485BPOS 1 bodyetf485b.htm FACING PAGE, TWO PROSPECTUSES, TWO SAIS, PART C

Registration No. 333-139501

File No. 811-21993

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM N-1A

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Pre-Effective Amendment No.

Post-Effective Amendment No. 49

 

and/or

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

Amendment No. 51

 

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

 

(303) 768-3200

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

 

 

Cynthia Lo Bessette, Esq.

OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

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

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

  immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

 on October 18, 2017 pursuant to paragraph (b)

 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

 on pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

 on pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

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-Prospectus dated October 18, 2017

 

    Cusip  BATS BZX Exchange, Inc.

This prospectus contains important information about each Fund’s objectives, investment policies, strategies and risks. It also contains important information about how to buy and sell shares of each Fund and other account features.

 

Please read this prospectus carefully before you invest and keep it for future reference about your account.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF

Oppenheimer Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF

 

68386C 724

 

68386C 112

 

 

 

OMFL

 

OMFS

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved the Funds’ securities nor has it determined that this prospectus is accurate or complete. It is a criminal offense to represent otherwise.

 

       
       
       

 

 

 

Table of Contents  
  Fund Summaries To Summary Prospectus
1 Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
7 Oppenheimer Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
13 Investment Objective, Principal Investment Strategies, Related Risks and Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings  
23 Management of the Funds  
27 Shareholder Information  
28 Creations, Redemptions and Transaction Fees  
30 Dividends, Distributions and Taxes  
32 Premium/Discount Information  
32 Other Information  
34 Additional Notices  
     

 

Fund Summaries

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 1000® OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may also incur customary brokerage charges when buying or selling Shares.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.29%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.29%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$30 $93

 

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in certain index futures, options, options on index futures, swap contracts or other derivatives, as related to its Underlying Index and its component securities, other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology by selecting equity securities from the Russell 1000 Index (the “Parent Index”), which measures the performance of the 1,000 largest-capitalization companies in the United States. The Underlying Index consists of one of four pre-determined factor configurations that emphasize a subset of five investment style factors, as described below. The factor configuration that comprises the Underlying Index will vary with different economic cycles and overall market conditions, as reflected in one of the following four categories: expansion, slowdown, contraction and recovery. The five investment style factors are:

Value. A company’s value factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of cash flow yield, earnings yield, and sales to price ratio, calculated based on the company’s total market capitalization and information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

Momentum. A company’s momentum factor score is based on historical total return over the 11 months ending on the last business day of the prior month.

Quality. A company’s quality factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of return on assets, change in asset turnover, accruals, and leverage, calculated based on information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

Low Volatility. A company’s volatility factor score is based on the standard deviation of weekly total returns to a company’s stock price over the trailing five years ending on the last business day of the prior month.

Size. A company’s size factor score is based on total market capitalization as of the last business day of the prior month.

To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a multi-factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits greater characteristics of the relevant factors (for example, size and value), relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. The multi-factor score is the product of the security’s individual factor scores, each of which is calculated using one or more measurements (for example, a size factor score is calculated from the issuer’s total market capitalization). An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s multi-factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. With respect to each factor other than momentum, constraints regarding diversification and liquidity are also applied. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount. The current economic cycle/market condition category, which determines which factor configuration is applied, is derived from a rules-based methodology that relies on certain leading economic indicators and information regarding global risk appetite. The applicable category is provided to the Index Provider by OppenheimerFunds, Inc., an affiliate of the investment adviser (“OppenheimerFunds”) in the form of a data signal (the “Signal”).

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 715 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted when the Signal changes, which may be as frequently as monthly, and when the factor configuration is rebalanced and reconstituted by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which occurs semi-annually with respect to the expansion and contraction categories, and annually with respect to the recovery and slowdown categories. The Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index. Since OppenheimerFunds provides the Signal to the Index Provider, OppenheimerFunds may be deemed a creator and sponsor of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund is non-diversified and therefore may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a particular issuer than a diversified Fund.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Value Securities Risk Securities issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued may fail to appreciate for long periods of time and may never realize their full potential value. The rules-based methodology may be unsuccessful in creating an index that emphasizes undervalued securities.

 

Momentum Securities Risk Securities that previously exhibited high momentum characteristics may not experience positive momentum or may experience more volatility than the market as a whole.

Quality Securities Risk Securities included in the Underlying Index are deemed to be quality securities pursuant to the Underlying Index’s methodology, but there is no guarantee that the past performance of these securities will continue. Companies that issue these stocks may experience lower than expected returns or may experience negative growth, as well as increased leverage, resulting in lower than expected or negative returns to Fund shareholders. Many factors can affect a stock’s quality and performance, and the impact of these factors on a stock or its price can be difficult to predict.

Low Volatility Risk Although subject to the risks of common stocks, low volatility stocks are seen as having a lower risk profile than the overall markets. However, a portfolio comprised of low volatility stocks may not produce investment exposure that has lower variability to changes in such stocks’ price levels. Low volatility stocks are likely to underperform the broader market during periods of rapidly rising stock prices. Although the Underlying Index was created to seek lower volatility than the Parent Index, there is no guarantee that this strategy will be successful.

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the following factors: value, momentum, quality, low volatility and size, and to weight such factors based on changes in the Signal. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to such investment factors will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, while the weights allocated to particular targeted investment factors may be adjusted based on the changes in the Signal, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target different factors.

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the information technology sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors,

including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

 

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

 

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

 

Non-Diversification Risk The Fund is non-diversified and, as a result, may have greater volatility than other diversified funds. Because a non-diversified fund may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a single company than diversified funds, the performance of that company can have a substantial impact on Share price.

 

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Because the Fund is rebalanced when the Signal changes, which may be as frequently as monthly, and reconstituted when factor scores are recalculated by the Index Provider, which occurs semi-annually or annually, the Fund may experience portfolio turnover in excess of 100%. Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income. Funds that track dynamic multi-factor indices may experience higher turnover than other multi-factor funds that do not track such indices.

 

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 2000 OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may also incur customary brokerage charges when buying or selling Shares.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.39%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.39%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$40 $125

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in certain index futures, options, options on index futures, swap contracts or other derivatives, as related to its Underlying Index and its component securities, other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology by selecting equity securities from the Russell 2000 Index (the “Parent Index”), which measures the performance of 2,000 small-capitalization companies in the United States. The Underlying Index consists of one of four pre-determined factor configurations that emphasize a subset of five investment style factors, as described below. The factor configuration that comprises the Underlying Index will vary with different economic cycles and overall market conditions, as reflected in one of the following four categories: expansion, slowdown, contraction and recovery. The five investment style factors are:

Value. A company’s value factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of cash flow yield, earnings yield, and sales to price ratio, calculated based on the company’s total market capitalization and information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

Momentum. A company’s momentum factor score is based on historical total return over the 11 months ending on the last business day of the prior month.

Quality. A company’s quality factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of return on assets, change in asset turnover, accruals, and leverage, calculated based on information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

Low Volatility. A company’s volatility factor score is based on the standard deviation of weekly total returns to a company’s stock price over the trailing five years ending on the last business day of the prior month.

Size. A company’s size factor score is based on total market capitalization as of the last business day of the prior month.

To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a multi-factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits greater characteristics of the relevant factors (for example, size and value), relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. The multi-factor score is the product of the security’s individual factor scores, each of which is calculated using one or more measurements (for example, a size factor score is calculated from the issuer’s total market capitalization). An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s multi-factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. With respect to each factor other than momentum, constraints regarding diversification and liquidity are also applied. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount. The current economic cycle/market condition category, which determines which factor configuration is applied, is derived from a rules-based methodology that relies on certain leading economic indicators and information regarding global risk appetite. The applicable category is provided to the Index Provider by OppenheimerFunds, Inc., an affiliate of the investment adviser (“OppenheimerFunds”) in the form of a data signal (the “Signal”).

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 1,220 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted when the Signal changes, which may be as frequently as monthly, and when the factor configuration is rebalanced and reconstituted by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which occurs semi-annually with respect to the expansion and contraction categories, and annually with respect to the recovery and slowdown categories. The Underlying Index is sponsored by the Index Provider, which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index. Since OppenheimerFunds provides the Signal to the Index Provider, OppenheimerFunds may be deemed a creator and sponsor of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund is non-diversified and therefore may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a particular issuer than a diversified Fund.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Value Securities Risk Securities issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued may fail to appreciate for long periods of time and may never realize their full potential value. The rules-based methodology may be unsuccessful in creating an index that emphasizes undervalued securities.

Momentum Securities Risk Securities that previously exhibited high momentum characteristics may not experience positive momentum or may experience more volatility than the market as a whole.

Quality Stocks Risk Securities included in the Underlying Index are deemed to be quality stocks pursuant to the Underlying Index’s methodology, but there is no guarantee that the past performance of these stocks will continue. Companies that issue these stocks may experience lower than expected returns or may experience negative growth, as well as increased leverage, resulting in lower than expected or negative returns to Fund shareholders. Many factors can affect a stock’s quality and performance, and the impact of these factors on a stock or its price can be difficult to predict.

Low Volatility Risk Although subject to the risks of common stocks, low volatility stocks are seen as having a lower risk profile than the overall markets. However, a portfolio comprised of low volatility stocks may not produce investment exposure that has lower variability to changes in such stocks’ price levels. Low volatility stocks are likely to underperform the broader market during periods of rapidly rising stock prices. Although the Underlying Index was created to seek lower volatility than the Parent Index, there is no guarantee that this strategy will be successful.

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the following factors: value, momentum, quality, low volatility and size, and to weight such factors based on changes in the Signal. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to such investment factors will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, while the weights allocated to particular targeted investment factors may be adjusted based on the changes in the Signal, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target different factors.

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

Consumer Discretionary Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the consumer discretionary sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The success of consumer product manufacturers and retailers is tied closely to the performance of the overall global economy, interest rates, competition and consumer confidence. Success depends heavily on disposable household income and consumer spending. Also, companies in the consumer discretionary sector may be subject to severe competition, which may have an adverse impact on their respective profitability. Changes in demographics and consumer tastes can also affect the demand for, and success of, consumer products and services in the marketplace.

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors, including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

Industrials Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities issued by companies in the industrials sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The industrials sector includes companies engaged in the manufacture and distribution of capital goods, such as those used in defense, construction and engineering, companies that manufacture and distribute electrical equipment and industrial machinery and those that provide commercial and transportation services and supplies. Because as currently constituted the industrials sector represents a significant portion of the Underlying Index, the Fund will be sensitive to changes in, and its performance may depend to a greater extent on, the overall condition of the industrials sector. Companies in the industrials sector may be adversely affected by changes in government regulation, world events and economic conditions. In addition, companies in the industrials sector may be adversely affected by environmental damages, product liability claims and exchange rates.

Small Capitalization Stock Risk Investing in securities of small capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.

Increased Volatility Risk Increased volatility may result from increased cash flows to the Fund and other market participants that continuously or systematically buy large holdings of small or medium capitalization companies, which can drive prices up and down more dramatically. Additionally, the announcement that a security has been added to a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to increase. Conversely, the announcement that a security has been deleted from a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to decrease.

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s NAV (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

 

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

Non-Diversification Risk The Fund is non-diversified and, as a result, may have greater volatility than other diversified funds. Because a non-diversified fund may invest a larger percentage of its assets in securities of a single company than diversified funds, the performance of that company can have a substantial impact on Share price.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Because the Fund is rebalanced when the Signal changes, which may be as frequently as monthly, and reconstituted when factor scores are recalculated by the Index Provider, which occurs semi-annually or annually, the Fund may experience portfolio turnover in excess of 100%. Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income. Funds that track dynamic multi-factor indices may experience higher turnover than other multi-factor funds that do not track such indices.

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

Investment Objective, Principal Investment Strategies,
Related Risks, and Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings

This section contains greater detail on the principal investment strategies of Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and the Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF (each, a “Fund,” and together, the “Funds”) and the related risks that you would face as a shareholder of the Funds and also information about how to find out more about the Funds’ portfolio holdings disclosure policy. Each Fund is an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”).

Investment Objective

Each Fund’s investment objective is to seek to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Fund’s corresponding Underlying Index. Each Fund’s investment objective may be changed without shareholder approval (although a Fund will provide advance notice to shareholders at least 60 days before any such change takes effect). There can be no guarantee that a Fund will achieve its investment objective.

Principal Investment Strategies

Each Fund’s Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology, and consists of one of four pre-determined factor configurations that emphasize a subset of five investment style factors: low volatility, momentum, quality, size, and value. The factor configuration that comprises the Underlying Index will vary with different economic cycles and overall market conditions, as reflected in one of the following four categories: expansion, slowdown, contraction and recovery. For more information regarding the selection and weighting methodology, see the section entitled “The Underlying Indexes” in this Prospectus.

From time to time, a Fund will purchase or sell certain of its portfolio securities to reflect changes to the constituent securities of its Underlying Index. Each Fund will reconstitute (i.e., make adjustments in connection with changes to the Underlying Index resulting from updated factor score calculations) its portfolio securities on or about the same day as the annual or semi-annual reconstitution of the applicable factor configuration. Each Fund will rebalance (i.e., re-weight to one of four pre-determined factor configurations, in line with the Underlying Index) on or about the same day as any change in the Signal occurs, which may be as frequently as monthly. The Funds do not seek temporary defensive positions when equity markets decline or appear to be overvalued. Outside of the periodic rebalancings or reconstitutions, each Fund’s portfolio (following its Underlying Index) typically will be reconstituted only when: (1) a security in the Underlying Index is altered due to corporate actions such as price adjustments, stock splits, or delisting from an exchange; or (2) when securities are deleted from the Underlying Index.

Each Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of its Underlying Index as closely as possible. However, the Funds may, in the investment adviser’s discretion, remain invested in securities that were deleted from a Fund’s Underlying Index until the investment adviser next rebalances or reconstitutes the Fund in connection with the periodic rebalancings or reconstitutions of the Underlying Indexes. A Fund may use a representative sampling strategy when (1) practical difficulties or substantial costs would be involved in compiling all of the securities in a Fund’s Underlying Index, (2) the constituent securities are too numerous to efficiently purchase or sell, or (3) a component security becomes temporarily unavailable or relatively illiquid.

Each Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days’ notice prior to any change in its 80% investment policy described in “Fund Summaries—Principal Investment Strategies.”

The Funds may engage in securities lending.

The Funds will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries, to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund is non-diversified and therefore may invest a greater percentage of its assets in a particular issuer than a diversified Fund.

The Russell 1000 Index, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF’s Parent Index, is a comprehensive, rules-based index designed to measure the performance of large-capitalization stocks in the U.S. As of September 30, 2017, the largest market capitalization of a company in the Russell 1000 Index was approximately $796.8 billion and the smallest market capitalization was approximately $1.5 billion. The average market capitalization of companies in the Russell 1000 Index on this date was approximately $27.3 billion, and the median market capitalization was approximately $9.6 billion.

The Russell 2000 Index, Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF’s Parent Index, is a comprehensive, rules-based index designed to measure the performance of small-capitalization stocks in the U.S. As of September 30, 2017, the largest market capitalization of a company in the Russell 2000 Index was approximately $10.3 billion and the smallest market capitalization was approximately $6.0 million. The average market capitalization of companies in the Russell 2000 Index on this date was approximately $1.2 billion, and the median market capitalization was approximately $849.4 million.

 

Principal Risk Factors

Investing in any ETF, including the Funds, involves risk, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest. Each Fund is subject to the principal risks described below, unless indicated otherwise. Some or all of these risks may adversely affect a Fund’s NAV, trading price, total return and/or a Fund’s ability to meet its objective.

Value Securities Risk

“Value” style investing emphasizes undervalued companies with characteristics for improved valuations. This style of investing is subject to the risk that the valuations never improve or that the returns on “value” equity securities are less than returns on other styles of investing or the overall stock market. Securities issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued may fail to appreciate for long periods of time and may never realize their full potential value. The rules-based methodology of a Fund’s Underlying Index may be unsuccessful in creating an index that emphasizes undervalued securities.

Momentum Securities Risk

“Momentum” style investing emphasizes investing in securities that have had higher recent price performance compared to other securities. This style of investing is subject to the risk that these securities may be more volatile than a broad cross-section of securities or that the returns on securities that have previously exhibited price momentum are less than returns on other styles of investing or the overall stock market. Securities that previously exhibited high momentum characteristics may not experience positive momentum or may experience more volatility than the market as a whole. Momentum can turn quickly and cause significant variation from other types of investments.

Quality Securities Risk

Stocks included in an Underlying Index are deemed to be quality stocks based on a number of factors, including, among others, historical and expected high returns on equity, stable earnings growth and low debt-to-equity, but there is no guarantee that the past performance of these stocks will continue. The Index Providers (as described in “The Underlying Indexes” section below) may be unsuccessful in creating an index that reflects the quality of individual stocks. Companies that issue these stocks may not be able to sustain consistently high returns on equity, earnings and growth year after year and may need to borrow money or issue debt despite their prior history. Earnings, growth and other measures of a stock’s quality can be adversely affected by market, regulatory, political, environmental and other factors. The price of a stock also may be affected by factors other than those factors considered by the Index Providers. Many factors can affect a stock’s quality and performance, and the impact of these factors on a stock or its price can be difficult to predict.

Low Volatility Risk

Although subject to the risks of common stocks, low volatility stocks are seen as having a lower risk profile than the overall markets. However, a portfolio comprised of low volatility stocks may not produce investment exposure that has lower variability to changes in such stocks’ price levels. Low volatility stocks are likely to underperform the broader market during periods of rapidly rising stock prices. Although the Underlying Index was created to seek lower volatility than the Parent Index, there is no guarantee that this strategy will be successful. The Underlying Index may be unsuccessful in creating an index that minimizes volatility, and there is a risk that a Fund may experience more than minimum volatility. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may be subject to price volatility and the prices may not be any less volatile than the market as a whole, and could be more volatile.

Index Construction Risk

A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk

Each Underlying Index, and thus each Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the following factors: value, momentum, quality, low volatility and size, and to weight such factors based on changes in the Signal. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance a Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to such investment factors will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, while the weights allocated to particular targeted investment factors may be adjusted based on the changes in the Signal, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target different factors.

Concentration Risk

A Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. A Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

Consumer Discretionary Sector Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF only)

The success of consumer product manufacturers and retailers is tied closely to the performance of the overall global economy, interest rates, competition and consumer confidence. Success depends heavily on disposable household income and consumer spending. Also, companies in the consumer discretionary sector may be subject to severe competition, which may have an adverse impact on their respective profitability. Changes in demographics and consumer tastes can also affect the demand for, and success of, consumer products and services in the marketplace.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk

Companies in the financial services sector of an economy are subject to extensive governmental regulation and intervention, which may adversely affect the scope of their activities, the prices they can charge, the amount of capital they must maintain and, potentially, their size. Governmental regulation may change frequently and may have significant adverse consequences for companies in the financial services sector, including effects not intended by such regulation. The impact of more stringent capital requirements, or recent or future regulation in various countries of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. Certain risks may impact the value of investments in the financial services sector more severely than those of investments outside this sector, including the risks associated with companies that operate with substantial financial leverage. Companies in the financial services sector may also be adversely affected by increases in interest rates and loan losses, decreases in the availability of money or asset valuations, credit rating downgrades and adverse conditions in other related markets. Insurance companies, in particular, may be subject to severe price competition and/or rate regulation, which may have an adverse impact on their profitability. The banking industry, in particular, is generally negatively affected by interest rates when they remain low for long periods of time, as banks are typically more profitable when there is a larger spread between the federal funds rate and what depositories pay in interest. The financial services sector is particularly sensitive to fluctuations in interest rates. The financial services sector is also a target for cyber attacks, and may experience technology malfunctions and disruptions. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have reportedly caused losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

Industrials Sector Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF only)

The industrials sector includes companies engaged in the manufacture and distribution of capital goods, such as those used in defense, construction and engineering, companies that manufacture and distribute electrical equipment and industrial machinery and those that provide commercial and transportation services and supplies. Because as currently constituted the industrials sector represents a significant portion of the Underlying Index, the Fund will be sensitive to changes in, and its performance may depend to a greater extent on, the overall condition of the industrials sector. Companies in the industrials sector may be adversely affected by changes in government regulation, world events and economic conditions. In addition, companies in the industrials sector may be adversely affected by environmental damages, product liability claims and exchange rates. The success of these companies is affected by supply and demand both for their specific product or service and for industrial sector products in general. The products of manufacturing companies may face product obsolescence due to rapid technological developments and frequent new product introduction. In addition, the industrial sector may also be adversely affected by changes or trends in commodity prices, which may be influenced or characterized by unpredictable factors.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF only)

The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

Increased Volatility Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF only)

Increased volatility risk is associated with increased volatility in the price of small and medium capitalization companies. The announcement that a security has been added to a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to increase. Conversely, the announcement that a security has been deleted from a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to decrease. To the extent that an index or benchmark’s methodology is rules-based and transparent, any price increase or decrease generally would be expected to be smaller than the increase or decrease resulting from a change to a non-transparent index or benchmark (because the transparency of the index or benchmark likely would provide the market with more notice of such change). Because it is impossible to predict when and how market participants will react to announced changes in the constituent securities of a Fund’s Parent Index (and its Underlying Index), the Funds cannot predict when and how these changes will impact the market price and NAV of a Fund.

Small Capitalization Stock Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF only)

Investing in securities of small capitalization companies involves greater risk than customarily is associated with investing in larger, more established companies. These companies’ securities may be more volatile and less liquid than those of more established companies. These securities may have returns that vary, sometimes significantly, from the overall securities market. Often small capitalization companies and the industries in which they focus are still evolving and, as a result, they may be more sensitive to changing market conditions.

Stock Market Risk

Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of a Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. The market as a whole may not favor the types of investments a Fund makes. Many factors can adversely affect a security’s performance, including both general financial market conditions and factors related to a specific company, industry or geographic region. During a general economic downturn in the securities markets, multiple asset classes may be negatively affected.

Market Trading Risk

Absence of Active Market. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including that an active trading market for Shares may not develop or be maintained (including through a trading halt), losses from trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility and disruptions to the creation/redemption process.

Secondary Market Trading Risk. In addition to the risks described above, note that Shares may trade in the secondary market at times when the Fund does not accept orders to purchase or redeem Shares. At such times, Shares may trade in the secondary market with more significant premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV or IIV (see “Share Trading Prices” below for more information on the IIV) than might be experienced at times when the Fund accepts purchase and redemption orders.

Secondary market trading in Shares may be halted by a stock exchange because of market conditions or for other reasons. In addition, trading in Shares on a stock exchange or in any market may be subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to “circuit breaker” rules on the stock exchange or market. During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares. As with all other exchange traded securities, Shares may be sold short and may experience increased volatility and price decreases associated with such trading activity.

Stop Loss Order Risk. During periods of high market volatility, including events such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses. A stop loss order may cause a Share to be sold at the next prevailing market price once the “stop” level is reached, which during a period of high volatility can be at a price that is substantially below NAV. By including a “limit” criteria with a brokerage order, you may be able to limit the size of the loss resulting from the execution of an ill-timed stop loss order, although no assurance can be given that inclusion of limit criteria will mitigate any such losses.

Shares of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV/IIV. Shares of the Fund trade on stock exchanges at prices at, above or below the Fund’s most recent NAV. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s shares fluctuates continuously throughout trading hours based on both market supply of and demand for Shares and changes in the value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. As a result, the trading prices of the Fund’s shares may deviate significantly from NAV and IIV during periods of market volatility.

However, because shares can be created and redeemed in Creation Units at NAV, large discounts or premiums to the NAV and IIV are not likely to be sustained over the long term. While the creation/redemption feature is designed to make it more likely that the Shares normally will trade on stock exchanges at prices close to the Fund’s next calculated NAV, exchange prices are not expected to correlate exactly with the Fund’s NAV or IIV due to timing reasons, supply and demand imbalances and other factors. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions, including disruptions at market makers, Authorized Participants, or market participants, and during periods of significant market volatility, may result in trading prices for shares of the Fund that differ significantly from its NAV or IIV.

Costs of Buying or Selling Shares. Buying or selling Shares on an exchange involves two types of costs that apply to all securities transactions. When buying or selling shares of the Fund through a broker, you will likely incur a brokerage commission and other charges. In addition, you may incur the cost of the “spread”; that is, the difference between what market makers or other participants that trade the particular security are willing to pay for Shares (the “bid” price) and the price at which they are willing to sell Shares (the “ask” price). There may also be regulatory and other charges that are incurred as a result of trading activity. Because of the costs inherent in buying or selling Shares, frequent trading may detract significantly from investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.

Non-Correlation Risk

A Fund’s return may not match the return of its Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, each Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to its Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing or reconstituting the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of its Underlying Index. A Fund may not be fully invested at times, in which case holding cash balances may prevent it from replicating its Underlying Index. If a Fund utilizes a representative sampling approach, its return may not correlate as well with the return on its Underlying Index, as would be the case if it purchased all of the stocks in its Underlying Index with the same weightings as its Underlying Index. If a Fund fair values portfolio securities when calculating its NAV, the Fund’s return may vary from the return of its Underlying Index to the extent the Underlying Index reflects stale pricing.

Calculation Methodology Risk

Each Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither a Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk

The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

 

 

 

Passive Investment Risk

The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

 

Non-Diversification Risk

 

Although one or more of the Funds is non-diversified, each Fund intends to maintain the required level of diversification so as to qualify as a “regulated investment company” for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Internal Revenue Code”), in order to avoid liability for federal income tax to the extent that its income and gains are distributed to shareholders. Compliance with diversification requirements of the Internal Revenue Code could limit the investment flexibility of a Fund.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk

Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with a Fund. Each Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants, and none of the authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption order with respect to a Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV and possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk

Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders. For example, if a Fund loans its securities, the Fund and its investors may lose the ability to treat certain Fund distributions associated with those activities as qualified dividend income.

Portfolio Turnover Risk

Because the Funds are rebalanced when the Signal changes, which may be as frequently as monthly, and reconstituted when factor scores are recalculated by the Index Provider, which occurs semi-annually or annually, the Funds may experience portfolio turnover in excess of 100%. Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by a Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. A Fund may experience a higher rate of portfolio turnover to the extent active market trading of Shares causes more frequent creation or redemption activities and such creation and redemption activities are not conducted in-kind. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to a Fund, which could have an adverse effect on a Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely a Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income. Funds that track dynamic multi-factor indices may experience higher turnover than other multi-factor funds that do not track such indices.

 

Other Investment Strategies and Risks

Conflicts of Interest

The investment activities of the investment adviser and its affiliates with respect to other funds and accounts they manage may present potential conflicts of interest that could, under certain circumstances, disadvantage or adversely affect the Fund and its shareholders. The investment adviser or its affiliates advise other funds and accounts that have investment objectives and strategies that differ from, and may be contrary to, those of the Fund. That may result in another fund or account holding investment positions that are adverse to the Fund’s investment strategies or activities. Other funds or accounts advised by the investment adviser or its affiliates may also have conflicting interests arising from investment objectives and strategies that are similar to those of the Fund. For example, those funds and accounts may engage in, and compete for, the same types of investment opportunities as the Fund or invest in securities of the same issuers that have different features and interests as compared to securities held by the Fund. These features (such as seniority, guarantees and differential voting rights) may, under certain circumstances, come into conflict with or disadvantage securities held by the Fund. Because the investment adviser and its affiliates may carry out the investment activities of those other funds or accounts without regard to the investment objectives or performance of the Fund, it is possible that the value of investments held by the Fund or the Fund’s investment strategies may be adversely affected.

The Fund’s investment performance will usually differ from the performance of other funds or accounts that are also advised by the Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates even in cases where the investment objectives and strategies of the relevant funds or accounts are similar. When managing multiple funds or accounts, the Fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates may make decisions with respect to investment positions held by certain funds or accounts that may cause the Fund to experience losses during periods in which other funds or accounts achieve gains. This may include causing another fund or account to take actions with respect to an issuer’s liquidation, restructuring, default or corporate actions that may conflict with the interests of the Fund. Similar conflicts may also arise when the Fund and other funds or accounts invest in different parts of an issuer’s capital structure, such as when the Fund holds equity or debt obligations of an issuer, and another fund or account holds more senior (or junior) debt obligations of the same issuer, or when the Fund and other funds or accounts hold securities of different issuers that have competing claims to the same assets or sources of payment. In such circumstances, decisions regarding whether to trigger an event of default, the terms of any potential workout or restructuring of a distressed issuer, liquidating or selling an investment, corporate actions, litigation or other investment decisions may, and often do, result in conflicts of interest. The Fund may receive lower returns on its investment in an issuer as a result of actions taken with respect to the same or related issuers by other investors, including other funds or accounts managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates.

The Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates may manage funds or accounts with different fee rates and/or fee structures, including funds or accounts that pay advisory fees based on account performance (“performance fee accounts”). Such differences in fee arrangements may raise potential conflicts of interest by creating an incentive to favor higher-fee accounts. For example, the investment adviser or its affiliates could potentially allocate the most attractive investments to higher-fee accounts or performance fee accounts, or the trading of higher-fee accounts could potentially be favored as to timing and/or execution price.

The investment adviser has adopted policies and procedures designed to mitigate where possible potential conflicts of interest identified by the investment adviser. However, such policies and procedures may also limit the Fund’s investment activities and affect its performance. For example, the investment activities of such funds or accounts may result in the investment adviser’s or its affiliates’ receipt of material non-public information concerning certain securities, which could lead to restrictions in the trading of such securities or other investment activities of the Fund or other funds or accounts managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates. In certain cases, the Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates may avoid certain investment opportunities or actions that would potentially give rise to conflicts with other funds or accounts, which could also have the effect of limiting the Fund’s investment opportunities and performance. In other cases, the Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates may choose not to or fail to avoid investment opportunities or action that would potentially give rise to conflicts with other funds or accounts, which could under certain circumstances disadvantage the Fund while advantaging other funds or accounts or vice versa.

The investment adviser and its affiliates may also face other potential conflicts of interest in managing the Fund, and the information above is not a complete description of every conflict that could be deemed to exist when simultaneously managing the Fund and other funds and accounts.

 

Derivatives Risk

Derivatives may be volatile and may involve significant risks. The underlying security, obligor or other instrument on which a derivative is based, or the derivative itself, may not perform as expected. For some derivatives, it is possible to lose more than the amount invested in the derivative investment. In addition, some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the Fund's initial investment. Certain derivative investments held by the Fund may be illiquid, making it difficult to close out an unfavorable position. Derivative transactions may require the payment of premiums and may increase portfolio turnover. Derivatives are subject to credit risk, since the Fund may lose money on a derivative investment if the issuer or counterparty fails to pay the amount due. As a result of these risks, the Fund could realize little or no income or lose money from the investment, or the use of a derivative for hedging might be unsuccessful.

In addition, under financial reform legislation currently being implemented, certain over-the-counter derivatives, including certain interest rate swaps and certain credit default swaps, are (or soon will be) required to be executed on a regulated market and/or cleared through a clearinghouse, which may result in increased margin requirements and costs for the Fund. It is unclear how these regulatory changes will affect counterparty risk, and entering into a derivative transaction that is cleared may entail further risks and costs, including the counterparty risk of the clearinghouse and the futures commission merchant through which the Fund accesses the clearinghouse.

Investments in Money Market Instruments

 

The Fund can invest its free cash balances in money market instruments to provide liquidity or for defensive purposes. Money market instruments are short-term, U.S. dollar-denominated debt instruments issued or guaranteed by domestic and foreign corporations and financial institutions, the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities and other entities. Money market instruments include certificates of deposit, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, treasury bills and other short term debt obligations that have a final maturity, as defined under rules under the Investment Company Act, of 397 days or less. They may have fixed, variable or floating interest rates. Money market instruments are subject to certain risks, including the risk that an issuer of an obligation that the Fund holds might have its credit rating downgraded or might default on its obligations, or that interest rates might rise sharply, causing the value of the Fund’s investments to fall.

 

The Fund may invest in money market instruments by investing in Class E shares of Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund. It may also invest in money market instruments directly, or in other affiliated or unaffiliated money market funds. The Fund may invest in such other money market funds, such as Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, rather than purchasing individual short-term investments. Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund is a registered open-end management investment company, regulated as a money market fund under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and is part of the Oppenheimer family of funds. At the time of an investment, the Fund cannot always predict what will be the yield of the Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, or any other money market fund it may hold, because of the wide variety of instruments that such fund may hold in its portfolio. The return on those investments may, in some cases, be lower than the return that would have been derived from other types of investments that would provide liquidity. As a shareholder, the Fund will be subject to its proportional share of the expenses of any other money market fund it may hold, including its advisory fee. However, the investment adviser will waive a portion of the Fund’s advisory fee to the extent of the Fund’s share of the advisory fee paid to the investment adviser by Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, or to any other similar affiliated money market fund of which the Fund is a shareholder. If the Fund invests in an unaffiliated money market fund, the Manager will not waive a portion of the Fund’s advisory fee representing.

 

Portfolio Holdings Information

Information about each Fund’s portfolio holdings is available at www.oppenheimerfunds.com. A summarized description of the Funds’ policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of each Fund’s portfolio holdings is available in the Funds’ Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).

 

Management of the Funds

The Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC (“VTL”), located at One Commerce Square, 2005 Market Street, Suite 2020, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, serves as the investment adviser to each Fund. As investment adviser, VTL has overall responsibility for the general management and administration of Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust (the “Trust”) and provides an investment program for each Fund. VTL also provides discretionary separate account management services to institutional clients as well as investment consulting services. As of March 16, 2017, VTL had approximately $1.973 billion in assets under discretionary management.

VTL’s contractual management fee, as a percentage of average net assets, is 0.29% for Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and 0.39% for Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF.

Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement, VTL is responsible for all expenses of each Fund, except the fee payment under the Agreement, distribution fees or expenses under the Fund’s 12b-1 plan (if any), interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, brokers’ commissions and any other portfolio transaction-related expenses and fees arising out of transactions effected on behalf of the Fund, credit facility fees and expenses, including interest expenses, and litigation and indemnification expenses and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s business.

OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (“OFDI” or “Distributor”) does not sell Shares directly to the retail public through the Exchange.

A discussion regarding the basis for the Board of Trustees’ initial approval of the investment advisory agreement between the Trust, on behalf of the Funds, and VTL will be available in the Trust’s Semi-Annual Report to Shareholders for the period ended December 31, 2017.

The Portfolio Managers

Each of the Funds' portfolios is managed by Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert, who are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of each Fund’s investments. Mr. Vallario has been a portfolio manager of each Fund since August 2017 and Mr. Reichert has been a portfolio manager of each Fund since its respective inception.

Mr. Vallario has been a Vice President of VTL since August 2017. Prior to joining VTL, Mr. Vallario was a portfolio manager at ColumbiaThreadneedle from September 2015 to June 2017. Mr. Vallario was an Executive Director, Quantitative Client Consultant, for Northeast Hedge Funds at MSCI, Inc. from April 2010 to September 2015. Mr. Vallario holds an M.B.A from Rutgers University and a B.S. from Lehigh University. Mr. Vallario is a portfolio manager of other portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Mr. Reichert has been a Vice President of VTL since December 2015. He was a portfolio manager of IMS from 2009 to 2015. Prior to joining IMS, Mr. Reichert worked in the Public Finance department at Janney Montgomery Scott, a mid-sized regional investment bank. Mr. Reichert graduated with a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) candidate. Mr. Reichert is a portfolio manager of other portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

The SAI provides additional information about each Portfolio Manager’s compensation, other accounts managed, and ownership of Shares in the Funds.

The Underlying Indexes

The Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor Index and the Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor Index, each an Underlying Index, are calculated and maintained by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider” or “Russell”). Since OppenheimerFunds, an affiliate of the investment adviser, provides the Signal to the Index Provider, OppenheimerFunds may be deemed a creator and sponsor of each Underlying Index. Each Underlying Index consists of one of four pre-determined factor configurations, with the factor configuration selected based on the Signal. The construction of an Underlying Index begins with securities listed in the either Russell 1000 Index or the Russell 2000 Index, as applicable. All constituents of the Russell 1000 Index are eligible for the Russell 1000 OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index. All constituents of the Russell 2000 Index are eligible for the Russell 2000 OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index.

 

The Underlying Indexes are rebalanced at the beginning of the month when the Signal changes, which may be as frequently as monthly, and reconstituted when the factor scores are recalculated by the Index Provider, which occurs semi-annually on the third Friday of the month in June and December with respect to the expansion and contraction factor configurations, and annually on the third Friday of the month in June with respect to the recovery and slowdown factor configurations. As a result, an Underlying Index will be both rebalanced and reconstituted in June, if the Signal changes in June, and in December, if the Signal changes to expansion or contraction in December. The FTSE Russell Global Factor Index Series, from which the factor configurations are derived, is a suite of benchmarks designed to represent the performance of specific factor characteristics. The FTSE Russell Global Factor Index Series includes, but is not limited to, the following single factors: low volatility, momentum, quality, size, and value. Multi-factor indexes seek increased exposure to stocks within a starting universe that possess combinations of specific factor characteristics (for example, size and value), thereby creating an index comprised of stocks demonstrating such factors. Each factor configuration consists of companies in the relevant starting universe selected based on a subset of the following investment style factors: low volatility, momentum, quality, size, and value. To determine which factor configuration is applicable, OppenheimerFunds uses a rules-based methodology to calculate the Signal based on certain leading economic indicators (for example, data regarding the volume of durable goods orders, or the number of private housing units authorized by building permits) and information regarding global risk appetite (as exhibited by certain global index prices). OppenheimerFunds provides the Signal to the Index Provider, which generates factor scores for each security in the Parent Index based on one of the following criteria:

 

Value. A company’s value factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of cash flow yield, earnings yield, and sales to price ratio, calculated based on the company’s total market capitalization and information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

 

Momentum. A company’s momentum factor score is based on historical total return over the 11 months ending on the last business day of the prior month.

 

Quality. A company’s quality factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of return on assets, change in asset turnover, accruals, and leverage, calculated based on information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

 

Low Volatility. A company’s volatility factor score is based on the standard deviation of weekly total returns to a company’s stock price over the trailing five years ending on the last business day of the prior month.

 

Size. A company’s size factor score is based on total market capitalization as of the last business day of the prior month.

 

During the calculation process, certain values that fall outside a fixed range are set to the minimum or maximum of the range, in order to standardize the resulting factor scores. Each security’s factor score is multiplied by the security’s weight in the Parent Index, and the resulting weights generate a broad factor index. Except with respect to the momentum factor, the broad factor index is then narrowed by a single security at a time to increase factor exposure, subject to the following restrictions, which seek to ensure that the overall diversification and liquidity of the narrow factor index remain within a certain range relative to the Parent Index:

 

Diversification. The “effective” number of securities is at least two-thirds the “effective” number of securities in the Parent Index. For example, an index holding three securities, one of which is weighted very heavily while the other two have very low weights, includes only one “effective” security.

 

Liquidity. The average security weight is less than or equal to two-and-a-half times the average security weight of the Parent Index.

 

The resulting narrow factor index (or, in the case of the momentum factor, the broad factor index) is then constrained to ensure that exposure to particular industries remains within approximately 20% of such exposure in the Parent Index. In addition, any security weights that are greater than twenty times the security’s weight in the Parent Index are set to twenty times the security’s weight in the Parent Index. Any security weights that are less than a certain de minimis amount are set to zero, and therefore excluded. The remaining security weights constitute the final Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is not required to hold a pre-determined minimum number of securities.

 

The Trust’s website, www.oppenheimerfunds.com/investors/funds/etf, describes the basic concept of each Underlying Index. Each business day, the website publishes, free of charge (or provides a link to another website that publishes free of charge), each Fund’s per share NAV, closing price and midpoint of the bid/ask spread as of the NAV calculation time, all as of the prior business day.

 

Each trading day, the value of each Underlying Index will be updated intra-day on a real time basis as individual component securities change in price. These intra-day values will be disseminated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day by organizations authorized by the Index Providers. Once each trading day, these organizations will disseminate values for each Underlying Index, based on closing prices in the relevant exchange market.

 

In the unlikely event that an Underlying Index is discontinued or otherwise becomes permanently unavailable, a Fund may consider substituting a different index or taking such other action as the Board of Trustees deems advisable.

 

Disclaimers

 

Each of the Russell 1000 OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index and Russell 2000 OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index (each, an “Index”) is a trademark of Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) and together have been licensed for use by VTL Associates, LLC and the Funds. The Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF (each, a “Licensed Fund”) are not in any way sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Russell, the London Stock Exchange Group companies (“LSEG”) or OFI (together the “Licensor Parties”) and none of the Licensor Parties make any claim, prediction, warranty or representation whatsoever, expressly or impliedly, either as to (i) the results to be obtained from the use of the Index (upon which the applicable Licensed Fund is based), (ii) the figure at which the Index is said to stand at any particular time on any particular day or otherwise, or (iii) the suitability of the Index for the purpose to which it is being put in connection with the applicable Licensed Fund. None of the Licensor Parties have provided or will provide any financial or investment advice or recommendation in relation to the Index to VTL Associates, LLC or to its clients. The Index is calculated by Russell or its agent. None of the Licensor Parties shall be (a) liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index or (b) under any obligation to advise any person of any error therein.

 

VTL Associates, LLC (“VTL”) and its affiliates may develop, own and operate stock market and other indexes (each, an “Index”) based on investment and trading strategies developed by VTL or its affiliates (“GSAM Strategies”). Some of the ETFs for which VTL or its affiliates act as investment adviser (the “VTL ETFs”) seek to track the performance of the Indexes. VTL may, from time to time, manage advisory accounts that invest in these VTL ETFs. In addition, VTL manages advisory accounts which track the same Indexes used by the VTL ETFs or which are based on the same, or substantially similar, VTL Strategies that are used in the operation of the Indexes and the VTL ETFs. The operation of the Indexes, the VTL ETFs and advisory accounts in this manner may give rise to potential conflicts of interest.

 

For example, VTL Accounts that track the same Indexes used by the VTL ETFs may engage in purchases and sales of securities prior to when the Index and the VTL ETFs engage in similar transactions because such advisory accounts may be managed and reconstituted and/or rebalanced on an ongoing basis, whereas the VTL ETFs’ portfolios are only reconstituted and/or rebalanced on a periodic basis corresponding with the rebalancing of the Index. These differences may result in the advisory accounts having more favorable performance relative to that of the Index and the VTL ETFs or other advisory accounts that track the Index. Other potential conflicts include the potential for unauthorized access to Index information, allowing Index changes that benefit VTL or other advisory accounts and not the investors in the VTL ETFs, and the manipulation of Index pricing to present the performance of VTL ETFs, or tracking ability, in a preferential light.

 

VTL has adopted policies and procedures that are designed to address potential conflicts that may arise in connection with VTL’s operation of the Indexes, the VTL ETFs and the advisory accounts. VTL has established certain information barriers and other policies to address the sharing of information between different businesses within VTL, including with respect to personnel responsible for maintaining the Indexes and those involved in decision-making for the VTL ETFs. In addition, as described in the Statement of Additional Information, VTL has adopted a code of ethics.

To the extent it is intended that an advisory account track an Index, the advisory account may not match, and may vary substantially from, the Index for any period of time. An advisory account that tracks an Index may purchase, hold and sell securities at times when a non-Index fund would not do so. VTL does not guarantee that any tracking error targets will be achieved. Advisory accounts tracking an Index may be negatively impacted by any errors in the Index, either as a result of calculation errors, inaccurate data sources or otherwise. VTL does not guarantee the timeliness, accuracy and/or completeness of an Index and VTL is not responsible for errors, omissions or interruptions in the Index (including when VTL or an affiliate acts as the Index provider) or the calculation thereof (including when VTL or an affiliate acts as the calculation agent).

Administrator, Custodian and Transfer Agent

The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNY Mellon”) located at One Wall Street, New York, New York 10286, is the administrator, custodian, transfer agent and securities lending agent for each Fund.

Distributor

OFDI is the principal underwriter and distributor of each Fund’s Shares. The Distributor will not distribute Shares in less than whole Creation Units, and it does not maintain a secondary market in the Shares. The Distributor is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

OFDI may make payments to broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries for services provided and expenses incurred in connection with the distribution, marketing and promotion of Shares, educational training programs, conferences, development of technology platforms and reporting systems, or making shares of the Funds available within platforms or to the sales force. These payments, which may be significant, will be made by OFDI, not from the assets of the Funds. Payments of the type described above are sometimes referred to as revenue-sharing or marketing payments. These payments may create conflicts of interest between the financial intermediary and its clients by incentivizing the financial intermediary to recommend the Funds. More information regarding these payments is contained in the Funds’ SAI.

Shareholder Information

Additional shareholder information is available free of charge by calling toll free: 1.800.CALL OPP (1-800.225.5677), or visiting the Funds’ website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

Buying and Selling Shares

Shares of the Funds will also be listed for trading in the secondary market on the Exchange, and most investors will buy and sell Shares of the Funds in secondary market transactions on the Exchange through brokers. Purchases and sales of Shares in quantities smaller than Creation Unit sizes may only be traded on the Exchange and may not be directly purchased from, or redeemed by, a Fund. Shares can be bought and sold on the Exchange throughout the trading day like other publicly traded shares. There is no minimum investment.

The Shares will be issued or redeemed by a Fund to Authorized Participants at NAV per share only in Creation Unit size. Investors may acquire Shares directly from each Fund, and shareholders may tender their Shares for redemption directly to each Fund, only in Creation Units of 50,000 Shares. See also “Creations, Redemptions and Transaction Fees” below.

Share prices are reported in dollars and cents per Share. Although Shares are generally purchased and sold in “round lots” of 100 shares, brokerage firms typically permit investors to purchase or sell Shares in smaller “odd lots,” at no per-share price differential. When buying or selling Shares through a broker in a secondary market exchange transaction, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offered price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction.

Book Entry

Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares, and DTC or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares of the Funds. Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a record owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other stocks that you hold in book entry or “street name” form.

Share Trading Prices

The trading prices of Shares of each Fund on the Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV and IIV and can be affected by market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors (see “Market Trading Risk” above).

The Exchange intends to disseminate the IIV, which is the “approximate value” of Shares of each Fund, every 15 seconds. The “approximate value” that is calculated by the Exchange will be based on the value of assets in the portfolio minus a budgeted liability amount and divided by the number of outstanding Shares. This “approximate value” is not related to the price that Shares are trading on the Exchange and is different from the NAV. The “approximate value” should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of the NAV per Share of the Fund because (i) the “approximate value” may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once a day, generally at the end of the business day, (ii) the calculation of NAV may be subject to fair valuation at different prices than those used in the calculations of the “approximate value,” (iii) unlike the calculation of NAV, the “approximate value” does not take into account Fund expenses, and (iv) the “approximate value” is based on the published basket of portfolio securities and not on the Fund’s actual holdings. The “approximate value” calculations are based on local market prices and may not reflect events that occur subsequent to the local market’s close, which could affect premiums and discounts between the “approximate value” and the market price of a Fund’s Shares. The Funds, VTL, and their affiliates are not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of the “approximate value” and the Funds, VTL, and their affiliates do not make any warranty as to its accuracy.

Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares

The Funds impose no restrictions on the frequency of purchases and redemptions. In determining not to approve a written, established policy, the Board of Trustees evaluated the risks of market timing activities by the Funds’ shareholders. The Board considered that, unlike traditional mutual funds, each Fund generally issues and redeems its Shares at NAV per Share for a basket of securities intended to mirror the Fund’s portfolio, plus a small amount of cash, and the Fund’s Shares may be purchased and sold on the Exchange at prevailing market prices. Given this structure, the Board determined that (a) it is unlikely that market timing would be attempted by the Funds’ shareholders and (b) it is likely that any attempts to market time a Fund by shareholders would result in no negative impact to the Fund or its shareholders.

Creations, Redemptions and Transaction Fees

Creation Units

Investors such as market makers, large investors and institutions who wish to deal in Creation Units directly with a Fund must enter into an Authorized Participant Agreement with the principal underwriter and the transfer agent, or purchase through a dealer that has entered into such an agreement. Set forth below is a brief description of the procedures applicable to the purchase and redemption of Creation Units. For more detailed information, see “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

Purchase

Each day, prior to the opening of trading, the Fund will designate through the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”), the names and number of shares of each security to be included in that day’s basket of securities constituting a substantial replication, or a representation, of the securities included in the relevant Fund’s Underlying Index (“Deposit Securities”). In order to purchase Creation Units of a Fund, an investor must generally deposit a designated portfolio of Deposit Securities and generally make a small cash payment referred to as the “Cash Component.” The Cash Component represents the difference between the NAV of a Creation Unit and the market value of the Deposit Securities.

Orders must be placed in proper form by or through an “Authorized Participant” that is either (i) a “Participating Party” i.e., a broker-dealer or other participant in the Clearing Process of the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC (the “Clearing Process”) or (ii) a participant of DTC (“DTC Participant”) that has entered into an agreement with the principal underwriter and the transfer agent with respect to purchases and redemptions of Creation Units. Orders are placed in “proper form” when the orders comply with the order processing procedures identified in the Authorized Participant Agreement for creation or redemption of Shares of the Funds. All orders must be placed for one or more whole Creation Units of Shares of a Fund and must be received by the principal underwriter in proper form no later than the close of regular trading on the Exchange (ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) (“Closing Time”) in order to receive that day’s closing NAV per Share. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders, are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit. In the case of custom orders, as further described in the SAI, the order must be received by the Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time. A “custom order” may be placed by an Authorized Participant in the event that the Trust permits or requires the substitution of an amount of cash to be added to the Cash Component to replace any deposit security, such as when a security may not be available in sufficient quantity for delivery or when a security may not be eligible for trading by such Authorized Participant or the investor for which it is acting. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

A creation transaction fee (the “Creation Transaction Fee”) is applicable to each transaction regardless of the number of Creation Units purchased in the transaction. An additional charge may be imposed with respect to custom order transactions effected outside of the Clearing Process (through a DTC Participant) or to the extent that cash is used in lieu of securities to purchase Creation Units through a custom order. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI. The price for each Creation Unit will equal the closing NAV per Share times the number of Shares in a Creation Unit plus the fees described above and, if applicable, any transfer taxes.

