Operating Data

             

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $10.91            $11.03            $10.65            $10.89           $10.72      

Income (loss) from investment operations:

             

Net investment income 1

     0.33            0.32            0.32            0.36           0.36      

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (0.47)            (0.11)            0.39            (0.24)           0.46      
  

 

 

 

Total from investment operations

     (0.14)            0.21            0.71            0.12           0.82      

Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:

             

Dividends from net investment income

     (0.34)            (0.33)            (0.33)            (0.36)           (0.37)      

Distributions from net realized gain

     0.00            0.00            0.00            0.00           (0.28)      
  

 

 

 

Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders

     (0.34)            (0.33)            (0.33)            (0.36)           (0.65)      

Net asset value, end of period

     $10.43            $10.91            $11.03            $10.65           $10.89      
  

 

 

 
             

Total Return, at Net Asset Value 2

     (1.35)%            1.98%            6.82%            1.09%           7.93%      
             

Ratios/Supplemental Data

                                           

Net assets, end of period (in thousands)

     $27,430            $17,748            $11,013            $5,413           $2,747      

Average net assets (in thousands)

     $23,728            $12,709            $6,857            $4,275           $1,285      

Ratios to average net assets: 3

             

Net investment income

     3.14%            2.95%            3.04%            3.35%           3.38%      

Expenses excluding specific expenses listed below

     0.72%            0.75%            0.77%            0.77%           1.87%      

Interest and fees from borrowings

     0.00% 4             0.00% 4            0.00% 4             0.00% 4            0.00%      
  

 

 

 

Total expenses 5

     0.72%            0.75%            0.77%            0.77%           1.87%      
Expenses after payments, waivers and/or reimbursements and reduction to custodian expenses      0.70%            0.72%            0.75%            0.75%           0.75%      

Portfolio turnover rate

     57%            80%            73%            100%           119%      

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

2. 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.

3. Annualized for periods less than one full year.

4. Less than 0.005%.

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

 

    
 

Year Ended July 31, 2018

     0.74
 

Year Ended July 31, 2017

     0.77
 

Year Ended July 31, 2016

     0.78
 

Year Ended July 31, 2015

     0.78
 

Year Ended July 31, 2014

     1.88

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

 

34        OPPENHEIMER CORPORATE BOND FUND


NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS July 31, 2018

 

 

1. Organization

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund (the “Fund”) is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“1940 Act”), as amended, as an open-end diversified management investment company. 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. 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 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, 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.

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed in the Fund’s preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”).

 

 

2. Significant Accounting Policies

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

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.

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. GAAP, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income distributions, if any, are declared daily and paid monthly. Capital gain distributions, if any, are declared and paid annually or at other times as determined necessary by the Manager.

Investment Income. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or upon

 

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2. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

 

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 value of the securities received. Withholding taxes on foreign dividends, if any, and capital gains taxes on foreign investments, if any, have been provided for in accordance with the Fund’s understanding of the applicable tax rules and regulations. Interest income, if any, is recognized on an accrual basis. Discount and premium, which are included in interest income on the Statement of Operations, are amortized or accreted daily.

Custodian Fees. “Custodian fees and expenses” in the Statement of Operations may include interest expense incurred by the Fund on any cash overdrafts of its custodian account during the period. Such cash overdrafts may result from the effects of failed trades in portfolio securities and from cash outflows resulting from unanticipated shareholder redemption activity. The Fund pays interest to its custodian on such cash overdrafts, to the extent they are not offset by positive cash balances maintained by the Fund, at a rate equal to the Federal Funds Rate plus 2.00%. 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.

Federal Taxes. The Fund intends to comply with provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute substantially all of its investment company taxable income, including any net realized gain on investments not offset by capital loss carryforwards, if any, to shareholders. Therefore, no federal income or excise tax provision is required. The Fund files income tax returns in U.S. federal and applicable state jurisdictions. The statute of limitations on the Fund’s tax return filings generally remains open for the three preceding fiscal reporting period ends. The Fund has analyzed its tax positions for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2018, including open tax years, and does not believe there are any uncertain tax positions requiring recognition in the Fund’s financial statements.

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.

 

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Undistributed
Net
Investment
Income
  Undistributed
Long-Term
Gain
    Accumulated
Loss
Carryforward 1,2,3
    Net Unrealized
Depreciation
Based on cost of
Securities and
Other Investments
for Federal  Income
Tax Purposes
 
$110,613     $—       $2,810,210       $3,656,756  

1. At period end, the Fund had $2,810,210 of net capital loss carryforward available to offset future realized capital gains, if any, and thereby reduce future taxable gain distributions.

2. During the reporting period, the Fund did not utilize any capital loss carryforward.

3. During the previous reporting period, the Fund utilized $2,161,432 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 are determined in accordance with federal income tax requirements, which may differ from the character of net investment income or net realized gains presented in those financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. 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 the reporting period. Net assets of the Fund were unaffected by the reclassifications.

 

Reduction

to Accumulated
Net Investment
Loss

  

Increase

to Accumulated Net
Realized Loss
on Investments

 
$169,111      $169,111  

The tax character of distributions paid during the reporting periods:

 

      Year Ended
July 31, 2018
     Year Ended
July 31, 2017
 

Distributions paid from:

     

Ordinary income

   $         5,889,823      $         5,201,750  

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 at period end 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.

 

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2. Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

 

Federal tax cost of securities

    $ 207,007,374    

Federal tax cost of other investments

     (85,812,001)   
  

 

 

 

Total federal tax cost

    $     121,195,373    
  

 

 

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

    $ 1,535,942    

Gross unrealized depreciation

     (5,192,698)   
  

 

 

 

Net unrealized depreciation

    $ (3,656,756)   
  

 

 

 

Use of Estimates. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP 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.

New Accounting Pronouncement. In March 2017, Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”), ASU 2017-08. This provides guidance related to the amortization period for certain purchased callable debt securities held at a premium. The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within those annual periods. The Manager is evaluating the impacts of these changes on the financial statements .

 

 

3. Securities Valuation

The Fund calculates the net asset value of its shares as of 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time, on each day the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”) is open for trading, except in the case of a scheduled early closing of the Exchange, in which case the Fund will calculate net asset value of the shares as of the scheduled early closing time of the Exchange.

The Fund’s Board has adopted procedures for the valuation of the Fund’s securities and has delegated the day-to-day responsibility for valuation determinations under those procedures to the Manager. The Manager has established a Valuation Committee which is responsible for determining a fair valuation for any security for which market quotations are not readily available. The Valuation Committee’s fair valuation determinations are subject to review, approval and ratification by the Fund’s Board at least quarterly or more frequently, if necessary.