Shares of a Fund may be issued in advance of receipt of all Deposit Securities subject to various conditions, including a requirement to maintain on deposit with the Fund cash at least equal to 105% of the market value of the missing Deposit Securities. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

Legal Restrictions on Transactions in Certain Stocks

An investor subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular stock required to be deposited in connection with the purchase of a Creation Unit may, at a Fund’s discretion, be permitted to deposit an equivalent amount of cash in substitution for any stock that would otherwise be included in the Deposit Securities applicable to the purchase of a Creation Unit. Such legal restrictions would include, but would not be limited to, restrictions due to affiliated relationships, investment guidelines governing institutional investors or where the investor is an investment banking firm or broker-dealer restricted from holding shares of a company whose securities it recently underwrote. These transactions may involve the substitution of cash in lieu of securities, and purchasers may be subject to a transaction fee of up to four times the standard Creation Transaction Fee. For more details, see the “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” section in the SAI.

Redemption

Each Fund’s custodian makes available immediately prior to the opening of business of the Exchange each day, through the facilities of the NSCC, the list of the names and the numbers of shares of a Fund’s portfolio securities that will be applicable that day to redemption requests in proper form (“Fund Securities”). Fund Securities received on redemption may not be identical to Deposit Securities that are applicable to purchases of Creation Units if the Fund is rebalancing. Unless cash redemptions are available or specified for a particular Fund, the redemption proceeds consist of the Fund Securities, plus cash in an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of Shares being redeemed as next determined after receipt by the transfer agent of a redemption request in proper form, and the value of the Fund Securities (the “Cash Redemption Amount”), less the applicable Redemption Transaction Fee (as defined below) and, if applicable, any transfer taxes. Should the Fund Securities have a value greater than the NAV of Shares being redeemed, the redeeming shareholder will be required to arrange for a compensating cash payment to the Trust equal to the differential, plus the applicable Redemption Transaction Fee and, if applicable, any transfer taxes. For more details, see the “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” section in the SAI.

An order to redeem Creation Units of a Fund may only be effected by or through an Authorized Participant. An order to redeem must be placed for one or more whole Creation Units and must be received by the transfer agent in proper form no later than the Closing Time in order to receive that day’s closing NAV per Share. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders), are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit. In the case of custom orders, as further described in the SAI, the order must be received by the transfer agent no later than 3:00 p.m. Eastern time.

A redemption transaction fee (the “Redemption Transaction Fee”) is applicable to each redemption transaction regardless of the number of Creation Units redeemed in the transaction. An additional charge may be charged to approximate additional expenses incurred by the Trust with respect to redemptions effected outside of the Clearing Process (through a DTC Participant) or to the extent that redemptions are for cash. Each Fund reserves the right to effect redemptions in cash. A shareholder may request a cash redemption in lieu of securities; however, each Fund may, in its discretion, reject any such request. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

Dividends, Distributions and Taxes

As with any investment, you should consider how your investment in Shares will be taxed. The tax information in this Prospectus is provided as general information. You should consult your own tax professional about the tax consequences of an investment in Shares.

Unless your investment in Shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-deferred retirement account, such as an IRA plan, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when:

·Your Fund makes distributions,
·You sell your Shares listed on the Exchange, and
·You purchase or redeem Creation Units.

Dividends and Distributions

Dividends and Distributions. Each Fund has elected and intends to qualify to be treated each year as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code. As a regulated investment company, a Fund generally pays no federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes to you. Each Fund expects to declare and distribute all of its net investment income, if any, to shareholders as dividends quarterly. Each Fund will distribute net realized capital gains, if any, at least annually. A Fund may distribute such income dividends and capital gains more frequently, if necessary, in order to reduce or eliminate federal excise or income taxes on the Fund. The amount of any distribution will vary, and there is no guarantee a Fund will pay either an income dividend or a capital gains distribution. Distributions may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available.

Annual Statements. Each year, you will receive an annual statement (Form 1099) of your account activity to assist you in completing your federal, state and local tax returns. Distributions declared in October, November or December to shareholders of record in such month, but paid in January, are taxable as if they were paid in December. The Funds make every effort to search for reclassified income to reduce the number of corrected forms mailed to shareholders. However, when necessary, you will receive a corrected Form 1099 to reflect reclassified information.

Avoid “Buying a Dividend.” At the time you purchase your Shares, the price of shares may reflect undistributed income, undistributed capital gains, or net unrealized appreciation in value of portfolio securities held by the Fund. For taxable investors, a subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable. Buying Shares in a Fund just before it declares an income dividend or capital gains distribution is sometimes known as “buying a dividend.”

Taxes

Fund Distributions. Each Fund expects, based on its investment objective and strategies, that its distributions, if any, will be taxable as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both. This is true whether you reinvest your distributions in additional Shares or receive them in cash. For federal income tax purposes, Fund distributions of short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. Fund distributions of net capital gains that are properly reported by the Fund as capital gains dividends are taxable to you as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have owned your Shares. A portion of income dividends reported by a Fund may be qualified dividend income eligible for taxation to individual shareholders at long-term capital gain rates provided certain holding period and other requirements are met at both the shareholder and Fund levels.

If a Fund qualifies to pass through to you the tax benefits from foreign taxes it pays on its investments, and elects to do so, then any foreign taxes it pays on these investments may be passed through to you to be used as a foreign tax credit or deduction.

Taxes on Exchange-Listed Share Sales. A sale or exchange of Shares is a taxable event and, accordingly, a capital gain or loss may be recognized. Any capital gain or loss realized upon a sale of Shares generally is treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less. Your ability to deduct capital losses may be limited.

Medicare Tax. An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount. This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.

Backup Withholding. By law, if you do not provide your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding on any distributions of income, capital gains or proceeds from the sale of your Shares. Withholding is also imposed if the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) requires it. When withholding is required, the amount will be 28% of any distributions or proceeds paid.

State and Local Taxes. Fund distributions and gains from the sale or exchange of your Shares generally are subject to state and local taxes.

Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units. An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of purchase and the exchanger’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered and the Cash Component paid. A person who exchanges Creation Units for equity securities generally will recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanger’s basis in the Creation Units and the aggregate market value of the securities received and the Cash Redemption Amount. The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales,” or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether the wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.

Any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less.

If a Fund redeems Creation Units in cash, it may recognize more capital gains than it would if it redeemed Creation Units in-kind.

Non-U.S. Investors. Non-U.S. investors may be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a 30% or lower treaty rate and are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements to avoid backup withholding or claim any treaty benefits. An exemption from U.S. withholding tax is permitted for distributions by a Fund to certain non-U.S. investors that are properly reported by the Fund as (1) capital gain dividends paid by a Fund from net capital gains, (2) short-term capital gain dividends paid from net short-term capital gains in excess of net long-term capital losses, and (3) interest-related dividends paid by a Fund from its qualified net interest income from U.S. sources. However, notwithstanding such exemptions from U.S. withholding at the source, any such dividends and distributions of income and capital gains, including the proceeds from the sale of your Shares, will be subject to backup withholding at a rate of 28% if you fail to properly certify that you are not a U.S. person.

Under legislation known as “FATCA” (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), ordinary dividends the Fund pays and, after December 31, 2018, the gross proceeds of share redemptions and certain capital gains dividends it pays to “foreign financial institutions” and certain other foreign entities will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% unless various certification, information reporting, due diligence and other applicable requirements (different from, and in addition to, those described above) are satisfied. In general, no such withholding will occur with respect to a U.S. person or non-U.S. individual that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-9 or IRS Form W-8BEN, respectively. No such withholding will occur with respect to a non-U.S. entity that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or other applicable Form W-8) indicating the entity’s compliance with, or exemption from, FATCA. Payments that are taken into account as effectively connected income are not subject to these withholding rules. Foreign shareholders should consult their own tax advisors as to the applicability and consequences of this legislation to them.

This discussion of “Dividends, Distributions and Taxes” is not intended or written to be used as tax advice. Because everyone’s tax situation is unique, you should consult your tax professional about federal, state, local or foreign tax consequences before making an investment in a Fund

Premium/Discount Information

NAV is the price per share at which a Fund issues and redeems Shares, and is calculated as described in the section of this Prospectus entitled “Net Asset Value.” The “Market Price” of a Fund generally is the market closing price on the Exchange on which a Fund is listed for trading. A Fund’s Market Price may be at, above or below its NAV. The NAV of a Fund will fluctuate with changes in the market value of its portfolio holdings. The Market Price of a Fund will fluctuate in accordance with market supply and demand.

Premiums or discounts are the differences (generally expressed as a percentage) between the NAV and Market Price of a Fund on a given day, generally at the time NAV is calculated. A premium is the amount that a Fund’s Market Price is trading above the reported NAV, expressed as a percentage of the NAV. A discount is the amount that a Fund’s Market Price is trading below the reported NAV, expressed as a percentage of the NAV.

Information showing the differences between the per share NAV of each Fund and the daily market prices on secondary markets for Shares of each Fund is available by visiting the Funds’ website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

Other Information

Distribution Plan

OFDI acts in a principal capacity as general distributor for the sale and distribution of Creation Units for each Fund. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares.

The Board of Trustees of the Trust has adopted a Distribution and Service Plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). In accordance with the Plan, each Fund is authorized to pay an amount up to 0.25% of its average daily net assets each year to finance any activity primarily intended to result in the sale of Creation Units of each Fund or the provision of investor services, including but not limited to: (i) delivering copies of the current prospectus to prospective purchasers of Creation Units; (ii) marketing and promotional services, including advertising; (iii) facilitating communications with beneficial owners of Shares of the Funds; and (iv) such other services and obligations as may be set forth in the Distribution Agreement with the Distributor.

The Board has not authorized the Funds to pay the fees under the Plan at this time. However, in the event such fees are authorized in the future, because these fees are paid out of each Fund’s assets, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than certain other types of sales charges.

Net Asset Value

The trading price of a Fund’s Shares on the Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV and can be affected by market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors. BNY Mellon calculates each Fund’s NAV at the close of regular trading (ordinarily 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) every day the New York Stock Exchange is open (“Business Day”), except in the case of a scheduled early closing of the New York Stock Exchange, in which case the NAV will be calculated based on the value of the Fund's portfolio determined as of the New York Stock Exchange’s scheduled early closing time. NAV is calculated by deducting all of a Fund’s liabilities from the total value of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. All valuations are subject to review by the Trust’s Board of Trustees or its delegate.

In determining NAV, expenses are accrued and applied daily and securities and other assets for which market quotations are available are valued at market value. Generally, common stocks and other equity securities (ADRs, GDRs, EDRs and Global Shares) are valued at the closing price that day.

When price quotes are not readily available or the value normally obtained for it, such as from a pricing service, is not reliable when the Fund’s NAV is to be calculated, VTL will determine a fair value for the asset in good faith pursuant to valuation procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees and will incorporate that fair value in its NAV calculation. These fair value determinations are intended to reflect values for the Fund’s assets that VTL and the Board of Trustees believe to be more reliable. However, the Fund’s fair value determinations involve subjective judgments and there can be no assurance that the Fund will receive the fair value assigned to a security if it were to sell the security. Fair value determinations are subject to review, approval or ratification by the Board at or prior to its next scheduled meeting after the fair valuations are determined. In addition, fair valuation may be necessary where there are no securities trading in a particular country or countries on a Business Day. A Fund’s NAV may not reflect changes in valuations on certain securities that occur at times or on days on which the Fund’s NAV is not calculated and on which the Fund does not transact sales, redemptions and exchanges of its Shares, such as when trading takes place in countries on days that are not a Business Day.

The Board has delegated the day-to-day responsibility for fair value determinations to VTL who has established a valuation committee to oversee those responsibilities. In determining whether a value is not readily available or reliable, VTL monitors the information it receives in the ordinary course of its investment management responsibilities to identify significant events that VTL believes, in good faith, will affect the value of the investment. Those may include, but are not limited to, information or events affecting or related to specific issuers, securities, or markets; consideration of recent transactions in comparable securities; price movements in futures contracts, appropriate market indices, ADRs or exchange-traded funds; the bid/ask quotes of brokers; or other market or trading trends or information. Valuing a Fund’s investments using fair value pricing will result in using prices for those investments that may differ from published market valuations. Use of fair value prices could result in a difference between the prices used to calculate a Fund’s NAV and the published prices used by the Underlying Index, which, in turn, could result in a difference between a Fund’s performance and the performance of a Fund’s Underlying Index. Fair value pricing involves subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value determined for a security will be materially different than the value that could be realized upon the sale of that security.

Foreign securities, currencies and other assets denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate of such currencies against the U.S. dollar deemed appropriate by a Fund. Use of a rate different from the rate used by the Underlying Index may adversely affect a Fund’s ability to track the Underlying Index.

Additional Notices

Other Investment Companies

For purposes of the 1940 Act, each Fund is treated as a registered investment company and the acquisition of Shares by other investment companies is subject to the restrictions of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act. Registered investment companies are permitted to invest in Shares of each Fund beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust (the “Order”), including that such registered investment companies enter into a participation agreement with the Trust.

Continuous Offering

The method by which Creation Units of Shares are created and traded may raise certain issues under applicable federal securities laws. Because new Shares may be created and issued on an ongoing basis, at any point during the life of a Fund, a “distribution,” as that term is used in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), may be occurring. Any individuals considered to be statutory underwriters with regard to a distribution are subject to prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act. Therefore, broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part, depending on the circumstances, may result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner that could render such broker-dealers or other persons statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act. Any determination of whether a person is an underwriter must take into account all the relevant facts and circumstances of each particular case.

Broker-dealer firms should also note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted to ordinary secondary market transactions) are generally required to deliver a prospectus. This is because the current prospectus delivery exemption in the Securities Act does not apply to these transactions. Certain other requirements must also be satisfied with regard to delivery of prospectuses to exchange members in transactions on a national securities exchange. For more information, see “Exchange Listing and Trading-Continuous Offering” in the SAI.

Counsel and Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Ropes & Gray LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.

Cohen & Company, Ltd. (“Cohen”), 1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800, Cleveland, OH 44115, serves as independent registered public accounting firm of the Trust. Cohen audits the Funds’ financial statements and performs other related tax and audit services.

 

 

Financial Highlights

No financial information is presented for the Funds, as the Funds had not commenced investment operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Information and Services

Statement of Additional Information. This document includes additional information about the Funds’ investment policies, risks, and operations. It is incorporated by reference into this prospectus (it is legally part of this prospectus).

Annual and Semi-Annual Reports. The Funds’ Annual and Semi-Annual Reports will provide additional information about the Funds’ investments and performance. The Annual Report will include a discussion of market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected each Fund’s performance during its last fiscal year.

How to Request More Information

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

Telephone: Call OppenheimerFunds Services toll-free:
  1.800.CALL OPP (1.800.225.5677)
Mail: Use the following address for regular mail:
  OppenheimerFunds Services
P.O. Box 5270
Denver, Colorado 80217-5270
   
  Use the following address for courier or express mail:
  OppenheimerFunds Services
12100 East Iliff Avenue
Suite 300
Aurora, Colorado 80014
Internet: You may request documents, and read or download certain documents at
  www.oppenheimerfunds.com

 

Information about the Trust including the Statement of Additional Information can be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1.202.551.8090. Reports and other information about the Trust are available on the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies may be obtained after payment of a duplicating fee by electronic request at the SEC’s e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov or by writing to the SEC’s Public Reference Section, Washington, D.C. 20549-1520.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust

Statement of Additional Information

Dated October 18, 2017

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust (the “Trust”) is an open-end management investment company that currently offers shares in separate and distinct series, representing separate portfolios of investments (each individually referred to as a “Fund,” and collectively referred to as the “Funds”), each of which has its own investment objective. This Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) relates solely to the following portfolios:

  Cusip Bats BZX Exchange, Inc.
Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF

68386C 724

 

OMFL

 

Oppenheimer Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF

68386C 112

 

OMFS

 

 

VTL Associates, LLC (“VTL” or “Management”) serves as the investment adviser to each Fund.

This SAI is not a prospectus and should be read only in conjunction with the Funds’ current Prospectus, dated October 18, 2017. Copies of the Prospectus and the Annual Report for the Funds, when available, may be obtained by calling the Trust directly at 1.800.CALL OPP (1.800.225.5677) or visiting the Funds’ website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com. The Prospectus contains more complete information about the Funds. You should read it carefully before investing.

Not FDIC Insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

Table of Contents  
1 General Information About The Trust To Summary Prospectus
1 Exchange Listing and Trading Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
2 Investment Strategies
4 Investment Restrictions Oppenheimer Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF
5 Management of the Trust
16

Investment Advisory, Principal Underwriting and

Other Service Arrangements

 
19 Portfolio Transactions and Brokerage Commissions  
20 Portfolio Turnover  
20 Capital Stock and Other Securities  
21 Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations  
36 Taxes  
46 Determination of Net Asset Value  
46 Dividends and Distributions  
47 Financial Statements  
48 Appendix A  

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRUST

The Trust is a Delaware statutory trust organized on December 15, 2006. The Trust is an open-end management investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). The Trust currently offers shares (“Shares”) of separate series representing separate portfolios of investments. Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF are non-diversified series of the Trust.

The Funds offer and issue Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in aggregations of a specified number of Shares (each a “Creation Unit” or a “Creation Unit Aggregation”), generally in exchange for (1) a portfolio of equity securities constituting a substantial replication, or representation, of the stocks included in the relevant Fund’s corresponding benchmark index (“Deposit Securities”) and (2) a cash payment referred to as the “Cash Component.”

The Funds’ Shares are listed on Bats BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and trade at market prices. The market price for a Fund’s Shares may be different from its NAV. Shares are redeemable only in Creation Unit Aggregations and, generally, in exchange for portfolio securities and a specified cash payment. Creation Units are aggregations of 50,000 Shares. In the event of the liquidation of a Fund, the Trust may lower the number of Shares in a Creation Unit.

The Trust reserves the right to offer a “cash” option for creations and redemptions of Fund Shares. Fund Shares may be issued in advance of receipt of Deposit Securities subject to various conditions, including a requirement to maintain on deposit with the Trust cash at least equal to 105% of the market value of the missing Deposit Securities. See the “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” section of this SAI. In each instance of such full cash creations or redemptions, the transaction fees imposed may be greater than the transaction fees associated with in-kind creations or redemptions. In all cases, such fees will be limited in accordance with the requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) applicable to management investment companies offering redeemable securities.

EXCHANGE LISTING AND TRADING

There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of Shares of each Fund will continue to be met. The Exchange may, but is not required to, remove the Shares of a Fund from listing if (i) following the initial 12-month period beginning upon the commencement of trading of a Fund, there are fewer than 50 beneficial holders of the Shares for 30 or more consecutive trading days, (ii) the value of the underlying index on which a Fund is based is no longer calculated or available, (iii) the “approximate value” of a Fund, as described in “Share Trading Prices” of the Prospectus, is no longer calculated or available, or (iv) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist that, in the opinion of the Exchange, makes further dealings on the Exchange inadvisable. The Exchange will remove the Shares of a Fund from listing and trading upon termination of such Fund.

As in the case of other stocks traded on the Exchange, brokers’ commissions on transactions will be based on negotiated commission rates at customary levels. Negotiated commission rates only apply to investors who will buy and sell Shares of the Funds in secondary market transactions through brokers on the Exchange and does not apply to investors such as market makers, large investors and institutions who wish to deal in Creation Units directly with a Fund.

The Trust reserves the right to adjust the price levels of the Shares in the future to help maintain convenient trading ranges for investors. Any adjustments would be accomplished through stock splits or reverse stock splits, which would have no effect on the net assets of each Fund.

Continuous Offering

Broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner that could render them statutory underwriters and subject to these requirements. For more detailed information see “Continuous Offering” in the Prospectus. Firms that incur a prospectus delivery obligation with respect to Shares are reminded that, under Rule 153 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), a prospectus delivery obligation under Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act owed to an exchange member in connection with a sale on the Exchange is satisfied by the fact that the prospectus is available at the Exchange upon request. The prospectus delivery mechanism provided in Rule 153 is only available with respect to transactions on an exchange.

 

INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

In addition to the fundamental investment restrictions described below under “Investment Restrictions,” and the principal investment policies described in the Funds’ Prospectus, each Fund is subject to the following investment strategies, which are considered non-fundamental and may be changed by the Board of Trustees without shareholder approval. Not every Fund will invest in all of the types of securities and financial instruments that are listed.

Cash and Short-Term Investments

A Fund may invest a portion of its assets, for cash management purposes, in short-term debt securities (including repurchase agreements) of corporations, the U.S. government and its agencies and instrumentalities, and banks and finance companies.

A Fund may invest a portion of its assets in shares issued by money market mutual funds for cash management purposes. A Fund also may invest in collective investment vehicles that are managed by an unaffiliated investment manager pending investment of the Fund’s assets in portfolio securities.

Loans of Portfolio Securities

A Fund may lend its portfolio securities to qualified broker-dealers and financial institutions pursuant to agreements, provided: (1) the loan is secured continuously by collateral marked-to-market daily and maintained in an amount at least equal to the current market value of the securities loaned; (2) the Fund may call the loan at any time and receive the securities loaned; (3) the Fund will receive any interest or dividends paid on the loaned securities; and (4) the aggregate market value of securities loaned will not at any time exceed 33 1/3% of the total assets of the Fund. Collateral will consist of U.S. and non-U.S. securities, cash equivalents or irrevocable letters of credit. As with other extensions of credit, there are risks of delay in recovery or even loss of rights in collateral in the event of default or insolvency of a borrower of a Fund’s portfolio securities. There is also a risk that a Fund may not be able to recall securities while they are on loan in time to vote proxies related to those securities.

Borrowing

Pursuant to Section 18(f)(1) of the 1940 Act, a Fund may not issue any class of senior security or sell any senior security of which it is the issuer, except that a Fund shall be permitted to borrow from any bank so long as immediately after such borrowings, there is an asset coverage of at least 300% and that in the event such asset coverage falls below this percentage, the Fund shall reduce the amount of its borrowings, within three days, to an extent that the asset coverage shall be at least 300%.

Illiquid Securities

A Fund may not invest more than 15% of its net assets in securities which it cannot sell or dispose of in the ordinary course of business within seven days at approximately the value at which the Fund has valued the investment.

Repurchase Agreements

When a Fund enters into a repurchase agreement, it purchases securities from a bank or broker-dealer, which simultaneously agrees to repurchase the securities at a mutually agreed upon time and price, thereby determining the yield during the term of the agreement. As a result, a repurchase agreement provides a fixed rate of return insulated from market fluctuations during the term of the agreement. The term of a repurchase agreement generally is short, possibly overnight or for a few days, although it may extend over a number of months (up to one year) from the date of delivery. Repurchase agreements are considered under the 1940 Act to be collateralized loans by a Fund to the seller secured by the securities transferred to the Fund. Repurchase agreements will be fully collateralized and the collateral will be marked-to-market daily. A Fund may not enter into a repurchase agreement having more than seven days remaining to maturity if, as a result, such agreement, together with any other illiquid securities held by the Fund, would exceed 15% of the value of the net assets of the Fund.

To the extent that repurchase agreements are considered to be loans, a Fund will not invest in repurchase agreements if, together with any other loans, more than 33 1/3% of its total assets would be lent to other persons, including other investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder which may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC.

 

Futures

Each Fund may enter into futures contracts. When a Fund purchases a futures contract, it agrees to purchase a specified underlying instrument at a specified future date. When a Fund sells a futures contract, it agrees to sell the underlying instrument at a future date. The price at which the purchase and sale will take place is fixed when the Fund enters into the contract. Futures can be held until their delivery dates, or can be closed out before then if a liquid secondary market is available.

When a Fund enters into a futures transaction, it must deliver to the futures commission merchant selected by the Fund an amount referred to as the “initial margin.” This amount is maintained either with the futures commission merchant or in a segregated account at the Funds’ custodian bank. Thereafter, a “variation margin” may be paid by the Fund to, or drawn by the Fund from, such account in accordance with controls set for such accounts, depending upon changes in the price of the underlying securities subject to the futures contract. A Fund also may effect futures transactions through futures commission merchants that are affiliated with the Funds’ investment adviser or its affiliates, or the Fund in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board. While futures contracts provide for the delivery of securities, deliveries usually do not occur. Contracts are generally terminated by entering into offsetting transactions.

Regulatory Aspects of Derivatives and Hedging Instruments

As a result of amendments to rules under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), the investment adviser must either operate within certain guidelines and restrictions with respect to each Fund’s use of futures, options on such futures, commodity options and certain swaps, or be subject to registration with the CFTC as a “commodity pool operator” (“CPO”) with respect to the Fund, and, upon the finalization of additional CFTC rules, be required to operate the Fund in compliance with certain disclosure, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements. Previously, the CFTC permitted unlimited futures transactions and options thereon, so long as a fund had claimed an exclusion from registration as a CPO, and swap contracts were not formerly regulated by the CFTC. Under the amended rules, the investment adviser of a registered investment company may claim an exemption from registration as a CPO only if the registered investment company that it advises uses futures contracts, options on such futures, commodity options and certain swaps solely for “bona fide hedging purposes,” or limits its use of such instruments for non-bona fide hedging purposes to certain de minimis amounts. The investment adviser currently intends to limit and monitor, consistent with internal compliance procedures, the Fund’s use of futures in order to permit the Fund to continue to claim an exemption under the CFTC rules. As such, with respect to the management of the Fund, the investment adviser will not be subject to the disclosure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements under the CFTC rules.

Investment Company Securities

Securities of other investment companies may be acquired by a Fund to the extent that such purchases are consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and restrictions and are permitted under the 1940 Act. The 1940 Act requires that, as determined immediately after a purchase is made, (i) not more than 5% of the value of a Fund’s total assets will be invested in the securities of any one investment company, (ii) not more than 10% of the value of a Fund’s total assets will be invested in securities of investment companies as a group and (iii) not more than 3% of the outstanding voting stock of any one investment company will be owned by a Fund. Certain exceptions to these limitations may apply, and the Funds may be able to rely on any future applicable SEC rules or orders that provide exceptions to these limitations. As a shareholder of another investment company, a Fund would bear, along with other shareholders, the Fund’s pro rata portion of the other investment company’s expenses, including advisory fees. These expenses would be in addition to the expenses that a Fund would bear in connection with its own operations.

Segregated Assets

When engaging in transactions that could be deemed to create a “senior security” under Section 18 of the 1940 Act, as interpreted by the SEC and its staff, a Fund will cause its administrator or custodian to earmark cash, U.S. government securities or other liquid portfolio securities, which shall be unencumbered and marked-to-market daily. Any such assets and securities designated by the custodian on its records are referred to in this SAI as “Segregated Assets.” Such Segregated Assets shall be maintained in accordance with pertinent positions of the SEC.

Cybersecurity Risk

With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet and the dependence on computer systems to perform necessary business functions, the Funds may be prone to operational and informational security risks resulting from breaches in cyber security (“cyber-attacks”). A cyber-attack refers to both intentional and unintentional events that may cause a Fund to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption, or lose operational capacity. Cyber-attacks include, but are not limited to, infection by computer viruses or other malicious software code, gaining unauthorized access to systems, networks, or devices that are used to service the Funds’ operations through “hacking” or other means for the purpose of misappropriating assets or sensitive information, corrupting data, or causing operational disruption. Cyber-attacks may also be carried out in a manner that does not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service attacks on the Funds’ website (i.e., efforts to make network services unavailable to intended users). In addition, authorized persons could inadvertently or intentionally release confidential or proprietary information stored on the Funds’ systems.

Cyber security failures or breaches by the Funds’ affiliates or service providers, may cause disruptions and impact the business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses to both the Funds and shareholders, the inability of fund shareholders to transact business and the mutual funds to process transactions, inability to calculate a Fund’s net asset value, impediments to trading, violations of applicable privacy and other laws (including the release of private shareholder information), regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. In addition, substantial costs may be incurred in attempting to prevent any cyber incidents in the future. While the investment adviser has policies and procedures (and risk management systems) designed to prevent or reduce the impact of such cyber-attacks, there are inherent limitations in such controls, systems and protocols, including the possibility that certain risks have not been identified, as well as the rapid development of new threats. These cyber security risks are also present for issuers of securities in which the Funds invest, which could result in material adverse consequences for such issuers, and may cause a Fund’s investments in such securities to lose value and may result in financial loss for Fund shareholders.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

The investment restrictions set forth below are fundamental policies and may not be changed as to a Fund without the approval of a majority of the outstanding voting securities (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Fund. Except with respect to borrowing, and unless otherwise indicated, all percentage limitations listed below apply to a Fund only at the time of the transaction. Accordingly, if a percentage restriction is adhered to at the time of investment, a later increase or decrease in the percentage that results from a relative change in values or from a change in a Fund’s total assets will not be considered a violation. Each Fund may not:

(i)               Borrow money, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder that may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC.

(ii)             Act as an underwriter, except to the extent the Fund may be deemed to be an underwriter when disposing of securities it owns or when selling its own shares.

(iii)           Make loans if, as a result, more than 33 1/3% of its total assets would be lent to other persons, including other investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder which may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC. This limitation does not apply to (i) the lending of portfolio securities, (ii) the purchase of debt securities, other debt instruments, loan participations and/or engaging in direct corporate loans in accordance with its investment goals and policies, and (iii) repurchase agreements to the extent the entry into a repurchase agreement is deemed to be a loan.

(iv)            Purchase or sell real estate unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments and provided that this restriction does not prevent the Fund from (i) purchasing or selling securities or instruments secured by real estate or interests therein, securities or instruments representing interests in real estate or securities or instruments of issuers that invest, deal or otherwise engage in transactions in real estate or interests therein and (ii) making, purchasing or selling real estate mortgage loans.

(v)             Issue senior securities, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder that may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC.

(vi)            Invest 25% or more of the Fund’s net assets in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries (other than securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities or securities of other investment companies), except that a Fund may invest 25% or more of its net assets in securities of issuers in the same industry to approximately the same extent that the Fund’s corresponding index concentrates in the securities of a particular industry or group of industries. Accordingly, if the Fund’s corresponding index stops concentrating in the securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund will also discontinue concentrating in such securities.

(vii)          Purchase or sell physical commodities, unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments, and provided that this restriction does not prevent the Fund from (i) purchasing or selling securities of companies that purchase or sell commodities or invest in commodities; (ii) engaging in any transaction involving currencies, options, forwards, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, swaps, hybrid instruments or other derivatives; or (iii) investing in securities, or transacting in other instruments, that are linked to or secured by physical or other commodities.

Non-Fundamental Restrictions. The Funds’ Board of Trustees can change non-fundamental policies without shareholder approval. However, shareholders will be given 60 days’ notice of changes to non-fundamental policies, and significant changes to investment policies will be described in supplements or updates to the Prospectus or this SAI, as appropriate. Each Fund has the following additional operating policy that is not “fundamental”:

Each Fund cannot invest in the securities of other registered investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on subparagraph (F) or (G) of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act.

The following is only a brief summary of certain current limitations imposed on investment companies by the 1940 Act and certain rules and interpretations thereunder, and is not a complete description of such limits. The discussion below is based on current law, regulations and administrative interpretations. Those laws, regulations and administrative interpretations may be changed by legislative, judicial, or administrative action, sometimes with retroactive effect.

 

The 1940 Act prohibits a fund from issuing “senior securities,” which are generally defined as fund obligations that have a priority over the fund’s shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of fund assets, except that the fund may borrow money as described above.

 

Currently, under the 1940 Act, a fund may borrow only from banks and/or affiliated investment companies in an amount up to one-third of its total assets (including the amount borrowed less all liabilities and indebtedness other than borrowing), except that a fund may borrow up to 5% of its total assets from any person for temporary purposes. Under the 1940 Act, there is a rebuttable presumption that a loan is temporary if it is repaid within 60 days and not extended or renewed. Under the 1940 Act, a fund currently cannot make any commitment as an underwriter, if immediately thereafter the amount of its outstanding underwriting commitments, plus the value of its investments in securities of issuers (other than investment companies) of which it owns more than ten percent of the outstanding voting securities, exceeds twenty-five percent of the value of the fund’s total assets, except to the extent that a fund may be considered an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act when reselling securities held in its own portfolio.

 

The 1940 Act does not prohibit a fund from owning real estate, commodities or contracts related to commodities. The extent to which the Fund can invest in real estate and/or commodities or contracts related to commodities is set out in the investment strategies described in the Prospectus and this SAI. Current SEC staff interpretations under the 1940 Act prohibit a fund from lending more than one-third of its total assets, except through the purchase of debt obligations or the use of repurchase agreements.

 

The 1940 Act does not define what constitutes “concentration” in an industry. However, the SEC has taken the position that investment of more than 25% of a fund’s assets in issuers in the same industry constitutes concentration in that industry. The SEC permits this restriction to be based on total assets. This limit does not apply to securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies and instrumentalities; however, securities issued by any one foreign government are considered to be part of a single “industry.” For the purposes of compliance with its concentration policy, each Fund will consider portfolio investments held by underlying investment companies in which the Fund invests, to the extent that the Fund has sufficient information about such portfolio investments.

 

MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST

The Trust is governed by a Board of Trustees, which is responsible for overseeing the Trust. The Board is led by Robert J. Malone, a trustee who is not an “interested person” of the Trust, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act (an “Independent Trustee”). The Board meets periodically throughout the year to oversee the Trust’s activities, including to review its performance, oversee potential conflicts that could affect the Trust, and review the actions of the investment adviser. With respect to its oversight of risk, the Board, through its committees, relies on reports and information received from various parties, including the investment adviser, internal auditors, the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer, the Trust’s outside auditors and Fund counsel. It is important to note that, despite the efforts of the Board and of the various parties that play a role in the oversight of risk, it is likely that not all risks will be identified or mitigated.

The Board has an Audit Committee, a Review Committee and a Governance Committee. Each of the Committees is comprised solely of Independent Trustees. The Board has determined that its leadership structure is appropriate in light of the characteristics and circumstances of the Trust because it allocates areas of responsibility among the committees in a manner that enhances the Board’s oversight.

Because the Fund has not yet completed its first fiscal year of operations, there is no information regarding the number of Audit Committee, Review Committee or Governance Committee meetings during the last fiscal year.

The members of the Audit Committee are Karen L. Stuckey (Chairman), Andrew J. Donohue, F. William Marshall, Jr. and James D. Vaughn. Subject to the ratification of the Board and shareholders (if applicable), the Audit Committee is responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of the independent certified public accountants and auditors of each Fund or registered public accounting firm (also referred to as the “independent Auditors”) for the purpose of preparing or issuing audit reports and for all other services provided by the independent Auditors. Other main functions of the Audit Committee, outlined in the Audit Committee Charter, include, but are not limited to: (i) reviewing the scope and results of financial statement audits and the audit fees charged; (ii) reviewing reports from the Trust’s independent Auditors regarding the Trust’s internal accounting procedures and controls; (iii) reviewing reports regarding Fund operations that relate to accounting and financial reporting from Management’s Internal Audit Department; (iv) maintaining a direct line of communication and meeting with the Trust’s independent Auditors at least annually; (v) reviewing the independence of the Trust’s independent Auditors; and (vi) approving in advance the provision of any audit and/or non-audit services by the Trust’s independent Auditors, including tax services, that are not prohibited by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, to the Trust, the investment adviser and certain affiliates of the investment adviser. The Audit Committee also reviews and considers the valuation of portfolio investments, including the procedures for the determination of the fair value of any such investments that do not have readily available market quotations.

The members of the Review Committee are Victoria J. Herget (Chairman), Jon S. Fossel, Richard F. Grabish and Beverly L. Hamilton. Among other duties, as set forth in the Review Committee’s Charter, the Review Committee reviews Fund performance and expenses, as well as oversees several of the Trust’s principal service providers and certain policies and procedures of the Trust. The Review Committee also reviews certain reports from and meets periodically with the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer.

The members of the Governance Committee are Richard F. Grabish (Chairman), Jon S. Fossel, Beverly L. Hamilton, Karen L. Stuckey and James D. Vaughn. The Governance Committee has adopted a charter setting forth its duties and responsibilities. Among other duties, the Governance Committee reviews and oversees Trust governance and the nomination of Trustees, including Independent Trustees. The Governance Committee has adopted a process for shareholder submission of recommendations for Trustee nominees. Shareholders may submit such recommendations for the Governance Committee’s consideration by mail to the Governance Committee in care of the Trust. Such recommendations should be accompanied by, at a minimum, (i) the name, address, and business, educational, and/or other pertinent background information of the person being recommended; (ii) a statement concerning whether the person is an “interested person” as defined in the 1940 Act; (iii) any other information that the Funds would be required to include in a proxy statement concerning the person if he or she was nominated; and (iv) the name and address of the person submitting the recommendation and, if that person is a shareholder, the period for which that person held Fund shares. The recommendation also can include any additional information which the person submitting it believes would assist the Governance Committee in evaluating the recommendation. The Governance Committee has not established specific qualifications that it believes must be met by a Trustee nominee. In evaluating Trustee nominees, the Governance Committee considers, among other things, an individual's background, skills, and experience; whether the individual is an “interested person” as defined in the 1940 Act; and whether the individual would be deemed an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of applicable SEC rules. The Governance Committee also considers whether the individual’s background, skills, and experience will complement the background, skills, and experience of other Trustees and will contribute to the Board’s diversity. The Governance Committee may consider such persons at such time as it meets to consider possible nominees. The Governance Committee, however, reserves sole discretion to determine which candidates for Trustee it will recommend to the Board and the shareholders and it may identify candidates other than those submitted by shareholders. The Governance Committee may, but need not, consider the advice and recommendation of the Funds’ investment adviser or its affiliates in selecting nominees. The full Board elects new Trustees except for those instances when a shareholder vote is required. Shareholders who desire to communicate with the Board should address correspondence to the Board or an individual Board member and may submit correspondence electronically at www.oppenheimerfunds.com under the caption “contact us” or by mail to the Trust at the address on the front cover of this SAI.

Below is a brief discussion of the specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills of each Board member that led the Board to conclude that he or she should serve as a Trustee of the Trust.

Each Independent Trustee has served on the Board for the number of years listed below, during the course of which he or she has become familiar with the Trust’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Board’s deliberations. Each Trustee’s outside professional experience is outlined in the table of Biographical Information, below.

Trustees and Officers of the Trust

Except for Mr. Steinmetz, each of the Trustees is an Independent Trustee. All of the Trustees are also trustees of the following Oppenheimer funds (referred to as “Denver Board Funds”):

Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund
Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Plus Fund
Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Funds Trust:
Oppenheimer Global High Yield Fund     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Alpha Fund
Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Alpha Plus Fund
Oppenheimer Integrity Funds:     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Income Fund
    Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Select 40 Fund
Oppenheimer International Bond Fund Oppenheimer SteelPath Panoramic Fund
Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds:
Oppenheimer Main Street Funds:     Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund/VA
    Oppenheimer Main Street Fund     Oppenheimer Conservative Balanced Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Main Street Select Fund     Oppenheimer Discovery Mid Cap Growth Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund     Oppenheimer Global Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Main Street Mid Cap Fund     Oppenheimer Global Multi-Alternatives Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Master Event-Linked Bond Fund, LLC     Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Master Inflation Protected Securities Fund, LLC     Oppenheimer Government Money Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Master Loan Fund, LLC     Oppenheimer International Growth Fund/VA
Money Markey Fund:     Oppenheimer Main Street Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Government Cash Reserves     Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust:     Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund/VA
    Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Revenue ETF Oppenheimer Ultra-Short Duration Fund
    Oppenheimer ESG Revenue ETF  

Oppenheimer Financials Sector Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Global ESG Revenue ETF

 
    Oppenheimer Global Revenue ETF  
    Oppenheimer Large Cap Revenue ETF  
    Oppenheimer International Revenue ETF  

Oppenheimer Mid Cap Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Small Cap Revenue ETF

 
    Oppenheimer Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF  

 

Messrs. Depetris, Edwards, Kennedy, Legg, Petersen, Reichert, Steinmetz, Sternhell, Vallario and Yoder and Mss. Bullington, Burley, French, Foxson, LaFond, Lo Bessette, Miller, and Picciotto, who are officers of the Funds, hold the same offices with one or more of the other Denver Board Funds.

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

The Funds are new, and as of the date of this SAI, the Trustees and officers of the Funds, as a group, do not own any shares of the Funds beneficially or of record.

None of the Independent Trustees (nor any of their immediate family members) owns securities of either the investment adviser or the Distributor or of any entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the investment adviser or the Distributor.

Biographical Information. The Trustees and officers, their positions with the Funds, length of service in such position(s) and principal occupations and business affiliations during at least the past five years are listed in the charts below. The address of each Independent 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 Trustee has served the Trust in the following capacities from the following dates:

Independent Trustees Position(s) Length of Service
Robert J. Malone Board Chairman; Trustee Since 2016; since 2015
Andrew J. Donohue Trustee Since 2017
Jon S. Fossel Trustee Since 2015
Richard F. Grabish Trustee Since 2015
Beverly L. Hamilton Trustee Since 2015
Victoria J. Herget Trustee Since 2015
F. William Marshall, Jr. Trustee Since 2015
Karen L. Stuckey Trustee Since 2015
James D. Vaughn Trustee Since 2015
Interested Trustee    
Arthur P. Steinmetz Trustee Since 2015

 

Independent Trustees

Name, Year of Birth, Position(s)

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years;

Other Directorships Held

Portfolios Overseen

in Fund Complex

Robert J. Malone (1944)

Chairman of The Board of Trustees

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. 53

Andrew J. Donohue (1950)

Trustee

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. 53
Jon S. Fossel (1942)
Trustee
Chairman of the Board of Jack Creek Preserve Foundation (non-profit organization) (2005-2015); Director of Jack Creek Preserve Foundation (non-profit organization) (since March 2005); Chairman of the Board (2006-December 2011) and Director (June 2002-December 2011) of UNUMProvident (insurance company); Director of Northwestern Energy Corp. (public utility corporation) (November 2004-December 2009); Director of P.R. Pharmaceuticals (October 1999-October 2003); Director of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (non-profit organization) (February 1998-February 2003 and February 2005-February 2007); Chairman and Director (until October 1996) and President and Chief Executive Officer (until October 1995) of the OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the following: Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (“OAC”) (parent holding company of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.), Shareholders Services, Inc. and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (until October 1995). Mr. Fossel has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 1990, 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. 53
Richard F. Grabish (1948)
Trustee
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 Board’s deliberations. 53
Beverly L. Hamilton (1946)
Trustee
Trustee of Monterey Institute for International Studies (educational organization) (2000-2014); Board Member of Middlebury College (educational organization) (December 2005-June 2011); Director (1991-2016), Vice Chairman of the Board (2006-2009) and Chairman (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 Board’s deliberations. 53
Victoria J. Herget (1951)
Trustee
Board Chair (2008-2015) and Director (2004-Present), United Educators (insurance company); Trustee (since 2000) and Chair (since 2010), 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 Board’s deliberations. 53
F. William Marshall, Jr. (1942)
Trustee
Trustee Emeritus of Worcester Polytech Institute (WPI) (private university) (since 2009); Trustee of MassMutual Select Funds (formerly MassMutual Institutional Funds) (investment company) (1996-2015), MML Series Investment Fund (investment company) (1996-2015) and Mass Mutual Premier Funds (investment company) (January 2012-December 2015); President and Treasurer of the SIS Charitable Fund (private charitable fund) (January 1999-March 2011); Former Trustee of WPI (1985-2008); Former Chairman of the Board (2004-2006) and Former Chairman of the Investment Committee of WPI (1994-2008); Chairman of SIS Family Bank, F.S.B. (formerly SIS Bank) (commercial bank) (January 1999-July 1999); Executive Vice President of Peoples Heritage Financial Group, Inc. (commercial bank) (January 1999-July 1999); and Former President and Chief Executive Officer of SIS Bancorp. (1993-1999). Mr. Marshall has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2000, 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. 53
Karen L. Stuckey (1953)
Trustee
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; and member, Women’s Investment Management Forum (professional organization) since inception. 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 Board’s deliberations. 53
James D. Vaughn (1945)
Trustee
Retired; former managing partner (1994-2001) of Denver office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, (held various positions 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 Board’s deliberations. 53

 

Mr. Steinmetz is an “Interested Trustee” because he is affiliated with the Funds’ investment adviser by virtue of his positions as President of and chairman and director of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. 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.

Name, Year of Birth, Position(s)

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years;

Other Directorships Held

Portfolios Overseen in Fund Complex
Arthur P. Steinmetz (1958),
Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer
Chairman of the 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). 109

 

The addresses of the officers in the charts below are as follows: for Messrs. Depetris, Edwards, Reichert, Steinmetz, Sternhell and Vallario and Mss. Lo Bessette, Foxson, French and Picciotto, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281, for Messrs. Kennedy, Legg, Petersen and Yoder and Mss. Bullington, Burley, LaFond and Miller, 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Each officer serves for an indefinite term or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Each of the Officers has served the Trust in the following capacities from the following dates:

  Position(s) Length of Service
Frank Vallario Vice President Since 2017
Sean P. Reichert Vice President Since 2015
Arthur P. Steinmetz Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer Since 2015
Mary Ann Picciotto Chief Compliance Officer and Chief AML Officer Since 2015
Jennifer Foxson Vice President and Chief Business Officer Since 2015
Sharon French Vice President Since 2017
Alex Depetris Vice President Since 2017
Brian Petersen Treasurer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer Since 2015
Stephanie Bullington Assistant Treasurer Since 2016
Julie Burley Assistant Treasurer Since 2015
James Kennedy Assistant Treasurer Since 2015
Jan Miller Assistant Treasurer Since 2015
Cynthia Lo Bessette Secretary and Chief Legal Officer Since 2015
Taylor V. Edwards Assistant Secretary Since 2015
Randy G. Legg Assistant Secretary Since 2015
Michael Sternhell Assistant Secretary Since 2015
John Yoder Assistant Secretary Since 2015
Gloria J. LaFond Blue Sky Officer Since 2015

 

Other Information About the Officers of the Funds

Name, Year of Birth, Position(s) Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years: Portfolios Overseen in Fund Complex
Frank Vallario (1969) Vice President, VTL (since August 2017); Portfolio Manager, Columbia Threadneedle (September 2015-June 2017); Executive Director, Quantitative Client Consultant, Northeast Hedge Funds at MSCI, Inc. (2009-2015). 18
Sean P. Reichert (1987) Vice President, VTL (since August 2017) Portfolio Manager, VTL (since December 2015; Assistant Vice President, VTL (January 2017-August 2017); Portfolio Manager, IMS (2009-2015). 18
Sharon French (1965 ) Executive Vice President, Head of Beta Solutions of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (since 2016); Senior Strategic Advisor to the CEO and President of Investment Manager at BNY Mellon (2015-2016); President, F-Squared (2013-2015). 18
Alex Depetris (1980 ) Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and Chief Operating Officer of Beta Solutions (since 2017); Chief Operating Officer of ETF Business at Deutsche Bank (2008-2017). 18
Mary Ann Picciotto (1973)
Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer
 Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since March 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of Sub-Adviser, OFI SteelPath, Inc., OFI Global Trust Company, OFI Global Institutional, Inc., Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., OFI Private Investments, Inc., Harborview Asset Management Corporation, Trinity Investment Management Corporation, and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since March 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of VTL (since December 2015); 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). 109
Jennifer Foxson (1969)
Vice President and Chief Business Officer
 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). 109
Brian S. Petersen (1970)
Treasurer and Principal Financial & Accounting Officer
 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 Sub-Adviser (February 2007-December 2012); Assistant Vice President of Sub-Adviser (August 2002-2007). 109
Stephanie Bullington (1977)
Assistant Treasurer
 Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since February 2014); Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-September 2013); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (January 2010-December 2012); Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (October 2005-January 2010). 109
Julie Burley (1981)
Assistant Treasurer
 Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since October 2013). Previously held the following positions at Deloitte & Touche: Senior Manager (September 2010-October 2013), Manager (September 2008-August 2010), and Audit Senior (September 2005-August 2008). 109
James Kennedy (1958)
Assistant Treasurer
Senior Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (September 2006-December 2012). 109
Jan Miller (1963)
Assistant Treasurer
 Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2014); Assistant Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-January 2014); Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (2005-December 2012); Assistant Vice President in OppenheimerFunds, Inc.’s Fund Accounting department (November 2004 to March 2006).   109
Cynthia Lo Bessette (1969)
Secretary and Chief Legal Officer
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since February 2016); Chief Legal Officer of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and the Distributor (since February 2016); Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (since February 2016); General Counsel of OFI SteelPath, Inc., VTL Associates, 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); Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel (March 2015-February 2016) and Executive Vice President, Vice President, 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. 109
Randy G. Legg (1965)
Assistant Secretary
Vice President and Senior Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Vice President (June 2005-December 2012) and Senior Counsel (March 2011-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; Associate Counsel (January 2007-March 2011) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 109
Taylor V. Edwards (1967)
Assistant Secretary

Senior Vice President and Managing Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2017); Vice President and Senior Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-January 2017); Vice President (February 2007-December 2012) and Senior Counsel (February 2012-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; Associate Counsel (May 2009-January 2012); Assistant Vice President

(January 2006-January 2007) and Assistant Counsel (January 2006-April 2009) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

109
Michael J. Sternhell (1975)
Assistant Secretary

Senior Vice President and Managing Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since February 2015); Vice President and Associate Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

(January 2013-January 2015); Vice President and Associate Counsel (June 2011-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

109
John Yoder (1975)
Assistant Secretary
Vice President and Assistant Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Vice President and Assistant Counsel (July 2011-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 109
Gloria J. LaFond (1945)
Blue Sky Officer
Assistant Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Assistant Vice President (January 2006-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 109

 

Trustee Share Ownership. The chart below shows information about each Trustee’s beneficial share ownership in the Fund and in all of the registered investment companies that the Trustee oversees in the Oppenheimer family of Funds (“Supervised Funds”).

As of December 31, 2016

Independent Trustees

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF

Aggregate Dollar Range Of Shares Beneficially Owned in Supervised Funds

       
Andrew J. Donohue(1) N/A N/A Over $100,000
Jon S. Fossel N/A N/A Over $100,000
Richard F. Grabish N/A N/A Over $100,000
Beverly L. Hamilton N/A N/A Over $100,000
Victoria J. Herget N/A N/A Over $100,000
Robert J. Malone N/A N/A Over $100,000
F. William Marshall, Jr. N/A N/A Over $100,000
Karen L. Stuckey N/A N/A Over $100,000
James D. Vaughn N/A N/A Over $100,000
Interested Trustee      
Arthur P. Steinmetz N/A N/A Over $100,000
1.Mr. Donohue became an Independent Trustee of the Fund and all Denver Board Funds effective June 1, 2017.

 

 

Remuneration of the Officers and Trustees. The officers and the interested Trustee of the Fund, who are affiliated with OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., receive no salary or fee from the Funds. The Funds began operations as of the date of this SAI. The amounts shown below for the Independent Trustees' compensation from the Funds are estimated amounts for serving as a Trustee and member of a committee (if applicable), with respect to each Fund's current fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. The total compensation from the Funds and fund complex represents compensation for serving as a Trustee and member of a committee (if applicable) of the Boards of the Funds and other funds in the OppenheimerFunds complex during the calendar year ended December 31, 2016.

Name and Other Fund Position(s) (as applicable)

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF(1)

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from

Oppenheimer Russell 2000

Dynamic Multifactor ETF (1)

Total Compensation from the Funds and Fund Complex(2)

Fiscal year ended

June 30, 2018

Fiscal year ended

June 30, 2018

Year ended

December 31, 2016

Robert J. Malone(3)

Chairman of the Board

$1,146 $1,159 $287,098

Andrew J. Donohue(4)

Audit Committee Member

$764 $772 N/A

Jon S. Fossel

Review Committee Member and Governance Committee Member

$764 $772 $244,000

Richard F. Grabish

Governance Committee Chairman and Review Committee Member

$879 $888 $280,600

Beverly L. Hamilton

Governance Committee

Member and Review Committee Member

$764 $772 $267,671

Victoria J. Herget

Review Committee Chairman

$879 $888 $256,929

F. William Marshall, Jr.

Audit Committee Member

$764 $772 $275,561

Karen L. Stuckey

Audit Committee Chairman and Governance Committee Member

$917 $927 $261,239

James D. Vaughn

Audit Committee Member and Governance Committee Member

$764 $772 $244,000

 

1.       “Aggregate Compensation from the Fund” includes fees and deferred compensation, if any.

2.       In accordance with SEC regulations, for purposes of this section only, “Fund Complex” includes the Oppenheimer Funds, the MassMutual Institutional Funds, the MassMutual Select Funds and the MML Series Investment Fund, the investment adviser for which is the indirect parent company of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (“OFI Global”), the parent company of the Fund’s Manager. OFI Global also serves as the Sub-Adviser to the following: MassMutual Premier International Equity Fund, MassMutual Premier Main Street Fund, MassMutual Premier Strategic Income Fund, MassMutual Premier Capital Appreciation Fund, and MassMutual Premier Global Fund. OFI Global does not consider MassMutual Institutional Funds, MassMutual Select Funds and MML Series Investment Fund to be part of the Oppenheimer Funds’ “Fund Complex” as that term may be otherwise interpreted.

3.       Mr. Malone began serving as Chairman of the Board effective August 24, 2016.

4. Mr. Donohue became an Independent Trustee of the Fund and all Denver Board Funds effective June 1, 2017.

 

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

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

Control Persons and Principal Holders of Securities

The Funds are new, and as of the date of this SAI, no person owned, of record or beneficially, 5% or more of the Funds’ outstanding Shares.

INVESTMENT ADVISORY, PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITING AND OTHER SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS

Investment Adviser

VTL serves as the investment adviser to the Funds. VTL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (“OFI”). OFI is wholly-owned by Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp., a holding company primarily owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, a global, diversified insurance and financial services company. VTL is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”).

VTL provides investment advisory services to each Fund pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Trust and VTL, as amended (the “Advisory Agreement”). Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, the Trust employs VTL generally to manage the investment and reinvestment of the assets of the Funds. Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, each Fund pays VTL a fee for managing the Fund’s investments that are calculated as a percentage of the Fund’s assets under management.

As of the date of this SAI, each Fund is a new fund that has not yet completed its first fiscal year, and therefore, has not paid management fees to VTL under the Advisory Agreement.

Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement, VTL is responsible for all expenses of each Fund, except the fee payment under the Agreement, distribution fees or expenses under the Fund’s 12b-1 plan (if any), interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, brokers’ commissions and any other portfolio transaction-related expenses and fees arising out of transactions effected on behalf of the Fund, credit facility fees and expenses, including interest expenses, and litigation and indemnification expenses and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s business.

 

Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) owns the Russell 1000 OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index and the Russell 2000 OFI Dynamic Multifactor Index. Russell licenses the use of the methodology to OFI, which then sublicenses the methodology to the relevant Fund.

Portfolio Managers

Portfolio Managers. The Funds are managed by a team of investment professionals including Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert (each is referred to as a “Portfolio Manager” and collectively they are referred to as the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds’ investments.

Other Accounts Managed. In addition to managing the Funds’ investment portfolios, the members of the portfolio management team also manage other investment portfolios and other accounts on behalf of VTL or its affiliates. The following table provides information regarding those other portfolios and accounts as of September 30, 2017. No portfolio or account has an advisory fee based on performance:

 

 

Portfolio Manager Registered Investment Companies Managed Total Assets in Registered Investment Companies Managed1 Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Managed Total Assets in Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Managed2 Other Accounts Managed Total Assets in Other Accounts Managed2,3
Frank Vallario 10 $2.30 0 $0 3 $714.23
Sean P. Reichert 10 $2.30 0 $0 3 $714.23
1.In billions.
2.In millions.
3.Does not include personal accounts of portfolio managers and their families, which are subject to the Code of Ethics.

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

Compensation. The primary objectives of the VTL compensation plans for investment professionals are to:

·Motivate and reward continued growth and profitability
·Attract and retain high-performing individuals critical to the on-going success of VTL
·Motivate and reward strong business/investment performance
·Create an ownership mentality for all plan participants

The investment professionals’ cash compensation is comprised primarily of a market-based base salary and (variable) incentives (annual and long term). An investment professional’s base salary is determined by the employee’s experience and performance in the role, taking into account the ongoing compensation benchmark analyses. A portfolio manager’s base salary is generally a fixed amount that may change as a result of an annual review, upon assumption of new duties, or when a market adjustment of the position occurs. All bonus awards are based initially on VTL’s financial performance.

All key staff of VTL is eligible to participate in the VTL Deferred Compensation Plan. These positions have a high level of accountability and a large impact on the success of the business due to the position’s scope and overall responsibility. In addition, the participants have demonstrated a long-term performance track record and have the potential for a continued leadership role. This plan provides for an annual award, payable in cash after a five-year vesting period. The value of the award increases during the vesting period based upon the growth in VTL’s income.

VTL portfolio managers responsible for managing Funds are paid by VTL and not by the Funds. The same methodology described above is used to determine portfolio manager compensation with respect to the management of Funds and other accounts. Fund portfolio managers are also eligible for the standard 401k retirement benefits and health and welfare benefits available to all VTL employees.

Ownership of Fund Shares. As of the date of this SAI, Mr. Vallario and Mr. Reichert do not own shares of the Funds.

Administrator and Fund Accountant

The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNY Mellon”) serves as Administrator and Fund Accountant for the Funds. Its principal address is One Wall Street, New York, NY 10286 . Under the Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement with the Trust, BNY Mellon provides necessary administrative, tax, accounting services and financial reporting for the maintenance and operations of the Trust and each Fund. In addition, BNY Mellon makes available the office space, equipment, personnel and facilities required to provide such services. As compensation for the foregoing services, BNY Mellon receives certain out of pocket costs, transaction fees and asset based fees, which are accrued daily and paid monthly by the Trust.

Each Fund is a new fund that has not yet completed its first fiscal year, and therefore, the Funds have not paid fund administration or accounting fees to BNY Mellon under the Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement.

Custodian and Transfer Agent

BNY Mellon also serves as custodian for the Funds pursuant to a Custody Agreement. Under the Custody Agreement with the Trust, BNY Mellon maintains in separate accounts cash, securities and other assets of the Trust and each Fund, keeps the accounts and records related to these services, and provides other services. BNY Mellon is required, upon the order of the Trust, to deliver securities held by BNY Mellon and to make payments for securities purchased by the Trust for each Fund.

As compensation for the foregoing services, BNY Mellon receives certain out of pocket costs, transaction fees and asset based fees, which are accrued daily and paid monthly by the Trust.

The Funds participate in a securities lending program under which the Funds’ custodian lends Fund portfolio securities to qualified institutional investors that post appropriate collateral. Under the program, the Funds’ custodian receives a portion of the interest earned on any reinvested collateral as an offset for the costs of the program.

Pursuant to a Transfer Agency and Services Agreement with the Trust, BNY Mellon acts as transfer agent for each Fund’s authorized and issued Shares, and as dividend disbursing agent of the Trust. As compensation for the foregoing services, BNY Mellon receives certain out of pocket costs, transaction fees and asset based fees, which are accrued daily and paid monthly by the Trust.

Distributor

The Distributor, OFDI, located at 225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281, is the principal underwriter of the Funds’ Shares and distributes Fund Shares pursuant to a Distribution Agreement. Shares are continuously offered for sale by the Funds through the Distributor only in Creation Unit Aggregations, as described in the Prospectus and below under the heading “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations.” The Distributor has no obligation to sell any specific quantity of Fund Shares. The Distributor, its affiliates and officers have no role in determining the investment policies or which securities are to be purchased or sold by the Trust or the Funds. The Distributor is not affiliated with any stock exchange. VTL, at its expense, may pay the Distributor a fee for certain distribution-related services. The Distributor does not receive any underwriting commissions for the sale of Fund Shares.

OFDI may make payments to broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries for services provided and expenses incurred in connection with the distribution, marketing and promotion of Fund Shares. These payments will be made by OFDI and not from the resources of the Funds. Payments may be made to financial intermediaries that (1) provide access to financial intermediaries' platform or to their sales force; (2) develop new products that feature, market or otherwise promote the Funds; (3) allow customers to buy and sell Fund Shares without paying a commission or other transaction charge; and/or (4) provide data and reporting relating to sales of the Funds. Payments of the type described above are sometimes referred to as revenue-sharing or marketing payments. These payments may create conflicts of interest between the financial intermediary and its clients by incentivizing the financial intermediary to recommend the Funds. Further, OFDI may make payments to certain financial intermediaries related to educational efforts regarding exchange-traded products, including the Funds, or for other activities, such as participation in marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, conferences, as well as the development of technology platforms and reporting systems.

Calculation Agent

Russell serves as calculation agent for the Underlying Indexes. Russell has entered into a contractual agreement with OFI (which is authorized to sublicense any necessary rights to VTL) under which Russell will be primarily responsible for Index maintenance, calculation, dissemination and reconstitution activities. OFI compensates Russell from its own resources.

Counsel

Ropes & Gray LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.

 

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Cohen & Company, Ltd. (“Cohen”), 1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800, Cleveland, OH 44115, serves as independent registered public accounting firm of the Trust. Cohen audits the Funds’ financial statements and performs other related tax and audit services.

Rule 12b-1 Plan

The Trust has adopted a Distribution and Service Plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act (the “Plan”) to compensate persons who provide certain marketing or distribution-related services for the Funds. The Plan provides for payments at an annual rate of up to 0.25% of each Fund’s average daily net assets.

Under the Plan and as required by Rule 12b-1, the Trustees will receive and review after the end of each calendar quarter a written report provided by the Distributor of the amounts expended under the Plan and the purpose for which such expenditures were made, as applicable.

The Plan was adopted in order to permit the implementation of each Fund’s method of distribution. However, the Board has not authorized the Funds to pay fees under the Plan at this time.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS AND BROKERAGE COMMISSIONS

The policy of the Trust regarding purchases and sales of securities is that primary consideration will be given to obtaining the most favorable prices and efficient executions of transactions. Consistent with this policy, when securities transactions are effected on a stock exchange, the Trust’s policy is to pay commissions that are considered fair and reasonable without necessarily determining that the lowest possible commissions are paid in all circumstances. In seeking to determine the reasonableness of brokerage commissions paid in any transaction, VTL relies upon its experience and knowledge regarding commissions generally charged by various brokers. The sale of Shares by a broker-dealer is not a factor in the selection of broker-dealers.

Around the time the Funds rebalance their portfolios to align with their respective benchmark indexes, a Fund may request that one or more of its Authorized Participants engage in certain creation and redemption basket activity (“Rebalance Trades”) to facilitate index tracking in a tax-efficient manner (i.e., to minimize the realization of capital gains). The Trust may take into account the Authorized Participant’s willingness to engage in Rebalance Trades when it selects broker-dealers to execute trades for the Funds. VTL also may direct portfolio transactions associated with specific Rebalance Trades to the Authorized Participant that agrees to engage in such Rebalance Trades for that Fund.

VTL assumes general supervision over placing orders on behalf of the Funds for the purchase or sale of portfolio securities. If purchases or sales of portfolio securities by a Fund and one or more other investment companies or clients supervised by VTL are considered at or about the same time, transactions in such securities may be allocated among the Fund, the several investment companies and clients in a manner deemed equitable to all by VTL. In some cases, this procedure could have a detrimental effect on the price or volume of a security purchased or sold for the Funds. However, in other cases, it is possible that the ability to participate in volume transactions and to negotiate lower brokerage commissions will be beneficial to the Funds.

The Funds primarily incur brokerage commissions in connection with the periodic rebalancings/reconstitutions of the Funds. The magnitude of the rebalancings/reconstitutions will vary depending on such factors as changes in the composition of an Underlying Index and changes in the size of a Fund.

Because each Fund has not completed its first fiscal year, no Fund paid brokerage commissions during the last three years.

Because each Fund has not completed its first fiscal year, no Fund acquired securities of its regular brokers or dealers (as defined in the 1940 Act) or of their parents.

Portfolio Holding Disclosure Policies and Procedures

The Trust has adopted a policy regarding the disclosure of information about the Trust’s portfolio holdings. The Board of Trustees of the Trust must approve all material amendments to this policy. The Funds’ portfolio holdings are publicly disseminated each day the Funds are open for business through financial reporting and news services, including publicly accessible Internet web sites. In addition, a basket composition file, which includes the security names and share quantities to deliver in exchange for Fund Shares, together with estimates and actual cash components, is publicly disseminated daily prior to the opening of the Exchange via the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”). The basket represents one Creation Unit of each Fund.

Proxy Voting Policy

The Board has delegated to VTL the responsibility to vote proxies with respect to the portfolio securities held by the Funds. VTL has adopted policies and procedures with respect to voting proxies relating to securities held in client accounts for which it has discretionary authority. VTL has engaged Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) as its proxy voting agent and has authorized ISS to vote proxies with respect to securities held in client accounts in accordance with ISS recommendations. When available, information on how VTL voted proxies on behalf of the Funds relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month (or shorter, as applicable) period ended June 30 may be obtained (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-888-854-8181; and (ii) on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. VTL Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures are included as Appendix A to this SAI.

Codes of Ethics

The Funds, VTL, OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., OppenheimerFunds, Inc., and OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. have a Code of Ethics. It is designed to detect and prevent improper personal trading by portfolio managers and certain other employees ("covered persons") that could compete with or take advantage of the Fund's portfolio transactions. Covered persons include persons with knowledge of the investments and investment intentions of the Fund and/or other funds advised by VTL and OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. The Code of Ethics does permit personnel subject to the Code to invest in securities, including securities that may be purchased or held by the Fund, subject to a number of restrictions and controls. Compliance with the Code of Ethics is carefully monitored and enforced by VTL, OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., OppenheimerFunds, Inc., and OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.

The Code of Ethics is an exhibit to the Fund's registration statement filed with the SEC. It can be viewed as part of the Fund's registration statement on the SEC's EDGAR database at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and can be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C.

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

Because the Funds are rebalanced as frequently as monthly, and reconstituted semi-annually or annually, the Funds may experience portfolio turnover in excess of 100%. No Fund had commenced operations as of the date of this SAI.

CAPITAL STOCK AND OTHER SECURITIES

Each Fund is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Shares of beneficial interest without par value. Each Share of beneficial interest represents an equal proportionate interest in the assets and liabilities of a Fund and has identical voting, dividend, redemption, liquidation and other rights and preferences as the other Shares of the Fund.

Under Delaware law, the Trust is not required to, and the Trust does not presently intend to, hold regular annual meetings of shareholders. Meetings of the shareholders of one or more of the Funds may be held from time to time to consider certain matters, including changes to a Fund’s fundamental investment policies, changes to the Management Agreement and the election of Trustees when required by the 1940 Act.

When matters are submitted to shareholders for a vote, shareholders are entitled to one vote per Share with proportionate voting for fractional Shares. The Shares of a Fund do not have cumulative voting rights or any preemptive or conversion rights, and the Trustees have authority, from time to time, to divide or combine the Shares of a Fund into a greater or lesser number of Shares so affected. In the case of a liquidation of a Fund, each shareholder of the Fund will be entitled to share, based upon the shareholder’s percentage ownership, in the distribution of assets, net of liabilities, of the Fund. No shareholder is liable for further calls or assessment by a Fund.

On any matter submitted to a vote of the shareholders, all Shares shall vote in the aggregate without differentiation between the Shares of the separate Funds or separate classes, if any, provided that (i) with respect to any matter that affects only the interests of some but not all Funds, then only the Shares of such affected Funds, voting separately, shall be entitled to vote on the matter, (ii) with respect to any matter that affects only the interests of some but not all classes, then only the Shares of such affected classes, voting separately, shall be entitled to vote on the matter; and (iii) notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any matter as to which the 1940 Act or other applicable law or regulation requires voting by Fund or by class, then the Shares of the Trust shall vote as prescribed in that law or regulation.

Book Entry Only System. The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section of the Prospectus entitled “Book Entry.”

DTC Acts as Securities Depository for Fund Shares. Shares of the Funds are represented by securities registered in the name of DTC or its nominee and deposited with, or on behalf of, DTC.

DTC, a limited-purpose trust company, was created to hold securities of its participants (the “DTC Participants”) and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among the DTC Participants in such securities through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of the DTC Participants, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates. DTC Participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations, some of whom (and/or their representatives) own DTC. More specifically, DTC is owned by a number of its DTC Participants and by the NYSE, NYSE MKT and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Access to the DTC system is also available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a DTC Participant, either directly or indirectly (the “Indirect Participants”).

Beneficial ownership of Shares is limited to DTC Participants, Indirect Participants and persons holding interests through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants. Ownership of beneficial interests in Shares (owners of such beneficial interests are referred to herein as “Beneficial Owners”) is shown on, and the transfer of ownership is effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect to DTC Participants) and on the records of DTC Participants (with respect to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners that are not DTC Participants). Beneficial Owners will receive from or through the DTC Participant a written confirmation relating to their purchase and sale of Shares. No Beneficial Owner shall have the right to receive a certificate representing such Shares.

Conveyance of all notices, statements and other communications to Beneficial Owners is effected as follows. Pursuant to the Depositary Agreement between the Trust and DTC, DTC is required to make available to the Trust upon request and for a fee to be charged to the Trust a listing of the Shares of the Funds held by each DTC Participant. The Trust shall inquire of each such DTC Participant as to the number of Beneficial Owners holding Shares, directly or indirectly, through such DTC Participant. The Trust shall provide each such DTC Participant with copies of such notice, statement or other communication, in such form, number and at such place as such DTC Participant may reasonably request, in order that such notice, statement or communication may be transmitted by such DTC Participant, directly or indirectly, to such Beneficial Owners. In addition, the Trust shall pay to each such DTC Participant a fair and reasonable amount as reimbursement for the expenses attendant to such transmittal, all subject to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

Fund distributions shall be made to DTC or its nominee, Cede & Co., as the registered holder of all Fund Shares. DTC or its nominee, upon receipt of any such distributions, shall immediately credit DTC Participants’ accounts with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in Shares of the Fund as shown on the records of DTC or its nominee. Payments by DTC Participants to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners of Shares held through such DTC Participants will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in a “street name,” and will be the responsibility of such DTC Participants.

The Trust has no responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or notices to Beneficial Owners, or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in such Shares, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests, or for any other aspect of the relationship between DTC and the DTC Participants or the relationship between such DTC Participants and the Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners owning through such DTC Participants. DTC may decide to discontinue providing its service with respect to Shares at any time by giving reasonable notice to the Trust and discharging its responsibilities with respect thereto under applicable law. Under such circumstances, the Trust shall take action to find a replacement for DTC to perform its functions at a comparable cost.

CREATION AND REDEMPTION OF CREATION UNIT AGGREGATIONS

Creation. The Trust issues and sells Shares of each Fund only in Creation Unit Aggregations on a continuous basis through the Distributor, without a sales load, at its NAV next determined after receipt, on any Business Day (as defined below), of an order in proper form. Orders are placed in “proper form” when the orders comply with the order processing procedures identified in the Authorized Participant Agreement for creation or redemption of Shares of the Funds.

A “Business Day” for purposes of this section is any day the NYSE, the Exchange and a Fund are open for business and includes any day that a Fund is required to be open under Section 22(e) of the 1940 Act.

Deposit of Securities and Deposit or Delivery of Cash. Except for cash in lieu transactions, as described below, the consideration for purchase of Creation Unit Aggregations of a Fund generally consists of the in-kind deposit of a designated portfolio of equity securities—the “Deposit Securities”—per each Creation Unit Aggregation constituting a replication or a representative sampling of the securities included in the Fund’s corresponding index and an amount of cash denominated in U.S. dollars—the “Cash Component”—computed as described below. Together, the Deposit Securities and the Cash Component constitute the “Fund Deposit,” which represents the minimum initial and subsequent investment amount for a Creation Unit Aggregation of a Fund.

The Cash Component is sometimes also referred to as the Balancing Amount. The Cash Component serves the function of compensating for any differences between the NAV per Creation Unit Aggregation and the Deposit Amount (as defined below). The Cash Component is an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of the Fund Shares (per Creation Unit Aggregation) and the “Deposit Amount”—an amount equal to the market value of the Deposit Securities.

The Funds’ custodian, through the NSCC (discussed below), makes available on each Business Day, prior to the opening of business on the Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern time), the list of the names and the required number of shares of each Deposit Security to be included in the current Fund Deposit (based on information at the end of the previous Business Day) for each Fund. Such Fund Deposit is applicable in order to effect creations of Creation Unit Aggregations of the Fund until such time as the next-announced composition of the Deposit Securities is made available.

In addition, the Funds reserve the right to permit or require the substitution of an amount of cash—i.e., a “cash in lieu” amount—to be added to the Cash Component in the following circumstances:

·if, on a given Business Day, the Fund announces before the open of trading that all purchases, all redemptions or all purchases and redemptions on that day will be made entirely in cash;
·if, upon receiving a purchase or redemption order from an Authorized Participant (as defined below), the Fund determines to require the purchase or redemption, as applicable, to be made entirely in cash;
·if, on a given Business Day, the Fund requires all Authorized Participants purchasing or redeeming Shares on that day to deposit or receive (as applicable) cash in lieu of some or all of the Deposit Securities solely because: (i) such instruments are not eligible for transfer either through the NSCC or DTC; or (ii) in the case of non-U.S. investments, such instruments are not eligible for trading due to local trading restrictions, local restrictions on securities transfers or other similar circumstances; or
·if the Fund permits an Authorized Participant to deposit or receive (as applicable) cash in lieu of some or all of the Deposit Securities solely because: (a) such instruments are, in the case of the purchase of a Creation Unit, not available in sufficient quantity; (b) such instruments are not eligible for trading by an Authorized Participant or the investor on whose behalf the Authorized Participant is acting; or (c) a shareholder would be subject to unfavorable income tax treatment if the shareholder receives redemption proceeds of non-U.S. investments in kind.

If VTL notifies the Distributor that a “cash in lieu” amount will be accepted, the Distributor will notify the Authorized Participant and the Authorized Participant shall deliver, on behalf of itself or the party on whose behalf it is acting, the “cash in lieu” amount, with any appropriate adjustments as advised by VTL.

Procedures for Creation of Creation Unit Aggregations. To be eligible to place orders with the Distributor and to create a Creation Unit Aggregation of a Fund, an entity must be (i) a “Participating Party,” i.e., a broker-dealer or other participant in the clearing process through the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC (the “Clearing Process”), a clearing agency that is registered with the SEC; or (ii) a DTC Participant (see the “Book Entry Only System” section), and, in each case, must have executed an agreement with the Distributor, with respect to creations and redemptions of Creation Unit Aggregations (“Participant Agreement”) (discussed below). A Participating Party and DTC Participant are collectively referred to as an “Authorized Participant.” A list of existing Authorized Participants that have signed a Participant Agreement is available from the Distributor. All Fund Shares, however created, will be entered on the records of DTC in the name of Cede & Co. for the account of a DTC Participant.

All orders to create Creation Unit Aggregations, whether through the Clearing Process (through a Participating Party) or outside the Clearing Process (through a DTC Participant), must be received by the Funds’ Distributor no later than the cut-off time designated as such in the participant agreement on the relevant Business Day, in each case on the date such order is placed in order for creation of Creation Unit Aggregations to be effected based on the NAV of Shares of a Fund as next determined on such date after receipt of the order in proper form. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders), are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit Aggregation. In the case of custom orders, the order must be received by the Funds’ Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time, or such other time as may be designated by the Funds and disclosed to the Authorized Participants on the trade date. A custom order may be placed by an Authorized Participant in the event that the Trust permits or requires the substitution of an amount of cash to be added to the Cash Component to replace any Deposit Security as discussed above. The date on which an order to create Creation Unit Aggregations (or an order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations, as discussed below) is placed is referred to as the “Transmittal Date.” Orders must be transmitted by an Authorized Participant by telephone or other transmission method acceptable to the Distributor pursuant to procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement, as described below (see the “Placement of Creation Orders Using Clearing Process,” “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Domestic Funds” and “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Foreign Funds” sections). Severe economic or market disruptions or changes, or telephone or other communication failure may impede the ability to reach the Distributor or an Authorized Participant.

All orders from investors who are not Authorized Participants to create Creation Unit Aggregations shall be placed with an Authorized Participant in the form required by such Authorized Participant. In addition, the Authorized Participant may request the investor to make certain representations or enter into agreements with respect to the order, e.g., to provide for payments of cash, when required. Investors should be aware that their particular broker may not have executed a Participant Agreement and that, therefore, orders to create Creation Unit Aggregations of a Fund have to be placed by the investor’s broker through an Authorized Participant that has executed a Participant Agreement. In such cases there may be additional charges to such investor. At any given time, there may be only a limited number of broker- dealers that have executed a Participant Agreement. Those placing orders for Creation Unit Aggregations through the Clearing Process should afford sufficient time to permit proper submission of the order to the Distributor prior to the closing time on the Transmittal Date. Orders for Creation Unit Aggregations that are effected outside the Clearing Process are likely to require transmittal by the DTC Participant earlier on the Transmittal Date than orders effected using the Clearing Process. Those persons placing orders outside the Clearing Process should ascertain the deadlines applicable to DTC and the Federal Reserve Bank wire system by contacting the operations department of the broker or depository institution effectuating such transfer of Deposit Securities and Cash Component.

For domestic securities, orders to create Creation Units of a Fund may be placed through the Clearing Process utilizing procedures applicable to domestic funds (see “Placement of Creation Orders Using Clearing Process”) or outside the Clearing Process utilizing the procedures applicable to domestic funds (see “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Domestic Funds”). For foreign securities orders, most orders will be placed outside of the clearing process utilizing the procedures applicable for foreign funds (see “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Foreign Funds”).

Placement of Creation Orders Using Clearing Process. The Clearing Process is the process of creating or redeeming Creation Unit Aggregations through the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC. Fund Deposits made through the Clearing Process must be delivered through a Participating Party that has executed a Participant Agreement. The Participant Agreement authorizes the Distributor to transmit through the Funds’ custodian to NSCC, on behalf of the Participating Party, such trade instructions as are necessary to effect the Participating Party’s creation order. Pursuant to such trade instructions to NSCC, the Participating Party agrees to deliver the requisite Deposit Securities and the Cash Component to the Trust, together with such additional information as may be required by the Distributor. An order to create Creation Unit Aggregations through the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Distributor on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ Distributor not later than the closing time on such Transmittal Date and (ii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed.

Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Domestic Funds. Fund Deposits made outside the Clearing Process must be delivered through a DTC Participant that has executed a Participant Agreement. A DTC Participant who wishes to place an order creating Creation Unit Aggregations to be effected outside the Clearing Process must state that the DTC Participant is not using the Clearing Process and that the creation of Creation Unit Aggregations will instead be effected through a transfer of securities and cash directly through DTC. The Fund Deposit transfer must be ordered by the DTC Participant on the Transmittal Date in a timely fashion so as to ensure the delivery of the requisite number of Deposit Securities through DTC to the account of a Fund by no later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, of the Business Day following the Transmittal Date.

All questions as to the number of Deposit Securities to be delivered, and the validity, form and eligibility (including time of receipt) for the deposit of any tendered securities, will be determined by the Trust, whose determination shall be final and binding. The amount of cash equal to the Cash Component must be transferred directly to the Funds’ custodian through the Federal Reserve Bank wire transfer system in a timely manner so as to be received by the Funds’ custodian no later than 2:00 p.m., Eastern time, on the next Business Day immediately following such Transmittal Date. An order to create Creation Unit Aggregations outside the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Funds’ Distributor on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ Distributor not later than the closing time on such Transmittal Date; and (ii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed. However, if the Funds’ custodian does not receive both the required Deposit Securities and the Cash Component by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, and 2:00 p.m., Eastern time, respectively, on the next Business Day immediately following the Transmittal Date, such order will be canceled. Upon written notice to the Distributor, such canceled order may be resubmitted the following Business Day using a Fund Deposit as newly constituted to reflect the then current Deposit Securities and Cash Component. The delivery of Creation Unit Aggregations so created will occur no later than the second (2nd) Business Day following the day on which the purchase order is deemed received by the Distributor (“T+2”).

Additional transaction fees may be imposed with respect to transactions effected outside the Clearing Process (through a DTC participant) and in the limited circumstances in which any cash can be used in lieu of Deposit Securities to create Creation Units. (See “Creation Transaction Fee” section below).

Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Foreign Funds. A standard creation order must be placed by 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, for purchases of Shares. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders), are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit Aggregation. In the case of custom orders, the order must be received by the Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time. The Distributor will inform the Funds’ transfer agent, VTL and the Funds’ custodian upon receipt of a creation order. The Funds’ custodian will then provide such information to the appropriate sub-custodian.

With respect to foreign investments of a Fund, the Fund’s custodian causes the sub-custodian for the Fund to maintain an account into which the Authorized Participant delivers, on behalf of itself or the party on whose behalf it is acting, the securities included in the Fund Deposit (or the cash value of all or part of such of such securities, in the case of a permitted cash purchase), with any appropriate adjustments as advised by the Trust. Deposit Securities must be delivered to an account maintained at the applicable local sub-custodian(s). Orders to purchase Creation Unit Aggregations must be received by the Distributor from an Authorized Participant on its behalf or another investor’s behalf by the closing time of the regular trading session on the Exchange on the relevant Business Day. However, when a relevant local market is closed due to local market holidays, the local market settlement process will not commence until the end of the local holiday period. Settlement must occur by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the contractual settlement date.

The Authorized Participant must also make available no later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the contractual settlement date, by means approved by the Trust, immediately available or same day funds sufficient for the Trust to pay the Cash Component next determined after acceptance of the purchase order, together with the applicable purchase transaction fee.

Additional Information Regarding the Placement of Creation Orders. Creation Unit Aggregations may be created in advance of receipt by the Trust of all or a portion of the applicable Deposit Securities as described below. In these circumstances, the initial deposit will have a value greater than the NAV of the Fund Shares on the date the order is placed in proper form since, in addition to available Deposit Securities, cash in the form of U.S. dollars must be deposited in an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Cash Component, plus (ii) 105% of the market value of the undelivered Deposit Securities (the “Additional Cash Deposit”).

The order shall be deemed to be received on the Business Day on which the order is placed provided that the order is placed in proper form prior to 4:00 p.m., Eastern time on such date and federal funds in the appropriate amount are deposited with the Funds’ custodian by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time the following Business Day. If the order is not placed in proper form by 4:00 p.m., Eastern time or federal funds in the appropriate amount are not received by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, the next Business Day, then the order may be deemed to be canceled and the Authorized Participant shall be liable to the Fund for losses, if any, resulting therefrom. An additional amount of cash shall be required to be deposited with the Trust, pending delivery of the missing Deposit Securities to the extent necessary to maintain the Additional Cash Deposit with the Trust in an amount at least equal to 105% of the daily marked to market value of the missing Deposit Securities. To the extent that missing Deposit Securities are not received by 1:00 p.m., Eastern time on T+2 or in the event a marked-to-market payment is not made within one Business Day following notification by the Distributor that such a payment is required, the Trust may use the cash on deposit to purchase the missing Deposit Securities. The Trust may also require delivery of Deposit Securities prior to settlement date by the Authorized Participant in relation to certain international markets.

Authorized Participants will be liable to the Trust and the Fund for the costs incurred by the Trust in connection with any such purchases. These costs will be deemed to include the amount by which the actual purchase price of the Deposit Securities exceeds the market value of such Deposit Securities on the day the purchase order was deemed received by the Distributor plus the brokerage and related transaction costs associated with such purchases. The Trust will return any unused portion of the Additional Cash Deposit once all of the missing Deposit Securities have been properly received by the Funds’ custodian or purchased by the Trust and deposited into the Trust. In addition, a transaction fee, as listed below, will be charged in all cases. The delivery of Creation Unit Aggregations so created will occur no later than T+2.

Acceptance of Orders for Creation Unit Aggregations. The Trust reserves the absolute right to reject a creation order transmitted to it by the Distributor in respect of a Fund if, for example: (i) the order is not in proper form; (ii) the investor(s), upon obtaining the Fund Shares ordered, would own 80% or more of the currently outstanding Shares of any Fund; (iii) the Deposit Securities delivered are not as disseminated for that date by the Fund’s custodian, as described above; (iv) acceptance of the Deposit Securities would have certain adverse tax consequences to the Fund; (v) acceptance of the Fund Deposit would, in the opinion of counsel, be unlawful; (vi) acceptance of the Fund Deposit would otherwise, in the discretion of the Trust or VTL, have an adverse effect on the Trust or the rights of beneficial owners; or (vii) in the event that circumstances outside the control of the Trust, the Fund’s custodian, the Distributor and VTL make it, for all practical purposes, impossible to process creation orders. Examples of such circumstances include acts of God; public service or utility problems such as fires, floods, extreme weather conditions and power outages resulting in telephone, telecopy and computer failures; market conditions or activities causing trading halts; systems failures involving computer or other information systems affecting the Trust, VTL, BNY Mellon, the Distributor, DTC, NSCC, the Fund’s custodian or sub-custodian or any other participant in the creation process, and similar extraordinary events. The Distributor shall notify a prospective purchaser of a Creation Unit and/or the Authorized Participant acting on behalf of such prospective purchaser of its rejection of the order of such person. The Trust, the Fund’s custodian, any sub-custodian and the Distributor are under no duty, however, to give notification of any defects or irregularities in the delivery of Fund Deposits nor shall any of them incur any liability for the failure to give any such notification. All questions as to the number of shares of each security in the Deposit Securities and the validity, form, eligibility, and acceptance for deposit of any securities to be delivered shall be determined by the Trust, and the Trust’s determination shall be final and binding.

Creation Transaction Fee. Authorized Participants will be required to pay a fixed creation transaction fee,payable to BNY Mellon, as set forth below, regardless of the number of creations made each day, but may be subject to change. The standard creation transaction fee for each Fund is generally fixed at the amount shown below regardless of the number of Creation Units being purchased, but is subject to change. An additional charge may be imposed for (i) creations effected outside the Clearing Process; and (ii) a variable fee for cash or partial cash creations (to offset the Trust’s brokerage, transaction and other costs associated with using cash to purchase the requisite Deposit Securities). For example, where a Fund makes market sales, the Authorized Participant will reimburse the Fund for, among other things, any difference between the market value at which the securities and/or financial instruments were sold or settled by the Fund and the cash in lieu amount (which amount, at VTL’s discretion, may be capped), applicable registration fees, brokerage commissions and certain taxes. Any additional costs associated with transferring the securities constituting the Deposit Securities to the account of the Trust are borne by the Authorized Participants. The table below provides the Standard Creation/Redemption Transaction Fee for each Fund:

Fund

Standard Creation/Redemption

Transaction Fee

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF $1,800
Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF $3,000

 

From time to time, all or a portion of a Fund’s creation/redemption transaction fee may be waived by BNY Mellon and/or VTL may reimburse BNY Mellon for all or a portion of the waived creation or redemption transaction fees. The Fund reserves the right to waive the creation or redemption transaction fees in whole or in part. Investors should consult their broker for additional fees that may apply.

Redemption of Fund Shares in Creation Unit Aggregations. Fund Shares may be redeemed only in Creation Unit Aggregations at their NAV next determined after receipt of a redemption request in proper form by a Fund through the Funds’ transfer agent and only on a Business Day. A Fund will not redeem Shares in amounts less than Creation Unit Aggregations. Beneficial owners must accumulate enough Shares in the secondary market to constitute a Creation Unit Aggregation in order to have such Shares redeemed by the Trust. There can be no assurance, however, that there will be sufficient liquidity in the public trading market at any time to permit assembly of a Creation Unit Aggregation.

Investors should expect to incur brokerage and other costs in connection with assembling a sufficient number of Fund Shares to constitute a redeemable Creation Unit Aggregation. Each Fund’s custodian, through the NSCC, makes available prior to the opening of business on the Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m. Eastern time) on each Business Day, the identity of the securities subject to redemption requests (“Fund Securities”) received in proper form as described below that will be applicable (subject to possible amendment or correction) to redemption requests received in proper form (as described below) on that day. Under limited circumstances, Fund Securities received on redemption may not be identical to Deposit Securities that are applicable to creations of Creation Unit Aggregations. Unless cash redemptions are available or specified for a Fund (as discussed under “Deposit of Securities and Deposit or Delivery of Cash” above), the redemption proceeds for a Creation Unit Aggregation generally consist of Fund Securities—as announced on the Business Day of the request for redemption received in proper form—plus or minus cash in an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of the Fund Shares being redeemed, as next determined after a receipt of a request in proper form, and the value of the Fund Securities (the “Cash Redemption Amount”), less a redemption transaction fee as described below.

Pursuant to Section 22(e) of the 1940 Act, the right of redemption may be suspended or the date of payment postponed (i) for any period during which the NYSE is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings); (ii) for any period during which trading on the NYSE is suspended or restricted; (iii) for any period during which an emergency exists as a result of which disposal of the Shares of the Fund or determination of a Fund’s NAV is not reasonably practicable; or (iv) in such other circumstances as is permitted by the SEC.

In connection with an Authorized Participant’s redemption order, the Trust reserves the right to verify that the Authorized Participant owns the Fund Shares to be redeemed and such Shares have not been loaned or pledged to another party.  If the Authorized Participant, upon receipt of a verification request, does not provide sufficient verification as determined by the Trust, the redemption request will not be considered to have been received in proper form and may be rejected by the Trust.

Redemption Transaction Fee. Authorized Participants will be required to pay a fixed redemption transaction fee payable to BNY Mellon, as set forth above, regardless of the number of redemptions made each day, but may be subject to change. An additional variable charge for cash or partial cash redemptions (when cash redemptions are available or specified) of up to applicable legal limits may be imposed for a Fund. To the extent a Fund cannot recoup the amount of transaction costs incurred in connection with a redemption from the redeeming shareholder because of applicable legal limits or otherwise, those transaction costs will be borne by the Fund’s remaining shareholders and may negatively affect the Fund’s performance. From time to time, all or a portion of a Fund’s redemption transaction fee may be waived by BNY Mellon and/or VTL may reimburse BNY Mellon for all or a portion of the waived redemption transaction fees. The Fund reserves the right to waive the redemption transaction fees in whole or in part. Investors should consult their broker for additional fees that may apply. Placement of Redemption Orders Using Clearing Process. Orders to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations through the Clearing Process must be delivered through a Participating Party that has executed the Participant Agreement. An order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations using the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Trust on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ transfer agent not later than 4:00 p.m., Eastern time on such Transmittal Date, and (ii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed; such order will be effected based on the NAV of the relevant Fund as next determined. An order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations using the Clearing Process made in proper form but received by the Trust after 4:00 p.m. Eastern time will be deemed received on the next Business Day immediately following the Transmittal Date and will be effected at the NAV next determined on such next Business Day. The requisite Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount will be transferred by the second Business Day following the date on which such request for redemption is deemed received.

Placement of Redemption Orders Outside the Clearing Process—Domestic Funds. Orders to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations outside the Clearing Process must be delivered through a DTC Participant that has executed the Participant Agreement. A DTC Participant who wishes to place an order for redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations to be effected outside the Clearing Process must state that the DTC Participant is not using the Clearing Process and that redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations will instead be effected through transfer of Fund Shares directly through DTC. An order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations outside the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Trust on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ transfer agent not later than 4:00 p.m., Eastern time on such Transmittal Date; (ii) such order is accompanied or followed by the requisite number of Shares of the Fund, which delivery must be made through DTC to the Funds’ custodian no later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time (for the Fund Shares), on the next Business Day immediately following such Transmittal Date (the “DTC Cut-Off-Time”) and 2:00 p.m., Eastern time for any Cash Component, if any, owed to a Fund; and (iii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed. After the Trust has deemed an order for redemption outside the Clearing Process received, the Trust will initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Fund Securities that are expected to be delivered within two Business Days and the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, owed to the redeeming Beneficial Owner to the Authorized Participant on behalf of the redeeming Beneficial Owner by the second Business Day following the Transmittal Date on which such redemption order is deemed received by the Trust.

Placement of Redemption Orders Outside the Clearing Process—Foreign Funds. A standard order for redemption must be received by 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, for redemptions of Shares. In the case of custom redemptions, the order must be received by the Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time. Arrangements satisfactory to the Trust must be in place for the Participating Party to transfer the Creation Units through DTC on or before the settlement date. Redemptions of Shares for Fund Securities will be subject to compliance with applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws, and each Fund (whether or not it otherwise permits cash redemptions) reserves the right to redeem Creation Units for cash to the extent that the Fund could not lawfully deliver specific Fund Securities upon redemptions or could not do so without first registering the Deposit Securities under such laws.

The delivery of Fund Securities to redeeming investors generally will be made within two Business Days. However, due to the schedule of holidays in certain countries, the delivery of in-kind redemption proceeds may take longer than two Business Days after the day on which the redemption request is received in proper form. In such cases, the local market settlement procedures will not commence until the end of the local holiday periods. See “Regular Holidays” for a list of the local holidays in the foreign countries relevant to the Funds, as applicable.

A redeeming Beneficial Owner, or Authorized Participant acting on behalf of such Beneficial Owner, when taking delivery of Shares of Fund Securities upon redemption of Shares of the Fund must maintain appropriate security arrangements with a qualified broker-dealer, bank or other custody provider in each jurisdiction in which any of the Fund Securities are customarily traded, to which account the Fund Securities will be delivered.

In the event that the Authorized Participant informs the Distributor that it will be unable to deliver the Shares on the trade date plus one, the Trust may deliver the Fund Securities notwithstanding such deficiency in reliance on the undertaking of the Authorized Participant to deliver the missing Shares as soon as possible. This undertaking shall be secured by the Authorized Participant’s delivery on the contractual settlement date and subsequent maintenance of collateral consisting of cash having a value at least equal to 105% of the value of the missing Shares. The Authorized Participant’s agreement permits the Trust, acting in good faith, to purchase the missing Shares at any time and the Authorized Participant will be subject to liability for any shortfall between the cost to the Trust of purchasing such shares and the value of the collateral, which may be sold by the Trust at such time, and in such manner, as the Trust may determine in its sole discretion.

 

Additional Information Regarding the Placement of Redemption Orders Outside the Clearing Process. The calculation of the value of the Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount to be delivered/received upon redemption will be made by the Funds’ custodian according to the procedures set forth under “Determination of NAV” computed on the Business Day on which a redemption order is deemed received by the Trust. Therefore, if a redemption order in proper form is submitted to the Funds’ transfer agent by a DTC Participant not later than closing time on the Transmittal Date, and the requisite number of Shares of the Fund are delivered to the Funds’ custodian prior to the DTC Cut-Off- Time, then the value of the Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount to be delivered/received will be determined by the Funds’ custodian on such Transmittal Date. If, however, either (i) the requisite number of Shares of the relevant Fund are not delivered by the DTC Cut-Off-Time, as described above, or (ii) the redemption order is not submitted in proper form, then the redemption order will not be deemed received as of the Transmittal Date. In such case, the value of the Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount to be delivered/received will be computed on the Business Day following the Transmittal Date provided that the Fund Shares of the relevant Fund are delivered through DTC to the Funds’ custodian by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time the following Business Day pursuant to a properly submitted redemption order.

If it is not possible to effect deliveries of some or all the Fund Securities, the Trust may in its discretion exercise its option to redeem such Fund Shares in cash, and the redeeming Beneficial Owner will be required to receive its redemption proceeds all or in part in cash (see discussion of cash redemptions under “Deposit of Securities and Deposit or Delivery of Cash” above). In addition, an investor may request a redemption in cash that a Fund may, in its sole discretion, permit. In either case, the investor will receive a cash payment equal to the NAV of its Fund Shares based on the NAV of Shares of the relevant Fund next determined after the redemption request is received in proper form (minus a redemption transaction fee and additional charge for requested cash redemptions specified above, to offset the Fund’s brokerage and other transaction costs associated with the disposition of Fund Securities). A Fund may also, in its sole discretion, upon request of a shareholder, provide such redeemer a portfolio of securities that differs from the exact composition of the Fund Securities, or cash in lieu of some securities added to the Cash Component, but in no event will the total value of the securities delivered and the cash transmitted differ from the NAV.

Redemptions of Fund Shares for Fund Securities will be subject to compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and the Fund (whether or not it otherwise permits cash redemptions) reserves the right to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations for cash to the extent that the Trust could not lawfully deliver specific Fund Securities upon redemptions or could not do so without first registering the Fund Securities under such laws. An Authorized Participant or an investor for which it is acting subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular security included in the Fund Securities applicable to the redemption of a Creation Unit Aggregation may be paid an equivalent amount of cash. The Authorized Participant may request the redeeming Beneficial Owner of the Fund Shares to complete an order form or to enter into agreements with respect to such matters as compensating cash payment, beneficial ownership of Shares or delivery instructions.

Regular Holidays (Foreign Funds)

Because the portfolio securities of a Fund that invests in foreign securities may trade on the relevant exchange(s) on days that the Exchange is closed or that are otherwise not Business Days for the Fund, shareholders may not be able to redeem their shares of the Fund, or to purchase and sell shares of the Fund on the Exchange, on days when the NAV of the Fund could be significantly affected by events in the relevant foreign markets. The Funds generally intend to effect deliveries of Creation Units and portfolio securities on a basis of T plus two, or “T+2”, Business Days (i.e., days on which the NYSE is open). The Funds may effect deliveries of Creation Units and portfolio securities on a basis other than T+2 in order to accommodate local holiday schedules, to account for different treatment among foreign and U.S. markets of dividend record dates and ex-dividend dates, or under certain other circumstances. The ability of the Trust to effect in-kind creations and redemptions within two Business Days of receipt of an order in good form is subject, among other things, to the condition that, within the time period from the date of the order to the date of delivery of the securities, there are no days that are holidays in the applicable foreign market. For every occurrence of one or more intervening holidays in the applicable foreign market that are not holidays observed in the U.S. equity market, the redemption settlement cycle will be extended by the number of such intervening holidays. In addition to holidays, other unforeseeable closings in a foreign market due to emergencies may also prevent the Trust from delivering securities within a normal settlement period.

The securities delivery cycles currently practicable for transferring portfolio securities to redeeming investors, coupled with foreign market holiday schedules, will require a delivery process longer than seven calendar days for Funds that invest in foreign securities, in certain circumstances. The holidays applicable to a Fund during such periods are listed below, as are instances where more than seven days will be needed to deliver redemption proceeds. Although certain holidays may occur on different dates in subsequent years, the number of days required to deliver redemption proceeds in any given year is not expected to exceed the maximum number of days listed below for a Fund. The proclamation of new holidays, the treatment by market participants of certain days as “informal holidays” (e.g., days on which no or limited securities transactions occur, as a result of substantially shortened trading hours), the elimination of existing holidays, or changes in local securities delivery practices, could affect the information set forth herein.

Listed below are the dates in calendar year 2017 and 2018 in which the regular holidays affecting the relevant securities markets of the below listed countries may impact Fund settlement. This list is based on information available to the Funds. The list may not be accurate or complete and is subject to change.