Valuation Methods and Inputs

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

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

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

 

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3. Securities Valuation (Continued)

 

securities, short-term notes, 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. Pricing services generally price debt securities assuming orderly transactions of an institutional “round lot” size, but some trades may occur in smaller, “odd lot” sizes, sometimes at lower prices than institutional round lot trades. Standard inputs generally considered by third-party pricing vendors include reported trade data, broker-dealer price quotations, benchmark yields, issuer spreads on comparable securities, the credit quality, yield, maturity, as well as other appropriate factors.

Futures contracts and futures options traded on a commodities or futures exchange will be valued at the final settlement price or official closing price on the principal exchange as reported by such principal exchange at its trading session ending at, or most recently prior to, the time when the Fund’s assets are valued.

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

Classifications

Each investment asset or liability of the Fund is assigned a level at measurement date based on the significance and source of the inputs to its valuation. Various data inputs may be used in determining the value of each of the Fund’s investments as of the reporting period end.

These data inputs are categorized in the following hierarchy under applicable financial accounting standards:

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

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

 

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3. Securities Valuation (Continued)

 

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

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

The Fund classifies each of its investments in investment companies which are publicly offered as Level 1. Investment companies that are not publicly offered, if any, are classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.

The table below categorizes amounts that are included in the Fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities at period end based on valuation input level:

 

     Level 1—
Unadjusted
Quoted Prices
    Level 2—
Other Significant
Observable Inputs
     Level 3—
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
     Value    

 

 

Assets Table

          

Investments, at Value:

          

Mortgage-Backed Obligations

   $     $ 133,072      $      $ 133,072    

Corporate Bonds and Notes

           185,131,749               185,131,749    

Short-Term Notes

           5,248,530               5,248,530    

Investment Companies

     12,837,266                     12,837,266    
  

 

 

 

Total Investments, at Value

     12,837,266       190,513,351               203,350,617    

Other Financial Instruments:

          

Futures contracts

     223,341                     223,341    
  

 

 

 

Total Assets

   $       13,060,607     $       190,513,351      $      $       203,573,958    
  

 

 

 

Liabilities Table

          

Other Financial Instruments:

          

Futures contracts

   $ (55,609   $      $      $ (55,609)   
  

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

   $ (55,609   $      $      $ (55,609)   
  

 

 

 

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.

For the reporting period, there were no transfers between levels.

 

 

4. Investments and Risks

Investments in Affiliated Funds. The Fund is permitted to invest in other mutual funds advised by the Manager (“Affiliated Funds”). Affiliated Funds are open-end management investment companies registered under the 1940 Act, as amended. The Manager is the investment adviser of, and the Sub-Adviser provides investment and related advisory services to, the Affiliated Funds. When applicable, the Fund’s investments in Affiliated Funds are included in the Statement of Investments. Shares of Affiliated Funds are valued at their net asset value per share. As a shareholder, the Fund is subject to its proportional share of the

 

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4. Investments and Risks (Continued)

 

Affiliated Funds’ expenses, including their management fee. The Manager will waive fees and/or reimburse Fund expenses in an amount equal to the indirect management fees incurred through the Fund’s investment in the Affiliated Funds.

Each of the Affiliated Funds in which the Fund invests has its own investment risks, and those risks can affect the value of the Fund’s investments and therefore the value of the Fund’s shares. To the extent that the Fund invests more of its assets in one Affiliated Fund than in another, the Fund will have greater exposure to the risks of that Affiliated Fund.

Investments in Money Market Instruments. The Fund is permitted to invest its free cash balances in money market instruments to provide liquidity or for defensive purposes. The Fund may invest in money market instruments by investing in Class E shares of Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund (“IGMMF”), which is an Affiliated Fund. IGMMF is regulated as a money market fund under the 1940 Act, as amended. The Fund may also invest in money market instruments directly or in other affiliated or unaffiliated money market funds.

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.

At period end, 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

     $        633,100  

Restricted Securities. At period end, 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

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

4. Investments and Risks (Continued)

 

securities are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments.

 

 

5. Market Risk Factors

The Fund’s investments in securities and/or financial derivatives may expose the Fund to various market risk factors:

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

6. Use of Derivatives

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

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

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.

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 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.

Futures Contracts

A futures contract is a commitment to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity, financial instrument or currency at a negotiated price on a stipulated future date. The Fund may buy and sell futures contracts and may also buy or write put or call options on these futures contracts. Futures contracts and options thereon are generally entered into on a regulated futures exchange and cleared through a clearinghouse associated with the exchange.

Upon entering into a futures contract, the Fund is required to deposit either cash or securities (initial margin) in an amount equal to a certain percentage of the contract value in an account registered in the futures commission merchant’s name. Subsequent payments (variation margin) are paid to or from the futures commission merchant each day equal to the daily changes in the contract value. Such payments are recorded as unrealized gains and losses. Should the Fund fail to make requested variation margin payments, the futures commission merchant can gain access to the initial margin to satisfy the Fund’s payment obligations.

Futures contracts are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments. Securities held by a futures commission merchant to cover initial margin requirements on open futures contracts are noted in the Statement of Investments. Cash held by a futures commission merchant to cover initial margin requirements on open futures contracts and the receivable and/or payable for the daily mark to market for the variation margin are noted in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The net change in unrealized appreciation and

 

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued

 

 

 

6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

depreciation is reported in the Statement of Operations. Realized gains (losses) are reported in the Statement of Operations at the closing or expiration of futures contracts.

The Fund may purchase and/or sell financial futures contracts and options on futures contracts to gain exposure to, or decrease exposure to interest rate risk, equity risk, foreign exchange rate risk, volatility risk, or commodity risk.

During the reporting period, the Fund had an ending monthly average market value of $47,897,404 and $57,161,872 on futures contracts purchased and sold, respectively.

Additional associated risks of entering into futures contracts (and related options) include the possibility that there may be an illiquid market where the Fund is unable to liquidate the contract or enter into an offsetting position and, if used for hedging purposes, the risk that the price of the contract will correlate imperfectly with the prices of the Fund’s securities.

Swap Contracts

The Fund may enter into swap contract agreements with a counterparty to exchange a series of cash flows based on either specified reference rates, the price or volatility of asset or non-asset references, or the occurrence of a credit event, over a specified period. Swaps can be executed in a bi-lateral privately negotiated arrangement with a dealer in an OTC transaction (“OTC swaps”) or executed on a regulated market. Certain swaps, regardless of the venue of their execution, are required to be cleared through a clearinghouse (“centrally cleared swaps”). Swap contracts may include interest rate, equity, debt, index, total return, credit default, currency, and volatility swaps.