2017
Australia:
January 2 April 14 May 1 August 8 November 7
January 26 April 17 June 5 September 25 December 25
March 6 April 18 June 12 September 29 December 26
March 13 April 25 August 7 October 2  
Austria:
January 6 May 1 June 15 November 1 December 26
April 14 May 25 August 15 December 8 December 31
April 17 June 5 October 26 December 25  
Belgium:
April 14 May 1 June 5 August 15 December 25
April 17 May 25 June 15 November 1 December 26
Brazil:
January 1 February 28 April 21 September 7 November 15
January 25 March 1 May 1 October 12 November 20
February 27 April 14 June 15 November 2 December 25
        December 31
Canada:
January 2 February 20 June 26 September 4 December 25
January 3 April 14 July 3 October 9 December 26
February 13 May 22 August 7 November 13  
Chile:
January 1 May 1 August 15 October 27 December 31
April 14 May 21 September 18 November 1  
April 15 June 26 September 19 December 8  
April 16 July 16 October 9 December 25  
China:
January 2 February 1 May 1 October 3  
January27 February 2 May 29 October 4  
January 30 April 3 May 30 October 5  
January 31 April 4 October 2 October 6  
Colombia:
January 1 April 14 June 26 August 21  November 13
January 9 May 1 July 3 October 16 December 8
March 20  May 29 July 20 November 6 December 25
April 13  June 19 August 7    
Czech Republic:
January 1 May 1 July 6 December 24  
April 14 May 8 October 28 December 25  
April 17 June 28 November 17 December 26  
Denmark:
January 1 April 16 May 25 December 24 December 31
April 13 April 17 May 26 December 25  
April 14 May 12 June 5 December 26  
Egypt:
January 7 April 25 July 1 September 2  
January 25 May 1 July 23 September 21  
April 16 June 25 August 31 October 6  
April 17 June 26 September 1 December 1  
* The Egyptian market is closed every Friday.      
Finland:
January 1  April 14  May 25  December 25  
January 6 April 17  June 23  December 26  
April 13 May 1  December 6    
France:
January 2 May 1 July 14   November 1
March 28 May 8 August 15   December 25
April 14 May 29 August 28   December 26
April 17 May 31 October 31    
Germany:
April 14 May 1 October 3 December 25  
April 17 June 5 October 31 December 26  
Greece:
January 1 February 27 April 17 June 5 December 25
January 6 April 14 May 1 August 15 December 26
Hong Kong:
January 2 January 31 April 17 May 30 December 25
January 27 April 4 May 1 October 2 December 26
January 30 April 14 May 3 October 5  
Hungary:
January 1 May 1  October 23    
 April 17  August 20  December 26    
India:
January 26 April 4 June 26 October 2 December 25
February 24 April 14 August 15 October 19  
March 13 May 1 August 17 October 20  
March 28 May 10 August 25 December 1  
Indonesia:
January 1 August 17 December 25    
Ireland:
January 2 April 17 May 1 December 22 December 29
March 17 May 1 August 7 December 25  
April 14 June 5 October 30 December 26  
Israel:
March 12 April 16 May 31 October 4 October 11
April 10 April 17 August 1 October 5 October 12
April 11 May 1 September 20 October 8  
April 12 May 2 September 21 October 9  
April 13 May 30 May 31 October 10  
* The Israeli market is closed every Friday.
Italy:
January 1 April 17 June 2 December 8  
January 6 April 25 August 15 December 25  
April 14 May 1 November 1 December 26  
Japan:
January 2 March 20 May 5 September 18 November 23
January 3 May 3 July 17 October 9  
January 9 May 4 August 11 November 3  
Malaysia:
January 1 May 1 September 16    
February 1 August 31 December 25    
Mexico:
January 1 March 20 April 14 November 2 December 12
February 6 April 13  May 1 November 20 December 25
Netherlands:
January 1 April 17 May 12 October 29  
March 26 April 27 May 25 December 25  
April 14 May 1 June 5 December 26  
New Zealand:
January 2  February 6  April 17  June 5 December 26
January 3 April 14  April 25 October 23  
Norway:
April 12 April 14 May 1 May 25 December 25
April 13 April 17 May 17 June 5 December 26
Peru:
January 1 April 14 June 29 August 30 December 8
April 13 May 1 July 28 November 1 December 25
Philippines:
January 1 April 14 August 28 December 25  
April 9 May 1 November 1 December 30  
April 13 June 12 November 30 December 31  
Poland:
January 1 April 17 June 15 November 11 December 26
January 6 May 1 August 15 December 24  
April 14 May 3 November 1 December 25  
Portugal:
January 1 April 17 December 25    
April 14 May 1 December 26    
Qatar:
January 1 June 25 June 27 September 2 September 4
March 5 June 26 September 1 September 3 December 18
*The Qatari market is closed every Friday.
Russia:
January 1 January 7 March 8 May 9 November 6
January 2 February 23 May 1 June 12  
Singapore:
January 2 April 14 May 10 August 9 October 18
January 30 May 1 June 26 September 1 December 25
South Africa:
January 2 April 17 June 16 December 25  
March 21 April 27 August 9 December 26  
April 14 May 1 September 25    
South Korea:
January 1 January 30 May 5 October 4 October 9
January 27 March 1 June 6 October 5 December 20
January 28 May 1 August 15 October 6 December 25
January 29 May 3 October 3    
Spain:
January 6 April 17 July 25 October 12 December 8
April 12 May 1 August 15 November 1 December 25
April 13 June 5 August 16 December 6 December 26
April 14 June 15 September 11    
Sweden:
January 5 April 14 May 24 June 23 December 26
January 6 April 17 May 25 November 3  
April 13 May 1 June 6 December 25  
Switzerland:
January 2 April 17 May 25 August 1 December 26
April 14 May 1 June 5 December 25  
Taiwan:
January 1 February 28 April 5 May 1 October 10
Thailand:
January 2 April 13 May 1 July 1 October 23
February 11 April 14 May 5 July 10 December 5
April 6 April 15 May 10 August 14 December 11
Turkey:        
January 1 May 1 August 30    
April 23 May 19 October 29    
United Arab Emirates:
January 1 June 26 September 1 September 21 December 3
April 24 June 27 September 2 December 1  
June 25 August 31 September 3 December 2  
* The United Arab Emirates market is closed every Friday.
United Kingdom:
January 2 April 17 May 29 December 22 December 26
April 14 May 1 August 28 December 25 December 29
           
2018
Australia:
January 1 March 30 April 25 August 6 December 25
January 26 April 2 June 11 October 1 December 26
Austria:
January 1 April 2 May 21 November 1 December 25
January 6 May 1 May 31 December 8 December 26
March 30 May 10 August 15 December 24 December 31
April 1 May 20 October 26    
Belgium:
January 1 May 1 July 21 November 1 December 25
March 30 May 10 August 15 November 11 December 26
April 2 May 21      
Brazil:
January 1 April 1 July 9 November 2 December 24
January 25 April 21 September 7 November 15 December 25
February 13 May 1 October 12 November 20 December 31
March 30 May 31      
Canada:
January 1 April 1 August 6 October 8 December 25
February 19 May 21 September 3 November 11 December 26
March 30 July 2      
Chile:
January 1 May 21 August 15 November 1 December 25
March 30 July 2 September 19 November 2 December 31
May 1 July 16 October 15 December 8  
China:
January 1 April 6 June 18 October 5 December 31
February 22 May 1 September 24    
Colombia:
January 1 March 30 June 4 August 20 November 12
January 8 May 1 July 20 October 8 December 8
March 19 May 14 August 7 November 5 December 25
March 29        
Czech Republic:
January 1 May 1 July 6 November 17 December 25
March 30 May 8 September 28 December 24 December 26
April 2 July 5 October 28    
Denmark:
January 1 April 1 May 10 May 21 December 25
March 29 April 2 May 11 June 5 December 26
March 30 April 27 May 20 December 24 December 31
Egypt:
January 1 April 9 June 17 August 25 October 6
January 25 April 25 July 23 September 12 November 20
April 8 May 1      
* The Egyptian market is closed every Friday.
Finland:
January 1 April 2 May 10 December 24 December 26
January 6 May 1 December 6 December 25 December 31
March 30        
France:
January 1 May 1 May 20 November 1 December 25
March 30 May 8 May 21 November 11 December 26
April 2 May 10 August 15 December 24 December 31
Germany:
January 1 April 2 May 21 December 24 December 26
March 30 May 1 October 3 December 25 December 31
April 1 May 10      
Greece:
January 1 March 25 May 1 August 15 December 25
January 6 April 6 May 11 October 28 December 26
February 19 April 9 May 28 December 24  
Hong Kong:
January 1 March 31 May 1 July 1 October 1
February 19 April 2 May 22 July 2 October 17
March 30 April 5 June 18 September 25 December 25
Hungary:
January 1 April 2 May 21 November 1 December 25
March 15 May 1 August 20 December 24 December 26
April 1 May 20 October 23    
India:
January 26 March 29 April 29 August 18 October 19
February 14 March 30 April 30 August 22 November 7
February 19 April 1 May 1 September 13 November 21
March 2 April 2 June 15 September 21 November 23
March 18 April 14 August 15 October 2 November 25
March 26        
Indonesia:
January 1 March 30 May 1 May 10 December 25
Ireland:
January 1 March 30 April 2 June 4 December 25
March 19 April 1 May 7 August 6 December 26
Israel:
March 1 April 19 July 22 September 18 September 24
March 31 May 20 September 11 September 19 October 2
April 6        
* The Israeli market is closed every Friday.
Italy:
January 1 April 25 June 2 November 1 December 25
March 30 May 1 August 15 December 8 December 26
April 2        
Japan:
January 3 April 30 July 16 September 24 November 23
January 8 May 3 August 11 October 8 December 23
February 12 May 4 September 17 November 3 December 31
March 21 May 5      
Malaysia:
January 1 May 1 August 31 December 25  
Mexico:
January 1 March 29 May 1 November 2 December 12
February 5 March 30 September 16 November 19 December 25
March 19        
Netherlands:
January 1 April 1 May 1 May 21 December 26
March 30 April 2 May 10    
New Zealand:
January 2 February 6 April 2 June 4 December 25
January 22 March 30 April 25 October 22 December 26
January 29  April 1      
Norway:
January 1 April 1 May 10 May 21 December 25
March 29 April 2 May 17 December 24 December 26
March 30 May 1 May 20    
Peru:
January 1 April 1 July 29 October 8 December 8
March 29 May 1 August 30 November 1 December 25
March 30 June 29      
Philippines:
January 1 March 29 May 1 August 22 December 25
February 16 March 30 June 15 November 1 December 31
Poland:
January 1 May 1 May 31 November 1 December 25
January 6 May 3 August 15 November 11 December 26
April 2        
Portugal:
January 1 April 25 June 10 November 1 December 8
February 13 May 1 August 15 December 1 December 25
March 30 May 31 October 5    
Qatar:
January 1 June 17 August 26 December 18  
*The Qatari market is closed every Friday.
Russia:
January 2 January 8 April 30 May 9 November 4
January 6 February 23 May 1 June 11 November 5
January 7 March 8      
Singapore:
January 1 March 30 June 15 August 22 December 25
February 17 May 1 August 9 November 7  
South Africa:
January 1 April 2 June 16 September 24 December 25
March 21 April 27 August 9 December 17 December 26
March 30 May 1      
South Korea:
January 1 May 1 May 22 August 15 October 9
February 17 May 5 June 6 September 26 December 25
March 1 May 7 June 13 October 3  
Spain:
January 1 April 1 August 15 November 1 December 8
January 6 April 2 October 12 December 6 December 25
March 30 May 1      
Sweden:
January 1 April 1 May 10 June 22 December 26
January 6 April 2 May 20 December 24 December 31
March 30 May 1 June 6    
Switzerland:
January 2 April 2 May 10 May 21 December 25
March 30 May 1 May 20 August 1 December 26
April 1        
Taiwan:
January 1 February 28 June 18 September 24 October 10
February 16 May 1      
Thailand:
January 1 April 14 May 5 August 13 December 10
April 6 April 15 May 7 October 23 December 31
April 13 May 1 July 1 December 5  
Turkey:
January 1 May 1 June 17 August 30 October 29
April 23 May 19 August 24    
United Arab Emirates:
January 1 June 16 August 23 November 20 December 2
April 13 August 20 September 11    
* The United Arab Emirates market is closed every Friday.
United Kingdom:
January 1 April 1 May 7 August 27 December 26
March 30 April 2 May 28 December 25  
           

 

Redemptions. The longest redemption cycle for a Fund is a function of the longest redemption cycle among the countries and regions whose securities comprise the Fund’s portfolio. In the calendar years 2017 and 2018, the dates of regular holidays affecting the following securities markets present the worst-case redemption cycles*, where more than seven calendar days may be needed to deliver redemption proceeds, for Funds that invest in foreign securities as noted below. This list is based on information available to the Funds. The list may not be accurate or complete and is subject to change.

2017

Country Trade Date Settlement Date Number of Days to Settle
Australia 12/22/2016 01/03/2017 12
  04/12/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
  04/13/2017 04/21/2017 8
China 01/24/2017 02/03/2017 10
  01/25/2017 02/06/2017 12
  01/26/2017 02/07/2017 12
  09/27/2017 10/09/2017 12
  09/28/2017 10/10/2017 12
  09/29/2017 10/11/2017 12
Ireland 12/22/2016 1/03/2017 12
  12/23/2016 1/03/2017 11
  12/26/2016 1/03/2017 8
  12/19/2017 12/27/2017 8
  12/20/2017 12/28/2017 8
  12/21/2017 1/02/2018 12
  12/22/2017 1/02/2018 11
Israel 04/04/2017 04/18/2017 14**
  04/05/2017 04/19/2017 14**
  04/06/2017 04/20/2017 14**
  04/07/2017 04/20/2017 13
  04/09/2017 04/19/2017 10
  04/10/2017 04/20/2017 10
  04/11/2017 04/20/2017 9
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
  04/25/2017 05/03/2017 8
  04/26/2017 05/04/2017 8
  04/27/2017 05/08/2017 9
  04/28/2017 05/08/2017 8
  09/14/2017 09/25/2017 11
  09/15/2017 09/25/2017 10
  09/18/2017 09/26/2017 8
  09/19/2017 09/27/2017 8
  10/02/2017 10/162017 14
  10/03/2017 10/17/2017 14
  10/04/2017 10/17/2017 13
  10/05/2017 10/18/2017 13
  10/06/2017 10/18/2017 12
  10/09/2017 10/18/2017 9
  10/10/2017 10/18/2017 8
Japan 04/28/2017 05/08/2017 10
  05/01/2017 05/09/2017 8
  05/02/2017 05/10/2017 8
Norway 04/07/2016 04/18/2016 11
  04/10/2017 04/18/2017 8
  04/11/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
Qatar 06/20/2017 06/28/2017 8
  06/21/2017 06/29/2017 8
  06/22/2017 07/02/2017 10
South Africa 04/07/2017 04/18/2017 11
  04/10/2017 04/19/2017 9
  04/11/2017 04/20/2017 9
  04/12/2017 04/21/2017 9
  04/13/2017 04/24/2017 11
  04/20/2017 04/28/2017 8
  04/21/2017 05/02/2017 10
  04/24/2017 05/03/2017 9
  04/25/2017 05/04/2017 9
  04/26/2017 05/05/2017 9
  04/28/2017 05/10/2017 10
  06/12/2017 06/20/2017 8
  06/13/2017 06/21/2017 8
  06/14/2017 06/22/2017 8
  06/15/2017 06/23/2017 8
  08/02/2017 08/10/2017 8
  08/03/2017 08/11/2017 8
  08/04/2017 08/14/2017 10
  08/07/2017 08/15/2017 8
  08/08/2017 08/16/2017 8
  09/18/2017 09/26/2017 8
  09/19/2017 09/27/2017 8
  09/20/2017 09/28/2017 8
  09/21/2017 09/29/2017 8
  09/22/2017 10/02/2017 10
  12/18/2017 12/27/2017 9
  12/19/2017 12/28/2017 9
  12/20/2017 12/29/2017 9
  12/21/2017 01/01/2018 11
  12/22/2017 01/02/2018 11
South Korea 09/29/2017 10/10/2017 10
  10/02/2017 10/11/2017 9
Spain 04/07/2016 04/18/2017 11
  04/10/2017 04/18/2017 8
  04/11/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
Sweden 04/10/2017 04/18/2017 8
  04/11/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
United Kingdom 12/20/2016 12/28/2016 8
  12/21/2016 12/29/2016 8
  12/22/2016 01/03/2017 12
  12/23/2016 01/03/2017 11
  12/26/2016 01/03/2017 8
  12/19/2017 12/27/2017 8
  12/20/2017 12/28/2017 8
  12/21/2017 01/02/2018 12
  12/22/2017 01/02/2018 11

 

2018

Country Trade Date Settlement Date Number of Days to Settle
China 2/14/2018 2/26/2018 12
  3/29/2018 4/9/2018 11
  9/28/2018 10/10/2018 12
Egypt 8/20/2018 8/28/2018 8
Japan 12/29/2017 1/9/2018 11
  4/27/2018 5/7/2018 10
  12/28/2018 1/8/2019 11
Russia 12/29/2017 1/9/2018 11
South Korea 9/21/2018 9/30/2018 9
Turkey 8/17/2018 8/27/2018 10
United Arab Emirates 8/20/2018 8/28/2018 8
Vietnam 2/13/2018 2/22/2018 9
  2/14/2018 2/23/2018 9

 

             * These worst-case redemption cycles are based on information regarding regular holidays, which may be out of date. Based on changes in holidays, longer (worse) redemption cycles are possible.
           ** Maximum permitted pursuant to the Trust’s SEC exemptive order.

 

TAXES

The following is a summary of certain additional tax considerations generally affecting a Fund and its shareholders that are not described in the Prospectus. No attempt is made to present a detailed explanation of the tax treatment of a Fund or its shareholders, and the discussion here and in the Prospectus is not intended as a substitute for careful tax planning.

This “Taxes” section is based on the Internal Revenue Code and applicable regulations in effect on the date of this SAI. Future legislative, regulatory or administrative changes, including provisions of current law that sunset and thereafter no longer apply, or court decisions may significantly change the tax rules applicable to a Fund and its shareholders. Any of these changes or court decisions may have a retroactive effect.

This is for general information only and not tax advice. All investors should consult their own tax advisors as to the federal, state, local and foreign tax provisions applicable to their investment in a Fund.

Taxation of the Funds

Each Fund is a Separate Corporation. Each Fund is treated as a separate corporation for federal income tax purposes. Losses in one Fund do not offset gains in another Fund and the requirements (other than certain organizational requirements) for qualifying for regulated investment company status as described below are determined at the Fund level rather than the Trust level.

Election to be Taxed as a Regulated Investment Company. Each Fund intends to elect and qualify to be treated each year as a regulated investment company (sometimes referred to as a “regulated investment company,” “RIC” or “Fund”) that is accorded special tax treatment under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code. If a Fund so qualifies, the Fund will not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its investment company taxable income (that is, generally, taxable interest, dividends, net short-term capital gains, and other taxable ordinary income, net of expenses, without regard to the deduction for dividends paid) and net capital gain (that is, the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses) that it timely distributes to shareholders.

In order to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company, each Fund must satisfy the following requirements:

·Distribution Requirement — a Fund must distribute an amount equal to the sum of at least 90% of its investment company taxable income and 90% of its net tax-exempt income, if any, for each tax year (including, for purposes of satisfying this distribution requirement, certain distributions made by the Fund after the close of its taxable year that are treated as made during such taxable year).
·Income Requirement — a Fund must derive at least 90% of its gross income for each taxable year from (i) dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income (including, but not limited to, gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived from its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies and (ii) net income derived from qualified publicly traded partnerships (“QPTPs”).
·Asset Diversification Tests — a Fund must satisfy the following asset diversification tests at the close of each quarter of the Fund’s tax year: (1) at least 50% of the value of the Fund’s total assets must consist of cash and cash items, U.S. government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and securities of other issuers (limited in respect of any one issuer to not more than 5% of the value of the Fund’s total assets and not more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer); and (2) no more than 25% of the value of the Fund’s total assets may be invested, including through corporations in which the Fund owns a 20% or more voting stock interest, (x) in the securities of any one issuer (other than U.S. government securities or securities of other regulated investment companies) or of two or more issuers that the Fund controls and that are engaged in the same or similar trades or businesses, or, (y) in the securities of one or more QPTPs.

In some circumstances, the character and timing of income realized by a Fund for purposes of the Income Requirement or the identification of the issuer for purposes of the Asset Diversification Tests is uncertain under current law with respect to a particular investment, and an adverse determination or future guidance by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) with respect to such type of investment may adversely affect a Fund’s ability to satisfy these requirements. See, “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions” below with respect to the application of these requirements to certain types of investments. In other circumstances, a Fund may be required to sell portfolio holdings in order to meet the Income Requirement, Distribution Requirement, or Asset Diversification Tests, which may have a negative impact on the Fund’s income and performance.

Each Fund may use “equalization accounting” (in lieu of making some cash distributions) in determining the portion of its income and gains that has been distributed. If a Fund uses equalization accounting, it will treat a portion of redemption proceeds paid to redeeming shareholders that represents the redeeming shareholders’ pro-rata share of the Fund’s accumulated earnings and profits as distributions of investment company taxable income and net capital gain and will correspondingly reduce the amount of such income and gains that it distributes in cash. If the IRS determines that a Fund’s allocation is improper and that the Fund has under-distributed its income and gain for any taxable year, the Fund may be liable for federal income and/or excise tax. If, as a result of such adjustment, the Fund fails to satisfy the Distribution Requirement, the Fund will not qualify that year as a regulated investment company the effect of which is described in the following paragraph.

If for any taxable year a Fund does not qualify as a regulated investment company, all of its taxable income (including its net capital gain) would be subject to tax at regular corporate rates without any deduction for dividends paid to shareholders, and the dividends would be taxable to the shareholders as ordinary income (or possibly as qualified dividend income) to the extent of the Fund’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Failure to qualify as a regulated investment company would thus have a negative impact on a Fund’s income and performance.

Subject to savings provisions for certain failures to satisfy the Income Requirement or Asset Diversification Tests, which, in general, are limited to those due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect, it is possible that a Fund will not qualify as a regulated investment company in any given tax year. Even if such savings provisions apply, a Fund may be subject to a significant monetary sanction. Moreover, the Board reserves the right not to maintain the qualification of a Fund as a regulated investment company if it determines such a course of action to be beneficial to shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover. For investors that hold their Fund Shares in a taxable account, a high portfolio turnover rate may result in higher taxes. This is because a fund with a high turnover rate is likely to accelerate the recognition of capital gains and more of such gains are likely to be taxable as short-term rather than long-term capital gains in contrast to a comparable fund with a low turnover rate. Any such higher taxes would reduce the Fund’s after-tax performance. See “Taxation of Fund Distributions - Distributions of Capital Gains” below.

Capital Loss Carryovers. The capital losses of a Fund, if any, do not flow through to shareholders. Rather, a Fund may use its capital losses, subject to applicable limitations, to offset its capital gains. If a Fund has a “net capital loss” (that is, capital losses in excess of capital gains), the excess (if any) of the Fund’s net short-term capital losses over its net long-term capital gains is treated as a short-term capital loss arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year, and the excess (if any) of the Fund’s net long-term capital losses over its net short-term capital gains is treated as a long-term capital loss arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year. Any such net capital losses of a Fund that are not used to offset capital gains may be carried forward indefinitely to reduce any future capital gains realized by the Fund in succeeding taxable years. The amount of capital losses that can be carried forward and used in any single year is subject to an annual limitation if there is a more than 50% “change in ownership” of a Fund. An ownership change generally results when shareholders owning 5% or more of a Fund increase their aggregate holdings by more than 50% over a three-year look-back period. An ownership change could result in capital loss carryovers being used at a slower rate thereby reducing a Fund’s ability to offset capital gains with those losses. An increase in the amount of taxable gains distributed to a Fund’s shareholders could result from an ownership change. The Funds undertake no obligation to avoid or prevent an ownership change, which can occur in the normal course of shareholder purchases and redemptions or as a result of engaging in a tax-free reorganization with another fund. Moreover, because of circumstances beyond a Fund’s control, there can be no assurance that a Fund will not experience, or has not already experienced, an ownership change. Additionally, if a Fund engages in a tax-free reorganization with another fund, the effect of these and other rules not discussed herein may be to disallow or postpone the use by a Fund of its capital loss carryovers (including any current year losses and built-in losses when realized) to offset its own gains or those of the other fund, or vice versa, thereby reducing the tax benefits Fund shareholders would otherwise have enjoyed from use of such capital loss carryovers.

Deferral of Late Year Losses. A Fund may elect to treat part or all of any “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year in determining the Fund’s taxable income, net capital gain, net short-term capital gain, and earnings and profits. The effect of this election is to treat any such “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year in characterizing Fund distributions for any calendar year (see, “Taxation of Fund Distributions – Distributions of capital gains” below). A “qualified late year loss” includes:

(i)               any net capital loss attributable to the portion of the taxable year after October 31, or, if there is no such loss, any net long-term capital loss or any net short-term capital loss attributable to such portion, if any, of the current taxable year (“post-October capital losses”), and

(ii)             the sum of (1) net ordinary loss from the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of property attributable to the portion of the taxable year after October 31 and (2) other net ordinary loss attributable to the portion, if any, of the taxable year after December 31 (“later year ordinary losses”)

Undistributed Capital Gains. A Fund may retain or distribute to shareholders its net capital gain for each taxable year. The Funds currently intend to distribute net capital gains. If a Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, the Fund will be taxed thereon (except to the extent of any available capital loss carryovers) at the regular corporate tax rates. If a Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, it is expected that the Fund also will elect to have shareholders treated as if each received a distribution of its pro rata share of such gain, with the result that each shareholder will be required to report its pro rata share of such gain on its tax return as long-term capital gain, will receive a refundable tax credit for its pro rata share of tax paid by the Fund on the gain, and will increase the tax basis for its Shares by an amount equal to the deemed distribution less the tax credit.

Federal Excise Tax. To avoid a 4% non-deductible excise tax, a Fund must distribute by December 31 of each year an amount equal to at least:
(1) 98% of its ordinary income for the calendar year, (2) 98.2% of capital gain net income (that is, the excess of the gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets over the losses from such sales or exchanges) for the one-year period ended on October 31 of such calendar year, and (3) any prior year undistributed ordinary income and capital gain net income. For purposes of the required excise tax distribution, a Fund’s ordinary gains and losses from the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of property that would otherwise be taken into account after October 31 of a calendar year (or November 30 or December 1 of that year, if the Fund is permitted to elect and so elects) generally are treated as arising on January 1 of the following calendar year; in the case of a Fund with a December 31 year end that is eligible to make and makes the election described above, no such gains or losses will be so treated. Generally, each Fund intends to make sufficient distributions prior to the end of each calendar year to avoid any material liability for federal income and excise tax, but can give no assurances that all or a portion of such liability will be avoided. In addition, under certain circumstances, temporary timing or permanent differences in the realization of income and expense for book and tax purposes can result in a Fund having to pay an excise tax.

Foreign Income Tax. Investment income and proceeds received by a Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign withholding or other taxes and the amount of such tax generally will be treated as an expense of the Fund. The United States has entered into tax treaties with many foreign countries which, in certain circumstances, entitle a Fund to a reduced rate of, or exemption from, tax on such income. Some countries require the filing of a tax reclaim or other forms to receive the benefit of the reduced tax rate; whether or when a Fund will receive the tax reclaim is within the control of the individual country. Information required on these forms may not be available such as shareholder information; therefore, a Fund may not receive the reduced treaty rates or potential reclaims. Other countries have conflicting and changing instructions and restrictive timing requirements which may cause a Fund not to receive the reduced treaty rates or potential reclaims. Other countries may subject capital gains realized by a Fund on sale or disposition of securities of that country to taxation. It is impossible to determine the effective rate of foreign tax in advance since the amount of a Fund’s assets to be invested in various countries is not known. Under certain circumstances, a Fund may elect to pass-through foreign tax credits to shareholders, although it reserves the right not to do so.

Purchase of Shares. As a result of tax requirements, the Trust on behalf of each Fund has the right to reject an order to purchase Shares if the purchaser (or group of purchasers acting in concert with each other) would, upon obtaining the Shares so ordered, own 80% or more of the outstanding Shares of the Fund and if, pursuant to Sections 351 and 362 of the Internal Revenue Code, the Fund would have a basis in the Deposit Securities different from the market value of such securities on the date of deposit. The Trust also has the right to require information necessary to determine beneficial Share ownership for purposes of the 80% determination.

Taxation of Fund Distributions

Each Fund anticipates distributing substantially all of its investment company taxable income and net capital gain for each taxable year. Distributions by a Fund will be treated in the manner described below regardless of whether such distributions are paid in cash or reinvested in additional Shares of the Fund (or of another fund). You will receive information annually as to the federal income tax consequences of distributions made (or deemed made) during the year.

Distributions of Net Investment Income. Each Fund receives ordinary income generally in the form of dividends and/or interest on its investments. A Fund may also recognize ordinary income from other sources, including, but not limited to, certain gains on foreign currency-related transactions. This income, less expenses incurred in the operation of a Fund, constitutes a Fund’s net investment income from which dividends may be paid to you. If you are a taxable investor, distributions of net investment income generally are taxable as ordinary income to the extent of the Fund’s earnings and profits. In the case of a Fund whose strategy includes investing in stocks of corporations, a portion of the income dividends paid to you may be qualified dividends eligible to be taxed at reduced rates. See the discussion below under the headings, “– Qualified Dividend Income for Individuals” and “– Dividends-Received Deduction for Corporations”

Distributions of Capital Gains. Each Fund may derive capital gain and loss in connection with sales or other dispositions of its portfolio securities. Distributions derived from the excess of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital loss will be taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions paid from the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss will be taxable to you as long-term capital gain, regardless of how long you have held your Shares in a Fund. Any net short-term or long-term capital gain realized by a Fund (net of any capital loss carryovers) generally will be distributed once each year and may be distributed more frequently, if necessary, in order to reduce or eliminate federal excise or income taxes on the Fund.

Returns of Capital. Distributions by a Fund that are not paid from earnings and profits will be treated as a return of capital to the extent of (and in reduction of) your tax basis in your Shares; any excess will be treated as gain from the sale of your Shares. Thus, the portion of a distribution that constitutes a return of capital will decrease your tax basis in your Fund Shares (but not below zero), and will result in an increase in the amount of gain (or decrease in the amount of loss) that will be recognized by you for tax purposes on the later sale of such Fund Shares. Return of capital distributions can occur for a number of reasons including, among others, a Fund over-estimates the income to be received from certain investments such as those classified as partnerships or equity real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) (see, “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions – Investments in U.S. REITs” below).

Qualified Dividend Income for Individuals. Ordinary income dividends properly reported by the Fund as derived from qualified dividend income will be taxed in the hands of individuals and other noncorporate shareholders at the rates applicable to long-term capital gain. “Qualified dividend income” means dividends paid to a Fund (a) by domestic corporations, (b) by foreign corporations that are either (i) incorporated in a possession of the United States, or (ii) are eligible for benefits under certain income tax treaties with the United States that include an exchange of information program, or (c) with respect to stock of a foreign corporation that is readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States. Both a Fund and the investor must meet certain holding period and other requirements to qualify Fund dividends for this treatment.

Specifically, a Fund must hold the stock for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before the stock becomes ex- dividend. Similarly, you must hold your Fund Shares for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before a Fund distribution goes ex-dividend. Income derived from investments in derivatives, fixed-income securities, U.S. REITs, PFICs, and income received “in lieu of” dividends in a securities lending transaction generally is not eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income. If the qualifying dividend income received by a Fund is equal to or greater than 95% of the Fund’s gross income (exclusive of net capital gain) in any taxable year, all of the ordinary income dividends paid by the Fund will be treated as qualifying dividend income.

Dividends-Received Deduction for Corporations. For corporate shareholders, a portion of the dividends paid by a Fund may qualify for the 70% corporate dividends-received deduction. The portion of dividends paid by a Fund that so qualifies will be reported by the Fund each year and cannot exceed the gross amount of dividends received by the Fund from domestic (U.S.) corporations. The availability of the dividends-received deduction is subject to certain holding period and debt financing restrictions that apply to both a Fund and the investor. Specifically, the amount that a Fund may report as eligible for the dividends-received deduction will be reduced or eliminated if the Shares on which the dividends earned by the Fund were debt-financed or held by the Fund for less than a minimum period of time, generally 46 days during the 91-day period beginning 45 days before the stock becomes ex-dividend. Similarly, if your Fund Shares are debt-financed or held by you for less than a 46-day period then the dividends-received deduction for Fund dividends on your Shares may also be reduced or eliminated. Even if reported as dividends eligible for the dividends-received deduction, all dividends (including any deducted portion) must be included in your alternative minimum taxable income calculation. Income derived by a Fund from investments in derivatives, fixed-income and foreign securities generally is not eligible for this treatment.

Impact of Realized but Undistributed Income and Gains, and Net Unrealized Appreciation of Portfolio Securities. At the time of your purchase of Shares, the price of Shares may reflect undistributed income, undistributed capital gains, or net unrealized appreciation of portfolio securities held by the Fund. A subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although economically constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable, and would be taxed as ordinary income (some portion of which may be taxed as qualified dividend income), capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. A Fund may be able to reduce the amount of such distributions from capital gains by utilizing its capital loss carryovers, if any.

Pass-Through of Foreign Tax Credits. If more than 50% of a Fund’s total assets at the end of a fiscal year is invested in foreign securities, the Fund may elect to pass through to you your pro rata share of foreign taxes paid by the Fund. If this election is made, shareholders will include in gross income from foreign sources their pro rata share of such taxes paid by the Fund. You will then be entitled either to deduct your share of these taxes in computing your taxable income, or to claim a foreign tax credit for these taxes against your U.S. federal income tax liability (subject to limitations for certain shareholders). A Fund will provide the information necessary to claim this deduction or credit on your personal income tax return if it makes this election. No deduction for foreign tax may be claimed by a noncorporate shareholder who does not itemize deductions or who is subject to the alternative minimum tax. Shareholders may be unable to claim a credit for the full amount of their proportionate shares of the foreign income tax paid by a Fund due to certain limitations that may apply. Each Fund reserves the right not to pass through to its shareholders the amount of foreign income taxes paid by the Fund. Additionally, any foreign tax withheld on payments made “in lieu of” dividends or interest will not qualify for the pass-through of foreign tax credits to shareholders. See “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions – Securities Lending” below.

U.S. Government Securities. Income earned on certain U.S. government obligations is exempt from state and local personal income taxes if earned directly by you. States also grant tax-free status to dividends paid to you from interest earned on direct obligations of the U.S. government, subject in some states to minimum investment or reporting requirements that must be met by a Fund. Income on investments by a Fund in certain other obligations, such as repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government obligations, commercial paper and federal agency-backed obligations (e.g., GNMA or FNMA obligations), generally does not qualify for tax-free treatment. The rules on exclusion of this income are different for corporations.

Dividends Declared in October, November or December and Paid in January. Ordinarily, shareholders are required to take distributions by a Fund into account in the year in which the distributions are made. However, dividends declared in October, November or December of any year and payable to shareholders of record on a specified date in such a month will be deemed to have been received by the shareholders (and made by the Fund) on December 31 of such calendar year if such dividends are actually paid in January of the following year. Shareholders will be advised annually as to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of distributions made (or deemed made) during the year in accordance with the guidance that has been provided by the IRS.

Medicare Tax. A 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on net investment income earned by certain individuals, estates and trusts. “Net investment income,” for these purposes, means investment income, including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from the Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Fund Shares, reduced by the deductions properly allocable to such income. In the case of an individual, the tax will be imposed on the lesser of (1) the shareholder’s net investment income or (2) the amount by which the shareholder’s modified adjusted gross income exceeds $250,000 (if the shareholder is married and filing jointly or a surviving spouse), $125,000 (if the shareholder is married and filing separately) or $200,000 (in any other case). This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.

Sales, Exchanges and Redemptions of Fund Shares

Sales, exchanges and redemptions (including redemptions in kind) of Fund Shares are taxable transactions for federal and state income tax purposes. If you redeem your Fund Shares, the IRS requires you to report any gain or loss on your redemption. If you held your Shares as a capital asset, the gain or loss that you realize on a sale, exchange, or redemption will be a capital gain or loss and will be long-term or short-term, generally depending on how long you have held your Shares. Any redemption fees you incur on Shares redeemed will decrease the amount of any capital gain (or increase any capital loss) you realize on the redemption. Capital losses in any year are deductible only to the extent of capital gains plus, in the case of a noncorporate taxpayer, $3,000 of ordinary income ($1,500 if the shareholder is married filing separately).

Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units. An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of purchase and the exchanger’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered and the Cash Component paid. A person who exchanges Creation Units for equity securities will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanger’s basis in the Creation Units and the aggregate market value of the securities received and the Cash Redemption Amount. The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales,” or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.

Under current federal tax laws, any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less.

If a Fund redeems Creation Units in cash, it may recognize more capital gains than it will if it redeems Creation Units in-kind.

Tax Basis Information. A shareholder’s cost basis information will be provided on the redemption of any of the shareholder’s Shares in the Fund, subject to certain exceptions for exempt recipients. Please contact the broker (or other nominee) that holds your Shares with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections for your account.

Wash Sales. All or a portion of any loss that you realize on a redemption of your Fund Shares will be disallowed to the extent that you buy other Shares in the Fund (through reinvestment of dividends or otherwise) within 30 days before or after your Share redemption. Any loss disallowed under these rules will be added to your tax basis in the new Shares.

Redemptions at a Loss Within Six Months of Purchase. Any loss incurred on a redemption or exchange of Shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term capital gain distributed to you by the Fund on those Shares.

Reportable Transactions. Under Treasury regulations, if a shareholder recognizes a loss with respect to a Fund’s Shares of $2 million or more for an individual shareholder or $10 million or more for a corporate shareholder (or certain greater amounts over a combination of years), the shareholder must file with the IRS a disclosure statement on Form 8886. The fact that a loss is reportable under these regulations does not affect the legal determination of whether the taxpayer’s treatment of the loss is proper. Shareholders should consult their tax advisors to determine the applicability of these regulations in light of their individual circumstances.

Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions

Set forth below is a general description of the tax treatment of certain types of securities, investment techniques and transactions that may apply to a Fund and, in turn, affect the amount, character and timing of dividends and distributions payable by a Fund to its shareholders. This section should be read in conjunction with the discussion above under “Investment Strategies” for a detailed description of the various types of securities and investment techniques that apply to a Fund.

In General. In general, gain or loss recognized by a Fund on the sale or other disposition of portfolio investments will be a capital gain or loss. Such capital gain and loss may be long-term or short-term depending, in general, upon the length of time a particular investment position is maintained and, in some cases, upon the nature of the transaction. Gain or loss recognized on the disposition of property held for more than one year generally will be eligible for long-term capital gain or loss treatment. The application of certain rules described below may serve to alter the manner in which the holding period for a security is determined or may otherwise affect the characterization as long-term or short-term, and also the timing of the realization and/or character, of certain gains or losses.

Options, Futures, Forward Contracts, Swap Agreements and Hedging Transactions. In general, option premiums received by a Fund are not immediately included in the income of the Fund. Instead, the premiums are recognized when the option contract expires, the option is exercised by the holder, or the Fund transfers or otherwise terminates the option (e.g., through a closing transaction). If an option written by a Fund is exercised and the Fund sells or delivers the underlying stock, the Fund generally will recognize capital gain or loss equal to (a) the sum of the strike price and the option premium received by the Fund minus (b) the Fund’s basis in the stock. Such gain or loss generally will be short-term or long-term depending upon the holding period of the underlying stock. If securities are purchased by a Fund pursuant to the exercise of a put option written by it, the Fund generally will subtract the premium received from its cost basis in the securities purchased. The gain or loss with respect to any termination of a Fund’s obligation under an option other than through the exercise of the option and related sale or delivery of the underlying stock generally will be short-term gain or loss depending on whether the premium income received by the Fund is greater or less than the amount paid by the Fund (if any) in terminating the transaction. Thus, for example, if an option written by a Fund expires unexercised, the Fund generally will recognize short-term gain equal to the premium received.

The tax treatment of certain futures contracts entered into by a Fund as well as listed non-equity options written or purchased by the Fund on U.S. exchanges (including options on futures contracts, broad-based equity indices and debt securities) may be governed by section 1256 of the Internal Revenue Code (“section 1256 contracts”). Gains or losses on section 1256 contracts generally are considered 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gains or losses (“60/40”), although certain foreign currency gains and losses from such contracts may be treated as ordinary in character. Also, any section 1256 contracts held by a Fund at the end of each taxable year (and, for purposes of the 4% excise tax, on certain other dates as prescribed under the Internal Revenue Code) are “marked to market” with the result that unrealized gains or losses are treated as though they were realized and the resulting gain or loss is treated as ordinary or 60/40 gain or loss, as applicable. Section 1256 contracts generally do not include any interest rate swap, currency swap, basis swap, interest rate cap, interest rate floor, commodity swap, equity swap, equity index swap, credit default swap, or similar agreement.

In addition to the special rules described above in respect of options and futures transactions, a Fund’s transactions in other derivative instruments (including options, forward contracts and swap agreements) as well as its other hedging, short sale, or similar transactions, may be subject to one or more special tax rules (including the constructive sale, notional principal contract, straddle, wash sale and short sale rules). These rules may affect whether gains and losses recognized by a Fund are treated as ordinary or capital or as short-term or long-term, accelerate the recognition of income or gains to the Fund, defer losses to the Fund, and cause adjustments in the holding periods of the Fund’s securities. These rules, therefore, could affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. Moreover, because the tax rules applicable to derivative financial instruments are in some cases uncertain under current law, an adverse determination or future guidance by the IRS with respect to these rules (which determination or guidance could be retroactive) may affect whether a Fund has made sufficient distributions, and otherwise satisfied the relevant requirements, to maintain its qualification as a regulated investment company and avoid a Fund-level tax.

Certain of a Fund’s investments in derivatives and foreign currency-denominated instruments, and a Fund’s transactions in foreign currencies and hedging activities, may produce a difference between its book income and its taxable income. If a Fund’s book income is less than the sum of its taxable income and net tax-exempt income (if any), the Fund could be required to make distributions exceeding book income to qualify as a regulated investment company. If a Fund’s book income exceeds the sum of its taxable income and net tax-exempt income (if any), the distribution of any such excess will be treated as (i) a dividend to the extent of the Fund’s remaining earnings and profits (including current earnings and profits arising from tax-exempt income, reduced by related deductions), (ii) thereafter, as a return of capital to the extent of the recipient’s basis in the Shares, and (iii) thereafter, as gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset.

Foreign Currency Transactions. A Fund’s transactions in foreign currencies, foreign currency-denominated debt obligations and certain foreign currency options, futures contracts and forward contracts (and similar instruments) may give rise to ordinary income or loss to the extent such income or loss results from fluctuations in the value of the foreign currency concerned. This treatment could increase or decrease a Fund's ordinary income distributions to you, and may (to the extent such fluctuations give rise to net losses) cause some or all of the Fund's previously distributed income to be classified as a return of capital. In certain cases, a Fund may make an election to treat such gain or loss as capital.

PFIC Investments. A Fund may invest in securities of foreign companies that may be classified under the Internal Revenue Code as passive foreign investment companies (“PFICs”). In general, a foreign company is classified as a PFIC if at least one-half of its assets constitute investment-type assets or 75% or more of its gross income is investment-type income. When investing in PFIC securities, each Fund intends to mark-to-market these securities under certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and recognize any unrealized gains as ordinary income at the end of each Fund’s respective taxable year. Deductions for losses are allowable only to the extent of any current or previously recognized gains. These gains (reduced by allowable losses) are treated as ordinary income that a Fund is required to distribute, even though it has not sold or received dividends from these securities. The designation of a foreign security as a PFIC security will cause its income dividends to fall outside of the definition of qualified foreign corporation dividends. These dividends generally will not qualify for the reduced rate of taxation on qualified dividends when distributed to you by a Fund. Foreign companies are not required to identify themselves as PFICs. Due to various complexities in identifying PFICs, a Fund can give no assurances that it will be able to identify portfolio securities in foreign corporations that are PFICs in time for the Fund to make a mark-to-market election. If a Fund is unable to identify an investment as a PFIC and thus does not make a mark-to-market election, the Fund may be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a portion of any “excess distribution” or gain from the disposition of such shares even if such income is distributed as a taxable dividend by the Fund to its shareholders. Additional charges in the nature of interest may be imposed on a Fund in respect of deferred taxes arising from such distributions or gains.

Investments in U.S. REITs. A U.S. REIT is not subject to federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes to shareholders. Dividends paid by a U.S. REIT, other than capital gain distributions, will be taxable as ordinary income up to the amount of the U.S. REIT’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Capital gain dividends paid by a U.S. REIT to a Fund will be treated as long-term capital gains by the Fund and, in turn, may be distributed by the Fund to its shareholders as a capital gain distribution. Because of certain noncash expenses, such as property depreciation, an equity U.S. REIT’s cash flow may exceed its taxable income. The equity U.S. REIT, and in turn a Fund, may distribute this excess cash to shareholders in the form of a return of capital distribution. However, if a U.S. REIT is operated in a manner that fails to qualify as a REIT, an investment in the U.S. REIT would become subject to double taxation, meaning the taxable income of the U.S. REIT would be subject to federal income tax at regular corporate rates without any deduction for dividends paid to shareholders and the dividends would be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income (or possibly as qualified dividend income) to the extent of the U.S. REIT’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Also, see, “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions — Investment in Taxable Mortgage Pools (Excess Inclusion Income)” and “Non-U.S. Investors — Investment in U.S. Real Property” below with respect to certain other tax aspects of investing in U.S. REITs.

Investment in Non-U.S. REITs. While non-U.S. REITs often use complex acquisition structures that seek to minimize taxation in the source country, an investment by a Fund in a non-U.S. REIT may subject the Fund, directly or indirectly, to corporate taxes, withholding taxes, transfer taxes and other indirect taxes in the country in which the real estate acquired by the non-U.S. REIT is located. A Fund’s pro rata share of any such taxes will reduce the Fund’s return on its investment. A Fund’s investment in a non-U.S. REIT may be considered an investment in a PFIC, as discussed above in “PFIC Investments.” Additionally, foreign withholding taxes on distributions from the non-U.S. REIT may be reduced or eliminated under certain tax treaties, as discussed above in “Taxation of the Fund — Foreign Income Tax.” Also, a Fund in certain limited circumstances may be required to file an income tax return in the source country and pay tax on any gain realized from its investment in the non-U.S. REIT under rules similar to those in the United States which tax foreign persons on gain realized from dispositions of interests in U.S. real estate.

Investment in Taxable Mortgage Pools (Excess Inclusion Income). Under a Notice issued by the IRS, the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury regulations to be issued but that may apply retroactively, a portion of a Fund’s income from a U.S. REIT that is attributable to the REIT’s residual interest in a real estate mortgage investment conduit (“REMIC”) or equity interests in a “taxable mortgage pool” (referred to in the Internal Revenue Code as an excess inclusion) will be subject to federal income tax in all events. The excess inclusion income of a regulated investment company, such as a Fund, will be allocated to shareholders of the regulated investment company in proportion to the dividends received by such shareholders, with the same consequences as if the shareholders held the related REMIC residual interest or, if applicable, taxable mortgage pool directly. In general, excess inclusion income allocated to shareholders (i) cannot be offset by net operating losses (subject to a limited exception for certain thrift institutions), (ii) will constitute unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”) to entities (including qualified pension plans, individual retirement accounts, 401(k) plans, Keogh plans or other tax-exempt entities) subject to tax on UBTI, thereby potentially requiring such an entity that is allocated excess inclusion income, and otherwise might not be required to file a tax return, to file a tax return and pay tax on such income, and (iii) in the case of a foreign stockholder, will not qualify for any reduction in U.S. federal withholding tax. In addition, if at any time during any taxable year a “disqualified organization” (which generally includes certain cooperatives, governmental entities, and tax- exempt organizations not subject to UBTI) is a record holder of a share in a regulated investment company, then the regulated investment company will be subject to a tax equal to that portion of its excess inclusion income for the taxable year that is allocable to the disqualified organization, multiplied by the highest federal income tax rate imposed on corporations. The Notice imposes certain reporting requirements upon regulated investment companies that have excess inclusion income. There can be no assurance that a Fund will not allocate to shareholders excess inclusion income.

These rules are potentially applicable to a Fund with respect to any income it receives from the equity interests of certain mortgage pooling vehicles, either directly or, as is more likely, through an investment in a U.S. REIT. It is unlikely that these rules will apply to a Fund that has a non-REIT strategy.

Investments in Partnerships. For purposes of the Income Requirement, income derived by a Fund from a partnership that is not a QPTP will be treated as qualifying income only to the extent such income is attributable to items of income of the partnership that would be qualifying income if realized directly by the Fund.

Securities Lending. While securities are loaned out by a Fund, the Fund generally will receive from the borrower amounts equal to any dividends or interest paid on the borrowed securities. For federal income tax purposes, payments made “in lieu of” dividends are not considered dividend income. These distributions will neither qualify for the reduced rate of taxation for individuals on qualified dividends nor the 70% dividends-received deduction for corporations. Also, any foreign tax withheld on payments made “in lieu of” dividends or interest will not qualify for the pass-through of foreign tax credits to shareholders.

Investments in Securities of Uncertain Tax Character. A Fund may invest in securities the U.S. federal income tax treatment of which may not be clear or may be subject to recharacterization by the IRS. To the extent the tax treatment of such securities or the income from such securities differs from the tax treatment expected by a Fund, it could affect the amount, timing or character of income recognized by the Fund, requiring the Fund to purchase or sell securities, or otherwise change its portfolio, in order to comply with the tax rules applicable to regulated investment companies under the Internal Revenue Code.

Backup Withholding

By law, a portion of your taxable dividends and sales proceeds may be withheld unless you:

·provide your correct social security or taxpayer identification number,
·certify that this number is correct,
·certify that you are not subject to backup withholding, and
·certify that you are a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien).

Withholding is also imposed if the IRS requires it. When withholding is required, the amount will be imposed at a rate of 28% on any distributions or proceeds paid. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld may be credited against the shareholder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, provided the appropriate information is furnished to the IRS. Certain payees and payments are exempt from backup withholding and information reporting. The special U.S. tax certification requirements applicable to non-U.S. investors to avoid backup withholding are described under the “Non-U.S. Investors” heading below.

Non-U.S. Investors

Non-U.S. investors (shareholders who, as to the United States, are nonresident alien individuals, foreign trusts or estates, foreign corporations, or foreign partnerships) may be subject to U.S. withholding and estate tax and are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements. Non-U.S. investors should consult their tax advisors about the applicability of U.S. tax withholding and the use of the appropriate forms to certify their status.

In General. If a foreign shareholder fails to provide a properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status (using the applicable IRS Form W-8), a Fund will be required to withhold U.S. tax on ordinary income dividends, capital gains distributions and the proceeds of the redemption of shares. Provided a Fund obtains a proper certification of foreign status, ordinary income dividends that are paid by the Fund to foreign shareholders and that are not “effectively connected income,” will be subject to a U.S. withholding tax. The tax rate may be reduced if the foreign shareholder’s country of residence has an income tax treaty with the United States allowing for a reduced tax rate on ordinary income dividends paid by a Fund. If the ordinary income dividends from a Fund are effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business or the distributions are attributable to gain that is treated as effectively connected with the conduct by the foreign shareholder of a trade or business within the United States under special rules regarding the disposition of U.S. real property interests as described below, then the foreign shareholder may claim an exemption from the U.S. withholding tax described above provided the Fund obtains a properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status. Any tax withheld by a Fund is remitted to the U.S. Treasury and all income and any tax withheld is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in the early part of each year with a copy sent to the IRS. Capital gain dividends are not subject to U.S. withholding tax unless the recipient is a nonresident alien who is present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year in which the dividends are received. A foreign individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more generally loses his or her status as a nonresident alien.

Properly reported dividends will generally be exempt from U.S. federal withholding tax on foreign persons provided such dividends (i) are derived from a Fund’s “qualified net interest income” (generally, a Fund’s U.S. source interest income, other than certain contingent interest and interest from obligations of a corporation or partnership in which the Fund is a 10% or greater shareholder, reduced by expenses that are allocable to such income) or (ii) are derived from a Fund’s “qualified short-term capital gains” (generally, the excess of a Fund’s net short-term capital gain over the Fund’s net long-term capital loss for such taxable year) unless such short-term gains are attributable to gain that is treated as effectively connected with the conduct by the foreign shareholder of a trade or business within the United States under special rules regarding the disposition of U.S. real property interests as described below. In order to qualify for this exemption from withholding, a shareholder that is a foreign person must comply with applicable certification requirements relating to its non-U.S. status. However, depending on its circumstances, a Fund may report some, all, or none of its potentially eligible dividends as interest-related dividends or as short-term capital gain dividends, and/or treat such dividends, in whole or in part, as ineligible for this exemption from withholding on foreign persons. In the case of shares held through a financial intermediary, the intermediary may withhold even if a Fund reports the payment as qualified net interest income or qualified short-term capital gain. Shareholders that are foreign persons should contact their intermediaries with respect to the application of these rules to their accounts.

The tax consequences to foreign persons entitled to claim the benefits of an applicable income tax treaty may be different from those described in this SAI. Foreign shareholders are urged to consult their tax advisers with respect to the particular tax consequences of an investment in a Fund, including the applicability of the U.S. withholding taxes described above and, as further discussed below, the possible applicability of U.S. estate tax.

Special rules would apply if a Fund were a qualified investment entity (“QIE”) because it is either a “U.S. real property holding corporation” (“USRPHC”) or would be a USRPHC but for the operation of certain exceptions to the definition of USRPIs described below. Very generally, a USRPHC is a domestic corporation that holds USRPIs the fair market value of which equals or exceeds 50% of the sum of the fair market values of the corporation’s USRPIs, interests in real property located outside the United States, and other trade or business assets. USRPIs generally are defined as any interest in U.S. real property and any interest (other than solely as a creditor) in a USRPHC or, very generally, an entity that has been a USRPHC in the last five years. A Fund that holds, directly or indirectly, significant interests in REITs may be a USRPHC. Interests in domestically controlled QIEs, including REITs and RICs that are QIEs, not-greater-than-10% interests in publicly traded classes of stock in REITs and not-greater-than-5% interests in publicly traded classes of stock in RICs generally are not USRPIs, but these exceptions do not apply for purposes of determining whether a Fund is a QIE.

If an interest in a Fund were a USRPI, the Fund would be required to withhold U.S. tax on the proceeds of a share redemption by a greater-than-5% foreign shareholder, in which case such foreign shareholder generally would also be required to file U.S. tax returns and pay any additional taxes due in connection with the redemption.

If a Fund were a QIE, under a special “look through” rule, any distributions by the Fund to a foreign shareholder (including, in certain cases, distributions made by the Fund in redemption of its shares) attributable directly or indirectly to (i) distributions received by the Fund from a lower-tier RIC or REIT that the Fund is required to treat as USRPI gain in its hands and (ii) gains realized on the disposition of USRPIs by the Fund would retain their character as gains realized from USRPIs in the hands of the Fund’s foreign shareholders and would be subject to U.S. tax withholding. In addition, such distributions could result in the foreign shareholder being required to file a U.S. tax return and pay tax on the distributions at regular U.S. federal income tax rates. The consequences to a foreign shareholder, including the rate of such withholding and character of such distributions (e.g., as ordinary income or USRPI gain), would vary depending upon the extent of the foreign shareholder’s current and past ownership of the Fund.

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”). Under legislation known as “FATCA” (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), ordinary dividends the Fund pays and, after December 31, 2018, the gross proceeds of share redemptions and certain capital gains dividends it pays to “foreign financial institutions” and certain other foreign entities will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% unless various certification, information reporting, due diligence and other applicable requirements (different from, and in addition to, those described above) are satisfied. In general, no such withholding will occur with respect to a U.S. person or non-U.S. individual that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-9 or IRS Form W-8BEN, respectively. No such withholding will occur with respect to a non-U.S. entity that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or other applicable Form W-8) indicating the entity’s compliance with, or exemption from, FATCA. Payments that are taken into account as effectively connected income are not subject to these withholding rules. Foreign shareholders should consult their own tax advisors as to the applicability and consequences of this legislation to them.

Non-U.S. investors should consult their own tax advisors regarding the impact of these requirements on their investment in a Fund. The requirements imposed by FATCA are different from, and in addition to, the U.S. tax certification rules to avoid backup withholding described above. Shareholders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the application of these requirements to their own situation.

Effect of Future Legislation; Local Tax Considerations

The foregoing general discussion of U.S. federal income tax consequences is based on the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations issued thereunder as in effect on the date of this SAI. Future legislative or administrative changes, including provisions of current law that sunset and thereafter no longer apply, or court decisions may significantly change the conclusions expressed herein, and any such changes or decisions may have a retroactive effect with respect to the transactions contemplated herein. Rules of state and local taxation of ordinary income, qualified dividend income and capital gain dividends may differ from the rules for U.S. federal income taxation described above. Distributions may also be subject to additional state, local and foreign taxes depending on each shareholder’s particular situation. Non-U.S. shareholders may be subject to U.S. tax rules that differ significantly from those summarized above. Shareholders are urged to consult their tax advisors as to the consequences of these and other state and local tax rules affecting investment in a Fund.

DETERMINATION OF NET ASSET VALUE

The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section in the Prospectus entitled “Net Asset Value.”

The NAV per Share of each Fund is computed by dividing the value of the net assets of the Fund (i.e., the value of its total assets less total liabilities) by the total number of Shares of the Fund outstanding, rounded to the nearest cent. Expenses and fees including, without limitation, the management and administration fees, are accrued daily and taken into account for purposes of determining NAV. The NAV per Share is calculated by the Funds’ administrator and determined as of the close of the regular trading session on the NYSE (ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) on each day that such exchange is open. Foreign securities, currencies and other assets denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate of such currencies against the U.S. dollar deemed appropriate by a Fund.

In computing each Fund’s NAV, the Fund’s securities holdings traded on a national securities exchange are valued based on their closing price. Price information on listed securities is taken from the exchange where the security is primarily traded. Other portfolio securities and assets for which market quotations are not readily available are valued based on fair value as determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board.

DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section in the Prospectus entitled “Dividends, Distributions and Taxes.”

General Policies. Dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid quarterly. Distributions of net realized capital gains, if any, generally are declared and paid once a year, but the Trust may make distributions on a more frequent basis. The Trust reserves the right to declare special distributions if, in its reasonable discretion, such action is necessary or advisable to preserve the status of each Fund as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code, or to avoid imposition of income or excise taxes on undistributed income.

Dividends and other distributions on Fund Shares are distributed, as described below, on a pro rata basis to Beneficial Owners of the Shares. Dividend payments are made through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants to Beneficial Owners with proceeds received from a Fund.

Dividend Reinvestment Service. No reinvestment service is provided by the Trust. Broker-dealers may make available the DTC book entry Dividend Reinvestment Service for use by Beneficial Owners of the Fund for reinvestment of their dividend distributions. Beneficial Owners should contact their broker to determine the availability and costs of the service and the details of participation therein. Brokers may require Beneficial Owners to adhere to specific procedures and timetables.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

As of the date of this SAI, the Funds have not yet commenced operations. Accordingly, no financial statements are provided for the Funds.

 

Appendix A

VTL Associates, LLC

Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures

I.       General

VTL Associates, LLC (the "Advisor") recognizes its obligation to vote proxies for investments held by clients over which it exercises discretionary voting authority in the clients' best interest. Unless a client specifically reserves the right, in writing, to vote its own proxies, the Advisor will vote all proxies and act on all other corporate actions in a timely manner in accordance with these Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures (the "Proxy Voting Policies"). The Advisor will notify clients in writing if it declines the responsibility of voting proxies and will make provisions for its clients to receive proxy information.

II.        Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies

A.        General Requirements of Rule 206(4)-6

Pursuant to the requirements of Rule 206( 4 )-6 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act"), the Advisor: (i) has adopted these Proxy Voting Policies that are reasonably designed to ensure that the Advisor votes client securities in the best interest of such clients; (ii) will disclose to clients how they may obtain information on how the Advisor voted their proxies; and (iii) will describe to clients its Proxy Voting Policies and, upon their request, provide copies to clients upon request.

B.        Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Voting Information

The Advisor's Proxy Voting Procedures will be described in Part 2A of its Form ADV. The disclosure will state that a client may obtain a copy of the complete Proxy Voting Policies upon request. The Advisor's Form ADV, Part 2A will also indicate that clients may obtain information from the Advisor on how their securities were voted.

III.        Proxy Voting Policies- Procedures and Guidelines

A.        Procedures

The Advisor's portfolio managers are ultimately responsible for ensuring that all proxies received by Advisor are voted in a timely manner and in a manner consistent with the Advisor's determination of the client's best interests.

B.        Guidelines

The following guidelines summarize the Advisor's positions on various issues and give a general indication as to how the Advisor will vote shares on each issue. Although the Advisor will usually vote proxies in accordance with these guidelines, the Advisor reserves the right to vote certain issues counter to the guidelines if, after a thorough review of the matter, the Advisor determines that a client's best interests would be served by such a vote. The Advisor, in good faith, shall consider such additional factors as it determines relevant, depending on current issues and issues particular to any company. Moreover, the list of guidelines below may not include all potential voting issues. To the extent that the guidelines do not cover potential voting issues, the Advisor will vote on such issues in a manner that is consistent with the spirit of these guidelines and that promotes the best interests of the client.

1.        Routine Matters. Routine proposals are those that do not change the structure, bylaws or operations of a corporation. Given the routine nature of these proposals, proxies will normally be voted with management. Traditionally, these issues include:

Election of auditors recommended by management, unless seeking to replace auditors due to a dispute over policies.

•        Date and place of annual meeting.

•        Ratification of directors' actions on routine matters since previous annual meeting.

•        Reasonable Employee Stock Purchase Plans.

•        Establishing reasonable 401(k) Plans.

2.        Board of Directors. If a company's performance has been poor over a period of time or other negative factors exist, such as unusual litigation, the Advisor may consider withholding its proxy in favor of any incumbent members of board of directors or voting against an incumbent member. The Advisor also considers it important that publicly held companies maintain a board of directors independent from management and qualified in their own respect. Board of directors should also be independent from influence and otherwise from any investment consulting or banking firm for the company. Subject to the foregoing, the Advisor will generally vote in favor of the incumbent Board's share.

3.        Management Compensation. The Advisor generally votes in favor of proposals to align management compensation with the interests of stockholders. However, the Advisor considers excessive compensation to be against the best interest of stockholders. It may also consider such compensation as a factor to vote against any incumbent director.

4.        Change of Control Provisions. The Advisor disfavors change of control provisions in whatever format, and will generally vote against these provisions absent good reasons to the contrary. The Advisor generally votes against any management proposal that is not deemed to be in the shareholders' best interests as entrenching management. Proposals in this category include issues regarding the issuer's board or management entrenchment and antitakeover measures such as the following:

•        Proposals to stagger board members' terms;

•        Proposals to limit the ability of shareholders to call special meetings;

•        Proposals to require super majority votes;

Proposals requesting excessive increases in authorized common or preferred shares where management provides no explanation for the use or need of these additional shares;

•        Proposals regarding "poison pill" provisions;

•        Permitting "green mail"; and

•        Providing cumulative voting rights.

5.        Capital Structures. The Advisor votes on capital structure proposals according to the reasons for the proposals and in a manner to increase stockholder value. For example, proposals to increase the number of authorized shares of stock for acquisitions or to raise capital are favored over proposals to increase the number of authorized shares for management compensation. Proposals to buy back shares of common stock are generally favored. Proposals to issue shares in such a manner to prevent a change of control are generally disfavored.

6.        Auditor Approval. In determining whether to ratify the appointment of outside auditors, the Advisor considers the integrity, qualifications, and disciplinary history of the proposed accounting firm. Any firm with a significant amount of disciplinary history or legal claims against it is disfavored. The Advisor does not necessarily consider the size of the accounting firm to be one of the more important factors. A qualified, independent, and active audit committee's recommendation is given deference in ratifying the appointed independent auditors.

7.        Corporate Governance. Any provisions furthering good corporate governance, integrity and informed decisions by the board of directors, management or otherwise are endorsed by the Advisor.

8.        Shareholder Action. If proxy materials relate to shareholder action, the Advisor shall review the matter with regard to the best interests of the client and to recover the most value possible or to maintain the highest value of the investment. Within the consideration of the recovery of an investment with respect to a lawsuit, the time value of money and the risks and nature of the lawsuit shall be considered.

9.        Director Management Retirement and Compensation. The Advisor reviews director/management mandatory retirement policy; option and stock grants to management and directors, pay and retirement packages to management and directors each issue in this category on a case-by-case basis. Voting decisions will be made based on clients' long-term financial interest.

10.        Shareholder Proposals. The Advisor reviews shareholder proposals individually and determines each proposal on its own individual merits. The Advisor balances the needs of the company to maintain flexibility in its business operations against other considerations proposed by shareholders.

C.        Limitations.

In certain circumstances, in accordance with a client's investment advisory contract (or other written directive) or where the Advisor has determined that it is in the client's best interest, the Advisor will not vote proxies received. The following are circumstances in which the Advisor may limit its role in voting proxies:

1.        Client Maintains Proxy Voting Authority. Where client specifies in writing that it will maintain the authority to vote proxies itself or that it has delegated the right to vote proxies to a third party, the Advisor will not vote the securities and will direct the relevant custodian to send the proxy material directly to the client. If any proxy material is received by the Advisor, it will promptly be forwarded to the client or specified third party.

2.        Terminated Account. Once a client account has been terminated with the Advisor in accordance with its investment advisory agreement, the Advisor will not vote any proxies received after the termination. However, the client may specify in writing that proxies should be directed to the client or a specified third party for action.

3.        Limited Value. If the Advisor determines that the value of a client's economic interest or the value of the portfolio holding is indeterminable or insignificant, the Advisor may abstain from voting a client's proxies. The Advisor also will not vote proxies received for securities which are no longer held by the client's account. In addition, the Advisor may determine in its discretion not to vote securities where the economic value of the securities in the client account is less than $10,000.

4.        Securities Lending Programs. When securities are out on loan, they are transferred into the borrower's name and are voted by the borrower, in its discretion. However, where the Advisor determines that a proxy vote, or other shareholder action, is materially important to the client's account, the Advisor will recall the security for purposes of voting.

5.        Unjustifiable Costs. In certain circumstances, after doing a cost-benefit analysis, the Advisor may abstain from voting where the cost of voting a client's proxy would exceed any anticipated benefits to the client of the proxy proposal.

D.        Conflict of Interest.

If a potential conflict of interest exists between a client and the interest of the Advisor in voting proxies, any of the following procedures may be followed to resolve the conflict:

1.        Vote in Accordance with the Guidelines. The Advisor may address its potential conflict of interest by voting in accordance with the pre-determined guidelines set forth by these Proxy Voting Policies.

2.        Obtain Consent of Clients. The Advisor may address its potential conflict by disclosing the conflict to the relevant clients and obtaining their consent to the proposed vote prior to voting the proxy. The disclosure to the client will include sufficient detail regarding the matter to be voted on and the nature of the Advisor's conflict so that the client is able to make an informed decision regarding the vote. If a client does not respond to such a conflict disclosure request or denies the request, the Advisor will abstain from voting the securities held by that client's account.

E.        Client Directions

The Advisor follows and adheres to any policies, procedures and directions of clients regarding the voting of proxies. Such directions must be in writing, duly authorized by the client and delivered to the Advisor sufficiently in advance to vote the proxies as directed.

F.        Third Party

If the Advisor determines to use a third party service provider to vote proxies, the Advisor must assure that the third party complies with Rule 206(4)-6, these Proxy Voting Policies and maintains required records.

IV.        Record Keeping

A.        Maintenance

The Advisor maintains:

•        these Proxy Voting Policies, and all amendments thereto;

all proxy statements received regarding client securities; provided, however, that the Advisor may rely on the proxy statement filed on EDGAR as its records;

•        a record of all votes cast on behalf of clients;

•        records of all client requests for proxy voting information;

any documents prepared by the Advisor that were material to making a decision how to vote or that memorialized the basis for the decision; and
all records relating to requests made to clients regarding conflicts of interest in voting the
proxy.

B.        Form N-PX

The Advisor will coordinate with any exchange-traded fund ("ETF") it advises or subadvises to assist it in the provision of all information required to be filed by the ETF on Form NPX.

 

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust

Website 
www.oppenheimerfunds.com

Investment Adviser 
VTL Associates, LLC
2005 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Distributor 
OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
225 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281-1008

Custodian Bank 
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 
Cohen & Company, Ltd
1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800
Cleveland, OH 44115

Legal Counsel 
Ropes & Gray LLP
191 North Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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-Prospectus dated October 18, 2017

 

    Cusip BATS BZX Exchange, Inc.

This prospectus contains important information about each Fund’s objectives, investment policies, strategies and risks. It also contains important information about how to buy and sell shares of each Fund and other account features.

 

Please read this prospectus carefully before you invest and keep it for future reference about your account.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF

 

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68386C 682

 

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68386C 690

 

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68386C 716

 

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has not approved or disapproved the Funds’ securities nor has it determined that this prospectus is accurate or complete. It is a criminal offense to represent otherwise.

 

       
       
       

 

 

Table of Contents  
  Fund Summaries To Summary Prospectus
1 Oppenheimer Russell 1000®  Low Volatility Factor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF
6 Oppenheimer Russell 1000®  Momentum Factor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF
11 Oppenheimer Russell 1000®  Quality Factor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF
16 Oppenheimer Russell 1000®  Size Factor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF
21 Oppenheimer Russell 1000®  Value Factor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF
26 Oppenheimer Russell 1000®  Yield Factor ETF Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF
31 Investment Objective, Principal Investment Strategies, Related Risks and Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings  
39 Management of the Funds  
43 Shareholder Information  
44 Creations, Redemptions and Transaction Fees  
46 Dividends, Distributions and Taxes  
48 Premium/Discount Information  
48 Other Information  
50 Additional Notices  

 

 

Fund Summaries

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 1000® Volatility Factor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may also incur customary brokerage charges when buying or selling Shares.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.19%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.19%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$19 $61

 

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in certain index futures, options, options on index futures, swap contracts or other derivatives, as related to its Underlying Index and its component securities, other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology that selects a subset of the equity securities from the Russell 1000® Index (the “Parent Index”), which is comprised of the 1,000 largest-capitalization companies in the United States. To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits lower volatility characteristics relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. A company’s volatility factor score is based on the standard deviation of weekly total returns to a company’s stock price over the trailing five years ending on the last business day of the prior month. An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to factor exposure, diversification, liquidity, industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount.

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 285 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted annually. The Underlying Index is sponsored by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Low Volatility Risk Although subject to the risks of common stocks, low volatility stocks are seen as having a lower risk profile than the overall markets. However, a portfolio comprised of low volatility stocks may not produce investment exposure that has lower variability to changes in such stocks’ price levels. Low volatility stocks are likely to underperform the broader market during periods of rapidly rising stock prices. Although the Underlying Index was created to seek lower volatility than the Parent Index, there is no guarantee that this strategy will be successful.

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the low volatility factor. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to the low volatility factor will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target a different factor.

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the information technology sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors, including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

 

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income.

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 1000® Momentum Factor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.19%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.19%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$19 $61

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in certain index futures, options, options on index futures, swap contracts or other derivatives, as related to its Underlying Index and its component securities, other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology that selects a subset of the equity securities from the Russell 1000 Index (the “Parent Index”), which is comprised of the 1,000 largest-capitalization companies in the United States. To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits greater momentum characteristics relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. A company’s momentum factor score is based on historical total return over the 11 months ending on the last business day of the prior month. An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount.

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 874 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted semi-annually. The Underlying Index is sponsored by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Momentum Securities Risk Securities that previously exhibited high momentum characteristics may not experience positive momentum or may experience more volatility than the market as a whole.

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the momentum factor. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to the low volatility factor will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target a different factor.

 

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the information technology sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors,

including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

 

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

 

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income.

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 1000 Quality Factor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may also incur customary brokerage charges when buying or selling Shares.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.19%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.19%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$19 $61

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in certain index futures, options, options on index futures, swap contracts or other derivatives, as related to its Underlying Index and its component securities, other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology that selects a subset of the equity securities from the Russell 1000 Index (the “Parent Index”), which is comprised of the 1,000 largest-capitalization companies in the United States. To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits greater quality characteristics relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. A company’s quality factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of return on assets, change in asset turnover, accruals, and leverage, calculated based on information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month. An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to factor exposure, diversification, liquidity, industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount.

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 610 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted annually. The Underlying Index is sponsored by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Quality Securities Risk Securities included in the Underlying Index are deemed to be quality securities pursuant to the Underlying Index’s methodology, but there is no guarantee that the past performance of these securities will continue. Companies that issue these stocks may experience lower than expected returns or may experience negative growth, as well as increased leverage, resulting in lower than expected or negative returns to Fund shareholders. Many factors can affect a stock’s quality and performance, and the impact of these factors on a stock or its price can be difficult to predict.

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the quality factor. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to the low volatility factor will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target a different factor.

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the information technology sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors,

including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

 

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

 

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income.

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 1000 Size Factor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may also incur customary brokerage charges when buying or selling Shares.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.19%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.19%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$19 $61

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology that selects a subset of the equity securities from the Russell 1000 Index (the “Parent Index”), which is comprised of the 1,000 largest-capitalization companies in the United States. To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits characteristics of smaller-capitalization companies relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. A company’s size factor score is based on total market capitalization as of the last business day of the prior month. An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to factor exposure, diversification, liquidity, industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount.

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 644 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted annually. The Underlying Index is sponsored by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Small and Medium Capitalization Stock Risk Small and medium capitalization companies may have an unproven or narrow technological base and limited product lines, distribution channels, markets and financial resources. Small and medium capitalization companies also may be dependent on entrepreneurial management, making the companies more susceptible to certain setbacks and reversals. Securities of small and medium capitalization companies may also be more sensitive to changes in the economy, such as changes in the level of interest rates. As a result, the securities of small and medium capitalization companies may be subject to more abrupt or erratic price movements than securities of larger companies, may have limited marketability, and may be less liquid than securities of companies with larger capitalizations.

 

Increased Volatility Risk Increased volatility may result from increased cash flows to the Fund and other market participants that continuously or systematically buy large holdings of small or medium capitalization companies, which can drive prices up and down more dramatically. Additionally, the announcement that a security has been added to a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to increase. Conversely, the announcement that a security has been deleted from a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to decrease.

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the size factor. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to the low volatility factor will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target a different factor.

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the information technology sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors,

including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

 

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

 

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income.

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 1000 Value Factor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may also incur customary brokerage charges when buying or selling Shares.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.19%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.19%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$19 $61

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in certain index futures, options, options on index futures, swap contracts or other derivatives, as related to its Underlying Index and its component securities, other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology that selects a subset of the equity securities from the Russell 1000 Index (the “Parent Index”), which is comprised of the 1,000 largest-capitalization companies in the United States. To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits greater value characteristics relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. A company’s value factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of cash flow yield, earnings yield, and sales to price ratio, calculated based on the company’s total market capitalization and information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month. An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to factor exposure, diversification, liquidity, industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount.

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 809 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted annually. The Underlying Index is sponsored by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Value Securities Risk Securities issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued may fail to appreciate for long periods of time and may never realize their full potential value. The rules-based methodology of the Fund’s Underlying Index may be unsuccessful in creating an index that emphasizes undervalued securities.

 

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the value factor. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to the low volatility factor will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target a different factor.

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the information technology sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors,

including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

 

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

 

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income.

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF

 

Investment Objective

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Russell 1000 Yield Factor Index (the “Underlying Index”).

Fees and Expenses

The following table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund (“Shares”). You may also incur customary brokerage charges when buying or selling Shares.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fees 0.19%
Other Expenses* 0.00%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 0.19%

*     “Other expenses” are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year. 

 

The following example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of the Shares at the end of those periods. This example assumes that the Fund provides a return of 5% a year and that operating expenses remain the same. This example does not include the brokerage commission that you may pay to buy and sell exchange-traded Shares of the Fund. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

   
1 Year 3 Years
$19 $61

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities or other instruments. A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual Fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Underlying Index. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets, plus any borrowings for investment purposes, in securities of companies included in the Underlying Index. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in other securities not included in the Underlying Index and cash and cash equivalents, including shares of money market funds advised by affiliates of the investment adviser, to the extent the investment adviser believes such investments will help the Fund track the Underlying Index.

The Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology that selects a subset of the equity securities from the Russell 1000 Index (the “Parent Index”), which is comprised of the 1,000 largest-capitalization companies in the United States. To construct the Underlying Index, each constituent in the Parent Index is assigned a factor score based on the extent to which the constituent exhibits greater yield characteristics relative to the other constituents in the Parent Index. A company’s yield factor score is based on the 12-month trailing dividend yield as of the last business day of the prior month. An initial weight for each security is determined from the product of the security’s factor score and its weight in the Parent Index. These weights are adjusted to ensure that each constituent and the Underlying Index as a whole satisfy certain constraints with respect to factor exposure, diversification, liquidity, industry exposure, maximum security and minimum security weights, as compared to the Parent Index. Securities in the Parent Index are excluded from the Underlying Index if their relevant factor characteristics fall below an algorithmically-determined threshold, or if their adjusted weights fall below a certain de minimis amount.

As of September 30, 2017, the Underlying Index consisted of 279 component securities. The Underlying Index is rebalanced and reconstituted annually. The Underlying Index is sponsored by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider”), which is unaffiliated with the Fund and the investment adviser. The Index Provider determines the composition and relative weightings of the securities in the Underlying Index and publishes information regarding the market value of the Underlying Index.

The Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of the Underlying Index as closely as possible, and the investment adviser uses a “passive” or indexing approach to try to achieve the Fund’s investment objective. When a replication strategy could have adverse consequences to Fund shareholders, however, the Fund may utilize a “representative sampling” strategy whereby the Fund would hold a significant number of the component securities of the Underlying Index, but may not track that index with the same degree of accuracy as would an investment vehicle replicating the entire index. The Fund does not try to outperform the index it tracks and does not seek temporary defensive positions when markets decline or appear overvalued.

The Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Fund may lend securities representing up to one-third of the value of the Fund’s total assets (including the value of any collateral received).

Principal Risks

Like all investments, investing in the Fund entails risks, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest.

Dividend-Paying Securities Risk The Fund’s emphasis on dividend-paying stocks involves the risk that such stocks may fall out of favor with investors and underperform the market. Also, a company may reduce or eliminate its dividend.

 

Index Construction Risk A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk The Underlying Index, and thus the Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on the yield factor. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance the Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to the low volatility factor will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target a different factor.

Concentration Risk The Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. The Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

 

Information Technology Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the information technology sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

 

Financial Services Sector Risk The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of issuers in the financial services sector in order to track the Underlying Index’s allocation to that sector. Performance of companies in the financial services sector may be adversely impacted by many factors,

including, among others, changes in government regulations, economic conditions, and interest rates, credit rating downgrades, and decreased liquidity in credit markets. The impact of more stringent capital requirements and recent or future regulation of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology malfunctions and failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have caused significant losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

 

Stock Market Risk Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of the Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. There is also a risk that the price of one or more of the securities or other instruments in the Fund’s portfolio will fall.

 

Market Trading Risk An investment in the Shares may present secondary market trading risks, including the inability to sell your Shares in the event of a severe market disruption, or the inability to buy and sell Shares at a price that reflects the actual value of the Fund’s portfolio. Although it is expected that Shares will remain listed for trading on BATS BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), disruptions to creations and redemptions, the existence of market volatility or lack of an active trading market for the Shares (including through a trading halt), as well as other factors, may result in the Shares trading significantly above (at a premium to) or below (at a discount to) the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) (calculated at the end of the day), or the intraday value of the Fund’s published basket of portfolio securities (i.e., the “intraday indicative value” or “IIV”). During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares or may incur significant losses if you sell your Shares. In addition, during such periods, such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses.

Non-Correlation Risk The Fund’s return may not match the return of the Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, the Fund incurs a number of operating expenses, while the Underlying Index does not. Tracking error may also occur because of differences between the securities or other instruments held in the Fund’s portfolio and those included in the Underlying Index, pricing differences, transaction costs, the Fund’s holding of uninvested cash, differences in the timing of the accrual of dividends or interest, tax gains or losses, changes to the Underlying Index, or the need to meet various new or existing regulatory requirements. This risk may be heightened during times of increased market volatility or other unusual market conditions.

Calculation Methodology Risk The Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither the Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with the Fund. The Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants and none of these authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption orders with respect to the Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares, Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV, and the Fund may possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover Risk Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by the Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to the Fund, which could have an adverse effect on the Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely the Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income.

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

Performance

There is no performance information presented for the Fund because the Fund has not commenced operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Management

Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC

Portfolio Managers

Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert have been portfolio managers of the Fund since its inception.

Purchase and Sale of Shares

Unlike conventional mutual funds, the Fund issues and redeems Shares on a continuous basis, at NAV, only in Creation Units consisting of 50,000 Shares. The Fund generally will issue or redeem Creation Units in return for a designated portfolio of securities (and an amount of cash) that the Fund specifies each day. Individual Shares may only be purchased and sold on the Exchange through a broker-dealer. Shares will trade at market prices rather than at NAV or IIV. As such, Shares may trade at a price greater than NAV or IIV (premium) or less than NAV or IIV (discount).

Tax Information

The Fund’s distributions generally are taxable to you as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, in which case your distributions generally will be taxed when withdrawn from the tax-deferred account.

Financial Intermediary Compensation

 

If you purchase the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. may pay the intermediary for the sale of Shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

 

 

Investment Objective, Principal Investment Strategies,
Related Risks, and Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings

This section contains greater detail on the principal investment strategies of Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF (each, a “Fund,” and together, the “Funds”) and the related risks that you would face as a shareholder of the Funds and also information about how to find out more about the Funds’ portfolio holdings disclosure policy. Each Fund is an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”).

Investment Objective

Each Fund’s investment objective is to seek to provide investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Fund’s corresponding Underlying Index. Each Fund’s investment objective may be changed without shareholder approval (although a Fund will provide advance notice to shareholders at least 60 days before any such change takes effect). There can be no guarantee that a Fund will achieve its investment objective.

Principal Investment Strategies

Each Fund’s Underlying Index is constructed using a rules-based methodology, which re-weights a subset of the constituent securities of the Fund’s Parent Index based on one of the following factors: low volatility, momentum, quality, size, value, and yield. For more information regarding the selection and weighting methodology, see the section entitled “The Underlying Indexes” in this Prospectus.

From time to time, a Fund will purchase or sell certain of its portfolio securities to reflect changes to the constituent securities of its Underlying Index. Each Fund will reconstitute (i.e., make adjustments in connection with changes to the Underlying Index resulting from updated factor score calculations) and rebalance (i.e., re-weight) its portfolio securities on or about the same day as the annual (or in the case of the Russell 1000 Momentum Factor Index, semi-annual) reconstitutions of their respective Underlying Indexes. The Funds do not seek temporary defensive positions when equity markets decline or appear to be overvalued. Outside of the periodic rebalancings or reconstitutions, each Fund’s portfolio (following its Underlying Index) typically will be reconstituted only when: (1) a security in the Underlying Index is altered due to corporate actions such as price adjustments, stock splits, or delisting from an exchange; or (2) when securities are deleted from the Underlying Index.

Each Fund’s intention is to replicate the constituent securities of its Underlying Index as closely as possible. However, the Funds may, in the investment adviser’s discretion, remain invested in securities that were deleted from a Fund’s Underlying Index until the investment adviser next rebalances or reconstitutes the Fund in connection with the periodic rebalancings or reconstitutions of the Underlying Indexes. A Fund may use a representative sampling strategy when (1) practical difficulties or substantial costs would be involved in compiling all of the securities in a Fund’s Underlying Index, (2) the constituent securities are too numerous to efficiently purchase or sell, or (3) a component security becomes temporarily unavailable or relatively illiquid.

The Funds may engage in securities lending.

Each Fund will provide shareholders with at least 60 days’ notice prior to any change in its 80% investment policy described in “Fund Summaries—Principal Investment Strategies.”

Each Fund will typically concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries, to approximately the same extent that its Underlying Index is concentrated, meaning that it will invest more than 25% of its net assets in that industry or group of industries.

The Russell 1000 Index, each Fund’s Parent Index, is a comprehensive, rules-based index designed to measure the performance of large-capitalization stocks in the U.S. As of September 30, 2017, the largest market capitalization of a company in the Russell 1000 Index was approximately $796.8 billion and the smallest market capitalization was approximately $1.5 billion. The average market capitalization of companies in the Russell 1000 Index on this date was approximately $27.3 billion, and the median market capitalization was approximately $9.6 billion.

Principal Risk Factors

Investing in any ETF, including the Funds, involves risk, including the risk that you may lose part or all of the money you invest. Each Fund is subject to the principal risks described below, unless indicated otherwise. Some or all of these risks may adversely affect a Fund’s NAV, trading price, total return and/or a Fund’s ability to meet its objective.

Value Securities Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF only)

“Value” style investing emphasizes undervalued companies with characteristics for improved valuations. This style of investing is subject to the risk that the valuations never improve or that the returns on “value” equity securities are less than returns on other styles of investing or the overall stock market. Securities issued by companies that may be perceived as undervalued may fail to appreciate for long periods of time and may never realize their full potential value. The rules-based methodology of a Fund’s Underlying Index may be unsuccessful in creating an index that emphasizes undervalued securities.

Momentum Securities Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF only)

“Momentum” style investing emphasizes investing in securities that have had higher recent price performance compared to other securities. This style of investing is subject to the risk that these securities may be more volatile than a broad cross-section of securities or that the returns on securities that have previously exhibited price momentum are less than returns on other styles of investing or the overall stock market. Securities that previously exhibited high momentum characteristics may not experience positive momentum or may experience more volatility than the market as a whole. Momentum can turn quickly and cause significant variation from other types of investments.

Quality Securities Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF only)

Stocks included in an Underlying Index are deemed to be quality stocks based on a number of factors, including, among others, historical and expected high returns on equity, stable earnings growth and low debt-to-equity, but there is no guarantee that the past performance of these stocks will continue. The Index Providers (as described in “The Underlying Indexes” section below) may be unsuccessful in creating an index that reflects the quality of individual stocks. Companies that issue these stocks may not be able to sustain consistently high returns on equity, earnings and growth year after year and may need to borrow money or issue debt despite their prior history. Earnings, growth and other measures of a stock’s quality can be adversely affected by market, regulatory, political, environmental and other factors. The price of a stock also may be affected by factors other than those factors considered by the Index Providers. Many factors can affect a stock’s quality and performance, and the impact of these factors on a stock or its price can be difficult to predict.

Low Volatility Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF only)

Although subject to the risks of common stocks, low volatility stocks are seen as having a lower risk profile than the overall markets. However, a portfolio comprised of low volatility stocks may not produce investment exposure that has lower variability to changes in such stocks’ price levels. Low volatility stocks are likely to underperform the broader market during periods of rapidly rising stock prices. Although the Underlying Index was created to seek lower volatility than the Parent Index, there is no guarantee that this strategy will be successful. The Underlying Index may be unsuccessful in creating an index that minimizes volatility, and there is a risk that a Fund may experience more than minimum volatility. Securities in the Fund’s portfolio may be subject to price volatility and the prices may not be any less volatile than the market as a whole, and could be more volatile.

Small and Medium Capitalization Stock Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF only)

Small and medium capitalization stock risk is associated with investments in small and medium capitalization companies. The securities of companies with small and medium capitalizations may involve greater investment risks than securities of companies with large capitalizations. Securities of small and medium capitalization companies may pay no, or only small, dividends. Investments in equity securities issued by small and medium capitalization companies, which often borrow money to finance operations, may also be adversely affected by rising interest rates.

Increased Volatility Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF only)

Increased volatility risk is associated with increased volatility in the price of small and medium capitalization companies. The announcement that a security has been added to a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to increase. Conversely, the announcement that a security has been deleted from a widely followed index or benchmark may cause the price of that security to decrease. To the extent that an index or benchmark’s methodology is rules-based and transparent, any price increase or decrease generally would be expected to be smaller than the increase or decrease resulting from a change to a non-transparent index or benchmark (because the transparency of the index or benchmark likely would provide the market with more notice of such change). Because it is impossible to predict when and how market participants will react to announced changes in the constituent securities of a Fund’s Parent Index (and its Underlying Index), the Fund cannot predict when and how these changes will impact the market price and NAV of a Fund.

Dividend-Paying Securities Risk (Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF only)

The Fund’s strategy of investing in dividend-paying stocks involves the risk that such stocks may fall out of favor with investors and underperform the market. Companies that issue dividend-paying stocks are not required to continue to pay dividends on such stocks. Therefore, there is the possibility that such companies could reduce or eliminate the payment of dividends in the future or the anticipated acceleration of dividends could not occur. Depending upon market conditions, dividend-paying stocks that meet the Fund’s investment criteria may not be widely available and/or may be highly concentrated in only a few market sectors.

Index Construction Risk

A stock included in the Underlying Index may not exhibit the factor trait or provide specific factor exposure for which it was selected, and consequently, the Fund’s holdings may not exhibit returns consistent with that factor trait.

Investment Approach Risk

Each Underlying Index, and thus each Fund, seeks to provide exposure to investments based on one of the following factors, as applicable: value, momentum, quality, low volatility, size, and yield. There can be no assurance that doing so will enhance a Fund’s performance over time. It is expected that targeting exposure to such investment factors will detract from performance in some market environments, perhaps for extended periods. In such circumstances, the investment adviser will not adjust a Fund’s investment process to target different factors.

Concentration Risk

A Fund will typically concentrate in industries or groups of industries to approximately the same extent as its Underlying Index. A Fund may be adversely affected by the performance of the securities in a particular industry or group of industries and may be subject to increased price volatility and may be more susceptible to adverse economic, market, political or regulatory occurrences affecting that market, industry, group of industries, sector or asset class than may be the case for a fund that was not concentrated in a particular industry or group of industries.

Information Technology Sector Risk

The information technology sector includes companies engaged in developing software and providing data processing and outsourced services, along with manufacturing and distributing communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment and instruments. Information technology companies are particularly vulnerable to government regulation and competition, both domestically and internationally, including competition from foreign competitors with lower production costs. Information technology companies also face competition for services of qualified personnel. Additionally, the products of information technology companies may face obsolescence due to rapid technological development and frequent new product introduction by competitors. Finally, information technology companies are heavily dependent on patent and intellectual property rights, the loss or impairment of which may adversely affect profitability.

Financial Services Sector Risk

Companies in the financial services sector of an economy are subject to extensive governmental regulation and intervention, which may adversely affect the scope of their activities, the prices they can charge, the amount of capital they must maintain and, potentially, their size. Governmental regulation may change frequently and may have significant adverse consequences for companies in the financial services sector, including effects not intended by such regulation. The impact of more stringent capital requirements, or recent or future regulation in various countries of any individual financial company or of the financial services sector as a whole cannot be predicted. Certain risks may impact the value of investments in the financial services sector more severely than those of investments outside this sector, including the risks associated with companies that operate with substantial financial leverage. Companies in the financial services sector may also be adversely affected by increases in interest rates and loan losses, decreases in the availability of money or asset valuations, credit rating downgrades and adverse conditions in other related markets. Insurance companies, in particular, may be subject to severe price competition and/or rate regulation, which may have an adverse impact on their profitability. The banking industry, in particular, is generally negatively affected by interest rates when they remain low for long periods of time, as banks are typically more profitable when there is a larger spread between the federal funds rate and what depositories pay in interest. The financial services sector is particularly sensitive to fluctuations in interest rates. The financial services sector is also a target for cyber attacks, and may experience technology malfunctions and disruptions. In recent years, cyber attacks and technology failures have become increasingly frequent in this sector and have reportedly caused losses to companies in this sector, which may negatively impact the Fund.

Stock Market Risk

Stock market risk is the risk that broad movements in financial markets will adversely affect the price of a Fund’s investments, regardless of how well the companies in which the Fund invests perform. The market as a whole may not favor the types of investments a Fund makes. Many factors can adversely affect a security’s performance, including both general financial market conditions and factors related to a specific company, industry or geographic region. During a general economic downturn in the securities markets, multiple asset classes may be negatively affected.

Market Trading Risk

Absence of Active Market. The Fund faces numerous market trading risks, including that an active trading market for Shares may not develop or be maintained (including through a trading halt), losses from trading in secondary markets, periods of high volatility and disruptions to the creation/redemption process.

Secondary Market Trading Risk. In addition to the risks described above, note that Shares may trade in the secondary market at times when the Fund does not accept orders to purchase or redeem Shares. At such times, Shares may trade in the secondary market with more significant premiums or discounts to the Fund’s NAV or IIV (see “Share Trading Prices” below for more information on the IIV) than might be experienced at times when the Fund accepts purchase and redemption orders.

Secondary market trading in Shares may be halted by a stock exchange because of market conditions or for other reasons. In addition, trading in Shares on a stock exchange or in any market may be subject to trading halts caused by extraordinary market volatility pursuant to “circuit breaker” rules on the stock exchange or market. During such periods, you may be unable to sell your Shares. As with all other exchange traded securities, Shares may be sold short and may experience increased volatility and price decreases associated with such trading activity.

Stop Loss Order Risk. During periods of high market volatility, including events such as a “flash crash,” different investment strategies or techniques, such as stop loss orders to sell your Shares, may not work as intended and may result in significant losses. A stop loss order may cause a Share to be sold at the next prevailing market price once the “stop” level is reached, which during a period of high volatility can be at a price that is substantially below NAV. By including a “limit” criteria with a brokerage order, you may be able to limit the size of the loss resulting from the execution of an ill-timed stop loss order, although no assurance can be given that inclusion of limit criteria will mitigate any such losses.

 

Shares of the Fund May Trade at Prices Other Than NAV/IIV. Shares of the Fund trade on stock exchanges at prices at, above or below the Fund’s most recent NAV. The NAV of the Fund is calculated at the end of each business day and fluctuates with changes in the market value of the Fund’s holdings. The trading price of the Fund’s shares fluctuates continuously throughout trading hours based on both market supply of and demand for Shares and changes in the value of the Fund’s portfolio holdings. As a result, the trading prices of the Fund’s shares may deviate significantly from NAV and IIV during periods of market volatility.

However, because shares can be created and redeemed in Creation Units at NAV, large discounts or premiums to the NAV and IIV are not likely to be sustained over the long term. While the creation/redemption feature is designed to make it more likely that the Shares normally will trade on stock exchanges at prices close to the Fund’s next calculated NAV, exchange prices are not expected to correlate exactly with the Fund’s NAV or IIV due to timing reasons, supply and demand imbalances and other factors. In addition, disruptions to creations and redemptions, including disruptions at market makers, Authorized Participants, or market participants, and during periods of significant market volatility, may result in trading prices for shares of the Fund that differ significantly from its NAV or IIV.

Costs of Buying or Selling Shares. Buying or selling Shares on an exchange involves two types of costs that apply to all securities transactions. When buying or selling shares of the Fund through a broker, you will likely incur a brokerage commission and other charges. In addition, you may incur the cost of the “spread”; that is, the difference between what market makers or other participants that trade the particular security are willing to pay for Shares (the “bid” price) and the price at which they are willing to sell Shares (the “ask” price). There may also be regulatory and other charges that are incurred as a result of trading activity. Because of the costs inherent in buying or selling Shares, frequent trading may detract significantly from investment results and an investment in Shares may not be advisable for investors who anticipate regularly making small investments.

Non-Correlation Risk

A Fund’s return may not match the return of its Underlying Index for a number of reasons. For example, each Fund incurs a number of operating expenses not applicable to its Underlying Index, and incurs costs in buying and selling securities, especially when rebalancing or reconstituting the Fund’s securities holdings to reflect changes in the composition of its Underlying Index. A Fund may not be fully invested at times, in which case holding cash balances may prevent it from replicating its Underlying Index. If a Fund utilizes a representative sampling approach, its return may not correlate as well with the return on its Underlying Index, as would be the case if it purchased all of the stocks in its Underlying Index with the same weightings as its Underlying Index. If a Fund fair values portfolio securities when calculating its NAV, the Fund’s return may vary from the return of its Underlying Index to the extent the Underlying Index reflects stale pricing.

Calculation Methodology Risk

Each Underlying Index relies on various sources of information to assess the criteria of issuers included in the Underlying Index (or its Parent Index), including information that may be based on assumptions and estimates. Neither a Fund nor the investment adviser can offer assurances that the Underlying Index’s calculation methodology or sources of information will provide an accurate assessment of included issuers.

Operational Risk

The Fund is exposed to operational risks arising from a number of factors, including, but not limited to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of the Fund’s service providers, counterparties or other third-parties, failed or inadequate processes and technology or systems failures. The Fund and the investment adviser seek to reduce these operational risks through controls and procedures. However, these measures do not address every possible risk and may be inadequate to address these risks.

Passive Investment Risk

The Fund is not actively managed. Therefore, the Fund generally does not attempt to take defensive positions under any market conditions, including declining markets. A general decline in the market segments included in the Underlying Index may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.

 

Authorized Participant Concentration Risk

Only an authorized participant may engage in creation or redemption transactions directly with a Fund. Each Fund has a limited number of intermediaries that act as authorized participants, and none of the authorized participants is or will be obligated to engage in creation or redemption transactions. To the extent that these intermediaries exit the business or are unable to or choose not to proceed with creation and/or redemption order with respect to a Fund and no other authorized participant is able to step forward to create or redeem Shares may trade at a discount to NAV or IIV and possibly face delisting.

Securities Lending Risk

Securities lending involves the risk that a Fund may lose money because the borrower of the Fund’s loaned securities fails to return the securities in a timely manner or at all and the securities lending agent fails to fulfill its guarantee to the Fund against that risk. A Fund could also lose money in the event of a decline in the value of the collateral provided for loaned securities or a decline in the value of any investments made with cash collateral. A Fund’s securities lending activities could also trigger adverse tax consequences for the Fund and affect the amount, timing and character of distributions to the shareholders. For example, if a Fund loans its securities, the Fund and its investors may lose the ability to treat certain Fund distributions associated with those activities as qualified dividend income.

Portfolio Turnover Risk

Portfolio turnover may involve the payment by a Fund of brokerage and other transaction costs on the sale of securities, as well as on the investment of the proceeds in other securities. A Fund may experience a higher rate of portfolio turnover to the extent active market trading of Shares causes more frequent creation or redemption activities and such creation and redemption activities are not conducted in-kind. The greater the portfolio turnover, the greater the transaction costs to a Fund, which could have an adverse effect on a Fund’s total rate of return, and the more likely a Fund is to generate capital gains that must be distributed to shareholders as taxable income.

Other Investment Strategies and Risks

Conflicts of Interest

The investment activities of the investment adviser and its affiliates with respect to other funds and accounts they manage may present potential conflicts of interest that could, under certain circumstances, disadvantage or adversely affect the Fund and its shareholders. The investment adviser or its affiliates advise other funds and accounts that have investment objectives and strategies that differ from, and may be contrary to, those of the Fund. That may result in another fund or account holding investment positions that are adverse to the Fund’s investment strategies or activities. Other funds or accounts advised by the investment adviser or its affiliates may also have conflicting interests arising from investment objectives and strategies that are similar to those of the Fund. For example, those funds and accounts may engage in, and compete for, the same types of investment opportunities as the Fund or invest in securities of the same issuers that have different features and interests as compared to securities held by the Fund. These features (such as seniority, guarantees and differential voting rights) may, under certain circumstances, come into conflict with or disadvantage securities held by the Fund. Because the investment adviser and its affiliates may carry out the investment activities of those other funds or accounts without regard to the investment objectives or performance of the Fund, it is possible that the value of investments held by the Fund or the Fund’s investment strategies may be adversely affected.

The Fund’s investment performance will usually differ from the performance of other funds or accounts that are also advised by the Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates even in cases where the investment objectives and strategies of the relevant funds or accounts are similar. When managing multiple funds or accounts, the Fund’s investment adviser and its affiliates may make decisions with respect to investment positions held by certain funds or accounts that may cause the Fund to experience losses during periods in which other funds or accounts achieve gains. This may include causing another fund or account to take actions with respect to an issuer’s liquidation, restructuring, default or corporate actions that may conflict with the interests of the Fund. Similar conflicts may also arise when the Fund and other funds or accounts invest in different parts of an issuer’s capital structure, such as when the Fund holds equity or debt obligations of an issuer, and another fund or account holds more senior (or junior) debt obligations of the same issuer, or when the Fund and other funds or accounts hold securities of different issuers that have competing claims to the same assets or sources of payment. In such circumstances, decisions regarding whether to trigger an event of default, the terms of any potential workout or restructuring of a distressed issuer, liquidating or selling an investment, corporate actions, litigation or other investment decisions may, and often do, result in conflicts of interest. The Fund may receive lower returns on its investment in an issuer as a result of actions taken with respect to the same or related issuers by other investors, including other funds or accounts managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates.

The Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates may manage funds or accounts with different fee rates and/or fee structures, including funds or accounts that pay advisory fees based on account performance (“performance fee accounts”). Such differences in fee arrangements may raise potential conflicts of interest by creating an incentive to favor higher-fee accounts. For example, the investment adviser or its affiliates could potentially allocate the most attractive investments to higher-fee accounts or performance fee accounts, or the trading of higher-fee accounts could potentially be favored as to timing and/or execution price.

The investment adviser has adopted policies and procedures designed to mitigate where possible potential conflicts of interest identified by the investment adviser. However, such policies and procedures may also limit the Fund’s investment activities and affect its performance. For example, the investment activities of such funds or accounts may result in the investment adviser’s or its affiliates’ receipt of material non-public information concerning certain securities, which could lead to restrictions in the trading of such securities or other investment activities of the Fund or other funds or accounts managed by the investment adviser or its affiliates. In certain cases, the Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates may avoid certain investment opportunities or actions that would potentially give rise to conflicts with other funds or accounts, which could also have the effect of limiting the Fund’s investment opportunities and performance. In other cases, the Fund’s investment adviser or its affiliates may choose not to or fail to avoid investment opportunities or action that would potentially give rise to conflicts with other funds or accounts, which could under certain circumstances disadvantage the Fund while advantaging other funds or accounts or vice versa.

The investment adviser and its affiliates may also face other potential conflicts of interest in managing the Fund, and the information above is not a complete description of every conflict that could be deemed to exist when simultaneously managing the Fund and other funds and accounts.

Derivatives Risk

Derivatives may be volatile and may involve significant risks. The underlying security, obligor or other instrument on which a derivative is based, or the derivative itself, may not perform as expected. For some derivatives, it is possible to lose more than the amount invested in the derivative investment. In addition, some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the Fund's initial investment. Certain derivative investments held by the Fund may be illiquid, making it difficult to close out an unfavorable position. Derivative transactions may require the payment of premiums and may increase portfolio turnover. Derivatives are subject to credit risk, since the Fund may lose money on a derivative investment if the issuer or counterparty fails to pay the amount due. As a result of these risks, the Fund could realize little or no income or lose money from the investment, or the use of a derivative for hedging might be unsuccessful.