Swap contracts are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments. The values of centrally cleared swap and OTC swap contracts are aggregated by positive and negative values and disclosed separately on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The unrealized appreciation (depreciation) related to the change in the valuation of the notional amount of the swap is combined with the accrued interest due to (owed by) the Fund, if any, at termination or settlement. The net change in this amount during the period is included on the Statement of Operations. The Fund also records any periodic payments received from (paid to) the counterparty, including at termination, under such contracts as realized gain (loss) on the Statement of Operations.

Swap contract agreements are exposed to the market risk factor of the specific underlying reference rate or asset. Swap contracts are typically more attractively priced compared to similar investments in related cash securities because they isolate the risk to one market risk factor and eliminate the other market risk factors. Investments in cash securities (for instance bonds) have exposure to multiple risk factors (credit and interest rate risk). Because swaps have embedded leverage, they can expose the Fund to substantial risk in the isolated market risk factor.

Credit Default Swap Contracts. A credit default swap is a contract that enables an investor to buy or sell protection against a defined-issuer credit event, such as the issuer’s failure to make timely payments of interest or principal on a debt security, bankruptcy or restructuring. The Fund may enter into credit default swaps either by buying or selling protection on a corporate issuer, sovereign issuer, or a basket or index of issuers (the

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

“reference asset”).

The buyer of protection pays a periodic fee to the seller of protection based on the notional amount of the swap contract. The seller of protection agrees to compensate the buyer of protection for future potential losses as a result of a credit event on the reference asset. The contract effectively transfers the credit event risk of the reference asset from the buyer of protection to the seller of protection.

The ongoing value of the contract will fluctuate throughout the term of the contract based primarily on the credit risk of the reference asset. If the credit quality of the reference asset improves relative to the credit quality at contract initiation, the buyer of protection may have an unrealized loss greater than the anticipated periodic fee owed. This unrealized loss would be the result of current credit protection being cheaper than the cost of credit protection at contract initiation. If the buyer elects to terminate the contract prior to its maturity, and there has been no credit event, this unrealized loss will become realized. If the contract is held to maturity, and there has been no credit event, the realized loss will be equal to the periodic fee paid over the life of the contract.

If there is a credit event, the buyer of protection can exercise its rights under the contract and receive a payment from the seller of protection equal to the notional amount of the swap less the market value of specified debt securities issued by the reference asset. Upon exercise of the contract the difference between such value and the notional amount is recorded as realized gain (loss) and is included on the Statement of Operations.

The Fund may purchase or sell credit protection through credit default swaps to increase or decrease exposure to the credit risk of individual issuers and/or indexes of issuers that are either unavailable or considered to be less attractive in the bond market.

For the reporting period, the Fund had ending monthly average notional amounts of $694,231 on credit default swaps to sell protection.

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

At period end, the Fund had no credit default swap agreements outstanding.

Swaption Transactions

The Fund may enter into a swaption contract which grants the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to enter into a swap transaction at preset terms detailed in the underlying agreement within a specified period of time. The purchaser pays a premium to the swaption writer who bears the risk of unfavorable changes in the preset terms on the underlying swap.

Purchased swaptions are reported as a component of investments in the Statement of Investments and the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Written swaptions are reported on a schedule following the Statement of Investments and their value is reported as a separate asset or liability line item in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The net change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation on written swaptions is separately reported in the Statement of Operations. When a swaption is exercised, the cost of the swap is adjusted by the amount of premium paid or received. Upon the expiration or closing of an unexercised swaption contract, a gain or loss is reported in the Statement of Operations for the amount of the premium paid or received.

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

The Fund generally will incur a greater risk when it writes a swaption than when it purchases a swaption. When the Fund writes a swaption it will become obligated, upon exercise of the swaption, according to the terms of the underlying agreement. Swaption contracts written by the Fund do not give rise to counterparty credit risk prior to exercise as they obligate the Fund, not its counterparty, to perform. When the Fund purchases a swaption it only risks losing the amount of the premium it paid if the swaption expires unexercised. However, when the Fund exercises a purchased swaption there is a risk that the counterparty will fail to perform or otherwise default on its obligations under the swaption contract.

The Fund may purchase swaptions which give it the option to buy or sell credit protection through credit default swaps in order to decrease or increase exposure to the credit risk of individual issuers and/ or indexes of issuers. A swaption selling protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset decreases. A swaption buying protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset increases.

At period end, the Fund had no purchased swaption contracts outstanding.

The Fund may write swaptions which give it the obligation, if exercised by the purchaser, to sell or buy credit protection through credit default swaps in order to increase or decrease exposure to the credit risk of individual issuers and/or indexes of issuers. A written swaption selling protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset decreases. A written swaption buying protection becomes more valuable as the likelihood of a credit event on the reference asset increases.

During the reporting period, the Fund had an ending monthly average market value of $1,919 and $862 on purchased and written swaptions, respectively.

At period end, the Fund had no written swaption contracts outstanding.

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 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

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

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 terms are contract specific for OTC derivatives. For derivatives traded under an ISDA master agreement, the collateral requirements are typically calculated by netting the mark to market amount for each transaction under such agreement and comparing that amount to the value of any collateral currently pledged by the Fund or the counterparty.

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 at period end:

 

       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  

Interest rate contracts Variation margin receivable

     $                 17,856*           Variation margin payable      $                 20,131*  

* Includes only the current day’s variation margin. Prior variation margin movements have been reflected in cash on the Statement of Assets and Liabilities upon receipt or payment.

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

 

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6. Use of Derivatives (Continued)

 

Amount of Realized Gain or (Loss) Recognized on Derivatives  
Derivatives
Not Accounted
for as Hedging
Instruments
   Investment
transactions
in unaffiliated
companies*
     Swaption
contracts
written
     Futures
contracts
     Swap contracts      Total  

Credit contracts

   $ (30,800)      $ 14,608      $      $ 67,361      $ 51,169    

Interest rate contracts

                   470,054               470,054    
  

 

 

 

Total

   $             (30,800)      $             14,608      $             470,054      $             67,361      $             521,223    
  

 

 

 

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

 

Amount of Change in Unrealized Gain or (Loss) Recognized on Derivatives  
Derivatives
Not Accounted
for as Hedging
Instruments
     Futures
contracts
       Swap contracts        Total  

Credit contracts

     $        $ (149,670)        $             (149,670)  

Interest rate contracts

       156,157                   156,157   
    

 

 

 

Total

     $             156,157        $             (149,670)        $ 6,487   
    

 

 

 

 

 

7. Shares of Beneficial Interest

The Fund has authorized an unlimited number of $0.001 par value shares of beneficial interest of each class. Transactions in shares of beneficial interest were as follows:

 

     Year Ended July 31, 2018     Year Ended July 31, 2017  
      Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  

Class A

        

Sold

     3,081,751     $ 33,249,682       3,899,900     $ 42,132,459     

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     347,885       3,718,015       332,862       3,591,997     

Redeemed

     (3,916,504     (41,779,794     (4,928,222     (53,118,962)    
  

 

 

 

Net decrease

     (486,868   $ (4,812,097     (695,460   $ (7,394,506)    
  

 

 

 
   

Class C

        

Sold

     761,628     $ 8,205,750       889,600     $ 9,612,956     

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     65,858       703,140       66,488       717,008     

Redeemed

     (893,084     (9,546,214     (1,363,212     (14,591,958)    
  

 

 

 

Net decrease

     (65,598   $ (637,324)       (407,124   $ (4,261,994)    
  

 

 

 
   

Class I

        

Sold

     682,796     $ 7,331,314       201,133     $ 2,174,827     

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

     17,497       185,853       1,708       18,487     

Redeemed

     (154,954     (1,644,164     (9,648     (104,497)    
  

 

 

 

Net increase

                         545,339     $ 5,873,003       193,193     $ 2,088,817     
  

 

 

 

 

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7. Shares of Beneficial Interest (Continued)

 

       Year Ended July 31, 2018      Year Ended July 31, 2017  
        Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  

Class R

             

Sold

       805,312      $ 8,642,719        679,123      $ 7,327,631     

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

       44,376        473,617        31,632        341,444     

Redeemed

       (391,867      (4,171,516      (371,868      (3,982,261)    
    

 

 

 

Net increase

       457,821      $ 4,944,820        338,887      $ 3,686,814     
    

 

 

 
                                       

Class Y

             

Sold

       2,173,981      $ 23,259,291        1,592,243      $ 17,147,663     

Dividends and/or distributions reinvested

       70,154        746,080        36,025        388,663     

Redeemed

       (1,240,110      (13,182,903      (1,000,708      (10,747,219)    
    

 

 

 

Net increase

                           1,004,025      $         10,822,468        627,560      $         6,789,107     
    

 

 

 

 

8. Purchases and Sales of Securities

The aggregate cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other than short-term obligations and investments in IGMMF, for the reporting period were as follows:

 

      Purchases                              Sales  

Investment securities

   $ 127,542,071                              $ 114,798,284  

 

 

9. 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 $500 million

     0.45

Next $500 million

     0.40  

Next $4 billion

     0.35  

Over $5 billion

     0.30  

The Fund’s effective management fee for the reporting period was 0.45% 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, which shall be calculated after any applicable fee waivers. Fees incurred and

 

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9. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates (Continued)

 

average net assets for each class with respect to these services are detailed in the Statement of Operations and Financial Highlights, respectively.

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’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 Trustees 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 Trustees. The Fund purchases shares of the funds selected for deferral by the Trustees 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.

Service Plan for Class  A Shares. The Fund has adopted a Service Plan (the “Plan”) for Class A shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act. Under the Plan, the Fund reimburses the Distributor for a portion of its costs incurred for services provided to accounts that hold Class A shares. Reimbursement is made periodically at an annual rate of up to 0.25% of the daily net assets of Class A shares of the Fund. The Distributor currently uses all of those fees to pay dealers, brokers, banks and other financial institutions periodically for providing personal service and maintenance of accounts of their customers that hold Class A shares. Any unreimbursed expenses the Distributor incurs with respect to Class A shares in any fiscal year cannot be recovered in subsequent periods. Fees incurred by the Fund under the Plan are detailed in the Statement of Operations.

Distribution and Service Plans for Class  C and Class  R Shares. The Fund has adopted Distribution and Service Plans (the “Plans”) for Class C and Class R shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act to compensate the Distributor for distributing those share classes,

 

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9. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates (Continued)

 

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 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 votes annually to approve their 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 C
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges
Retained by
Distributor
     Class R
Contingent
Deferred
Sales Charges
Retained by
Distributor
 

 

 
July 31, 2018      $59,597        $441        $6,231        $—  

Waivers and Reimbursements of Expenses. Effective for the period January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017, the Transfer Agent voluntarily waived and/or reimbursed Fund expenses in an amount equal to 0.015% of average annual net assets for Classes A, C, R and Y.

During the reporting period, the Transfer Agent waived fees and/or reimbursed the Fund for transfer agent and shareholder servicing agent fees as follows:

 

Class A

   $ 8,375  

Class C

     2,118  

Class R

     1,054  

Class Y

     1,212  

The Manager will waive fees and/or reimburse Fund expenses in an amount equal to the indirect management fees incurred through the Fund’s investments in Affiliated Funds. During the reporting period, the Manager waived fees and/or reimbursed the Fund $34,622 for these management fees. This fee waiver and/or expense reimbursement may not be amended or withdrawn for one year from the date of the Fund’s prospectus, unless approved by the Board.

 

 

10. Borrowings and Other Financing

Joint Credit Facility. A number of mutual funds managed by the Manager participate in a $1.95 billion revolving credit facility (the “Facility”) intended to provide short-term financing, if necessary, subject to certain restrictions in connection with atypical redemption activity.

 

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10. Borrowings and Other Financing (Continued)

 

Expenses and fees related to the Facility are paid by the participating funds and are disclosed separately or as other expenses on the Statement of Operations. The Fund did not utilize the Facility during the reporting period.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

 

To the Shareholders and Board of Trustees

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund :

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund (the “Fund”), including the statement of investments, as of July 31, 2018, 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 related notes (collectively, the “financial statements”) and the financial highlights for each of the years in the five year period then ended. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of July 31, 2018, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the years in the two year period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the years in the five year period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

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 are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. 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, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Such procedures also included confirmation of securities owned as of July 31, 2018, by correspondence with the custodian, brokers and the transfer agent, or by other appropriate auditing procedures. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

KPMG LLP

We have not been able to determine the specific year that we began serving as the auditor of one or more Oppenheimer Funds investment companies, however we are aware that we have served as the auditor of one or more Oppenheimer Funds investment companies since at least 1969.