In addition, under financial reform legislation currently being implemented, certain over-the-counter derivatives, including certain interest rate swaps and certain credit default swaps, are (or soon will be) required to be executed on a regulated market and/or cleared through a clearinghouse, which may result in increased margin requirements and costs for the Fund. It is unclear how these regulatory changes will affect counterparty risk, and entering into a derivative transaction that is cleared may entail further risks and costs, including the counterparty risk of the clearinghouse and the futures commission merchant through which the Fund accesses the clearinghouse.

Investments in Money Market Instruments

 

The Fund can invest its free cash balances in money market instruments to provide liquidity or for defensive purposes. Money market instruments are short-term, U.S. dollar-denominated debt instruments issued or guaranteed by domestic and foreign corporations and financial institutions, the U.S. government, its agencies and instrumentalities and other entities. Money market instruments include certificates of deposit, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, treasury bills and other short term debt obligations that have a final maturity, as defined under rules under the Investment Company Act, of 397 days or less. They may have fixed, variable or floating interest rates. Money market instruments are subject to certain risks, including the risk that an issuer of an obligation that the Fund holds might have its credit rating downgraded or might default on its obligations, or that interest rates might rise sharply, causing the value of the Fund’s investments to fall.

 

The Fund may invest in money market instruments by investing in Class E shares of Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund. It may also invest in money market instruments directly, or in other affiliated or unaffiliated money market funds. The Fund may invest in such other money market funds, such as Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, rather than purchasing individual short-term investments. Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund is a registered open-end management investment company, regulated as a money market fund under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and is part of the Oppenheimer family of funds. At the time of an investment, the Fund cannot always predict what will be the yield of the Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, or any other money market fund it may hold, because of the wide variety of instruments that such fund may hold in its portfolio. The return on those investments may, in some cases, be lower than the return that would have been derived from other types of investments that would provide liquidity. As a shareholder, the Fund will be subject to its proportional share of the expenses of any other money market fund it may hold, including its advisory fee. However, the investment adviser will waive a portion of the Fund’s advisory fee to the extent of the Fund’s share of the advisory fee paid to the investment adviser by Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund, or to any other similar affiliated money market fund of which the Fund is a shareholder. If the Fund invests in an unaffiliated money market fund, the Manager will not waive a portion of the Fund’s advisory fee representing.

 

Portfolio Holdings Information

Information about each Fund’s portfolio holdings is available at www.oppenheimerfunds.com. A summarized description of the Funds’ policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of each Fund’s portfolio holdings is available in the Funds’ Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).

 

Management of the Funds

The Investment Adviser

VTL Associates, LLC (“VTL”), located at One Commerce Square, 2005 Market Street, Suite 2020, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, serves as the investment adviser to each Fund. As investment adviser, VTL has overall responsibility for the general management and administration of Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust (the “Trust”) and provides an investment program for each Fund. VTL also provides discretionary separate account management services to institutional clients as well as investment consulting services. As of March 16, 2017, VTL had approximately $1.973 billion in assets under discretionary management.

VTL’s contractual management fee, as a percentage of average net assets, is 0.19% for each of the Funds.

Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement, VTL is responsible for all expenses of each Fund, except the fee payment under the Agreement, distribution fees or expenses under the Fund’s 12b-1 plan (if any), interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, brokers’ commissions and any other portfolio transaction-related expenses and fees arising out of transactions effected on behalf of the Fund, credit facility fees and expenses, including interest expenses, and litigation and indemnification expenses and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s business.

OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (“OFDI” or “Distributor”) does not sell Shares directly to the retail public through the Exchange.

A discussion regarding the basis for the Board of Trustees’ initial approval of the investment advisory agreement between the Trust, on behalf of the Funds, and VTL will be available in the Trust’s Semi-Annual Report to Shareholders for the period ended December 31, 2017.

The Portfolio Managers

Each of the Funds' portfolios is managed by Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert who are primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of each Fund’s investments. Mr. Vallario has been a portfolio manager of each Fund since August 2017 and Mr. Reichert has been a portfolio manager of each Fund since its respective inception.

Mr. Vallario has been a Vice President of VTL since August 2017. Prior to joining VTL, Mr. Vallario was a portfolio manager at ColumbiaThreadneedle from September 2015 to June 2017. Mr. Vallario was an Executive Director, Quantitative Client Consultant, for Northeast Hedge Funds at MSCI, Inc. from April 2010 to September 2015. Mr. Vallario holds an M.B.A from Rutgers University and a B.S. from Lehigh University. Mr. Vallario is a portfolio manager of other portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

Mr. Reichert has been a Vice President of VTL since December 2015. He was a portfolio manager of IMS from 2009 to 2015. Prior to joining IMS, Mr. Reichert worked in the Public Finance department at Janney Montgomery Scott, a mid-sized regional investment bank. Mr. Reichert graduated with a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) candidate. Mr. Reichert is a portfolio manager of other portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

 

The SAI provides additional information about each Portfolio Manager’s compensation, other accounts managed, and ownership of Shares in the Funds.

The Underlying Indexes

The Underlying Indexes are calculated and maintained by Frank Russell Company (the “Index Provider” or “Russell”). Russell begins with securities listed in the Russell 1000 Index. All constituents of the Russell 1000 Index, as defined by the Index Provider, are eligible for inclusion in an Underlying Index.

All Underlying Indexes, except the Russell 1000 Momentum Factor Index, are reconstituted and rebalanced annually in June after the close of business on the third Friday of the month. The Russell 1000 Momentum Factor Index is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually in June and December after the close of business on the third Friday of the month. The FTSE Global Factor Index Series, from which the Underlying Indexes are derived, is a suite of benchmarks designed to represent the performance of specific factor characteristics. The FTSE Global Factor Index Series includes, but is not limited to, the following single factors: low volatility, momentum, quality, size, value and yield. Single factor indexes seek increased exposure to stocks within a starting universe that possess specific factor characteristics (i.e., momentum), thereby creating an index comprising stocks demonstrating such a factor. As applicable, each Russell 1000 Factor Index consists of companies in their respective starting universe selected based on one of the following investment style factors: low volatility, momentum, quality, size, value and yield. To construct a Russell 1000 Factor Index, factor scores are generated for each security in the Parent Index based on one of the following criteria:

Value. A company’s value factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of cash flow yield, earnings yield, and sales to price ratio, calculated based on the company’s total market capitalization and information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

Momentum. A company’s momentum factor score is based on historical total return over the 11 months ending on the last business day of the prior month.

Quality. A company’s quality factor score is based on an equally-weighted composite of return on assets, change in asset turnover, accruals, and leverage, calculated based on information reported in the company’s most recent annual financial statement as of the last business day of the prior month.

Low Volatility. A company’s volatility factor score is based on the standard deviation of weekly total returns to a company’s stock price over the trailing five years ending on the last business day of the prior month.

Size. A company’s size factor score is based on total market capitalization as of the last business day of the prior month.

Yield. A company’s yield factor score is based on the 12-month trailing dividend yield as of the last business day of the prior month.

During the calculation process, certain values that fall outside a fixed range are set to the minimum or maximum of the range, in order to standardize the resulting factor scores. Each security’s factor score is multiplied by the security’s weight in the Parent Index, and the resulting weights generate a broad factor index. Except with respect to the Russell 1000 Momentum Factor Index, the broad factor index is then narrowed by a single security at a time to increase factor exposure, subject to the following restrictions, which seek to ensure that the overall diversification, liquidity, and factor exposure of the Russell 1000 Factor Index remain within a certain range relative to the Parent Index:

Diversification. The “effective” number of securities is at least two-thirds the “effective” number of securities in the Parent Index. For example, an index holding three securities, one of which is weighted very heavily while the other two have very low weights, includes only one “effective” security.

Liquidity. The average security weight is less than or equal to two-and-a-half times the average security weight of the Parent Index.

Factor Exposure. The factor exposure is less than or equal to twice the factor exposure of the Parent Index.

The resulting narrow factor index (or, in the case of the Russell 1000 Momentum Factor Index, the broad factor index) is then constrained to ensure that exposure to particular industries remains within approximately 20% of such exposure in the Parent Index. In addition, any security weights that are greater than twenty times the security’s weight in the Parent Index are set to twenty times the security’s weight in the Parent Index. Any security weights that are less than a certain de minimis amount are set to zero, and therefore excluded. The remaining security weights constitute the final Russell 1000 Factor Index that will serve as the Underlying Index. The Underlying Index is not required to hold a pre-determined minimum number of securities.

The Trust’s website, www.oppenheimerfunds.com/investors/funds/etf, describes the basic concept of each Underlying Index. Each business day, the website publishes, free of charge (or provides a link to another website that publishes free of charge), each Fund’s per share NAV, closing price and midpoint of the bid/ask spread as of the NAV calculation time, all as of the prior business day.

Each trading day, the value of each Underlying Index will be updated intra-day on a real time basis as individual component securities change in price. These intra-day values will be disseminated every 15 seconds throughout the trading day by organizations authorized by the Index Providers. Once each trading day, these organizations will disseminate values for each Underlying Index, based on closing prices in the relevant exchange market.

In the unlikely event that an Underlying Index is discontinued or otherwise becomes permanently unavailable, a Fund may consider substituting a different index or taking such other action as the Board of Trustees deems advisable.

Disclaimer

Each of the Russell 1000 Volatility Factor Index, Russell 1000 Momentum Factor Index, Russell 1000 Quality Factor Index, Russell 1000 Size Factor Index, Russell 1000 Value Factor Index, and Russell 1000 Yield Factor Index (each, an “Index”) is a trademark of Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) and have been licensed for use by VTL Associates, LLC and the Funds. The Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF, and Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF (each, a “Licensed Fund”) are not in any way sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Russell or the London Stock Exchange Group companies (“LSEG”) (together the “Licensor Parties”) and none of the Licensor Parties make any claim, prediction, warranty or representation whatsoever, expressly or impliedly, either as to (i) the results to be obtained from the use of the Index (upon which the applicable Licensed Fund is based), (ii) the figure at which the Index is said to stand at any particular time on any particular day or otherwise, or (iii) the suitability of the Index for the purpose to which it is being put in connection with the applicable Licensed Fund. None of the Licensor Parties have provided or will provide any financial or investment advice or recommendation in relation to the Index to VTL Associates, LLC or to its clients. The Index is calculated by Russell or its agent. None of the Licensor Parties shall be (a) liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index or (b) under any obligation to advise any person of any error therein.

Administrator, Custodian and Transfer Agent

The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNY Mellon”) located at One Wall Street, New York, New York 10286, is the administrator, custodian, transfer agent and securities lending agent for each Fund.

Distributor

OFDI is the principal underwriter and distributor of each Fund’s Shares. The Distributor will not distribute Shares in less than whole Creation Units, and it does not maintain a secondary market in the Shares. The Distributor is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

OFDI may make payments to broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries for services provided and expenses incurred in connection with the distribution, marketing and promotion of Shares, educational training programs, conferences, development of technology platforms and reporting systems, or making shares of the Funds available within platforms or to the sales force. These payments, which may be significant, will be made by OFDI, not from the assets of the Funds. Payments of the type described above are sometimes referred to as revenue-sharing or marketing payments. These payments may create conflicts of interest between the financial intermediary and its clients by incentivizing the financial intermediary to recommend the Funds. More information regarding these payments is contained in the Funds’ SAI.

Shareholder Information

Additional shareholder information is available free of charge by calling toll free: 1.800.CALL OPP (1-800.225.5677), or visiting the Funds’ website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

Buying and Selling Shares

Shares of the Funds will also be listed for trading in the secondary market on the Exchange, and most investors will buy and sell Shares of the Funds in secondary market transactions on the Exchange through brokers. Purchases and sales of Shares in quantities smaller than Creation Unit sizes may only be traded on the Exchange and may not be directly purchased from, or redeemed by, a Fund. Shares can be bought and sold on the Exchange throughout the trading day like other publicly traded shares. There is no minimum investment.

The Shares will be issued or redeemed by a Fund to Authorized Participants at NAV per share only in Creation Unit size. Investors may acquire Shares directly from each Fund, and shareholders may tender their Shares for redemption directly to each Fund, only in Creation Units of 50,000 Shares. See also “Creations, Redemptions and Transaction Fees” below.

Share prices are reported in dollars and cents per Share. Although Shares are generally purchased and sold in “round lots” of 100 shares, brokerage firms typically permit investors to purchase or sell Shares in smaller “odd lots,” at no per-share price differential. When buying or selling Shares through a broker in a secondary market exchange transaction, you will incur customary brokerage commissions and charges, and you may pay some or all of the spread between the bid and the offered price in the secondary market on each leg of a round trip (purchase and sale) transaction.

Book Entry

Shares are held in book-entry form, which means that no stock certificates are issued. DTC serves as the securities depository for all Shares, and DTC or its nominee is the record owner of all outstanding Shares of the Funds. Investors owning Shares are beneficial owners as shown on the records of DTC or its participants. Participants in DTC include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and other institutions that directly or indirectly maintain a custodial relationship with DTC. As a beneficial owner of Shares, you are not entitled to receive physical delivery of stock certificates or to have Shares registered in your name, and you are not considered a record owner of Shares. Therefore, to exercise any right as an owner of Shares, you must rely upon the procedures of DTC and its participants. These procedures are the same as those that apply to any other stocks that you hold in book entry or “street name” form.

Share Trading Prices

The trading prices of Shares of each Fund on the Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV and IIV and can be affected by market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors (see “Market Trading Risk” above).

The Exchange intends to disseminate the IIV, which is the “approximate value” of Shares of each Fund, every 15 seconds. The “approximate value” that is calculated by the Exchange will be based on the value of assets in the portfolio minus a budgeted liability amount and divided by the number of outstanding Shares. This “approximate value” is not related to the price that Shares are trading on the Exchange and is different from the NAV. The “approximate value” should not be viewed as a “real-time” update of the NAV per Share of the Fund because (i) the “approximate value” may not be calculated in the same manner as the NAV, which is computed once a day, generally at the end of the business day, (ii) the calculation of NAV may be subject to fair valuation at different prices than those used in the calculations of the “approximate value,” (iii) unlike the calculation of NAV, the “approximate value” does not take into account Fund expenses, and (iv) the “approximate value” is based on the published basket of portfolio securities and not on the Fund’s actual holdings. The “approximate value” calculations are based on local market prices and may not reflect events that occur subsequent to the local market’s close, which could affect premiums and discounts between the “approximate value” and the market price of a Fund’s Shares. The Funds, VTL, and their affiliates are not involved in, or responsible for, the calculation or dissemination of the “approximate value” and the Funds, VTL, and their affiliates do not make any warranty as to its accuracy.

Frequent Purchases and Redemptions of Shares

The Funds impose no restrictions on the frequency of purchases and redemptions. In determining not to approve a written, established policy, the Board of Trustees evaluated the risks of market timing activities by the Funds’ shareholders. The Board considered that, unlike traditional mutual funds, each Fund generally issues and redeems its Shares at NAV per Share for a basket of securities intended to mirror the Fund’s portfolio, plus a small amount of cash, and the Fund’s Shares may be purchased and sold on the Exchange at prevailing market prices. Given this structure, the Board determined that (a) it is unlikely that market timing would be attempted by the Funds’ shareholders and (b) it is likely that any attempts to market time a Fund by shareholders would result in no negative impact to the Fund or its shareholders.

Creations, Redemptions and Transaction Fees

Creation Units

Investors such as market makers, large investors and institutions who wish to deal in Creation Units directly with a Fund must enter into an Authorized Participant Agreement with the principal underwriter and the transfer agent, or purchase through a dealer that has entered into such an agreement. Set forth below is a brief description of the procedures applicable to the purchase and redemption of Creation Units. For more detailed information, see “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

Purchase

Each day, prior to the opening of trading, the Fund will designate through the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”), the names and number of shares of each security to be included in that day’s basket of securities constituting a substantial replication, or a representation, of the securities included in the relevant Fund’s Underlying Index (“Deposit Securities”). In order to purchase Creation Units of a Fund, an investor must generally deposit a designated portfolio of Deposit Securities and generally make a small cash payment referred to as the “Cash Component.” The Cash Component represents the difference between the NAV of a Creation Unit and the market value of the Deposit Securities.

Orders must be placed in proper form by or through an “Authorized Participant” that is either (i) a “Participating Party” i.e., a broker-dealer or other participant in the Clearing Process of the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC (the “Clearing Process”) or (ii) a participant of DTC (“DTC Participant”) that has entered into an agreement with the principal underwriter and the transfer agent with respect to purchases and redemptions of Creation Units. Orders are placed in “proper form” when the orders comply with the order processing procedures identified in the Authorized Participant Agreement for creation or redemption of Shares of the Funds. All orders must be placed for one or more whole Creation Units of Shares of a Fund and must be received by the principal underwriter in proper form no later than the close of regular trading on the Exchange (ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) (“Closing Time”) in order to receive that day’s closing NAV per Share. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders, are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit. In the case of custom orders, as further described in the SAI, the order must be received by the Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time. A “custom order” may be placed by an Authorized Participant in the event that the Trust permits or requires the substitution of an amount of cash to be added to the Cash Component to replace any deposit security, such as when a security may not be available in sufficient quantity for delivery or when a security may not be eligible for trading by such Authorized Participant or the investor for which it is acting. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

A creation transaction fee (the “Creation Transaction Fee”) is applicable to each transaction regardless of the number of Creation Units purchased in the transaction. An additional charge may be imposed with respect to custom order transactions effected outside of the Clearing Process (through a DTC Participant) or to the extent that cash is used in lieu of securities to purchase Creation Units through a custom order. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI. The price for each Creation Unit will equal the closing NAV per Share times the number of Shares in a Creation Unit plus the fees described above and, if applicable, any transfer taxes.

Shares of a Fund may be issued in advance of receipt of all Deposit Securities subject to various conditions, including a requirement to maintain on deposit with the Fund cash at least equal to 105% of the market value of the missing Deposit Securities. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

Legal Restrictions on Transactions in Certain Stocks

An investor subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular stock required to be deposited in connection with the purchase of a Creation Unit may, at a Fund’s discretion, be permitted to deposit an equivalent amount of cash in substitution for any stock that would otherwise be included in the Deposit Securities applicable to the purchase of a Creation Unit. Such legal restrictions would include, but would not be limited to, restrictions due to affiliated relationships, investment guidelines governing institutional investors or where the investor is an investment banking firm or broker-dealer restricted from holding shares of a company whose securities it recently underwrote. These transactions may involve the substitution of cash in lieu of securities, and purchasers may be subject to a transaction fee of up to four times the standard Creation Transaction Fee. For more details, see the “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” section in the SAI.

Redemption

Each Fund’s custodian makes available immediately prior to the opening of business of the Exchange each day, through the facilities of the NSCC, the list of the names and the numbers of shares of a Fund’s portfolio securities that will be applicable that day to redemption requests in proper form (“Fund Securities”). Fund Securities received on redemption may not be identical to Deposit Securities that are applicable to purchases of Creation Units if the Fund is rebalancing. Unless cash redemptions are available or specified for a particular Fund, the redemption proceeds consist of the Fund Securities, plus cash in an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of Shares being redeemed as next determined after receipt by the transfer agent of a redemption request in proper form, and the value of the Fund Securities (the “Cash Redemption Amount”), less the applicable Redemption Transaction Fee (as defined below) and, if applicable, any transfer taxes. Should the Fund Securities have a value greater than the NAV of Shares being redeemed, the redeeming shareholder will be required to arrange for a compensating cash payment to the Trust equal to the differential, plus the applicable Redemption Transaction Fee and, if applicable, any transfer taxes. For more details, see the “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” section in the SAI.

An order to redeem Creation Units of a Fund may only be effected by or through an Authorized Participant. An order to redeem must be placed for one or more whole Creation Units and must be received by the transfer agent in proper form no later than the Closing Time in order to receive that day’s closing NAV per Share. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders), are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit. In the case of custom orders, as further described in the SAI, the order must be received by the transfer agent no later than 3:00 p.m. Eastern time.

A redemption transaction fee (the “Redemption Transaction Fee”) is applicable to each redemption transaction regardless of the number of Creation Units redeemed in the transaction. An additional charge may be charged to approximate additional expenses incurred by the Trust with respect to redemptions effected outside of the Clearing Process (through a DTC Participant) or to the extent that redemptions are for cash. Each Fund reserves the right to effect redemptions in cash. A shareholder may request a cash redemption in lieu of securities; however, each Fund may, in its discretion, reject any such request. See also “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” in the SAI.

Dividends, Distributions and Taxes

As with any investment, you should consider how your investment in Shares will be taxed. The tax information in this Prospectus is provided as general information. You should consult your own tax professional about the tax consequences of an investment in Shares.

Unless your investment in Shares is made through a tax-exempt entity or tax-deferred retirement account, such as an IRA plan, you need to be aware of the possible tax consequences when:

·Your Fund makes distributions,
·You sell your Shares listed on the Exchange, and
·You purchase or redeem Creation Units.

Dividends and Distributions

Dividends and Distributions. Each Fund has elected and intends to qualify to be treated each year as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code. As a regulated investment company, a Fund generally pays no federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes to you. Each Fund expects to declare and distribute all of its net investment income, if any, to shareholders as dividends quarterly. Each Fund will distribute net realized capital gains, if any, at least annually. A Fund may distribute such income dividends and capital gains more frequently, if necessary, in order to reduce or eliminate federal excise or income taxes on the Fund. The amount of any distribution will vary, and there is no guarantee a Fund will pay either an income dividend or a capital gains distribution. Distributions may be reinvested automatically in additional whole Shares only if the broker through whom you purchased Shares makes such option available.

Annual Statements. Each year, you will receive an annual statement (Form 1099) of your account activity to assist you in completing your federal, state and local tax returns. Distributions declared in October, November or December to shareholders of record in such month, but paid in January, are taxable as if they were paid in December. The Funds make every effort to search for reclassified income to reduce the number of corrected forms mailed to shareholders. However, when necessary, you will receive a corrected Form 1099 to reflect reclassified information.

Avoid “Buying a Dividend.” At the time you purchase your Shares, the price of shares may reflect undistributed income, undistributed capital gains, or net unrealized appreciation in value of portfolio securities held by the Fund. For taxable investors, a subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable. Buying Shares in a Fund just before it declares an income dividend or capital gains distribution is sometimes known as “buying a dividend.”

Taxes

Fund Distributions. Each Fund expects, based on its investment objective and strategies, that its distributions, if any, will be taxable as ordinary income, capital gains, or some combination of both. This is true whether you reinvest your distributions in additional Shares or receive them in cash. For federal income tax purposes, Fund distributions of short-term capital gains are taxable to you as ordinary income. Fund distributions of net capital gains that are properly reported by the Fund as capital gains dividends are taxable to you as long-term capital gains no matter how long you have owned your Shares. A portion of income dividends reported by a Fund may be qualified dividend income eligible for taxation to individual shareholders at long-term capital gain rates provided certain holding period and other requirements are met at both the shareholder and Fund levels.

If a Fund qualifies to pass through to you the tax benefits from foreign taxes it pays on its investments, and elects to do so, then any foreign taxes it pays on these investments may be passed through to you to be used as a foreign tax credit or deduction.

Taxes on Exchange-Listed Share Sales. A sale or exchange of Shares is a taxable event and, accordingly, a capital gain or loss may be recognized. Any capital gain or loss realized upon a sale of Shares generally is treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less. Your ability to deduct capital losses may be limited.

Medicare Tax. An additional 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on certain net investment income (including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from a Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Shares) of U.S. individuals, estates and trusts to the extent that such person’s “modified adjusted gross income” (in the case of an individual) or “adjusted gross income” (in the case of an estate or trust) exceeds a threshold amount. This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.

Backup Withholding. By law, if you do not provide your proper taxpayer identification number and certain required certifications, you may be subject to backup withholding on any distributions of income, capital gains or proceeds from the sale of your Shares. Withholding is also imposed if the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) requires it. When withholding is required, the amount will be 28% of any distributions or proceeds paid.

State and Local Taxes. Fund distributions and gains from the sale or exchange of your Shares generally are subject to state and local taxes.

Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units. An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of purchase and the exchanger’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered and the Cash Component paid. A person who exchanges Creation Units for equity securities generally will recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanger’s basis in the Creation Units and the aggregate market value of the securities received and the Cash Redemption Amount. The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales,” or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether the wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.

Any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less.

If a Fund redeems Creation Units in cash, it may recognize more capital gains than it would if it redeemed Creation Units in-kind.

Non-U.S. Investors. Non-U.S. investors may be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a 30% or lower treaty rate and are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements to avoid backup withholding or claim any treaty benefits. An exemption from U.S. withholding tax is permitted for distributions by a Fund to certain non-U.S. investors that are properly reported by the Fund as (1) capital gain dividends paid by a Fund from net capital gains, (2) short-term capital gain dividends paid from net short-term capital gains in excess of net long-term capital losses, and (3) interest-related dividends paid by a Fund from its qualified net interest income from U.S. sources. However, notwithstanding such exemptions from U.S. withholding at the source, any such dividends and distributions of income and capital gains, including the proceeds from the sale of your Shares, will be subject to backup withholding at a rate of 28% if you fail to properly certify that you are not a U.S. person.

Under legislation known as “FATCA” (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), ordinary dividends the Fund pays and, after December 31, 2018, the gross proceeds of share redemptions and certain capital gains dividends it pays to “foreign financial institutions” and certain other foreign entities will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% unless various certification, information reporting, due diligence and other applicable requirements (different from, and in addition to, those described above) are satisfied. In general, no such withholding will occur with respect to a U.S. person or non-U.S. individual that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-9 or IRS Form W-8BEN, respectively. No such withholding will occur with respect to a non-U.S. entity that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or other applicable Form W-8) indicating the entity’s compliance with, or exemption from, FATCA. Payments that are taken into account as effectively connected income are not subject to these withholding rules. Foreign shareholders should consult their own tax advisors as to the applicability and consequences of this legislation to them.

This discussion of “Dividends, Distributions and Taxes” is not intended or written to be used as tax advice. Because everyone’s tax situation is unique, you should consult your tax professional about federal, state, local or foreign tax consequences before making an investment in a Fund

Premium/Discount Information

NAV is the price per share at which a Fund issues and redeems Shares, and is calculated as described in the section of this Prospectus entitled “Net Asset Value.” The “Market Price” of a Fund generally is the market closing price on the Exchange on which a Fund is listed for trading. A Fund’s Market Price may be at, above or below its NAV. The NAV of a Fund will fluctuate with changes in the market value of its portfolio holdings. The Market Price of a Fund will fluctuate in accordance with market supply and demand.

Premiums or discounts are the differences (generally expressed as a percentage) between the NAV and Market Price of a Fund on a given day, generally at the time NAV is calculated. A premium is the amount that a Fund’s Market Price is trading above the reported NAV, expressed as a percentage of the NAV. A discount is the amount that a Fund’s Market Price is trading below the reported NAV, expressed as a percentage of the NAV.

Information showing the differences between the per share NAV of each Fund and the daily market prices on secondary markets for Shares of each Fund is available by visiting the Funds’ website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

Other Information

Distribution Plan

OFDI acts in a principal capacity as general distributor for the sale and distribution of Creation Units for each Fund. The Distributor does not maintain a secondary market in Shares.

The Board of Trustees of the Trust has adopted a Distribution and Service Plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). In accordance with the Plan, each Fund is authorized to pay an amount up to 0.25% of its average daily net assets each year to finance any activity primarily intended to result in the sale of Creation Units of each Fund or the provision of investor services, including but not limited to: (i) delivering copies of the current prospectus to prospective purchasers of Creation Units; (ii) marketing and promotional services, including advertising; (iii) facilitating communications with beneficial owners of Shares of the Funds; and (iv) such other services and obligations as may be set forth in the Distribution Agreement with the Distributor.

The Board has not authorized the Funds to pay the fees under the Plan at this time. However, in the event such fees are authorized in the future, because these fees are paid out of each Fund’s assets, over time these fees will increase the cost of your investment and may cost you more than certain other types of sales charges.

Net Asset Value

The trading price of a Fund’s Shares on the Exchange may differ from the Fund’s daily NAV and can be affected by market forces of supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors. BNY Mellon calculates each Fund’s NAV at the close of regular trading (ordinarily 4:00 p.m. Eastern time) every day the New York Stock Exchange is open (“Business Day”), except in the case of a scheduled early closing of the New York Stock Exchange, in which case the NAV will be calculated based on the value of the Fund's portfolio determined as of the New York Stock Exchange’s scheduled early closing time. NAV is calculated by deducting all of a Fund’s liabilities from the total value of its assets and dividing the result by the number of Shares outstanding, rounding to the nearest cent. All valuations are subject to review by the Trust’s Board of Trustees or its delegate.

In determining NAV, expenses are accrued and applied daily and securities and other assets for which market quotations are available are valued at market value. Generally, common stocks and other equity securities (ADRs, GDRs, EDRs and Global Shares) are valued at the closing price that day.

When price quotes are not readily available or the value normally obtained for it, such as from a pricing service, is not reliable when the Fund’s NAV is to be calculated, VTL will determine a fair value for the asset in good faith, pursuant to valuation procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees and will incorporate that fair value in its NAV calculation. These fair value determinations are intended to reflect values for the Fund’s assets that VTL and the Board of Trustees believe to be more reliable. However, the Fund’s fair value determinations involve subjective judgments and there can be no assurance that the Fund will receive the fair value assigned to a security if it were to sell the security. Fair value determinations are subject to review, approval or ratification by the Board at or prior to its next scheduled meeting after the fair valuations are determined. In addition, fair valuation may be necessary where there are no securities trading in a particular country or countries on a Business Day. A Fund’s NAV may not reflect changes in valuations on certain securities that occur at times or on days on which the Fund’s NAV is not calculated and on which the Fund does not transact sales, redemptions and exchanges of its Shares, such as when trading takes place in countries on days that are not a Business Day.

The Board has delegated the day-to-day responsibility for fair value determinations to VTL who has established a valuation committee to oversee those responsibilities. In determining whether a value is not readily available or reliable, VTL monitors the information it receives in the ordinary course of its investment management responsibilities to identify significant events that VTL believes, in good faith, will affect the value of the investment. Those may include, but are not limited to, information or events affecting or related to specific issuers, securities, or markets; consideration of recent transactions in comparable securities; price movements in futures contracts, appropriate market indices, ADRs or exchange-traded funds; the bid/ask quotes of brokers; or other market or trading trends or information. Valuing a Fund’s investments using fair value pricing will result in using prices for those investments that may differ from published market valuations. Use of fair value prices could result in a difference between the prices used to calculate a Fund’s NAV and the published prices used by the Underlying Index, which, in turn, could result in a difference between a Fund’s performance and the performance of a Fund’s Underlying Index. Fair value pricing involves subjective judgments and it is possible that the fair value determined for a security will be materially different than the value that could be realized upon the sale of that security.

Foreign securities, currencies and other assets denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate of such currencies against the U.S. dollar deemed appropriate by a Fund. Use of a rate different from the rate used by the Underlying Index may adversely affect a Fund’s ability to track the Underlying Index.

Additional Notices

Other Investment Companies

For purposes of the 1940 Act, each Fund is treated as a registered investment company and the acquisition of Shares by other investment companies is subject to the restrictions of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act. Registered investment companies are permitted to invest in Shares of each Fund beyond the limits set forth in Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain terms and conditions set forth in an SEC exemptive order issued to the Trust (the “Order”), including that such registered investment companies enter into a participation agreement with the Trust.

Continuous Offering

The method by which Creation Units of Shares are created and traded may raise certain issues under applicable federal securities laws. Because new Shares may be created and issued on an ongoing basis, at any point during the life of a Fund, a “distribution,” as that term is used in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), may be occurring. Any individuals considered to be statutory underwriters with regard to a distribution are subject to prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act. Therefore, broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part, depending on the circumstances, may result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner that could render such broker-dealers or other persons statutory underwriters and subject them to the prospectus delivery and liability provisions of the Securities Act. Any determination of whether a person is an underwriter must take into account all the relevant facts and circumstances of each particular case.

Broker-dealer firms should also note that dealers who are not “underwriters” but are participating in a distribution (as contrasted to ordinary secondary market transactions) are generally required to deliver a prospectus. This is because the current prospectus delivery exemption in the Securities Act does not apply to these transactions. Certain other requirements must also be satisfied with regard to delivery of prospectuses to exchange members in transactions on a national securities exchange. For more information, see “Exchange Listing and Trading-Continuous Offering” in the SAI.

Counsel and Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Ropes & Gray LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.

Cohen & Company, Ltd. (“Cohen”),1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800, Cleveland OH 44115, serves as independent registered public accounting firm of the Trust. Cohen audits the Funds’ financial statements and performs other related tax and audit services.

Financial Highlights

No financial information is presented for the Funds, as the Funds had not commenced investment operations as of the date of this Prospectus.

Information and Services

Statement of Additional Information. This document includes additional information about the Funds’ investment policies, risks, and operations. It is incorporated by reference into this prospectus (it is legally part of this prospectus).

Annual and Semi-Annual Reports. The Funds’ Annual and Semi-Annual Reports will provide additional information about the Funds’ investments and performance. The Annual Report will include a discussion of market conditions and investment strategies that significantly affected the Funds’ performance during its last fiscal year.

How to Request More Information

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

Telephone: Call OppenheimerFunds Services toll-free:
  1.800.CALL OPP (1.800.225.5677)
Mail: Use the following address for regular mail:
  OppenheimerFunds Services
P.O. Box 5270
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Internet: You may request documents, and read or download certain documents at
  www.oppenheimerfunds.com

 

Information about the Trust including the Statement of Additional Information can be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1.202.551.8090. Reports and other information about the Trust are available on the EDGAR database on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies may be obtained after payment of a duplicating fee by electronic request at the SEC’s e-mail address: publicinfo@sec.gov or by writing to the SEC’s Public Reference Section, Washington, D.C. 20549-1520.

 

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

 

 

 

 

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust

Statement of Additional Information

Dated October 18, 2017

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust (the “Trust”) is an open-end management investment company that currently offers shares in separate and distinct series, representing separate portfolios of investments (each individually referred to as a “Fund,” and collectively referred to as the “Funds”), each of which has its own investment objective. This Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) relates solely to the following portfolios:

 

  Cusip Bats BZX Exchange, Inc.
Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF 68386C 666 OVOL
Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF 68386C 682 OMOM
Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF 68386C 674 OQAL
Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF 68386C 690 OSIZ
Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF 68386C 658 OVLU
Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF 68386C 716 OYLD

 

VTL Associates LLC (“VTL” or “Management”) serves as the investment adviser to each Fund.

This SAI is not a prospectus and should be read only in conjunction with the Funds’ current Prospectus, dated October 18, 2017. Copies of the Prospectus and the Annual Report for the Funds, when available, may be obtained by calling the Trust directly at 1.800.CALL OPP (1.800.225.5677) or visiting the Funds’ website at www.oppenheimerfunds.com. The Prospectus contains more complete information about the Funds. You should read it carefully before investing.

Not FDIC Insured. May lose value. No bank guarantee.

 

 

Table of Contents  
1 General Information About The Trust To Summary Prospectus
1 Exchange Listing and Trading Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF
2 Investment Strategies Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF
4 Investment Restrictions Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF
5 Management of the Trust Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF
17

Investment Advisory, Principal Underwriting and

Other Service Arrangements

Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF
20 Portfolio Transactions and Brokerage Commissions Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF
21 Portfolio Turnover Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF
21 Capital Stock and Other Securities Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF
22 Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF
37 Taxes  
47 Determination of Net Asset Value  
47 Dividends and Distributions  
48 Financial Statements  
49 Appendix A  

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRUST

The Trust is a Delaware statutory trust organized on December 15, 2006. The Trust is an open-end management investment company, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”). The Trust currently offers shares (“Shares”) of separate series representing separate portfolios of investments. Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF are diversified series of the Trust.

The Funds offer and issue Shares at net asset value (“NAV”) only in aggregations of a specified number of Shares (each a “Creation Unit” or a “Creation Unit Aggregation”), generally in exchange for (1) a portfolio of equity securities constituting a substantial replication, or representation, of the stocks included in the relevant Fund’s corresponding benchmark index (“Deposit Securities”) and (2) a cash payment referred to as the “Cash Component.”

The Funds’ Shares are listed on Bats BZX Exchange, Inc. (the “Exchange”), and trade at market prices. The market price for a Fund’s Shares may be different from its NAV. Shares are redeemable only in Creation Unit Aggregations and, generally, in exchange for portfolio securities and a specified cash payment. Creation Units are aggregations of 50,000 Shares. In the event of the liquidation of a Fund, the Trust may lower the number of Shares in a Creation Unit.

The Trust reserves the right to offer a “cash” option for creations and redemptions of Fund Shares. Fund Shares may be issued in advance of receipt of Deposit Securities subject to various conditions, including a requirement to maintain on deposit with the Trust cash at least equal to 105% of the market value of the missing Deposit Securities. See the “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations” section of this SAI. In each instance of such full cash creations or redemptions, the transaction fees imposed may be greater than the transaction fees associated with in-kind creations or redemptions. In all cases, such fees will be limited in accordance with the requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) applicable to management investment companies offering redeemable securities.

EXCHANGE LISTING AND TRADING

There can be no assurance that the requirements of the Exchange necessary to maintain the listing of Shares of each Fund will continue to be met. The Exchange may, but is not required to, remove the Shares of a Fund from listing if (i) following the initial 12-month period beginning upon the commencement of trading of a Fund, there are fewer than 50 beneficial holders of the Shares for 30 or more consecutive trading days, (ii) the value of the underlying index on which a Fund is based is no longer calculated or available, (iii) the “approximate value” of a Fund, as described in “Share Trading Prices” of the Prospectus, is no longer calculated or available, or (iv) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist that, in the opinion of the Exchange, makes further dealings on the Exchange inadvisable. The Exchange will remove the Shares of a Fund from listing and trading upon termination of such Fund.

As in the case of other stocks traded on the Exchange, brokers’ commissions on transactions will be based on negotiated commission rates at customary levels. Negotiated commission rates only apply to investors who will buy and sell Shares of the Funds in secondary market transactions through brokers on the Exchange and does not apply to investors such as market makers, large investors and institutions who wish to deal in Creation Units directly with a Fund.

The Trust reserves the right to adjust the price levels of the Shares in the future to help maintain convenient trading ranges for investors. Any adjustments would be accomplished through stock splits or reverse stock splits, which would have no effect on the net assets of each Fund.

Continuous Offering

Broker-dealers and other persons are cautioned that some activities on their part may, depending on the circumstances, result in their being deemed participants in a distribution in a manner that could render them statutory underwriters and subject to these requirements. For more detailed information see “Continuous Offering” in the Prospectus. Firms that incur a prospectus delivery obligation with respect to Shares are reminded that, under Rule 153 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), a prospectus delivery obligation under Section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act owed to an exchange member in connection with a sale on the Exchange is satisfied by the fact that the prospectus is available at the Exchange upon request. The prospectus delivery mechanism provided in Rule 153 is only available with respect to transactions on an exchange.

INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

In addition to the fundamental investment restrictions described below under “Investment Restrictions,” and the principal investment policies described in the Funds’ Prospectus, each Fund is subject to the following investment strategies, which are considered non-fundamental and may be changed by the Board of Trustees without shareholder approval. Not every Fund will invest in all of the types of securities and financial instruments that are listed.

Cash and Short-Term Investments

A Fund may invest a portion of its assets, for cash management purposes, in short-term debt securities (including repurchase agreements) of corporations, the U.S. government and its agencies and instrumentalities, and banks and finance companies.

A Fund may invest a portion of its assets in shares issued by money market mutual funds for cash management purposes. A Fund also may invest in collective investment vehicles that are managed by an unaffiliated investment manager pending investment of the Fund’s assets in portfolio securities.

Loans of Portfolio Securities

A Fund may lend its portfolio securities to qualified broker-dealers and financial institutions pursuant to agreements, provided: (1) the loan is secured continuously by collateral marked-to-market daily and maintained in an amount at least equal to the current market value of the securities loaned; (2) the Fund may call the loan at any time and receive the securities loaned; (3) the Fund will receive any interest or dividends paid on the loaned securities; and (4) the aggregate market value of securities loaned will not at any time exceed 33 1/3% of the total assets of the Fund. Collateral will consist of U.S. and non-U.S. securities, cash equivalents or irrevocable letters of credit. As with other extensions of credit, there are risks of delay in recovery or even loss of rights in collateral in the event of default or insolvency of a borrower of a Fund’s portfolio securities. There is also a risk that a Fund may not be able to recall securities while they are on loan in time to vote proxies related to those securities.

Borrowing

Pursuant to Section 18(f)(1) of the 1940 Act, a Fund may not issue any class of senior security or sell any senior security of which it is the issuer, except that a Fund shall be permitted to borrow from any bank so long as immediately after such borrowings, there is an asset coverage of at least 300% and that in the event such asset coverage falls below this percentage, the Fund shall reduce the amount of its borrowings, within three days, to an extent that the asset coverage shall be at least 300%.

Illiquid Securities

A Fund may not invest more than 15% of its net assets in securities which it cannot sell or dispose of in the ordinary course of business within seven days at approximately the value at which the Fund has valued the investment.

Repurchase Agreements

When a Fund enters into a repurchase agreement, it purchases securities from a bank or broker-dealer, which simultaneously agrees to repurchase the securities at a mutually agreed upon time and price, thereby determining the yield during the term of the agreement. As a result, a repurchase agreement provides a fixed rate of return insulated from market fluctuations during the term of the agreement. The term of a repurchase agreement generally is short, possibly overnight or for a few days, although it may extend over a number of months (up to one year) from the date of delivery. Repurchase agreements are considered under the 1940 Act to be collateralized loans by a Fund to the seller secured by the securities transferred to the Fund. Repurchase agreements will be fully collateralized and the collateral will be marked-to-market daily. A Fund may not enter into a repurchase agreement having more than seven days remaining to maturity if, as a result, such agreement, together with any other illiquid securities held by the Fund, would exceed 15% of the value of the net assets of the Fund.

To the extent that repurchase agreements are considered to be loans, a Fund will not invest in repurchase agreements if, together with any other loans, more than 33 1/3% of its total assets would be lent to other persons, including other investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder which may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC.

 

 

Futures

Each Fund may enter into futures contracts. When a Fund purchases a futures contract, it agrees to purchase a specified underlying instrument at a specified future date. When a Fund sells a futures contract, it agrees to sell the underlying instrument at a future date. The price at which the purchase and sale will take place is fixed when the Fund enters into the contract. Futures can be held until their delivery dates, or can be closed out before then if a liquid secondary market is available.

When a Fund enters into a futures transaction, it must deliver to the futures commission merchant selected by the Fund an amount referred to as the “initial margin.” This amount is maintained either with the futures commission merchant or in a segregated account at the Funds’ custodian bank. Thereafter, a “variation margin” may be paid by the Fund to, or drawn by the Fund from, such account in accordance with controls set for such accounts, depending upon changes in the price of the underlying securities subject to the futures contract. A Fund also may effect futures transactions through futures commission merchants that are affiliated with the Funds’ investment adviser or its affiliates, or the Fund in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board. While futures contracts provide for the delivery of securities, deliveries usually do not occur. Contracts are generally terminated by entering into offsetting transactions.

Regulatory Aspects of Derivatives and Hedging Instruments

As a result of amendments to rules under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), the investment adviser must either operate within certain guidelines and restrictions with respect to each Fund’s use of futures, options on such futures, commodity options and certain swaps, or be subject to registration with the CFTC as a “commodity pool operator” (“CPO”) with respect to the Fund, and, upon the finalization of additional CFTC rules, be required to operate the Fund in compliance with certain disclosure, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements. Previously, the CFTC permitted unlimited futures transactions and options thereon, so long as a fund had claimed an exclusion from registration as a CPO, and swap contracts were not formerly regulated by the CFTC. Under the amended rules, the investment adviser of a registered investment company may claim an exemption from registration as a CPO only if the registered investment company that it advises uses futures contracts, options on such futures, commodity options and certain swaps solely for “bona fide hedging purposes,” or limits its use of such instruments for non-bona fide hedging purposes to certain de minimis amounts. The investment adviser currently intends to limit and monitor, consistent with internal compliance procedures, the Fund’s use of futures in order to permit the Fund to continue to claim an exemption under the CFTC rules. As such, with respect to the management of the Fund, the investment adviser will not be subject to the disclosure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements under the CFTC rules.

 

Investment Company Securities

 

Securities of other investment companies may be acquired by a Fund to the extent that such purchases are consistent with the Fund’s investment objective and restrictions and are permitted under the 1940 Act. The 1940 Act requires that, as determined immediately after a purchase is made, (i) not more than 5% of the value of a Fund’s total assets will be invested in the securities of any one investment company, (ii) not more than 10% of the value of a Fund’s total assets will be invested in securities of investment companies as a group and (iii) not more than 3% of the outstanding voting stock of any one investment company will be owned by a Fund. Certain exceptions to these limitations may apply, and the Funds may be able to rely on any future applicable SEC rules or orders that provide exceptions to these limitations. As a shareholder of another investment company, a Fund would bear, along with other shareholders, the Fund’s pro rata portion of the other investment company’s expenses, including advisory fees. These expenses would be in addition to the expenses that a Fund would bear in connection with its own operations.

Segregated Assets

When engaging in transactions that could be deemed to create a “senior security” under Section 18 of the 1940 Act, as interpreted by the SEC and its staff, a Fund will cause its administrator or custodian to earmark cash, U.S. government securities or other liquid portfolio securities, which shall be unencumbered and marked-to-market daily. Any such assets and securities designated by the custodian on its records are referred to in this SAI as “Segregated Assets.” Such Segregated Assets shall be maintained in accordance with pertinent positions of the SEC.

Cybersecurity Risk

With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet and the dependence on computer systems to perform necessary business functions, the Funds may be prone to operational and informational security risks resulting from breaches in cyber security (“cyber-attacks”). A cyber-attack refers to both intentional and unintentional events that may cause a Fund to lose proprietary information, suffer data corruption, or lose operational capacity. Cyber-attacks include, but are not limited to, infection by computer viruses or other malicious software code, gaining unauthorized access to systems, networks, or devices that are used to service the Funds’ operations through “hacking” or other means for the purpose of misappropriating assets or sensitive information, corrupting data, or causing operational disruption. Cyber-attacks may also be carried out in a manner that does not require gaining unauthorized access, such as causing denial-of-service attacks on the Funds’ website (i.e., efforts to make network services unavailable to intended users). In addition, authorized persons could inadvertently or intentionally release confidential or proprietary information stored on the Funds’ systems.

Cyber security failures or breaches by the Funds’ affiliates or service providers, may cause disruptions and impact the business operations, potentially resulting in financial losses to both the Funds and shareholders, the inability of fund shareholders to transact business and the mutual funds to process transactions, inability to calculate a Fund’s net asset value, impediments to trading, violations of applicable privacy and other laws (including the release of private shareholder information), regulatory fines, penalties, reputational damage, reimbursement or other compensation costs, and/or additional compliance costs. In addition, substantial costs may be incurred in attempting to prevent any cyber incidents in the future. While the investment adviser has policies and procedures (and risk management systems) designed to prevent or reduce the impact of such cyber-attacks, there are inherent limitations in such controls, systems and protocols, including the possibility that certain risks have not been identified, as well as the rapid development of new threats. These cyber security risks are also present for issuers of securities in which the Funds invest, which could result in material adverse consequences for such issuers, and may cause a Fund’s investments in such securities to lose value and may result in financial loss for Fund shareholders.

INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS

The investment restrictions set forth below are fundamental policies and may not be changed as to a Fund without the approval of a majority of the outstanding voting securities (as defined in the 1940 Act) of the Fund. Except with respect to borrowing, and unless otherwise indicated, all percentage limitations listed below apply to a Fund only at the time of the transaction. Accordingly, if a percentage restriction is adhered to at the time of investment, a later increase or decrease in the percentage that results from a relative change in values or from a change in a Fund’s total assets will not be considered a violation. Each Fund may not:

(i)               Borrow money, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder that may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC.

(ii)             Act as an underwriter, except to the extent the Fund may be deemed to be an underwriter when disposing of securities it owns or when selling its own shares.

(iii)           Make loans if, as a result, more than 33 1/3% of its total assets would be lent to other persons, including other investment companies to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder which may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC. This limitation does not apply to (i) the lending of portfolio securities, (ii) the purchase of debt securities, other debt instruments, loan participations and/or engaging in direct corporate loans in accordance with its investment goals and policies, and (iii) repurchase agreements to the extent the entry into a repurchase agreement is deemed to be a loan.

(iv)            Purchase or sell real estate unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments and provided that this restriction does not prevent the Fund from (i) purchasing or selling securities or instruments secured by real estate or interests therein, securities or instruments representing interests in real estate or securities or instruments of issuers that invest, deal or otherwise engage in transactions in real estate or interests therein and (ii) making, purchasing or selling real estate mortgage loans.

(v)             Issue senior securities, except to the extent permitted by the 1940 Act or any rules, exemptions or interpretations thereunder that may be adopted, granted or issued by the SEC.

(vi)            Invest 25% or more of the Fund’s net assets in securities of issuers in any one industry or group of industries (other than securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or any of its agencies or instrumentalities or securities of other investment companies), except that a Fund may invest 25% or more of its net assets in securities of issuers in the same industry to approximately the same extent that the Fund’s corresponding index concentrates in the securities of a particular industry or group of industries. Accordingly, if the Fund’s corresponding index stops concentrating in the securities of a particular industry or group of industries, the Fund will also discontinue concentrating in such securities.

(vii)          Purchase or sell physical commodities, unless acquired as a result of ownership of securities or other instruments, and provided that this restriction does not prevent the Fund from (i) purchasing or selling securities of companies that purchase or sell commodities or invest in commodities; (ii) engaging in any transaction involving currencies, options, forwards, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, swaps, hybrid instruments or other derivatives; or (iii) investing in securities, or transacting in other instruments, that are linked to or secured by physical or other commodities.

Non-Fundamental Restrictions. The Funds’ Board of Trustees can change non-fundamental policies without shareholder approval. However, shareholders will be given 60 days’ notice of changes to non-fundamental policies, and significant changes to investment policies will be described in supplements or updates to the Prospectus or this SAI, as appropriate. Each Fund has the following additional operating policy that is not “fundamental”:

Each Fund cannot invest in the securities of other registered investment companies or registered unit investment trusts in reliance on subparagraph (F) or (G) of Section 12(d)(1) of the 1940 Act.