Denver, Colorado

September 26, 2018

 

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FEDERAL INCOME TAX INFORMATION Unaudited

 

 

In early 2018, if applicable, shareholders of record received information regarding all dividends and distributions paid to them by the Fund during calendar year 2017.

None of the dividends paid by the Fund during the reporting period are eligible for the corporate dividend-received deduction.

Dividends, if any, paid by the Fund during the reporting period which are not designated as capital gain distributions, may be eligible for lower individual income tax rates to the extent that the Fund has received qualified dividend income as stipulated by recent tax legislation. In early 2018, shareholders of record received information regarding the percentage of distributions that are eligible for lower individual income tax rates. The amount will be the maximum amount allowed.

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 reporting period, the maximum amount allowable but not less than $4,774,786 of the ordinary distributions to be paid by the Fund qualifies as an interest related 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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PORTFOLIO PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND GUIDELINES;

UPDATES TO STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS Unaudited

 

 

The Fund has adopted Portfolio Proxy Voting Policies and Guidelines 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 Guidelines 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.
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. Each of the Trustees in the chart below oversees 56 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex

Robert J. Malone,

Chairman of the Board of Trustees (since 2016) and Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1944

  Chairman - Colorado Market of MidFirst Bank (since January 2015); Chairman of the Board (2012-2016) and Director (August 2005-January 2016) of Jones International University (educational organization); Trustee of the Gallagher Family Foundation (non-profit organization) (2000-2016); Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Steele Street Bank Trust (commercial banking) (August 2003-January 2015); Director of Opera Colorado Foundation (non-profit organization) (2008-2012); Director of Colorado UpLIFT (charitable organization) (1986-2010); Director of Jones Knowledge, Inc. (2006-2010); Former Chairman of U.S. Bank-Colorado (subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp and formerly Colorado National Bank) (July 1996-April 1999); Director of Commercial Assets, Inc. (real estate investment trust) (1993-2000); Director of U.S. Exploration, Inc. (oil and gas exploration) (1997-February 2004); Chairman of the Board (1991-1994) and Trustee (1985-1994) of Regis University; and Chairman of the Board (1990-1991) and Member (1984-1999) of Young Presidents Organization. Mr. Malone has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 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 Board’s deliberations.

Andrew J. Donohue,

Trustee (since 2017)

Year of Birth: 1950

  Director, Mutual Fund Directors Forum (since February 2018); Of Counsel, Shearman & Sterling LLP (since September 2017); Chief of Staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (regulator) (June 2015-February 2017); Managing Director and Investment Company General Counsel of Goldman Sachs (investment bank) (November 2012-May 2015); Partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP (law firm) (March 2011-October 2012); Director of the Division of Investment Management of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (regulator) (May 2006-November 2010); Global General Counsel of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (investment firm) (May 2003-May 2006); General Counsel (October 1991-November 2001) and Executive Vice President (January 1993-November 2001) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (investment firm) (June 1991-November 2001). Mr. Donohue has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2017, 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 Board’s deliberations.

Richard F. Grabish,

Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1948

  Formerly Senior Vice President and Assistant Director of Sales and Marketing (March 1997-December 2007), Director (March 1987-December 2007) and Manager of Private Client Services (June 1985-June 2005) of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. (broker/dealer and investment firm); Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of A.G. Edwards Trust Company, FSB (March 2001-December 2007); President and Vice Chairman of A.G. Edwards Trust Company, FSB (investment adviser) (April 1987-March 2001); President of A.G. Edwards Trust Company, FSB (investment adviser) (June 2005-December 2007). Mr. Grabish has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 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.

 

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Beverly L. Hamilton,

Trustee (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1946

  Trustee of Monterey Institute for International Studies (educational organization) (2000-2014); Board Member of Middlebury College (educational organization) (December 2005-June 2011); Director of the Board (1991-2016), Vice Chairman of the Board (2006-2009) and Chairman of the Board (2010-2013) of American Funds’ Emerging Markets Growth Fund, Inc. (mutual fund); Director of The California Endowment (philanthropic organization) (April 2002-April 2008); Director (February 2002-2005) and Chairman of Trustees (2006-2007) of the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula; President of ARCO Investment Management Company (February 1991-April 2000); Member of the investment committees of The Rockefeller Foundation (2001-2006) and The University of Michigan (since 2000); Advisor at Credit Suisse First Boston’s Sprout venture capital unit (venture capital fund) (1994-January 2005); Trustee of MassMutual Institutional Funds (investment company) (1996-June 2004); Trustee of MML Series Investment Fund (investment company) (April 1989-June 2004); Member of the investment committee of Hartford Hospital (2000-2003); and Advisor to Unilever (Holland) pension fund (2000-2003). Ms. Hamilton has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2002, 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.

Victoria J. Herget,

Trustee (since 2012)

Year of Birth:1951

  Board Chair (2008-2015) and Director (2004-Present) of United Educators (insurance company); Trustee (since 2000) and Chair (2010-2017) of Newberry Library (independent research library); Trustee, Mather LifeWays (senior living organization) (since 2001); Independent Director of the First American Funds (mutual fund family) (2003-2011); former Managing Director (1993-2001), Principal (1985-1993), Vice President (1978-1985) and Assistant Vice President (1973-1978) of Zurich Scudder Investments (investment adviser) (and its predecessor firms); Trustee (1992-2007), Chair of the Board of Trustees (1999- 2007), Investment Committee Chair (1994-1999) and Investment Committee member (2007-2010) of Wellesley College; Trustee, BoardSource (non-profit organization) (2006-2009) and Chicago City Day School (K-8 School) (1994- 2005). Ms. Herget has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2012, 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-

Karen L. Stuckey,

Trustee (since 2012)

Year of Birth: 1953

  Member (since May 2015) of Desert Mountain Community Foundation Advisory Board (non-profit organization); Partner (1990-2012) of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (professional services firm) (held various positions 1975-1990); Trustee (1992-2006); member of Executive, Nominating and Audit Committees and Chair of Finance Committee (1992-2006), and Emeritus Trustee (since 2006) of Lehigh University; member, Women’s Investment Management Forum (professional organization) (since inception) and Trustee of Jennies School for Little Children (non-profit) (2011-2014). Ms. Stuckey has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2012, 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.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS Unaudited / Continued

 

James D. Vaughn,

Trustee (since 2012)

Year of Birth:1945

  Retired; former managing partner (1994-2001) of Denver office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, (held various positions in Denver and New York offices from 1969- 1993); Trustee and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Schroder Funds (2003- 2012); Board member and Chairman of Audit Committee of AMG National Trust Bank (since 2005); Trustee and Investment Committee member, University of South Dakota Foundation (since 1996); Board member, Audit Committee Member and past Board Chair, Junior Achievement (since 1993); former Board member, Mile High United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts, Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, Economic Club of Colorado and Metro Denver Network. Mr. Vaughn has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2012, 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 AND OFFICER   Mr. Steinmetz is an “Interested Trustee” because he is affiliated with the Manager and the Sub-Adviser by virtue of his positions as Chairman of the Sub-Adviser and officer and director of the Manager. Both as a Trustee and as an officer, Mr. Steinmetz serves for an indefinite term, or until his resignation, retirement, death or removal. Mr. Steinmetz’s address is 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008. Mr. Steinmetz is an officer of 104 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Arthur P. Steinmetz,

Trustee (since 2015), President and Principal Executive Officer (since 2014)

Year of Birth: 1958

  Chairman of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (since January 2015); CEO and Chairman of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since July 2014), President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since May 2013), a Director of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013), Director of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (since July 2014), President, Management Director and CEO of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (OppenheimerFunds, Inc.‘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 OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-May 2013); Chief Investment Officer of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (October 2010-December 2012); Chief Investment Officer, Fixed-Income, of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (April 2009-October 2010); Executive Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (October 2009-December 2012); Director of Fixed Income of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (January 2009-April 2009); and a Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (March 1993-September 2009).

 

OTHER OFFICERS OF THE FUND   The addresses of the Officers in the chart below are as follows: for Mr. Memani, Mss. Lo Bessette, Foxson and Picciotto, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281-1008, for Mr. Petersen 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.

Krishna Memani,

Vice President (since 2010)

Year of Birth: 1960

  President of the Sub-Adviser (since January 2013); Executive Vice President of the Manager (since January 2014) and Chief Investment Officer of the OppenheimerFunds advisory entities (since January 2014). Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income of the Sub-Adviser (January 2013-December 2013); Head of the Investment Grade Fixed Income Team of the Sub-Adviser (March 2009-January 2014); Director of Fixed Income of the Sub-Adviser (October 2010-December 2012); Senior Vice President of the Sub-Adviser (March 2009-December 2012) and Senior Vice President of OFI Global Institutional, Inc. (April 2009-December 2012). Managing Director and Head of the U.S. and European Credit Analyst Team at Deutsche Bank Securities (June 2006-January 2009). Chief Credit Strategist at Credit Suisse Securities (August 2002-March 2006). Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Putnam Investments (September 1998-June 2002).

 

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Cynthia Lo Bessette,

Secretary and Chief Legal Officer (since 2016)

Year of Birth: 1969

  Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since February 2016); Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (March 2015-February 2016); Chief Legal Officer of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (since February 2016); Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (since February 2016); General Counsel of OFI SteelPath, Inc., OFI Advisors, LLC and Index Management Solutions, LLC (since February 2016); Chief Legal Officer of OFI Global Institutional, Inc., HarbourView Asset Management Corporation, OFI Global Trust Company, Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., OFI Private Investments Inc., Shareholder Services, Inc. and Trinity Investment Management Corporation (since February 2016); Corporate Counsel (February 2012-March 2015) and Deputy Chief Legal Officer (April 2013-March 2015) of Jennison Associates LLC; Assistant General Counsel (April 2008-September 2009) and Deputy General Counsel (October 2009-February 2012) of Lord Abbett & Co. LLC.

Jennifer Foxson,

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 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (January 1998-March 2006); Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (October 1991-December 1998).

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 OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since March 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of OppenheimerFunds, Inc., OFI SteelPath, Inc., 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).

Brian S. Petersen,

Treasurer and Principal Financial & Accounting Officer (since 2016)

Year of Birth: 1970

  Senior Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2017); Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-January 2017); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (February 2007-December 2012); Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (August 2002-2007).

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 CORPORATE BOND 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   Ropes & Gray LLP

© 2018 OppenheimerFunds, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

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PRIVACY 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 non-public 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, SM our electronic document delivery service.

 

Your transactions with us, our affiliates or others.

 

Technologies on our website, including: “cookies” and web beacons, which are used to collect data on the pages you visit and the features you use.

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 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 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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PRIVACY NOTICE Continued

 

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.

 

All transactions conducted via our websites, including redemptions, exchanges and purchases, are secured by the highest encryption standards available. 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 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, safeguard that information. Strengthening your online credentials–your online security profile–typically your user name, password, and security questions and answers, can be one of your most important lines of defense on the Internet. For additional information on how you can help prevent identity theft, visit https://www. oppenheimerfunds.com/security.

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 as of November 2017. 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, email us by clicking on the Contact Us section of our website at oppenheimerfunds.com, write to us at P.O. Box 5270, Denver, CO 80217-5270, or call us at 800 CALL OPP (225 5677).

 

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RA1225.001.0718 September 26, 2018

  


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 Karen L. Stuckey, the Chairwoman of the Board’s Audit Committee, is the audit committee financial expert and that Ms. Stuckey 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 $52,200 in fiscal 2018 and $51,200 in fiscal 2017.

 

(b)

Audit-Related Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $3,500 in fiscal 2018 and $7,000 in fiscal 2017.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $343,361 in fiscal 2018 and $320,775 in fiscal 2017 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: Internal control reviews, GIPS attestation procedures, custody audits, CP Conduit fees, incremental, and additional, audit services.

 

(c)

Tax Fees

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2018 and no such fees in fiscal 2017.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed $533,392 in fiscal 2018 and $710,577 in fiscal 2017 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 2018 and no such fees in fiscal 2017.

The principal accountant for the audit of the registrant’s annual financial statements billed no such fees in fiscal 2018 and no such fees in fiscal 2017 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 $880,253 in fiscal 2018 and $1,038,352 in fiscal 2017 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 7/31/2018, 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. Disclosure of Securities Lending Activities for Closed-End Management Investment Companies.

Not applicable.

Item 13. Exhibits.

 

(a)

(1) Exhibit attached hereto.

 

    

(2) Exhibits attached hereto.


SIGNATURES

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

 

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund
By:   /s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Principal Executive Officer
Date:   9/21/2018

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

 

By:   /s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Arthur P. Steinmetz
  Principal Executive Officer
Date:   9/21/2018

 

By:   /s/ Brian S. Petersen
  Brian S. Petersen
  Principal Financial Officer
Date:   9/21/2018

CODE OF ETHICS FOR PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE AND FINANCIAL OFFICERS OF THE OPPENHEIMER FUNDS, OPPENHEIMERFUNDS, INC., OFI GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC. AND OFI STEELPATH, INC.