The following is only a brief summary of certain current limitations imposed on investment companies by the 1940 Act and certain rules and interpretations thereunder, and is not a complete description of such limits. The discussion below is based on current law, regulations and administrative interpretations. Those laws, regulations and administrative interpretations may be changed by legislative, judicial, or administrative action, sometimes with retroactive effect.

 

The 1940 Act prohibits a fund from issuing “senior securities,” which are generally defined as fund obligations that have a priority over the fund’s shares with respect to the payment of dividends or the distribution of fund assets, except that the fund may borrow money as described above.

 

Currently, under the 1940 Act, a fund may borrow only from banks and/or affiliated investment companies in an amount up to one-third of its total assets (including the amount borrowed less all liabilities and indebtedness other than borrowing), except that a fund may borrow up to 5% of its total assets from any person for temporary purposes. Under the 1940 Act, there is a rebuttable presumption that a loan is temporary if it is repaid within 60 days and not extended or renewed. Under the 1940 Act, a fund currently cannot make any commitment as an underwriter, if immediately thereafter the amount of its outstanding underwriting commitments, plus the value of its investments in securities of issuers (other than investment companies) of which it owns more than ten percent of the outstanding voting securities, exceeds twenty-five percent of the value of the fund’s total assets, except to the extent that a fund may be considered an underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act when reselling securities held in its own portfolio.

 

The 1940 Act does not prohibit a fund from owning real estate, commodities or contracts related to commodities. The extent to which the Fund can invest in real estate and/or commodities or contracts related to commodities is set out in the investment strategies described in the Prospectus and this SAI. Current SEC staff interpretations under the 1940 Act prohibit a fund from lending more than one-third of its total assets, except through the purchase of debt obligations or the use of repurchase agreements.

 

The 1940 Act does not define what constitutes “concentration” in an industry. However, the SEC has taken the position that investment of more than 25% of a fund’s assets in issuers in the same industry constitutes concentration in that industry. The SEC permits this restriction to be based on total assets. This limit does not apply to securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies and instrumentalities; however, securities issued by any one foreign government are considered to be part of a single “industry.” For the purposes of compliance with its concentration policy, each Fund will consider portfolio investments held by underlying investment companies in which the Fund invests, to the extent that the Fund has sufficient information about such portfolio investments.

 

MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST

The Trust is governed by a Board of Trustees, which is responsible for overseeing the Trust. The Board is led by Robert J. Malone, a trustee who is not an “interested person” of the Trust, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act (an “Independent Trustee”). The Board meets periodically throughout the year to oversee the Trust’s activities, including to review its performance, oversee potential conflicts that could affect the Trust, and review the actions of the investment adviser. With respect to its oversight of risk, the Board, through its committees, relies on reports and information received from various parties, including the investment adviser, internal auditors, the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer, the Trust’s outside auditors and Fund counsel. It is important to note that, despite the efforts of the Board and of the various parties that play a role in the oversight of risk, it is likely that not all risks will be identified or mitigated.

The Board has an Audit Committee, a Review Committee and a Governance Committee. Each of the Committees is comprised solely of Independent Trustees. The Board has determined that its leadership structure is appropriate in light of the characteristics and circumstances of the Trust because it allocates areas of responsibility among the committees in a manner that enhances the Board’s oversight.

Because the Fund has not yet completed its first fiscal year of operations, there is no information regarding the number of Audit Committee, Review Committee or Governance Committee meetings during the last fiscal year.

The members of the Audit Committee are Karen L. Stuckey (Chairman), Andrew J. Donohue, F. William Marshall, Jr. and James D. Vaughn. Subject to the ratification of the Board and shareholders (if applicable), the Audit Committee is responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of the independent certified public accountants and auditors of each Fund or registered public accounting firm (also referred to as the “independent Auditors”) for the purpose of preparing or issuing audit reports and for all other services provided by the independent Auditors. Other main functions of the Audit Committee, outlined in the Audit Committee Charter, include, but are not limited to: (i) reviewing the scope and results of financial statement audits and the audit fees charged; (ii) reviewing reports from the Trust’s independent Auditors regarding the Trust’s internal accounting procedures and controls; (iii) reviewing reports regarding Fund operations that relate to accounting and financial reporting from Management’s Internal Audit Department; (iv) maintaining a direct line of communication and meeting with the Trust’s independent Auditors at least annually; (v) reviewing the independence of the Trust’s independent Auditors; and (vi) approving in advance the provision of any audit and/or non-audit services by the Trust’s independent Auditors, including tax services, that are not prohibited by the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, to the Trust, the investment adviser and certain affiliates of the investment adviser. The Audit Committee also reviews and considers the valuation of portfolio investments, including the procedures for the determination of the fair value of any such investments that do not have readily available market quotations.

The members of the Review Committee are Victoria J. Herget (Chairman), Jon S. Fossel, Richard F. Grabish and Beverly L. Hamilton. Among other duties, as set forth in the Review Committee’s Charter, the Review Committee reviews Fund performance and expenses, as well as oversees several of the Trust’s principal service providers and certain policies and procedures of the Trust. The Review Committee also reviews certain reports from and meets periodically with the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer.

The members of the Governance Committee are Richard F. Grabish (Chairman), Jon S. Fossel, Beverly L. Hamilton, Karen L. Stuckey and James D. Vaughn. The Governance Committee has adopted a charter setting forth its duties and responsibilities. Among other duties, the Governance Committee reviews and oversees Trust governance and the nomination of Trustees, including Independent Trustees. The Governance Committee has adopted a process for shareholder submission of recommendations for Trustee nominees. Shareholders may submit such recommendations for the Governance Committee’s consideration by mail to the Governance Committee in care of the Trust. Such recommendations should be accompanied by, at a minimum, (i) the name, address, and business, educational, and/or other pertinent background information of the person being recommended; (ii) a statement concerning whether the person is an “interested person” as defined in the 1940 Act; (iii) any other information that the Funds would be required to include in a proxy statement concerning the person if he or she was nominated; and (iv) the name and address of the person submitting the recommendation and, if that person is a shareholder, the period for which that person held Fund shares. The recommendation also can include any additional information which the person submitting it believes would assist the Governance Committee in evaluating the recommendation. The Governance Committee has not established specific qualifications that it believes must be met by a Trustee nominee. In evaluating Trustee nominees, the Governance Committee considers, among other things, an individual's background, skills, and experience; whether the individual is an “interested person” as defined in the 1940 Act; and whether the individual would be deemed an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of applicable SEC rules. The Governance Committee also considers whether the individual’s background, skills, and experience will complement the background, skills, and experience of other Trustees and will contribute to the Board’s diversity. The Governance Committee may consider such persons at such time as it meets to consider possible nominees. The Governance Committee, however, reserves sole discretion to determine which candidates for Trustee it will recommend to the Board and the shareholders and it may identify candidates other than those submitted by shareholders. The Governance Committee may, but need not, consider the advice and recommendation of the Funds’ investment adviser or its affiliates in selecting nominees. The full Board elects new Trustees except for those instances when a shareholder vote is required. Shareholders who desire to communicate with the Board should address correspondence to the Board or an individual Board member and may submit correspondence electronically at www.oppenheimerfunds.com under the caption “contact us” or by mail to the Trust at the address on the front cover of this SAI.

Below is a brief discussion of the specific experience, qualifications, attributes or skills of each Board member that led the Board to conclude that he or she should serve as a Trustee of the Trust.

Each Independent Trustee has served on the Board for the number of years listed below, during the course of which he or she has become familiar with the Trust’s (and other Oppenheimer funds’) financial, accounting, regulatory and investment matters and has contributed to the Board’s deliberations. Each Trustee’s outside professional experience is outlined in the table of Biographical Information, below.

Trustees and Officers of the Trust

Except for Mr. Steinmetz, each of the Trustees is an Independent Trustee. All of the Trustees are also trustees of the following Oppenheimer funds (referred to as “Denver Board Funds”):

Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund
Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Plus Fund
Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Funds Trust:
Oppenheimer Global High Yield Fund     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Alpha Fund
Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Alpha Plus Fund
Oppenheimer Integrity Funds:     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Income Fund
    Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund     Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Select 40 Fund
Oppenheimer International Bond Fund Oppenheimer SteelPath Panoramic Fund
Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds:
Oppenheimer Main Street Funds:     Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund/VA
    Oppenheimer Main Street Fund     Oppenheimer Conservative Balanced Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Main Street Select Fund     Oppenheimer Discovery Mid Cap Growth Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund     Oppenheimer Global Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Main Street Mid Cap Fund     Oppenheimer Global Multi-Alternatives Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Master Event-Linked Bond Fund, LLC     Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Master Inflation Protected Securities Fund, LLC     Oppenheimer Government Money Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Master Loan Fund, LLC     Oppenheimer International Growth Fund/VA
Money Markey Fund:     Oppenheimer Main Street Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Government Cash Reserves     Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund/VA
Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust:     Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund/VA
    Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Revenue ETF Oppenheimer Ultra-Short Duration Fund
    Oppenheimer ESG Revenue ETF  

Oppenheimer Financials Sector Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Global ESG Revenue ETF

 
    Oppenheimer Global Revenue ETF  
    Oppenheimer Large Cap Revenue ETF  
    Oppenheimer International Revenue ETF  

Oppenheimer Mid Cap Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Small Cap Revenue ETF

 
    Oppenheimer Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF  

 

Messrs. Depetris, Edwards, Kennedy, Legg, Petersen, Reichert, Steinmetz, Sternhell, Vallario and Yoder and Mss. Bullington, Burley, French, Foxson, LaFond, Lo Bessette, Miller, and Picciotto, who are officers of the Funds, hold the same offices with one or more of the other Denver Board Funds.

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

The Funds are new, and as of the date of this SAI, the Trustees and officers of the Funds, as a group, do not own any shares of the Funds beneficially or of record.

None of the Independent Trustees (nor any of their immediate family members) owns securities of either the investment adviser or the Distributor or of any entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the investment adviser or the Distributor.

Biographical Information. The Trustees and officers, their positions with the Funds, length of service in such position(s) and principal occupations and business affiliations during at least the past five years are listed in the charts below. The address of each Independent 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 Trustee has served the Trust in the following capacities from the following dates:

Independent Trustees Position(s) Length of Service
Robert J. Malone Board Chairman; Trustee Since 2016; since 2015
Andrew J. Donohue Trustee Since 2017
Jon S. Fossel Trustee Since 2015
Richard F. Grabish Trustee Since 2015
Beverly L. Hamilton Trustee Since 2015
Victoria J. Herget Trustee Since 2015
F. William Marshall, Jr. Trustee Since 2015
Karen L. Stuckey Trustee Since 2015
James D. Vaughn Trustee Since 2015
Interested Trustee    
Arthur P. Steinmetz Trustee Since 2015

 

Independent Trustees

Name, Year of Birth, Position(s)

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years;

Other Directorships Held

Portfolios Overseen

in Fund Complex

Robert J. Malone (1944)

Chairman of The Board of Trustees

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. 53

Andrew J. Donohue (1950)

Trustee

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. 53
Jon S. Fossel (1942)
Trustee
Chairman of the Board of Jack Creek Preserve Foundation (non-profit organization) (2005-2015); Director of Jack Creek Preserve Foundation (non-profit organization) (since March 2005); Chairman of the Board (2006-December 2011) and Director (June 2002-December 2011) of UNUMProvident (insurance company); Director of Northwestern Energy Corp. (public utility corporation) (November 2004-December 2009); Director of P.R. Pharmaceuticals (October 1999-October 2003); Director of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (non-profit organization) (February 1998-February 2003 and February 2005-February 2007); Chairman and Director (until October 1996) and President and Chief Executive Officer (until October 1995) of the OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the following: Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (“OAC”) (parent holding company of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.), Shareholders Services, Inc. and Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (until October 1995). Mr. Fossel has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 1990, 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. 53
Richard F. Grabish (1948)
Trustee
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 Board’s deliberations. 53
Beverly L. Hamilton (1946)
Trustee
Trustee of Monterey Institute for International Studies (educational organization) (2000-2014); Board Member of Middlebury College (educational organization) (December 2005-June 2011); Director (1991-2016), Vice Chairman of the Board (2006-2009) and Chairman (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 Board’s deliberations. 53
Victoria J. Herget (1951)
Trustee
Board Chair (2008-2015) and Director (2004-Present), United Educators (insurance company); Trustee (since 2000) and Chair (since 2010), 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 Board’s deliberations. 53
F. William Marshall, Jr. (1942)
Trustee
Trustee Emeritus of Worcester Polytech Institute (WPI) (private university) (since 2009); Trustee of MassMutual Select Funds (formerly MassMutual Institutional Funds) (investment company) (1996-2015), MML Series Investment Fund (investment company) (1996-2015) and Mass Mutual Premier Funds (investment company) (January 2012-December 2015); President and Treasurer of the SIS Charitable Fund (private charitable fund) (January 1999-March 2011); Former Trustee of WPI (1985-2008); Former Chairman of the Board (2004-2006) and Former Chairman of the Investment Committee of WPI (1994-2008); Chairman of SIS Family Bank, F.S.B. (formerly SIS Bank) (commercial bank) (January 1999-July 1999); Executive Vice President of Peoples Heritage Financial Group, Inc. (commercial bank) (January 1999-July 1999); and Former President and Chief Executive Officer of SIS Bancorp. (1993-1999). Mr. Marshall has served on the Boards of certain Oppenheimer funds since 2000, 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. 53
Karen L. Stuckey (1953)
Trustee
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; and member, Women’s Investment Management Forum (professional organization) since inception. 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 Board’s deliberations. 53
James D. Vaughn (1945)
Trustee
Retired; former managing partner (1994-2001) of Denver office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, (held various positions 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 Board’s deliberations. 53

 

Mr. Steinmetz is an “Interested Trustee” because he is affiliated with the Funds’ investment adviser by virtue of his positions as President of and chairman and director of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. 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.

Name, Year of Birth, Position(s)

Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years;

Other Directorships Held

Portfolios Overseen in Fund Complex
Arthur P. Steinmetz (1958),
Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer
Chairman of the 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). 109

 

The addresses of the officers in the charts below are as follows: for Messrs. Depetris, Edwards, Reichert, Steinmetz, Sternhell and Vallario and Mss. Lo Bessette, Foxson, French and Picciotto, 225 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10281, for Messrs. Kennedy, Legg, Petersen and Yoder and Mss. Bullington, Burley, LaFond and Miller, 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Each officer serves for an indefinite term or until his or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

Each of the Officers has served the Trust in the following capacities from the following dates:

  Position(s) Length of Service
Frank Vallario Vice President Since 2017
Sean P. Reichert Vice President Since 2015
Arthur P. Steinmetz Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer Since 2015
Mary Ann Picciotto Chief Compliance Officer and Chief AML Officer Since 2015
Jennifer Foxson Vice President and Chief Business Officer Since 2015
Sharon French Vice President Since 2017
Alex Depetris Vice President Since 2017
Brian Petersen Treasurer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer Since 2015
Stephanie Bullington Assistant Treasurer Since 2016
Julie Burley Assistant Treasurer Since 2015
James Kennedy Assistant Treasurer Since 2015
Jan Miller Assistant Treasurer Since 2015
Cynthia Lo Bessette Secretary and Chief Legal Officer Since 2015
Taylor V. Edwards Assistant Secretary Since 2015
Randy G. Legg Assistant Secretary Since 2015
Michael Sternhell Assistant Secretary Since 2015
John Yoder Assistant Secretary Since 2015
Gloria J. LaFond Blue Sky Officer Since 2015

 

Other Information About the Officers of the Funds

Name, Year of Birth, Position(s) Principal Occupation(s) During the Past 5 Years: Portfolios Overseen in Fund Complex
Frank Vallario (1969) Vice President, VTL (since August 2017); Portfolio Manager, Columbia Threadneedle (September 2015-June 2017); Executive Director, Quantitative Client Consultant, Northeast Hedge Funds at MSCI, Inc. (2009-2015). 18
Sean P. Reichert (1987) Vice President, VTL (since August 2017) Portfolio Manager, VTL (since December 2015; Assistant Vice President, VTL (January 2017-August 2017); Portfolio Manager, IMS (2009-2015). 18
Sharon French (1965 ) Executive Vice President, Head of Beta Solutions of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (since 2016); Senior Strategic Advisor to the CEO and President of Investment Manager at BNY Mellon (2015-2016); President, F-Squared (2013-2015). 18
Alex Depetris (1980 ) Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and Chief Operating Officer of Beta Solutions (since 2017); Chief Operating Officer of ETF Business at Deutsche Bank (2008-2017). 18
Mary Ann Picciotto (1973)
Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer
 Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since March 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of Sub-Adviser, OFI SteelPath, Inc., OFI Global Trust Company, OFI Global Institutional, Inc., Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc., OFI Private Investments, Inc., Harborview Asset Management Corporation, Trinity Investment Management Corporation, and Shareholder Services, Inc. (since March 2014); Chief Compliance Officer of VTL (since December 2015); 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). 109
Jennifer Foxson (1969)
Vice President and Chief Business Officer
 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). 109
Brian S. Petersen (1970)
Treasurer and Principal Financial & Accounting Officer
 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 Sub-Adviser (February 2007-December 2012); Assistant Vice President of Sub-Adviser (August 2002-2007). 109
Stephanie Bullington (1977)
Assistant Treasurer
 Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since February 2014); Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-September 2013); Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (January 2010-December 2012); Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (October 2005-January 2010). 109
Julie Burley (1981)
Assistant Treasurer
 Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since October 2013). Previously held the following positions at Deloitte & Touche: Senior Manager (September 2010-October 2013), Manager (September 2008-August 2010), and Audit Senior (September 2005-August 2008). 109
James Kennedy (1958)
Assistant Treasurer
Senior Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Senior Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (September 2006-December 2012). 109
Jan Miller (1963)
Assistant Treasurer
 Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2014); Assistant Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-January 2014); Assistant Vice President of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (2005-December 2012); Assistant Vice President in OppenheimerFunds, Inc.’s Fund Accounting department (November 2004 to March 2006).   109
Cynthia Lo Bessette (1969)
Secretary and Chief Legal Officer
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since February 2016); Chief Legal Officer of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and the Distributor (since February 2016); Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp. (since February 2016); General Counsel of OFI SteelPath, Inc., VTL Associates, 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); Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel (March 2015-February 2016) and Executive Vice President, Vice President, 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. 109
Randy G. Legg (1965)
Assistant Secretary
Vice President and Senior Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Vice President (June 2005-December 2012) and Senior Counsel (March 2011-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; Associate Counsel (January 2007-March 2011) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 109
Taylor V. Edwards (1967)
Assistant Secretary

Senior Vice President and Managing Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2017); Vice President and Senior Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (January 2013-January 2017); Vice President (February 2007-December 2012) and Senior Counsel (February 2012-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; Associate Counsel (May 2009-January 2012); Assistant Vice President

(January 2006-January 2007) and Assistant Counsel (January 2006-April 2009) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

109
Michael J. Sternhell (1975)
Assistant Secretary

Senior Vice President and Managing Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since February 2015); Vice President and Associate Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc.

(January 2013-January 2015); Vice President and Associate Counsel (June 2011-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

109
John Yoder (1975)
Assistant Secretary
Vice President and Assistant Counsel of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Vice President and Assistant Counsel (July 2011-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 109
Gloria J. LaFond (1945)
Blue Sky Officer
Assistant Vice President of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (since January 2013); Assistant Vice President (January 2006-December 2012) of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. 109

 

Trustee Share Ownership. The chart below shows information about each Trustee’s beneficial share ownership in the Fund and in all of the registered investment companies that the Trustee oversees in the Oppenheimer family of Funds (“Supervised Funds”).

As of December 31, 2016

Independent Trustees

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell 1000

Momentum Factor ETF

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell

1000 Quality Factor ETF

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell

1000 Size

Factor ETF

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell 1000Value Factor ETF

Dollar Range of Shares Beneficially Owned in Oppenheimer Russell

1000 Yield

Factor ETF

Aggregate Dollar Range Of Shares Beneficially Owned in Supervised Funds

               
Andrew J. Donohue(1) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
Jon S. Fossel N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
Richard F. Grabish N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
Beverly L. Hamilton N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
Victoria J. Herget N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
Robert J. Malone N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
F. William Marshall, Jr. N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
Karen L. Stuckey N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
James D. Vaughn N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
Interested Trustee              
Arthur P.Steinmetz N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Over $100,000
1.Mr. Donohue became an Independent Trustee of the Fund and all Denver Board Funds effective June 1, 2017.

 

Remuneration of the Officers and Trustees. The officers and the interested Trustee of the Fund, who are affiliated with OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., receive no salary or fee from the Funds. The Funds began operations as of the date of this SAI. The amounts shown below for the Independent Trustees' compensation from the Funds are estimated amounts for serving as a Trustee and member of a committee (if applicable), with respect to each Fund's current fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. The total compensation from the Funds and fund complex represents compensation for serving as a Trustee and member of a committee (if applicable) of the Boards of the Funds and other funds in the OppenheimerFunds complex during the calendar year ended December 31, 2016.

Name and Other Fund Position(s)

(as applicable)

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF(1)

Fiscal year ended

June 30, 2018

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF(1)

Fiscal year ended

June 30, 2018

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF(1)

Fiscal year ended June 30, 2018

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF(1)

Fiscal year ended June 30, 2018

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from Oppenheimer Russell 1000Value Factor ETF(1)

Fiscal year ended June 30, 2018

Aggregate Estimated Compensation from Oppenheimer Russell 1000Yield Factor ETF(1)

Fiscal year ended June 30, 2018

Total Compensation from the Funds and Fund Complex(2)

 

Robert J. Malone(3)

Chairman of the Board

$305 $305 $305 $305 $305 $305 $287,098

Andrew J. Donohue(4)

Audit Committee Member

$196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $196 N/A

Jon S. Fossel

Review Committee Member and Governance Committee Member

$196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $244,000

Richard F. Grabish

Governance Committee Chairman and Review Committee Member

$229 $229 $229 $229 $229 $229 $280,600

Beverly L. Hamilton

Governance Committee Member and Review Committee Member

$196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $267,671

Victoria J. Herget

Review Committee Chairman

 

 

$229 $229 $229 $229 $229 $229 $256,929

F. William Marshall, Jr.

Audit Committee Member

$196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $275,561

Karen L. Stuckey

Audit Committee Chairman and Governance Committee Member

$240 $240 $240 $240 $240 $240 $261,239

James D. Vaughn

Audit Committee Member and Governance Committee Member

$196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $196 $244,000

 

1.       “Aggregate Compensation from the Fund” includes fees and deferred compensation, if any.

2.       In accordance with SEC regulations, for purposes of this section only, “Fund Complex” includes the Oppenheimer Funds, the MassMutual Institutional Funds, the MassMutual Select Funds and the MML Series Investment Fund, the investment adviser for which is the indirect parent company of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. (“OFI Global”), the parent company of the Fund’s Manager. OFI Global also serves as the Sub-Adviser to the following: MassMutual Premier International Equity Fund, MassMutual Premier Main Street Fund, MassMutual Premier Strategic Income Fund, MassMutual Premier Capital Appreciation Fund, and MassMutual Premier Global Fund. OFI Global does not consider MassMutual Institutional Funds, MassMutual Select Funds and MML Series Investment Fund to be part of the Oppenheimer Funds’ “Fund Complex” as that term may be otherwise interpreted.

3. Mr. Malone began serving as Chairman of the Board effective August 24, 2016.

4.     Mr. Donohue became an Independent Trustee of the Fund and all Denver Board Funds effective June 1, 2017.

 

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

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

Control Persons and Principal Holders of Securities

The Funds are new, and as of the date of this SAI, no person owned, of record or beneficially, 5% or more of the Funds’ outstanding Shares.

INVESTMENT ADVISORY, PRINCIPAL UNDERWRITING AND OTHER SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS

Investment Adviser

VTL, serves as the investment adviser to the Funds. VTL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (“OFI”). OFI is wholly-owned by Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp., a holding company primarily owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, a global, diversified insurance and financial services company. VTL is registered with the SEC as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”).

VTL provides investment advisory services to each Fund pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement between the Trust and VTL, as amended (the “Advisory Agreement”). Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, the Trust employs VTL generally to manage the investment and reinvestment of the assets of the Funds. Pursuant to the Advisory Agreement, each Fund pays VTL a fee for managing the Fund’s investments that are calculated as a percentage of the Fund’s assets under management.

As of the date of this SAI, each Fund is a new fund that has not yet completed its first fiscal year, and therefore, has not paid management fees to VTL under the Advisory Agreement.

Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement, VTL is responsible for all expenses of each Fund, except the fee payment under the Agreement, distribution fees or expenses under the Fund’s 12b-1 plan (if any), interest expenses, taxes, acquired fund fees and expenses, brokers’ commissions and any other portfolio transaction-related expenses and fees arising out of transactions effected on behalf of the Fund, credit facility fees and expenses, including interest expenses, and litigation and indemnification expenses and other extraordinary expenses not incurred in the ordinary course of the Fund’s business.

Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) owns the Russell 1000 Volatility Factor Index, Russell 1000 Momentum Factor Index, Russell 1000 Quality Factor Index, Russell 1000 Size Factor Index, Russell 1000 Value Factor Index and Russell 1000 Yield Factor Index. Russell licenses the use of the methodology to OFI, which then sublicenses the methodology to the relevant Fund.

Portfolio Managers

Portfolio Managers. The Funds are managed by a team of investment professionals including Frank Vallario and Sean P. Reichert (each is referred to as a “Portfolio Manager” and collectively they are referred to as the “Portfolio Managers”) who are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Funds’ investments.

Other Accounts Managed. In addition to managing the Funds’ investment portfolios, the members of the portfolio management team also manage other investment portfolios and other accounts on behalf of VTL or its affiliates. The following table provides information regarding those other portfolios and accounts as of September 30, 2017. No portfolio or account has an advisory fee based on performance:

Portfolio Manager Registered Investment Companies Managed Total Assets in Registered Investment Companies Managed1 Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Managed Total Assets in Other Pooled Investment Vehicles Managed2 Other Accounts Managed Total Assets in Other Accounts Managed2,3
Frank Vallario 10 $2.30 0 $0 3 $714.23
Sean P. Reichert 10 $2.30 0 $0 3 $714.23
1.In billions.
2.In millions.
3.Does not include personal accounts of portfolio managers and their families, which are subject to the Code of Ethics.

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

Compensation. The primary objectives of the VTL compensation plans for investment professionals are to:

·Motivate and reward continued growth and profitability
·Attract and retain high-performing individuals critical to the on-going success of VTL
·Motivate and reward strong business/investment performance
·Create an ownership mentality for all plan participants

The investment professionals’ cash compensation is comprised primarily of a market-based base salary and (variable) incentives (annual and long term). An investment professional’s base salary is determined by the employee’s experience and performance in the role, taking into account the ongoing compensation benchmark analyses. A portfolio manager’s base salary is generally a fixed amount that may change as a result of an annual review, upon assumption of new duties, or when a market adjustment of the position occurs. All bonus awards are based initially on VTL’s financial performance.

All key staff of VTL is eligible to participate in the VTL Deferred Compensation Plan. These positions have a high level of accountability and a large impact on the success of the business due to the position’s scope and overall responsibility. In addition, the participants have demonstrated a long-term performance track record and have the potential for a continued leadership role. This plan provides for an annual award, payable in cash after a five-year vesting period. The value of the award increases during the vesting period based upon the growth in VTL’s income.

VTL portfolio managers responsible for managing Funds are paid by VTL and not by the Funds. The same methodology described above is used to determine portfolio manager compensation with respect to the management of Funds and other accounts. Fund portfolio managers are also eligible for the standard 401k retirement benefits and health and welfare benefits available to all VTL employees.

Ownership of Fund Shares. As of the date of this SAI, Mr. Vallario and Mr. Reichert do not own shares of the Funds.

Administrator and Fund Accountant

The Bank of New York Mellon (“BNY Mellon”) serves as Administrator and Fund Accountant for the Funds. Its principal address is One Wall Street, New York, NY 10286. Under the Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement with the Trust, BNY Mellon provides necessary administrative, tax, accounting services and financial reporting for the maintenance and operations of the Trust and each Fund. In addition, BNY Mellon makes available the office space, equipment, personnel and facilities required to provide such services. As compensation for the foregoing services, BNY Mellon receives certain out of pocket costs, transaction fees and asset based fees, which are accrued daily and paid monthly by the Trust.

Each Fund is a new fund that has not yet completed its first fiscal year, and therefore, the Funds have not paid fund administration or accounting fees to BNY Mellon under the Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement.

Custodian and Transfer Agent

BNY Mellon also serves as custodian for the Funds pursuant to a Custody Agreement. Under the Custody Agreement with the Trust, BNY Mellon maintains in separate accounts cash, securities and other assets of the Trust and each Fund, keeps the accounts and records related to these services, and provides other services. BNY Mellon is required, upon the order of the Trust, to deliver securities held by BNY Mellon and to make payments for securities purchased by the Trust for each Fund.

As compensation for the foregoing services, BNY Mellon receives certain out of pocket costs, transaction fees and asset based fees, which are accrued daily and paid monthly by the Trust.

The Funds participate in a securities lending program under which the Funds’ custodian lends Fund portfolio securities to qualified institutional investors that post appropriate collateral. Under the program, the Funds’ custodian receives a portion of the interest earned on any reinvested collateral as an offset for the costs of the program.

Pursuant to a Transfer Agency and Services Agreement with the Trust, BNY Mellon acts as transfer agent for each Fund’s authorized and issued Shares, and as dividend disbursing agent of the Trust. As compensation for the foregoing services, BNY Mellon receives certain out of pocket costs, transaction fees and asset based fees, which are accrued daily and paid monthly by the Trust.

Distributor

The Distributor, OFDI, located at 225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281, is the principal underwriter of the Funds’ Shares and distributes Fund Shares pursuant to a Distribution Agreement. Shares are continuously offered for sale by the Funds through the Distributor only in Creation Unit Aggregations, as described in the Prospectus and below under the heading “Creation and Redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations.” The Distributor has no obligation to sell any specific quantity of Fund Shares. The Distributor, its affiliates and officers have no role in determining the investment policies or which securities are to be purchased or sold by the Trust or the Funds. The Distributor is not affiliated with any stock exchange. VTL, at its expense, may pay the Distributor a fee for certain distribution-related services. The Distributor does not receive any underwriting commissions for the sale of Fund Shares.

OFDI may make payments to broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries for services provided and expenses incurred in connection with the distribution, marketing and promotion of Fund Shares. These payments will be made by OFDI and not from the resources of the Funds. Payments may be made to financial intermediaries that (1) provide access to financial intermediaries' platform or to their sales force; (2) develop new products that feature, market or otherwise promote the Funds; (3) allow customers to buy and sell Fund Shares without paying a commission or other transaction charge; and/or (4) provide data and reporting relating to sales of the Funds. Payments of the type described above are sometimes referred to as revenue-sharing or marketing payments. These payments may create conflicts of interest between the financial intermediary and its clients by incentivizing the financial intermediary to recommend the Funds. Further, OFDI may make payments to certain financial intermediaries related to educational efforts regarding exchange-traded products, including the Funds, or for other activities, such as participation in marketing activities and presentations, educational training programs, conferences, as well as the development of technology platforms and reporting systems.

Calculation Agent

Russell serves as calculation agent for the Underlying Indexes. Russell has entered into a contractual agreement with OFI (which is authorized to sublicense any necessary rights to VTL) under which Russell will be primarily responsible for Index maintenance, calculation, dissemination and reconstitution activities. OFI compensates Russell from its own resources.

Counsel

Ropes & Gray LLP, 191 North Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60606, serves as legal counsel to the Trust.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Cohen & Company, Ltd. (“Cohen”), 1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800, Cleveland, OH 44115, serves as independent registered public accounting firm of the Trust. Cohen audits the Funds’ financial statements and performs other related tax and audit services.

Rule 12b-1 Plan

The Trust has adopted a Distribution and Service Plan pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act (the “Plan”) to compensate persons who provide certain marketing or distribution-related services for the Funds. The Plan provides for payments at an annual rate of up to 0.25% of each Fund’s average daily net assets.

Under the Plan and as required by Rule 12b-1, the Trustees will receive and review after the end of each calendar quarter a written report provided by the Distributor of the amounts expended under the Plan and the purpose for which such expenditures were made, as applicable.

The Plan was adopted in order to permit the implementation of each Fund’s method of distribution. However, the Board has not authorized the Funds to pay fees under the Plan at this time.

PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS AND BROKERAGE COMMISSIONS

The policy of the Trust regarding purchases and sales of securities is that primary consideration will be given to obtaining the most favorable prices and efficient executions of transactions. Consistent with this policy, when securities transactions are effected on a stock exchange, the Trust’s policy is to pay commissions that are considered fair and reasonable without necessarily determining that the lowest possible commissions are paid in all circumstances. In seeking to determine the reasonableness of brokerage commissions paid in any transaction, VTL relies upon its experience and knowledge regarding commissions generally charged by various brokers. The sale of Shares by a broker-dealer is not a factor in the selection of broker-dealers.

Around the time the Funds rebalance their portfolios to align with their respective benchmark indexes, a Fund may request that one or more of its Authorized Participants engage in certain creation and redemption basket activity (“Rebalance Trades”) to facilitate index tracking in a tax-efficient manner (i.e., to minimize the realization of capital gains). The Trust may take into account the Authorized Participant’s willingness to engage in Rebalance Trades when it selects broker-dealers to execute trades for the Funds. VTL also may direct portfolio transactions associated with specific Rebalance Trades to the Authorized Participant that agrees to engage in such Rebalance Trades for that Fund.

VTL assumes general supervision over placing orders on behalf of the Funds for the purchase or sale of portfolio securities. If purchases or sales of portfolio securities by a Fund and one or more other investment companies or clients supervised by VTL are considered at or about the same time, transactions in such securities may be allocated among the Fund, the several investment companies and clients in a manner deemed equitable to all by VTL. In some cases, this procedure could have a detrimental effect on the price or volume of a security purchased or sold for the Funds. However, in other cases, it is possible that the ability to participate in volume transactions and to negotiate lower brokerage commissions will be beneficial to the Funds.

The Funds primarily incur brokerage commissions in connection with the periodic rebalancings/reconstitutions of the Funds. The magnitude of the rebalancings/reconstitutions will vary depending on such factors as changes in the composition of an Underlying Index and changes in the size of a Fund.

Because each Fund has not completed its first fiscal year, no Fund paid brokerage commissions during the last three years.

Because each Fund has not completed its first fiscal year, no Fund acquired securities of its regular brokers or dealers (as defined in the 1940 Act) or of their parents.

Portfolio Holding Disclosure Policies and Procedures

The Trust has adopted a policy regarding the disclosure of information about the Trust’s portfolio holdings. The Board of Trustees of the Trust must approve all material amendments to this policy. The Funds’ portfolio holdings are publicly disseminated each day the Funds are open for business through financial reporting and news services, including publicly accessible Internet web sites. In addition, a basket composition file, which includes the security names and share quantities to deliver in exchange for Fund Shares, together with estimates and actual cash components, is publicly disseminated daily prior to the opening of the Exchange via the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”). The basket represents one Creation Unit of each Fund.

Proxy Voting Policy

The Board has delegated to VTL the responsibility to vote proxies with respect to the portfolio securities held by the Funds. VTL has adopted policies and procedures with respect to voting proxies relating to securities held in client accounts for which it has discretionary authority. VTL has engaged Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) as its proxy voting agent and has authorized ISS to vote proxies with respect to securities held in client accounts in accordance with ISS recommendations. When available, information on how VTL voted proxies on behalf of the Funds relating to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month (or shorter, as applicable) period ended June 30 may be obtained (i) without charge, upon request, by calling 1-888-854-8181; and (ii) on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. VTL Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures are included as Appendix A to this SAI.

Codes of Ethics

The Funds, VTL, OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., OppenheimerFunds, Inc., and OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. have a Code of Ethics. It is designed to detect and prevent improper personal trading by portfolio managers and certain other employees ("covered persons") that could compete with or take advantage of the Fund's portfolio transactions. Covered persons include persons with knowledge of the investments and investment intentions of the Fund and/or other funds advised by VTL and OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. The Code of Ethics does permit personnel subject to the Code to invest in securities, including securities that may be purchased or held by the Fund, subject to a number of restrictions and controls. Compliance with the Code of Ethics is carefully monitored and enforced by VTL, OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., OppenheimerFunds, Inc., and OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.

The Code of Ethics is an exhibit to the Fund's registration statement filed with the SEC. It can be viewed as part of the Fund's registration statement on the SEC's EDGAR database at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and can be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public Reference Room in Washington, D.C.

PORTFOLIO TURNOVER

The Funds may experience portfolio turnover in excess of 100%. No Fund had commenced operations as of the date of this SAI.

CAPITAL STOCK AND OTHER SECURITIES

Each Fund is authorized to issue an unlimited number of Shares of beneficial interest without par value. Each Share of beneficial interest represents an equal proportionate interest in the assets and liabilities of a Fund and has identical voting, dividend, redemption, liquidation and other rights and preferences as the other Shares of the Fund.

Under Delaware law, the Trust is not required to, and the Trust does not presently intend to, hold regular annual meetings of shareholders. Meetings of the shareholders of one or more of the Funds may be held from time to time to consider certain matters, including changes to a Fund’s fundamental investment policies, changes to the Management Agreement and the election of Trustees when required by the 1940 Act.

When matters are submitted to shareholders for a vote, shareholders are entitled to one vote per Share with proportionate voting for fractional Shares. The Shares of a Fund do not have cumulative voting rights or any preemptive or conversion rights, and the Trustees have authority, from time to time, to divide or combine the Shares of a Fund into a greater or lesser number of Shares so affected. In the case of a liquidation of a Fund, each shareholder of the Fund will be entitled to share, based upon the shareholder’s percentage ownership, in the distribution of assets, net of liabilities, of the Fund. No shareholder is liable for further calls or assessment by a Fund.

On any matter submitted to a vote of the shareholders, all Shares shall vote in the aggregate without differentiation between the Shares of the separate Funds or separate classes, if any, provided that (i) with respect to any matter that affects only the interests of some but not all Funds, then only the Shares of such affected Funds, voting separately, shall be entitled to vote on the matter, (ii) with respect to any matter that affects only the interests of some but not all classes, then only the Shares of such affected classes, voting separately, shall be entitled to vote on the matter; and (iii) notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any matter as to which the 1940 Act or other applicable law or regulation requires voting by Fund or by class, then the Shares of the Trust shall vote as prescribed in that law or regulation.

Book Entry Only System. The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section of the Prospectus entitled “Book Entry.”

DTC Acts as Securities Depository for Fund Shares. Shares of the Funds are represented by securities registered in the name of DTC or its nominee and deposited with, or on behalf of, DTC.

DTC, a limited-purpose trust company, was created to hold securities of its participants (the “DTC Participants”) and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions among the DTC Participants in such securities through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of the DTC Participants, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates. DTC Participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations, some of whom (and/or their representatives) own DTC. More specifically, DTC is owned by a number of its DTC Participants and by the NYSE, NYSE MKT and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Access to the DTC system is also available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a DTC Participant, either directly or indirectly (the “Indirect Participants”).

Beneficial ownership of Shares is limited to DTC Participants, Indirect Participants and persons holding interests through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants. Ownership of beneficial interests in Shares (owners of such beneficial interests are referred to herein as “Beneficial Owners”) is shown on, and the transfer of ownership is effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect to DTC Participants) and on the records of DTC Participants (with respect to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners that are not DTC Participants). Beneficial Owners will receive from or through the DTC Participant a written confirmation relating to their purchase and sale of Shares. No Beneficial Owner shall have the right to receive a certificate representing such Shares.

Conveyance of all notices, statements and other communications to Beneficial Owners is effected as follows. Pursuant to the Depositary Agreement between the Trust and DTC, DTC is required to make available to the Trust upon request and for a fee to be charged to the Trust a listing of the Shares of the Funds held by each DTC Participant. The Trust shall inquire of each such DTC Participant as to the number of Beneficial Owners holding Shares, directly or indirectly, through such DTC Participant. The Trust shall provide each such DTC Participant with copies of such notice, statement or other communication, in such form, number and at such place as such DTC Participant may reasonably request, in order that such notice, statement or communication may be transmitted by such DTC Participant, directly or indirectly, to such Beneficial Owners. In addition, the Trust shall pay to each such DTC Participant a fair and reasonable amount as reimbursement for the expenses attendant to such transmittal, all subject to applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.

Fund distributions shall be made to DTC or its nominee, Cede & Co., as the registered holder of all Fund Shares. DTC or its nominee, upon receipt of any such distributions, shall immediately credit DTC Participants’ accounts with payments in amounts proportionate to their respective beneficial interests in Shares of the Fund as shown on the records of DTC or its nominee. Payments by DTC Participants to Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners of Shares held through such DTC Participants will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in a “street name,” and will be the responsibility of such DTC Participants.

The Trust has no responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or notices to Beneficial Owners, or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in such Shares, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests, or for any other aspect of the relationship between DTC and the DTC Participants or the relationship between such DTC Participants and the Indirect Participants and Beneficial Owners owning through such DTC Participants. DTC may decide to discontinue providing its service with respect to Shares at any time by giving reasonable notice to the Trust and discharging its responsibilities with respect thereto under applicable law. Under such circumstances, the Trust shall take action to find a replacement for DTC to perform its functions at a comparable cost.

CREATION AND REDEMPTION OF CREATION UNIT AGGREGATIONS

Creation. The Trust issues and sells Shares of each Fund only in Creation Unit Aggregations on a continuous basis through the Distributor, without a sales load, at its NAV next determined after receipt, on any Business Day (as defined below), of an order in proper form. Orders are placed in “proper form” when the orders comply with the order processing procedures identified in the Authorized Participant Agreement for creation or redemption of Shares of the Funds.

A “Business Day” for purposes of this section is any day the NYSE, the Exchange and a Fund are open for business and includes any day that a Fund is required to be open under Section 22(e) of the 1940 Act.

Deposit of Securities and Deposit or Delivery of Cash. Except for cash in lieu transactions, as described below, the consideration for purchase of Creation Unit Aggregations of a Fund generally consists of the in-kind deposit of a designated portfolio of equity securities—the “Deposit Securities”—per each Creation Unit Aggregation constituting a replication or a representative sampling of the securities included in the Fund’s corresponding index and an amount of cash denominated in U.S. dollars—the “Cash Component”—computed as described below. Together, the Deposit Securities and the Cash Component constitute the “Fund Deposit,” which represents the minimum initial and subsequent investment amount for a Creation Unit Aggregation of a Fund.

The Cash Component is sometimes also referred to as the Balancing Amount. The Cash Component serves the function of compensating for any differences between the NAV per Creation Unit Aggregation and the Deposit Amount (as defined below). The Cash Component is an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of the Fund Shares (per Creation Unit Aggregation) and the “Deposit Amount”—an amount equal to the market value of the Deposit Securities.

The Funds’ custodian, through the NSCC (discussed below), makes available on each Business Day, prior to the opening of business on the Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m., Eastern time), the list of the names and the required number of shares of each Deposit Security to be included in the current Fund Deposit (based on information at the end of the previous Business Day) for each Fund. Such Fund Deposit is applicable in order to effect creations of Creation Unit Aggregations of the Fund until such time as the next-announced composition of the Deposit Securities is made available.

In addition, the Funds reserve the right to permit or require the substitution of an amount of cash—i.e., a “cash in lieu” amount—to be added to the Cash Component in the following circumstances:

·if, on a given Business Day, the Fund announces before the open of trading that all purchases, all redemptions or all purchases and redemptions on that day will be made entirely in cash;
·if, upon receiving a purchase or redemption order from an Authorized Participant (as defined below), the Fund determines to require the purchase or redemption, as applicable, to be made entirely in cash;
·if, on a given Business Day, the Fund requires all Authorized Participants purchasing or redeeming Shares on that day to deposit or receive (as applicable) cash in lieu of some or all of the Deposit Securities solely because: (i) such instruments are not eligible for transfer either through the NSCC or DTC; or (ii) in the case of non-U.S. investments, such instruments are not eligible for trading due to local trading restrictions, local restrictions on securities transfers or other similar circumstances; or
·if the Fund permits an Authorized Participant to deposit or receive (as applicable) cash in lieu of some or all of the Deposit Securities solely because: (a) such instruments are, in the case of the purchase of a Creation Unit, not available in sufficient quantity; (b) such instruments are not eligible for trading by an Authorized Participant or the investor on whose behalf the Authorized Participant is acting; or (c) a shareholder would be subject to unfavorable income tax treatment if the shareholder receives redemption proceeds of non-U.S. investments in kind.

If VTL notifies the Distributor that a “cash in lieu” amount will be accepted, the Distributor will notify the Authorized Participant and the Authorized Participant shall deliver, on behalf of itself or the party on whose behalf it is acting, the “cash in lieu” amount, with any appropriate adjustments as advised by VTL.

Procedures for Creation of Creation Unit Aggregations. To be eligible to place orders with the Distributor and to create a Creation Unit Aggregation of a Fund, an entity must be (i) a “Participating Party,” i.e., a broker-dealer or other participant in the clearing process through the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC (the “Clearing Process”), a clearing agency that is registered with the SEC; or (ii) a DTC Participant (see the “Book Entry Only System” section), and, in each case, must have executed an agreement with the Distributor, with respect to creations and redemptions of Creation Unit Aggregations (“Participant Agreement”) (discussed below). A Participating Party and DTC Participant are collectively referred to as an “Authorized Participant.” A list of existing Authorized Participants that have signed a Participant Agreement is available from the Distributor. All Fund Shares, however created, will be entered on the records of DTC in the name of Cede & Co. for the account of a DTC Participant.

All orders to create Creation Unit Aggregations, whether through the Clearing Process (through a Participating Party) or outside the Clearing Process (through a DTC Participant), must be received by the Funds’ Distributor no later than the cut-off time designated as such in the participant agreement on the relevant Business Day, in each case on the date such order is placed in order for creation of Creation Unit Aggregations to be effected based on the NAV of Shares of a Fund as next determined on such date after receipt of the order in proper form. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders), are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit Aggregation. In the case of custom orders, the order must be received by the Funds’ Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time, or such other time as may be designated by the Funds and disclosed to the Authorized Participants on the trade date. A custom order may be placed by an Authorized Participant in the event that the Trust permits or requires the substitution of an amount of cash to be added to the Cash Component to replace any Deposit Security as discussed above. The date on which an order to create Creation Unit Aggregations (or an order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations, as discussed below) is placed is referred to as the “Transmittal Date.” Orders must be transmitted by an Authorized Participant by telephone or other transmission method acceptable to the Distributor pursuant to procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement, as described below (see the “Placement of Creation Orders Using Clearing Process,” “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Domestic Funds” and “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Foreign Funds” sections). Severe economic or market disruptions or changes, or telephone or other communication failure may impede the ability to reach the Distributor or an Authorized Participant.

All orders from investors who are not Authorized Participants to create Creation Unit Aggregations shall be placed with an Authorized Participant in the form required by such Authorized Participant. In addition, the Authorized Participant may request the investor to make certain representations or enter into agreements with respect to the order, e.g., to provide for payments of cash, when required. Investors should be aware that their particular broker may not have executed a Participant Agreement and that, therefore, orders to create Creation Unit Aggregations of a Fund have to be placed by the investor’s broker through an Authorized Participant that has executed a Participant Agreement. In such cases there may be additional charges to such investor. At any given time, there may be only a limited number of broker- dealers that have executed a Participant Agreement. Those placing orders for Creation Unit Aggregations through the Clearing Process should afford sufficient time to permit proper submission of the order to the Distributor prior to the closing time on the Transmittal Date. Orders for Creation Unit Aggregations that are effected outside the Clearing Process are likely to require transmittal by the DTC Participant earlier on the Transmittal Date than orders effected using the Clearing Process. Those persons placing orders outside the Clearing Process should ascertain the deadlines applicable to DTC and the Federal Reserve Bank wire system by contacting the operations department of the broker or depository institution effectuating such transfer of Deposit Securities and Cash Component.

For domestic securities, orders to create Creation Units of a Fund may be placed through the Clearing Process utilizing procedures applicable to domestic funds (see “Placement of Creation Orders Using Clearing Process”) or outside the Clearing Process utilizing the procedures applicable to domestic funds (see “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Domestic Funds”). For foreign securities orders, most orders will be placed outside of the clearing process utilizing the procedures applicable for foreign funds (see “Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Foreign Funds”).

Placement of Creation Orders Using Clearing Process. The Clearing Process is the process of creating or redeeming Creation Unit Aggregations through the Continuous Net Settlement System of the NSCC. Fund Deposits made through the Clearing Process must be delivered through a Participating Party that has executed a Participant Agreement. The Participant Agreement authorizes the Distributor to transmit through the Funds’ custodian to NSCC, on behalf of the Participating Party, such trade instructions as are necessary to effect the Participating Party’s creation order. Pursuant to such trade instructions to NSCC, the Participating Party agrees to deliver the requisite Deposit Securities and the Cash Component to the Trust, together with such additional information as may be required by the Distributor. An order to create Creation Unit Aggregations through the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Distributor on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ Distributor not later than the closing time on such Transmittal Date and (ii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed.

Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Domestic Funds. Fund Deposits made outside the Clearing Process must be delivered through a DTC Participant that has executed a Participant Agreement. A DTC Participant who wishes to place an order creating Creation Unit Aggregations to be effected outside the Clearing Process must state that the DTC Participant is not using the Clearing Process and that the creation of Creation Unit Aggregations will instead be effected through a transfer of securities and cash directly through DTC. The Fund Deposit transfer must be ordered by the DTC Participant on the Transmittal Date in a timely fashion so as to ensure the delivery of the requisite number of Deposit Securities through DTC to the account of a Fund by no later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, of the Business Day following the Transmittal Date.

All questions as to the number of Deposit Securities to be delivered, and the validity, form and eligibility (including time of receipt) for the deposit of any tendered securities, will be determined by the Trust, whose determination shall be final and binding. The amount of cash equal to the Cash Component must be transferred directly to the Funds’ custodian through the Federal Reserve Bank wire transfer system in a timely manner so as to be received by the Funds’ custodian no later than 2:00 p.m., Eastern time, on the next Business Day immediately following such Transmittal Date. An order to create Creation Unit Aggregations outside the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Funds’ Distributor on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ Distributor not later than the closing time on such Transmittal Date; and (ii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed. However, if the Funds’ custodian does not receive both the required Deposit Securities and the Cash Component by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, and 2:00 p.m., Eastern time, respectively, on the next Business Day immediately following the Transmittal Date, such order will be canceled. Upon written notice to the Distributor, such canceled order may be resubmitted the following Business Day using a Fund Deposit as newly constituted to reflect the then current Deposit Securities and Cash Component. The delivery of Creation Unit Aggregations so created will occur no later than the second (2nd) Business Day following the day on which the purchase order is deemed received by the Distributor (“T+2”).