This Code of Ethics for Principal Executive and Financial Officers (referred to in this document as the “Code”) has been adopted by each of the investment companies for which OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (“OFI”), OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (“OFI Global”) , OFI SteelPath, Inc. (“OFI SteelPath”) or one of OFI’s other subsidiaries (referred to collectively in this document as “OFI”) acts as investment adviser (individually, a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”), and by OFI to effectuate compliance with Section 406 under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules adopted to implement Section 406.

This Code applies to OFI’s and each Fund’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions (“Covered Officers”). A listing of positions currently within the ambit of Covered Officers is attached as Exhibit A . 1

I NTRODUCTION / D EFINITION / P OLICY S TATEMENT :

In general, the principles that govern honest and ethical conduct, including the avoidance of conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships, reflect, at the minimum, the following: (1) the duty at all times in performing any responsibilities as a Fund financial officer, controller, accountant or principal executive officer to place the interests of the Funds ahead of personal interests; (2) the fundamental standard that Covered Officers should not take inappropriate advantage of their positions; (3) the duty to assure that a Fund’s financial statements and reports to its shareholders are prepared honestly and accurately in accordance with applicable rules, regulations and accounting standards; and (4) the duty to conduct the Funds’ business and affairs in an honest and ethical manner. Each Covered Officer should be sensitive to situations that may give rise to actual as well as apparent conflicts of interest.

It is acknowledged that, as a result of the contractual relationship between each Fund and OFI, of which the Covered Officers are also officers or employees, and subject to OFI’s fiduciary duties to each Fund, the Covered Officers may, in the normal course of their duties, be involved in establishing policies and implementing decisions that will have different effects on OFI and the Funds. It is further acknowledged that the participation of the Covered Officers in such activities is inherent in the contractual relationship between each Fund and OFI and is consistent with the expectations of the Board of Trustees/Directors of the performance by the Covered Officers of their duties as officers of the Funds.

 

1  

The obligations imposed by this Code on Covered Officers are separate from and in addition to any obligations that may be imposed on such persons as Covered Persons under the Code of Ethics adopted by OFI and the Funds under Rule 17j-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and any other code of conduct applicable to Covered Officers in whatever capacity they serve. This Code does not incorporate by reference any provisions of the Rule 17j-1 Code of Ethics and accordingly, any violations or waivers granted under the Rule 17j-1 Code of Ethics will not be considered a violation or waiver under this Code.


P OLICY D ETAILS :

 

A.

POLICY STATEMENT

Overview . As a means of implementing Section 406 of SOX (“Section 406”), the SEC has adopted certain rules that require a mutual fund to disclose:

 

   

Whether or not it has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the mutual fund’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, controller or any other person that performs similar functions (each a “Covered Officer” and, collectively, the “Covered Officers”);

 

   

Why, if it has not adopted such code, it has not done so; and

 

   

Amendments to, and waivers from, the code of ethics relating to any of the Covered Officers.

Section 406 defines a “code of ethics” to mean such standards as are reasonable necessary to promote:

 

   

Honest and ethical conduct, including the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships;

 

   

Full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in the periodic reports required to be filed by the issuer; and

 

   

Compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.

This Code of Ethics for Principal Executive and Financial Officers (the “Executive Code”) sets forth standards and procedures to ensure compliance with SOX Section 406 and shall apply to each Covered Officer of the Funds and ETF Trust (referred to herein as the “Funds”).

Honest and ethical conduct . This Executive Code is intended to assure that the behavior of Covered Officers does not put, or appear to put, the interests of other parties above those of the Funds and that conflicts of interest are identified and handled ethically. A conflict of interest occurs when a Covered Officer allows, or appears to allow, advantages that could otherwise be avoided or ameliorated, to other parties at the expense of a Fund. Such advantages may benefit a Covered Officer’s own private interests over the interests of the Funds. Conflicts of interest may also arise when, in addition to serving as a Covered Officer of the Funds, a Covered Officer also holds a position as an officer or employee of an investment adviser or other entity retained by a Fund. A conflict of interest may be created if a Covered Officer who also serves as an officer or employee of an investment adviser to the Funds, provides benefits to another party that are improper, or that are a breach of the Covered Officer’s fiduciary relationship to the Funds, if the benefit was derived from such Covered Officer’s position with the Funds.

The compliance programs and procedures of the Funds and the investment adviser(s) to the Funds are designed to prevent, or identify and correct, violations of provisions set forth in the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act, including certain conflict of interest provisions. The obligations imposed by this Executive Code on Covered Officers are separate and in addition to any obligations imposed on such persons under any other procedures, such as the Code of Ethics adopted by the Funds and the investment advisers to the Funds pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the Investment Company Act. This Executive Code does not, and is not intended to, repeat or replace these programs and procedures. Violations of such other programs and procedures shall be addressed in accordance with the applicable program or procedure, unless or until it is determined that a violation of such program and procedure is also a violation of this Executive Code.


If a Covered Officer becomes aware of a conflict of interest or perceives there to be a conflict of interest, such Covered Officer shall promptly report the matter to the Funds’ Chief Compliance Officer or the OFI General Counsel. Upon receipt of a report, the Chief Compliance Officer or OFI General Counsel will take prompt steps to determine whether a conflict or perceived conflict of interest exists. If it is determined that an actual or perceived conflict of interest exists, the Chief Compliance Officer or OFI General Counsel will take steps to resolve the conflict or the appearance of a conflict. If it is determined that no conflict or appearance of a conflict exists, the Chief Compliance Officer or OFI General Counsel shall meet with the Covered Officer to advise him or her of such finding and of his or her reason for taking no action. In lieu of determining whether a conflict or appearance of conflict exists, the matter may be referred to the Funds’ Boards.

Prohibited Activity : No Covered Officer shall, in connection with carrying out his or her duties on behalf of the Funds:

 

   

Use information concerning business and affairs of the Funds, including the investment intentions of the Funds, for personal gain to himself or herself, his or her family or friends or any other person, or in a manner detrimental to the interests of the Funds or the shareholders of the Funds;

 

   

Use his or her ability to influence investment intentions for personal gain to himself or herself, his or her family or friends or any other person or in a manner detrimental to the Funds or the shareholders of the Funds;

 

   

Use his or her personal influence or personal relationships to influence the preparation and issuance of financial reports of a Fund whereby the Covered Officer would benefit personally to the detriment of Funds or the shareholders of the Funds;

 

   

Intentionally take any action or fail to take any action in connection with his or her official acts on behalf of the Funds that causes the Funds to violate applicable laws, rules and regulations;

 

   

Employ any device, scheme, artifice or manipulative practice to defraud the Funds or the shareholders of the Funds;

 

   

Intentionally cause the Funds to make any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact that conflicts with statements made in official documents, regulatory filings, financial statements or communications to the public;

 

   

Intentionally cause the Funds to fail to comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations, including failure to comply with the requirement of full, fair, accurate, understandable and timely disclosure in reports and documents that the Funds file with, or submit to, the SEC and in other public communications;


   

Intentionally mislead or fail to provide material information to the independent auditors of the Funds or to the Board of Trustees/Directors or the officers of the Funds or their investment adviser(s) in connection with financial reporting matters;

 

   

Intentionally cause a Fund to be financially disadvantaged or to bear unwarranted expenses;

 

   

Retaliate against others for, or otherwise discourage the reporting of, actual or apparent violations of this Code.

Waivers . Covered Officers requesting a waiver of any of the provisions of the Executive Code must submit a written request for such waiver to the Compliance Department, setting forth the basis of such request and all necessary facts upon which such request can be evaluated.

The Compliance Department shall review such request and make a written determination thereon, which shall be binding. The Compliance Department may, in reviewing such request, consult in its discretion with legal counsel to the Funds, or the Board, if applicable.

In determining whether to waive any of the provisions of this Code, the Compliance Department shall consider whether the proposed waiver:

 

   

Is prohibited by this Executive Code;

 

   

Is consistent with honest and ethical conduct; and

 

   

Will result in a conflict of interest between the Covered Officer’s personal and professional obligations to a Fund.

For purposes of clarification, a determination by a Board as to the appropriate handling of a conflict of interest that has been disclosed to it and that does not involve unethical or fraudulent conduct does not constitute a waiver of this Executive Code.

Sanctions . Any violation of this Executive Code shall be subject to the imposition of such sanctions as may be deemed appropriate under the circumstances and may include, without limitation, a letter of censure, suspension from employment or termination of employment.

 

B.

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION

Each Covered Officer shall:

 

   

Certify that he or she has received, read and understands his or her obligations under the Executive Code (upon becoming subject to the Executive Code and annually thereafter); and

 

   

At least annually, all Covered Officers shall certify that they have compiled with the requirements of the Executive Code and that they have disclosed or reported violations of the Executive Code to the Chief Compliance Officer; and

 

   

Promptly report to the Chief Compliance Officer of the Funds or the General Counsel if he or she becomes aware of any actual or perceived conflict of interest.


The Compliance Department shall:

 

   

Maintain the current list of Covered Officers;

 

   

Furnish each Covered Officer with this Executive Code when such individual becomes subject to the Executive Code and annually thereafter;

 

   

Periodically inform each Covered Officer of his or her duties and obligations under this Executive Code;

 

   

Provide Fund Treasury with information with respect to amendments to, or waivers of, this Executive Code;

 

   

Provide the Boards with a quarterly report setting forth:

 

   

A description of any report submitted by a Covered Officer of a conflict of interest or perceived conflict of interest and the disposition thereof;

 

   

A description of any request for a waiver from the Executive Code and the disposition thereof;

 

   

Any violation of the Executive Code that has been reported or detected and the sanction imposed;

 

   

Any other significant information arising under the Executive Code.

Fund Treasury shall ensure that the applicable Form N-CSR:

 

   

Provides disclosure to the effect that the Funds have adopted the Executive Code;

 

   

Includes the current Executive Code as an exhibit; and

 

   

Provides disclosure with respect to any waivers that have been granted under the Executive Code.

Amendments . At least annually, the Board of each Fund shall review the Executive Code and consider whether any amendments are necessary or desirable. Proposed amendments to the Executive Code shall be presented to the Boards for review and approval at such times other than the annual review as deemed necessary or desirable by the Chief Compliance Officer.

 

Approved by the Denver Board of the Oppenheimer Funds on August 2016

Approved by the New York of the Oppenheimer Funds on September 2016

Approved by OFI Legal and Compliance on July 2016


Exhibit A

Positions Covered by this Code of Ethics for Principal Executive and Financial Officers*

Each Oppenheimer fund

President (Principal Executive Officer)

Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)

OppenheimerFunds, Inc., OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., OFI SteelPath, Inc., and VTL Associates, LLC

President (Principal Executive Officer)

Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

Chief Financial Officer Principal Financial Officer)

Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)

 

*

There are no other positions with the Funds, OFI, OFI Global, OFI SteelPath, Inc., or VTL Associates, LLC held by persons who perform similar functions to those listed above.

Exhibit 99.CERT

Section 302 Certifications

CERTIFICATIONS

I, Arthur P. Steinmetz, certify that:

 

1.

I have reviewed this report on Form N-CSR of Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund;

 

2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, changes in net assets, and cash flows (if the financial statements are required to include a statement of cash flows) of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:

 

  (a)

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  (b)

Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

  (c)

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  (d)

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and


5.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of Trustees (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  (a)

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and

 

  (b)

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: 9/21/2018

 

/s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz
Arthur P. Steinmetz
Principal Executive Officer


Exhibit 99.CERT

Section 302 Certifications

CERTIFICATIONS

I, Brian S. Petersen, certify that:

 

1.

I have reviewed this report on Form N-CSR of Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund;

 

2.

Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.

Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, changes in net assets, and cash flows (if the financial statements are required to include a statement of cash flows) of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Investment Company Act of 1940) for the registrant and have:

 

  (a)

Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  (b)

Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

  (c)

Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of a date within 90 days prior to the filing date of this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  (d)

Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the second fiscal quarter of the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and


5.

The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of Trustees (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  (a)

All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial information; and

 

  (b)

Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: 9/21/2018

 

/s/ Brian S. Petersen
Brian S. Petersen
Principal Financial Officer

EX-99.906CERT

Section 906 Certifications

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

Arthur P. Steinmetz, Principal Executive Officer, and Brian S. Petersen, Principal Financial Officer, of Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund (the “Registrant”), each certify to the best of his knowledge that:

 

1.

The Registrant’s periodic report on Form N-CSR for the period ended 7/31/2018 (the “Form N-CSR”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

 

2.

The information contained in the Form N-CSR fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Registrant. This certification is being furnished to the Commission solely pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350 and is not being filed as part of the Form N-CSR filed with the Commission.

 

Principal Executive Officer     Principal Financial Officer
Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund     Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund
/s/ Arthur P. Steinmetz     /s/ Brian S. Petersen
Arthur P. Steinmetz     Brian S. Petersen

Date: 9/21/2018

   

Date: 9/21/2018