Additional transaction fees may be imposed with respect to transactions effected outside the Clearing Process (through a DTC participant) and in the limited circumstances in which any cash can be used in lieu of Deposit Securities to create Creation Units. (See “Creation Transaction Fee” section below).

Placement of Creation Orders Outside Clearing Process—Foreign Funds. A standard creation order must be placed by 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, for purchases of Shares. Orders for select Funds (T-1 (T minus 1) Next Day International Market Orders), are to be placed after the listing exchange closing time and before the Fund’s established T-1 order window cut-off time, the latest being 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time on any Business Day. Such orders, if accepted, will receive the next Business Day’s NAV per Creation Unit Aggregation. In the case of custom orders, the order must be received by the Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time. The Distributor will inform the Funds’ transfer agent, VTL and the Funds’ custodian upon receipt of a creation order. The Funds’ custodian will then provide such information to the appropriate sub-custodian.

With respect to foreign investments of a Fund, the Fund’s custodian causes the sub-custodian for the Fund to maintain an account into which the Authorized Participant delivers, on behalf of itself or the party on whose behalf it is acting, the securities included in the Fund Deposit (or the cash value of all or part of such of such securities, in the case of a permitted cash purchase), with any appropriate adjustments as advised by the Trust. Deposit Securities must be delivered to an account maintained at the applicable local sub-custodian(s). Orders to purchase Creation Unit Aggregations must be received by the Distributor from an Authorized Participant on its behalf or another investor’s behalf by the closing time of the regular trading session on the Exchange on the relevant Business Day. However, when a relevant local market is closed due to local market holidays, the local market settlement process will not commence until the end of the local holiday period. Settlement must occur by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the contractual settlement date.

The Authorized Participant must also make available no later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the contractual settlement date, by means approved by the Trust, immediately available or same day funds sufficient for the Trust to pay the Cash Component next determined after acceptance of the purchase order, together with the applicable purchase transaction fee.

Additional Information Regarding the Placement of Creation Orders. Creation Unit Aggregations may be created in advance of receipt by the Trust of all or a portion of the applicable Deposit Securities as described below. In these circumstances, the initial deposit will have a value greater than the NAV of the Fund Shares on the date the order is placed in proper form since, in addition to available Deposit Securities, cash in the form of U.S. dollars must be deposited in an amount equal to the sum of (i) the Cash Component, plus (ii) 105% of the market value of the undelivered Deposit Securities (the “Additional Cash Deposit”).

The order shall be deemed to be received on the Business Day on which the order is placed provided that the order is placed in proper form prior to 4:00 p.m., Eastern time on such date and federal funds in the appropriate amount are deposited with the Funds’ custodian by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time the following Business Day. If the order is not placed in proper form by 4:00 p.m., Eastern time or federal funds in the appropriate amount are not received by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, the next Business Day, then the order may be deemed to be canceled and the Authorized Participant shall be liable to the Fund for losses, if any, resulting therefrom. An additional amount of cash shall be required to be deposited with the Trust, pending delivery of the missing Deposit Securities to the extent necessary to maintain the Additional Cash Deposit with the Trust in an amount at least equal to 105% of the daily marked to market value of the missing Deposit Securities. To the extent that missing Deposit Securities are not received by 1:00 p.m., Eastern time on T+2 or in the event a marked-to-market payment is not made within one Business Day following notification by the Distributor that such a payment is required, the Trust may use the cash on deposit to purchase the missing Deposit Securities. The Trust may also require delivery of Deposit Securities prior to settlement date by the Authorized Participant in relation to certain international markets.

Authorized Participants will be liable to the Trust and the Fund for the costs incurred by the Trust in connection with any such purchases. These costs will be deemed to include the amount by which the actual purchase price of the Deposit Securities exceeds the market value of such Deposit Securities on the day the purchase order was deemed received by the Distributor plus the brokerage and related transaction costs associated with such purchases. The Trust will return any unused portion of the Additional Cash Deposit once all of the missing Deposit Securities have been properly received by the Funds’ custodian or purchased by the Trust and deposited into the Trust. In addition, a transaction fee, as listed below, will be charged in all cases. The delivery of Creation Unit Aggregations so created will occur no later than T+2.

Acceptance of Orders for Creation Unit Aggregations. The Trust reserves the absolute right to reject a creation order transmitted to it by the Distributor in respect of a Fund if, for example: (i) the order is not in proper form; (ii) the investor(s), upon obtaining the Fund Shares ordered, would own 80% or more of the currently outstanding Shares of any Fund; (iii) the Deposit Securities delivered are not as disseminated for that date by the Fund’s custodian, as described above; (iv) acceptance of the Deposit Securities would have certain adverse tax consequences to the Fund; (v) acceptance of the Fund Deposit would, in the opinion of counsel, be unlawful; (vi) acceptance of the Fund Deposit would otherwise, in the discretion of the Trust or VTL, have an adverse effect on the Trust or the rights of beneficial owners; or (vii) in the event that circumstances outside the control of the Trust, the Fund’s custodian, the Distributor and VTL make it, for all practical purposes, impossible to process creation orders. Examples of such circumstances include acts of God; public service or utility problems such as fires, floods, extreme weather conditions and power outages resulting in telephone, telecopy and computer failures; market conditions or activities causing trading halts; systems failures involving computer or other information systems affecting the Trust, VTL, BNY Mellon, the Distributor, DTC, NSCC, the Fund’s custodian or sub-custodian or any other participant in the creation process, and similar extraordinary events. The Distributor shall notify a prospective purchaser of a Creation Unit and/or the Authorized Participant acting on behalf of such prospective purchaser of its rejection of the order of such person. The Trust, the Fund’s custodian, any sub-custodian and the Distributor are under no duty, however, to give notification of any defects or irregularities in the delivery of Fund Deposits nor shall any of them incur any liability for the failure to give any such notification. All questions as to the number of shares of each security in the Deposit Securities and the validity, form, eligibility, and acceptance for deposit of any securities to be delivered shall be determined by the Trust, and the Trust’s determination shall be final and binding.

Creation Transaction Fee. Authorized Participants will be required to pay a fixed creation transaction fee payable to BNY Mellon, as set forth below, regardless of the number of creations made each day, but may be subject to change. The standard creation transaction fee for each Fund is generally fixed at the amount shown below regardless of the number of Creation Units being purchased, but is subject to change. An additional charge may be imposed for (i) creations effected outside the Clearing Process; and (ii) a variable fee for cash or partial cash creations (to offset the Trust’s brokerage, transaction and other costs associated with using cash to purchase the requisite Deposit Securities). For example, where a Fund makes market sales, the Authorized Participant will reimburse the Fund for, among other things, any difference between the market value at which the securities and/or financial instruments were sold or settled by the Fund and the cash in lieu amount (which amount, at VTL’s discretion, may be capped), applicable registration fees, brokerage commissions and certain taxes. Any additional costs associated with transferring the securities constituting the Deposit Securities to the account of the Trust are borne by the Authorized Participants. The table below provides the Standard Creation/Redemption Transaction Fee for each Fund:

Fund

Creation/Redemption

Transaction Fee

Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF $2,500
Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF $2,500
Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF $2,500
Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF $2,500
Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF $2,500
Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF $2,500

 

From time to time, all or a portion of a Fund’s creation/redemption transaction fee may be waived by BNY Mellon and/or VTL may reimburse BNY Mellon for all or a portion of the waived creation or redemption transaction fees. The Fund reserves the right to waive the creation or redemption transaction fees in whole or in part. Investors should consult their broker for additional fees that may apply.

Redemption of Fund Shares in Creation Unit Aggregations. Fund Shares may be redeemed only in Creation Unit Aggregations at their NAV next determined after receipt of a redemption request in proper form by a Fund through the Funds’ transfer agent and only on a Business Day. A Fund will not redeem Shares in amounts less than Creation Unit Aggregations. Beneficial owners must accumulate enough Shares in the secondary market to constitute a Creation Unit Aggregation in order to have such Shares redeemed by the Trust. There can be no assurance, however, that there will be sufficient liquidity in the public trading market at any time to permit assembly of a Creation Unit Aggregation.

Investors should expect to incur brokerage and other costs in connection with assembling a sufficient number of Fund Shares to constitute a redeemable Creation Unit Aggregation. Each Fund’s custodian, through the NSCC, makes available prior to the opening of business on the Exchange (currently 9:30 a.m. Eastern time) on each Business Day, the identity of the securities subject to redemption requests (“Fund Securities”) received in proper form as described below that will be applicable (subject to possible amendment or correction) to redemption requests received in proper form (as described below) on that day. Under limited circumstances, Fund Securities received on redemption may not be identical to Deposit Securities that are applicable to creations of Creation Unit Aggregations. Unless cash redemptions are available or specified for a Fund (as discussed under “Deposit of Securities and Deposit or Delivery of Cash” above), the redemption proceeds for a Creation Unit Aggregation generally consist of Fund Securities—as announced on the Business Day of the request for redemption received in proper form—plus or minus cash in an amount equal to the difference between the NAV of the Fund Shares being redeemed, as next determined after a receipt of a request in proper form, and the value of the Fund Securities (the “Cash Redemption Amount”), less a redemption transaction fee as described below.

Pursuant to Section 22(e) of the 1940 Act, the right of redemption may be suspended or the date of payment postponed (i) for any period during which the NYSE is closed (other than customary weekend and holiday closings); (ii) for any period during which trading on the NYSE is suspended or restricted; (iii) for any period during which an emergency exists as a result of which disposal of the Shares of the Fund or determination of a Fund’s NAV is not reasonably practicable; or (iv) in such other circumstances as is permitted by the SEC.

In connection with an Authorized Participant’s redemption order, the Trust reserves the right to verify that the Authorized Participant owns the Fund Shares to be redeemed and such Shares have not been loaned or pledged to another party.  If the Authorized Participant, upon receipt of a verification request, does not provide sufficient verification as determined by the Trust, the redemption request will not be considered to have been received in proper form and may be rejected by the Trust.

 

Redemption Transaction Fee. Authorized Participants will be required to pay a fixed redemption transaction fee payable to BNY Mellon, as set forth above, regardless of the number of redemptions made each day, but may be subject to change. An additional variable charge for cash or partial cash redemptions (when cash redemptions are available or specified) of up to applicable legal limits may be imposed for a Fund. To the extent a Fund cannot recoup the amount of transaction costs incurred in connection with a redemption from the redeeming shareholder because of applicable legal limits or otherwise, those transaction costs will be borne by the Fund’s remaining shareholders and may negatively affect the Fund’s performance. From time to time, all or a portion of a Fund’s redemption transaction fee may be waived by BNY Mellon and/or VTL may reimburse BNY Mellon for all or a portion of the waived redemption transaction fees. The Fund reserves the right to waive the redemption transaction fees in whole or in part. Investors should consult their broker for additional fees that may apply.

Placement of Redemption Orders Using Clearing Process. Orders to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations through the Clearing Process must be delivered through a Participating Party that has executed the Participant Agreement. An order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations using the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Trust on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ transfer agent not later than 4:00 p.m., Eastern time on such Transmittal Date, and (ii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed; such order will be effected based on the NAV of the relevant Fund as next determined. An order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations using the Clearing Process made in proper form but received by the Trust after 4:00 p.m. Eastern time will be deemed received on the next Business Day immediately following the Transmittal Date and will be effected at the NAV next determined on such next Business Day. The requisite Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount will be transferred by the second Business Day following the date on which such request for redemption is deemed received.

Placement of Redemption Orders Outside the Clearing Process—Domestic Funds. Orders to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations outside the Clearing Process must be delivered through a DTC Participant that has executed the Participant Agreement. A DTC Participant who wishes to place an order for redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations to be effected outside the Clearing Process must state that the DTC Participant is not using the Clearing Process and that redemption of Creation Unit Aggregations will instead be effected through transfer of Fund Shares directly through DTC. An order to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations outside the Clearing Process is deemed received by the Trust on the Transmittal Date if (i) such order is received by the Funds’ transfer agent not later than 4:00 p.m., Eastern time on such Transmittal Date; (ii) such order is accompanied or followed by the requisite number of Shares of the Fund, which delivery must be made through DTC to the Funds’ custodian no later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time (for the Fund Shares), on the next Business Day immediately following such Transmittal Date (the “DTC Cut-Off-Time”) and 2:00 p.m., Eastern time for any Cash Component, if any, owed to a Fund; and (iii) all other procedures set forth in the Participant Agreement are properly followed. After the Trust has deemed an order for redemption outside the Clearing Process received, the Trust will initiate procedures to transfer the requisite Fund Securities that are expected to be delivered within two Business Days and the Cash Redemption Amount, if any, owed to the redeeming Beneficial Owner to the Authorized Participant on behalf of the redeeming Beneficial Owner by the second Business Day following the Transmittal Date on which such redemption order is deemed received by the Trust.

Placement of Redemption Orders Outside the Clearing Process—Foreign Funds. A standard order for redemption must be received by 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, for redemptions of Shares. In the case of custom redemptions, the order must be received by the Distributor no later than 3:00 p.m., Eastern time. Arrangements satisfactory to the Trust must be in place for the Participating Party to transfer the Creation Units through DTC on or before the settlement date. Redemptions of Shares for Fund Securities will be subject to compliance with applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws, and each Fund (whether or not it otherwise permits cash redemptions) reserves the right to redeem Creation Units for cash to the extent that the Fund could not lawfully deliver specific Fund Securities upon redemptions or could not do so without first registering the Deposit Securities under such laws.

The delivery of Fund Securities to redeeming investors generally will be made within two Business Days. However, due to the schedule of holidays in certain countries, the delivery of in-kind redemption proceeds may take longer than two Business Days after the day on which the redemption request is received in proper form. In such cases, the local market settlement procedures will not commence until the end of the local holiday periods. See “Regular Holidays” for a list of the local holidays in the foreign countries relevant to the Funds, as applicable.

A redeeming Beneficial Owner, or Authorized Participant acting on behalf of such Beneficial Owner, when taking delivery of Shares of Fund Securities upon redemption of Shares of the Fund must maintain appropriate security arrangements with a qualified broker-dealer, bank or other custody provider in each jurisdiction in which any of the Fund Securities are customarily traded, to which account the Fund Securities will be delivered.

In the event that the Authorized Participant informs the Distributor that it will be unable to deliver the Shares on the trade date plus one, the Trust may deliver the Fund Securities notwithstanding such deficiency in reliance on the undertaking of the Authorized Participant to deliver the missing Shares as soon as possible. This undertaking shall be secured by the Authorized Participant’s delivery on the contractual settlement date and subsequent maintenance of collateral consisting of cash having a value at least equal to 105% of the value of the missing Shares. The Authorized Participant’s agreement permits the Trust, acting in good faith, to purchase the missing Shares at any time and the Authorized Participant will be subject to liability for any shortfall between the cost to the Trust of purchasing such shares and the value of the collateral, which may be sold by the Trust at such time, and in such manner, as the Trust may determine in its sole discretion.

Additional Information Regarding the Placement of Redemption Orders Outside the Clearing Process. The calculation of the value of the Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount to be delivered/received upon redemption will be made by the Funds’ custodian according to the procedures set forth under “Determination of NAV” computed on the Business Day on which a redemption order is deemed received by the Trust. Therefore, if a redemption order in proper form is submitted to the Funds’ transfer agent by a DTC Participant not later than closing time on the Transmittal Date, and the requisite number of Shares of the Fund are delivered to the Funds’ custodian prior to the DTC Cut-Off- Time, then the value of the Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount to be delivered/received will be determined by the Funds’ custodian on such Transmittal Date. If, however, either (i) the requisite number of Shares of the relevant Fund are not delivered by the DTC Cut-Off-Time, as described above, or (ii) the redemption order is not submitted in proper form, then the redemption order will not be deemed received as of the Transmittal Date. In such case, the value of the Fund Securities and the Cash Redemption Amount to be delivered/received will be computed on the Business Day following the Transmittal Date provided that the Fund Shares of the relevant Fund are delivered through DTC to the Funds’ custodian by 11:00 a.m., Eastern time the following Business Day pursuant to a properly submitted redemption order.

If it is not possible to effect deliveries of some or all the Fund Securities, the Trust may in its discretion exercise its option to redeem such Fund Shares in cash, and the redeeming Beneficial Owner will be required to receive its redemption proceeds all or in part in cash (see discussion of cash redemptions under “Deposit of Securities and Deposit or Delivery of Cash” above). In addition, an investor may request a redemption in cash that a Fund may, in its sole discretion, permit. In either case, the investor will receive a cash payment equal to the NAV of its Fund Shares based on the NAV of Shares of the relevant Fund next determined after the redemption request is received in proper form (minus a redemption transaction fee and additional charge for requested cash redemptions specified above, to offset the Fund’s brokerage and other transaction costs associated with the disposition of Fund Securities). A Fund may also, in its sole discretion, upon request of a shareholder, provide such redeemer a portfolio of securities that differs from the exact composition of the Fund Securities, or cash in lieu of some securities added to the Cash Component, but in no event will the total value of the securities delivered and the cash transmitted differ from the NAV.

Redemptions of Fund Shares for Fund Securities will be subject to compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and the Fund (whether or not it otherwise permits cash redemptions) reserves the right to redeem Creation Unit Aggregations for cash to the extent that the Trust could not lawfully deliver specific Fund Securities upon redemptions or could not do so without first registering the Fund Securities under such laws. An Authorized Participant or an investor for which it is acting subject to a legal restriction with respect to a particular security included in the Fund Securities applicable to the redemption of a Creation Unit Aggregation may be paid an equivalent amount of cash. The Authorized Participant may request the redeeming Beneficial Owner of the Fund Shares to complete an order form or to enter into agreements with respect to such matters as compensating cash payment, beneficial ownership of Shares or delivery instructions.

Regular Holidays (Foreign Funds)

Because the portfolio securities of a Fund that invests in foreign securities may trade on the relevant exchange(s) on days that the Exchange is closed or that are otherwise not Business Days for the Fund, shareholders may not be able to redeem their shares of the Fund, or to purchase and sell shares of the Fund on the Exchange, on days when the NAV of the Fund could be significantly affected by events in the relevant foreign markets. The Funds generally intend to effect deliveries of Creation Units and portfolio securities on a basis of T plus two, or “T+2”, Business Days (i.e., days on which the NYSE is open). The Funds may effect deliveries of Creation Units and portfolio securities on a basis other than T+2 in order to accommodate local holiday schedules, to account for different treatment among foreign and U.S. markets of dividend record dates and ex-dividend dates, or under certain other circumstances. The ability of the Trust to effect in-kind creations and redemptions within two Business Days of receipt of an order in good form is subject, among other things, to the condition that, within the time period from the date of the order to the date of delivery of the securities, there are no days that are holidays in the applicable foreign market. For every occurrence of one or more intervening holidays in the applicable foreign market that are not holidays observed in the U.S. equity market, the redemption settlement cycle will be extended by the number of such intervening holidays. In addition to holidays, other unforeseeable closings in a foreign market due to emergencies may also prevent the Trust from delivering securities within a normal settlement period.

The securities delivery cycles currently practicable for transferring portfolio securities to redeeming investors, coupled with foreign market holiday schedules, will require a delivery process longer than seven calendar days for Funds that invest in foreign securities, in certain circumstances. The holidays applicable to a Fund during such periods are listed below, as are instances where more than seven days will be needed to deliver redemption proceeds. Although certain holidays may occur on different dates in subsequent years, the number of days required to deliver redemption proceeds in any given year is not expected to exceed the maximum number of days listed below for a Fund. The proclamation of new holidays, the treatment by market participants of certain days as “informal holidays” (e.g., days on which no or limited securities transactions occur, as a result of substantially shortened trading hours), the elimination of existing holidays, or changes in local securities delivery practices, could affect the information set forth herein.

Listed below are the dates in calendar year 2017 and 2018 in which the regular holidays affecting the relevant securities markets of the below listed countries may impact Fund settlement. This list is based on information available to the Funds. The list may not be accurate or complete and is subject to change.

2017
Australia:
January 2 April 14 May 1 August 8 November 7
January 26 April 17 June 5 September 25 December 25
March 6 April 18 June 12 September 29 December 26
March 13 April 25 August 7 October 2  
Austria:
January 6 May 1 June 15 November 1 December 26
April 14 May 25 August 15 December 8 December 31
April 17 June 5 October 26 December 25  
Belgium:
April 14 May 1 June 5 August 15 December 25
April 17 May 25 June 15 November 1 December 26
Brazil:
January 1 February 28 April 21 September 7 November 15
January 25 March 1 May 1 October 12 November 20
February 27 April 14 June 15 November 2 December 25
        December 31
Canada:
January 2 February 20 June 26 September 4 December 25
January 3 April 14 July 3 October 9 December 26
February 13 May 22 August 7 November 13  
Chile:
January 1 May 1 August 15 October 27 December 31
April 14 May 21 September 18 November 1  
April 15 June 26 September 19 December 8  
April 16 July 16 October 9 December 25  
China:
January 2 February 1 May 1 October 3  
January27 February 2 May 29 October 4  
January 30 April 3 May 30 October 5  
January 31 April 4 October 2 October 6  
Colombia:
January 1 April 14 June 26 August 21  November 13
January 9 May 1 July 3 October 16 December 8
March 20  May 29 July 20 November 6 December 25
April 13  June 19 August 7    
Czech Republic:
January 1 May 1 July 6 December 24  
April 14 May 8 October 28 December 25  
April 17 June 28 November 17 December 26  
Denmark:
January 1 April 16 May 25 December 24 December 31
April 13 April 17 May 26 December 25  
April 14 May 12 June 5 December 26  
Egypt:
January 7 April 25 July 1 September 2  
January 25 May 1 July 23 September 21  
April 16 June 25 August 31 October 6  
April 17 June 26 September 1 December 1  
* The Egyptian market is closed every Friday.      
Finland:
January 1  April 14  May 25  December 25  
January 6 April 17  June 23  December 26  
April 13 May 1  December 6    
France:
January 2 May 1 July 14   November 1
March 28 May 8 August 15   December 25
April 14 May 29 August 28   December 26
April 17 May 31 October 31    
Germany:
April 14 May 1 October 3 December 25  
April 17 June 5 October 31 December 26  
Greece:
January 1 February 27 April 17 June 5 December 25
January 6 April 14 May 1 August 15 December 26
Hong Kong:
January 2 January 31 April 17 May 30 December 25
January 27 April 4 May 1 October 2 December 26
January 30 April 14 May 3 October 5  
Hungary:
January 1 May 1  October 23    
 April 17  August 20  December 26    
India:
January 26 April 4 June 26 October 2 December 25
February 24 April 14 August 15 October 19  
March 13 May 1 August 17 October 20  
March 28 May 10 August 25 December 1  
Indonesia:
January 1 August 17 December 25    
Ireland:
January 2 April 17 May 1 December 22 December 29
March 17 May 1 August 7 December 25  
April 14 June 5 October 30 December 26  
Israel:
March 12 April 16 May 31 October 4 October 11
April 10 April 17 August 1 October 5 October 12
April 11 May 1 September 20 October 8  
April 12 May 2 September 21 October 9  
April 13 May 30 May 31 October 10  
* The Israeli market is closed every Friday.
Italy:
January 1 April 17 June 2 December 8  
January 6 April 25 August 15 December 25  
April 14 May 1 November 1 December 26  
Japan:
January 2 March 20 May 5 September 18 November 23
January 3 May 3 July 17 October 9  
January 9 May 4 August 11 November 3  
Malaysia:
January 1 May 1 September 16    
February 1 August 31 December 25    
Mexico:
January 1 March 20 April 14 November 2 December 12
February 6 April 13  May 1 November 20 December 25
Netherlands:
January 1 April 17 May 12 October 29  
March 26 April 27 May 25 December 25  
April 14 May 1 June 5 December 26  
New Zealand:
January 2  February 6  April 17  June 5 December 26
January 3 April 14  April 25 October 23  
Norway:
April 12 April 14 May 1 May 25 December 25
April 13 April 17 May 17 June 5 December 26
Peru:
January 1 April 14 June 29 August 30 December 8
April 13 May 1 July 28 November 1 December 25
Philippines:
January 1 April 14 August 28 December 25  
April 9 May 1 November 1 December 30  
April 13 June 12 November 30 December 31  
Poland:
January 1 April 17 June 15 November 11 December 26
January 6 May 1 August 15 December 24  
April 14 May 3 November 1 December 25  
Portugal:
January 1 April 17 December 25    
April 14 May 1 December 26    
Qatar:
January 1 June 25 June 27 September 2 September 4
March 5 June 26 September 1 September 3 December 18
*The Qatari market is closed every Friday.
Russia:
January 1 January 7 March 8 May 9 November 6
January 2 February 23 May 1 June 12  
Singapore:
January 2 April 14 May 10 August 9 October 18
January 30 May 1 June 26 September 1 December 25
South Africa:
January 2 April 17 June 16 December 25  
March 21 April 27 August 9 December 26  
April 14 May 1 September 25    
South Korea:
January 1 January 30 May 5 October 4 October 9
January 27 March 1 June 6 October 5 December 20
January 28 May 1 August 15 October 6 December 25
January 29 May 3 October 3    
Spain:
January 6 April 17 July 25 October 12 December 8
April 12 May 1 August 15 November 1 December 25
April 13 June 5 August 16 December 6 December 26
April 14 June 15 September 11    
Sweden:
January 5 April 14 May 24 June 23 December 26
January 6 April 17 May 25 November 3  
April 13 May 1 June 6 December 25  
Switzerland:
January 2 April 17 May 25 August 1 December 26
April 14 May 1 June 5 December 25  
Taiwan:
January 1 February 28 April 5 May 1 October 10
Thailand:
January 2 April 13 May 1 July 1 October 23
February 11 April 14 May 5 July 10 December 5
April 6 April 15 May 10 August 14 December 11
Turkey:        
January 1 May 1 August 30    
April 23 May 19 October 29    
United Arab Emirates:
January 1 June 26 September 1 September 21 December 3
April 24 June 27 September 2 December 1  
June 25 August 31 September 3 December 2  
* The United Arab Emirates market is closed every Friday.
United Kingdom:
January 2 April 17 May 29 December 22 December 26
April 14 May 1 August 28 December 25 December 29
           
2018
Australia:
January 1 March 30 April 25 August 6 December 25
January 26 April 2 June 11 October 1 December 26
Austria:
January 1 April 2 May 21 November 1 December 25
January 6 May 1 May 31 December 8 December 26
March 30 May 10 August 15 December 24 December 31
April 1 May 20 October 26    
Belgium:
January 1 May 1 July 21 November 1 December 25
March 30 May 10 August 15 November 11 December 26
April 2 May 21      
Brazil:
January 1 April 1 July 9 November 2 December 24
January 25 April 21 September 7 November 15 December 25
February 13 May 1 October 12 November 20 December 31
March 30 May 31      
Canada:
January 1 April 1 August 6 October 8 December 25
February 19 May 21 September 3 November 11 December 26
March 30 July 2      
Chile:
January 1 May 21 August 15 November 1 December 25
March 30 July 2 September 19 November 2 December 31
May 1 July 16 October 15 December 8  
China:
January 1 April 6 June 18 October 5 December 31
February 22 May 1 September 24    
Colombia:
January 1 March 30 June 4 August 20 November 12
January 8 May 1 July 20 October 8 December 8
March 19 May 14 August 7 November 5 December 25
March 29        
Czech Republic:
January 1 May 1 July 6 November 17 December 25
March 30 May 8 September 28 December 24 December 26
April 2 July 5 October 28    
Denmark:
January 1 April 1 May 10 May 21 December 25
March 29 April 2 May 11 June 5 December 26
March 30 April 27 May 20 December 24 December 31
Egypt:
January 1 April 9 June 17 August 25 October 6
January 25 April 25 July 23 September 12 November 20
April 8 May 1      
* The Egyptian market is closed every Friday.
Finland:
January 1 April 2 May 10 December 24 December 26
January 6 May 1 December 6 December 25 December 31
March 30        
France:
January 1 May 1 May 20 November 1 December 25
March 30 May 8 May 21 November 11 December 26
April 2 May 10 August 15 December 24 December 31
Germany:
January 1 April 2 May 21 December 24 December 26
March 30 May 1 October 3 December 25 December 31
April 1 May 10      
Greece:
January 1 March 25 May 1 August 15 December 25
January 6 April 6 May 11 October 28 December 26
February 19 April 9 May 28 December 24  
Hong Kong:
January 1 March 31 May 1 July 1 October 1
February 19 April 2 May 22 July 2 October 17
March 30 April 5 June 18 September 25 December 25
Hungary:
January 1 April 2 May 21 November 1 December 25
March 15 May 1 August 20 December 24 December 26
April 1 May 20 October 23    
India:
January 26 March 29 April 29 August 18 October 19
February 14 March 30 April 30 August 22 November 7
February 19 April 1 May 1 September 13 November 21
March 2 April 2 June 15 September 21 November 23
March 18 April 14 August 15 October 2 November 25
March 26        
Indonesia:
January 1 March 30 May 1 May 10 December 25
Ireland:
January 1 March 30 April 2 June 4 December 25
March 19 April 1 May 7 August 6 December 26
Israel:
March 1 April 19 July 22 September 18 September 24
March 31 May 20 September 11 September 19 October 2
April 6        
* The Israeli market is closed every Friday.
Italy:
January 1 April 25 June 2 November 1 December 25
March 30 May 1 August 15 December 8 December 26
April 2        
Japan:
January 3 April 30 July 16 September 24 November 23
January 8 May 3 August 11 October 8 December 23
February 12 May 4 September 17 November 3 December 31
March 21 May 5      
Malaysia:
January 1 May 1 August 31 December 25  
Mexico:
January 1 March 29 May 1 November 2 December 12
February 5 March 30 September 16 November 19 December 25
March 19        
Netherlands:
January 1 April 1 May 1 May 21 December 26
March 30 April 2 May 10    
New Zealand:
January 2 February 6 April 2 June 4 December 25
January 22 March 30 April 25 October 22 December 26
January 29  April 1      
Norway:
January 1 April 1 May 10 May 21 December 25
March 29 April 2 May 17 December 24 December 26
March 30 May 1 May 20    
Peru:
January 1 April 1 July 29 October 8 December 8
March 29 May 1 August 30 November 1 December 25
March 30 June 29      
Philippines:
January 1 March 29 May 1 August 22 December 25
February 16 March 30 June 15 November 1 December 31
Poland:
January 1 May 1 May 31 November 1 December 25
January 6 May 3 August 15 November 11 December 26
April 2        
Portugal:
January 1 April 25 June 10 November 1 December 8
February 13 May 1 August 15 December 1 December 25
March 30 May 31 October 5    
Qatar:
January 1 June 17 August 26 December 18  
*The Qatari market is closed every Friday.
Russia:
January 2 January 8 April 30 May 9 November 4
January 6 February 23 May 1 June 11 November 5
January 7 March 8      
Singapore:
January 1 March 30 June 15 August 22 December 25
February 17 May 1 August 9 November 7  
South Africa:
January 1 April 2 June 16 September 24 December 25
March 21 April 27 August 9 December 17 December 26
March 30 May 1      
South Korea:
January 1 May 1 May 22 August 15 October 9
February 17 May 5 June 6 September 26 December 25
March 1 May 7 June 13 October 3  
Spain:
January 1 April 1 August 15 November 1 December 8
January 6 April 2 October 12 December 6 December 25
March 30 May 1      
Sweden:
January 1 April 1 May 10 June 22 December 26
January 6 April 2 May 20 December 24 December 31
March 30 May 1 June 6    
Switzerland:
January 2 April 2 May 10 May 21 December 25
March 30 May 1 May 20 August 1 December 26
April 1        
Taiwan:
January 1 February 28 June 18 September 24 October 10
February 16 May 1      
Thailand:
January 1 April 14 May 5 August 13 December 10
April 6 April 15 May 7 October 23 December 31
April 13 May 1 July 1 December 5  
Turkey:
January 1 May 1 June 17 August 30 October 29
April 23 May 19 August 24    
United Arab Emirates:
January 1 June 16 August 23 November 20 December 2
April 13 August 20 September 11    
* The United Arab Emirates market is closed every Friday.
United Kingdom:
January 1 April 1 May 7 August 27 December 26
March 30 April 2 May 28 December 25  
           

 

Redemptions. The longest redemption cycle for a Fund is a function of the longest redemption cycle among the countries and regions whose securities comprise the Fund’s portfolio. In the calendar years 2017 and 2018, the dates of regular holidays affecting the following securities markets present the worst-case redemption cycles*, where more than seven calendar days may be needed to deliver redemption proceeds, for Funds that invest in foreign securities as noted below. This list is based on information available to the Funds. The list may not be accurate or complete and is subject to change.

2017

Country Trade Date Settlement Date Number of Days to Settle
Australia 12/22/2016 01/03/2017 12
  04/12/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
  04/13/2017 04/21/2017 8
China 01/24/2017 02/03/2017 10
  01/25/2017 02/06/2017 12
  01/26/2017 02/07/2017 12
  09/27/2017 10/09/2017 12
  09/28/2017 10/10/2017 12
  09/29/2017 10/11/2017 12
Ireland 12/22/2016 1/03/2017 12
  12/23/2016 1/03/2017 11
  12/26/2016 1/03/2017 8
  12/19/2017 12/27/2017 8
  12/20/2017 12/28/2017 8
  12/21/2017 1/02/2018 12
  12/22/2017 1/02/2018 11
Israel 04/04/2017 04/18/2017 14**
  04/05/2017 04/19/2017 14**
  04/06/2017 04/20/2017 14**
  04/07/2017 04/20/2017 13
  04/09/2017 04/19/2017 10
  04/10/2017 04/20/2017 10
  04/11/2017 04/20/2017 9
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
  04/25/2017 05/03/2017 8
  04/26/2017 05/04/2017 8
  04/27/2017 05/08/2017 9
  04/28/2017 05/08/2017 8
  09/14/2017 09/25/2017 11
  09/15/2017 09/25/2017 10
  09/18/2017 09/26/2017 8
  09/19/2017 09/27/2017 8
  10/02/2017 10/162017 14
  10/03/2017 10/17/2017 14
  10/04/2017 10/17/2017 13
  10/05/2017 10/18/2017 13
  10/06/2017 10/18/2017 12
  10/09/2017 10/18/2017 9
  10/10/2017 10/18/2017 8
Japan 04/28/2017 05/08/2017 10
  05/01/2017 05/09/2017 8
  05/02/2017 05/10/2017 8
Norway 04/07/2016 04/18/2016 11
  04/10/2017 04/18/2017 8
  04/11/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
Qatar 06/20/2017 06/28/2017 8
  06/21/2017 06/29/2017 8
  06/22/2017 07/02/2017 10
South Africa 04/07/2017 04/18/2017 11
  04/10/2017 04/19/2017 9
  04/11/2017 04/20/2017 9
  04/12/2017 04/21/2017 9
  04/13/2017 04/24/2017 11
  04/20/2017 04/28/2017 8
  04/21/2017 05/02/2017 10
  04/24/2017 05/03/2017 9
  04/25/2017 05/04/2017 9
  04/26/2017 05/05/2017 9
  04/28/2017 05/10/2017 10
  06/12/2017 06/20/2017 8
  06/13/2017 06/21/2017 8
  06/14/2017 06/22/2017 8
  06/15/2017 06/23/2017 8
  08/02/2017 08/10/2017 8
  08/03/2017 08/11/2017 8
  08/04/2017 08/14/2017 10
  08/07/2017 08/15/2017 8
  08/08/2017 08/16/2017 8
  09/18/2017 09/26/2017 8
  09/19/2017 09/27/2017 8
  09/20/2017 09/28/2017 8
  09/21/2017 09/29/2017 8
  09/22/2017 10/02/2017 10
  12/18/2017 12/27/2017 9
  12/19/2017 12/28/2017 9
  12/20/2017 12/29/2017 9
  12/21/2017 01/01/2018 11
  12/22/2017 01/02/2018 11
South Korea 09/29/2017 10/10/2017 10
  10/02/2017 10/11/2017 9
Spain 04/07/2016 04/18/2017 11
  04/10/2017 04/18/2017 8
  04/11/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
Sweden 04/10/2017 04/18/2017 8
  04/11/2017 04/19/2017 8
  04/12/2017 04/20/2017 8
United Kingdom 12/20/2016 12/28/2016 8
  12/21/2016 12/29/2016 8
  12/22/2016 01/03/2017 12
  12/23/2016 01/03/2017 11
  12/26/2016 01/03/2017 8
  12/19/2017 12/27/2017 8
  12/20/2017 12/28/2017 8
  12/21/2017 01/02/2018 12
  12/22/2017 01/02/2018 11

 

2018

Country Trade Date Settlement Date Number of Days to Settle
China 2/14/2018 2/26/2018 12
  3/29/2018 4/9/2018 11
  9/28/2018 10/10/2018 12
Egypt 8/20/2018 8/28/2018 8
Japan 12/29/2017 1/9/2018 11
  4/27/2018 5/7/2018 10
  12/28/2018 1/8/2019 11
Russia 12/29/2017 1/9/2018 11
South Korea 9/21/2018 9/30/2018 9
Turkey 8/17/2018 8/27/2018 10
United Arab Emirates 8/20/2018 8/28/2018 8
Vietnam 2/13/2018 2/22/2018 9
  2/14/2018 2/23/2018 9

 

             * These worst-case redemption cycles are based on information regarding regular holidays, which may be out of date. Based on changes in holidays, longer (worse) redemption cycles are possible.
           ** Maximum permitted pursuant to the Trust’s SEC exemptive order.

 

TAXES

The following is a summary of certain additional tax considerations generally affecting a Fund and its shareholders that are not described in the Prospectus. No attempt is made to present a detailed explanation of the tax treatment of a Fund or its shareholders, and the discussion here and in the Prospectus is not intended as a substitute for careful tax planning.

This “Taxes” section is based on the Internal Revenue Code and applicable regulations in effect on the date of this SAI. Future legislative, regulatory or administrative changes, including provisions of current law that sunset and thereafter no longer apply, or court decisions may significantly change the tax rules applicable to a Fund and its shareholders. Any of these changes or court decisions may have a retroactive effect.

This is for general information only and not tax advice. All investors should consult their own tax advisors as to the federal, state, local and foreign tax provisions applicable to their investment in a Fund.

Taxation of the Funds

Each Fund is a Separate Corporation. Each Fund is treated as a separate corporation for federal income tax purposes. Losses in one Fund do not offset gains in another Fund and the requirements (other than certain organizational requirements) for qualifying for regulated investment company status as described below are determined at the Fund level rather than the Trust level.

Election to be Taxed as a Regulated Investment Company. Each Fund intends to elect and qualify to be treated each year as a regulated investment company (sometimes referred to as a “regulated investment company,” “RIC” or “Fund”) that is accorded special tax treatment under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code. If a Fund so qualifies, the Fund will not be subject to federal income tax on the portion of its investment company taxable income (that is, generally, taxable interest, dividends, net short-term capital gains, and other taxable ordinary income, net of expenses, without regard to the deduction for dividends paid) and net capital gain (that is, the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses) that it timely distributes to shareholders.

In order to qualify for treatment as a regulated investment company, each Fund must satisfy the following requirements:

·Distribution Requirement — a Fund must distribute an amount equal to the sum of at least 90% of its investment company taxable income and 90% of its net tax-exempt income, if any, for each tax year (including, for purposes of satisfying this distribution requirement, certain distributions made by the Fund after the close of its taxable year that are treated as made during such taxable year).
·Income Requirement — a Fund must derive at least 90% of its gross income for each taxable year from (i) dividends, interest, certain payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income (including, but not limited to, gains from options, futures or forward contracts) derived from its business of investing in such stock, securities or currencies and (ii) net income derived from qualified publicly traded partnerships (“QPTPs”).
·Asset Diversification Tests — a Fund must satisfy the following asset diversification tests at the close of each quarter of the Fund’s tax year: (1) at least 50% of the value of the Fund’s total assets must consist of cash and cash items, U.S. government securities, securities of other regulated investment companies, and securities of other issuers (limited in respect of any one issuer to not more than 5% of the value of the Fund’s total assets and not more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer); and (2) no more than 25% of the value of the Fund’s total assets may be invested, including through corporations in which the Fund owns a 20% or more voting stock interest, (x) in the securities of any one issuer (other than U.S. government securities or securities of other regulated investment companies) or of two or more issuers that the Fund controls and that are engaged in the same or similar trades or businesses, or, (y) in the securities of one or more QPTPs.

In some circumstances, the character and timing of income realized by a Fund for purposes of the Income Requirement or the identification of the issuer for purposes of the Asset Diversification Tests is uncertain under current law with respect to a particular investment, and an adverse determination or future guidance by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) with respect to such type of investment may adversely affect a Fund’s ability to satisfy these requirements. See, “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions” below with respect to the application of these requirements to certain types of investments. In other circumstances, a Fund may be required to sell portfolio holdings in order to meet the Income Requirement, Distribution Requirement, or Asset Diversification Tests, which may have a negative impact on the Fund’s income and performance.

Each Fund may use “equalization accounting” (in lieu of making some cash distributions) in determining the portion of its income and gains that has been distributed. If a Fund uses equalization accounting, it will treat a portion of redemption proceeds paid to redeeming shareholders that represents the redeeming shareholders’ pro-rata share of the Fund’s accumulated earnings and profits as distributions of investment company taxable income and net capital gain and will correspondingly reduce the amount of such income and gains that it distributes in cash. If the IRS determines that a Fund’s allocation is improper and that the Fund has under-distributed its income and gain for any taxable year, the Fund may be liable for federal income and/or excise tax. If, as a result of such adjustment, the Fund fails to satisfy the Distribution Requirement, the Fund will not qualify that year as a regulated investment company the effect of which is described in the following paragraph.

If for any taxable year a Fund does not qualify as a regulated investment company, all of its taxable income (including its net capital gain) would be subject to tax at regular corporate rates without any deduction for dividends paid to shareholders, and the dividends would be taxable to the shareholders as ordinary income (or possibly as qualified dividend income) to the extent of the Fund’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Failure to qualify as a regulated investment company would thus have a negative impact on a Fund’s income and performance.

Subject to savings provisions for certain failures to satisfy the Income Requirement or Asset Diversification Tests, which, in general, are limited to those due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect, it is possible that a Fund will not qualify as a regulated investment company in any given tax year. Even if such savings provisions apply, a Fund may be subject to a significant monetary sanction. Moreover, the Board reserves the right not to maintain the qualification of a Fund as a regulated investment company if it determines such a course of action to be beneficial to shareholders.

Portfolio Turnover. For investors that hold their Fund Shares in a taxable account, a high portfolio turnover rate may result in higher taxes. This is because a fund with a high turnover rate is likely to accelerate the recognition of capital gains and more of such gains are likely to be taxable as short-term rather than long-term capital gains in contrast to a comparable fund with a low turnover rate. Any such higher taxes would reduce the Fund’s after-tax performance. See “Taxation of Fund Distributions - Distributions of Capital Gains” below.

Capital Loss Carryovers. The capital losses of a Fund, if any, do not flow through to shareholders. Rather, a Fund may use its capital losses, subject to applicable limitations, to offset its capital gains. If a Fund has a “net capital loss” (that is, capital losses in excess of capital gains), the excess (if any) of the Fund’s net short-term capital losses over its net long-term capital gains is treated as a short-term capital loss arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year, and the excess (if any) of the Fund’s net long-term capital losses over its net short-term capital gains is treated as a long-term capital loss arising on the first day of the Fund’s next taxable year. Any such net capital losses of a Fund that are not used to offset capital gains may be carried forward indefinitely to reduce any future capital gains realized by the Fund in succeeding taxable years. The amount of capital losses that can be carried forward and used in any single year is subject to an annual limitation if there is a more than 50% “change in ownership” of a Fund. An ownership change generally results when shareholders owning 5% or more of a Fund increase their aggregate holdings by more than 50% over a three-year look-back period. An ownership change could result in capital loss carryovers being used at a slower rate thereby reducing a Fund’s ability to offset capital gains with those losses. An increase in the amount of taxable gains distributed to a Fund’s shareholders could result from an ownership change. The Funds undertake no obligation to avoid or prevent an ownership change, which can occur in the normal course of shareholder purchases and redemptions or as a result of engaging in a tax-free reorganization with another fund. Moreover, because of circumstances beyond a Fund’s control, there can be no assurance that a Fund will not experience, or has not already experienced, an ownership change. Additionally, if a Fund engages in a tax-free reorganization with another fund, the effect of these and other rules not discussed herein may be to disallow or postpone the use by a Fund of its capital loss carryovers (including any current year losses and built-in losses when realized) to offset its own gains or those of the other fund, or vice versa, thereby reducing the tax benefits Fund shareholders would otherwise have enjoyed from use of such capital loss carryovers.

Deferral of Late-Year Losses. A Fund may elect to treat part or all of any “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year in determining the Fund’s taxable income, net capital gain, net short-term capital gain, and earnings and profits. The effect of this election is to treat any such “qualified late year loss” as if it had been incurred in the succeeding taxable year in characterizing Fund distributions for any calendar year (see, “Taxation of Fund Distributions – Distributions of capital gains” below). A “qualified late-year loss” includes:

(i)               any net capital loss attributable to the portion of the taxable year after October 31, or, if there is no such loss, any net long-term capital loss or any net short-term capital loss attributable to such portion, if any, of the current taxable year (“post-October capital losses”), and

(ii)             the sum of (1) net ordinary loss from the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of property attributable to the portion of the taxable year after October 31 and (2) other net ordinary loss attributable to the portion, if any, of the taxable year after December 31 (“later year ordinary losses”)

Undistributed Capital Gains. A Fund may retain or distribute to shareholders its net capital gain for each taxable year. The Funds currently intend to distribute net capital gains. If a Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, the Fund will be taxed thereon (except to the extent of any available capital loss carryovers) at the regular corporate tax rates. If a Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, it is expected that the Fund also will elect to have shareholders treated as if each received a distribution of its pro rata share of such gain, with the result that each shareholder will be required to report its pro rata share of such gain on its tax return as long-term capital gain, will receive a refundable tax credit for its pro rata share of tax paid by the Fund on the gain, and will increase the tax basis for its Shares by an amount equal to the deemed distribution less the tax credit.

Federal Excise Tax. To avoid a 4% non-deductible excise tax, a Fund must distribute by December 31 of each year an amount equal to at least:
(1) 98% of its ordinary income for the calendar year, (2) 98.2% of capital gain net income (that is, the excess of the gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets over the losses from such sales or exchanges) for the one-year period ended on October 31 of such calendar year, and (3) any prior year undistributed ordinary income and capital gain net income. For purposes of the required excise tax distribution, a Fund’s ordinary gains and losses from the sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of property that would otherwise be taken into account after October 31 of a calendar year (or November 30 or December 31 of that year, if the Fund is permitted to elect and so elects) generally are treated as arising on January 1 of the following calendar year; in the case of a Fund with a December 31 year end that is eligible to make and makes the election described above, no such gains or losses will be so treated. Generally, each Fund intends to make sufficient distributions prior to the end of each calendar year to avoid any material liability for federal income and excise tax, but can give no assurances that all or a portion of such liability will be avoided. In addition, under certain circumstances, temporary timing or permanent differences in the realization of income and expense for book and tax purposes can result in a Fund having to pay an excise tax.

Foreign Income Tax. Investment income and proceeds received by a Fund from sources within foreign countries may be subject to foreign withholding or other taxes and the amount of such tax generally will be treated as an expense of the Fund. The United States has entered into tax treaties with many foreign countries which, in certain circumstances, entitle a Fund to a reduced rate of, or exemption from, tax on such income. Some countries require the filing of a tax reclaim or other forms to receive the benefit of the reduced tax rate; whether or when a Fund will receive the tax reclaim is within the control of the individual country. Information required on these forms may not be available such as shareholder information; therefore, a Fund may not receive the reduced treaty rates or potential reclaims. Other countries have conflicting and changing instructions and restrictive timing requirements which may cause a Fund not to receive the reduced treaty rates or potential reclaims. Other countries may subject capital gains realized by a Fund on sale or disposition of securities of that country to taxation. It is impossible to determine the effective rate of foreign tax in advance since the amount of a Fund’s assets to be invested in various countries is not known. Under certain circumstances, a Fund may elect to pass-through foreign tax credits to shareholders, although it reserves the right not to do so.

Purchase of Shares. As a result of tax requirements, the Trust on behalf of each Fund has the right to reject an order to purchase Shares if the purchaser (or group of purchasers acting in concert with each other) would, upon obtaining the Shares so ordered, own 80% or more of the outstanding Shares of the Fund and if, pursuant to Sections 351 and 362 of the Internal Revenue Code, the Fund would have a basis in the Deposit Securities different from the market value of such securities on the date of deposit. The Trust also has the right to require information necessary to determine beneficial Share ownership for purposes of the 80% determination.

Taxation of Fund Distributions

Each Fund anticipates distributing substantially all of its investment company taxable income and net capital gain for each taxable year. Distributions by a Fund will be treated in the manner described below regardless of whether such distributions are paid in cash or reinvested in additional Shares of the Fund (or of another fund). You will receive information annually as to the federal income tax consequences of distributions made (or deemed made) during the year.

Distributions of Net Investment Income. Each Fund receives ordinary income generally in the form of dividends and/or interest on its investments. A Fund may also recognize ordinary income from other sources, including, but not limited to, certain gains on foreign currency-related transactions. This income, less expenses incurred in the operation of a Fund, constitutes a Fund’s net investment income from which dividends may be paid to you. If you are a taxable investor, distributions of net investment income generally are taxable as ordinary income to the extent of the Fund’s earnings and profits. In the case of a Fund whose strategy includes investing in stocks of corporations, a portion of the income dividends paid to you may be qualified dividends eligible to be taxed at reduced rates. See the discussion below under the headings, “– Qualified Dividend Income for Individuals” and “– Dividends-Received Deduction for Corporations”

Distributions of Capital Gains. Each Fund may derive capital gain and loss in connection with sales or other dispositions of its portfolio securities. Distributions derived from the excess of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital loss will be taxable to you as ordinary income. Distributions paid from the excess of net long-term capital gain over net short-term capital loss will be taxable to you as long-term capital gain, regardless of how long you have held your Shares in a Fund. Any net short-term or long-term capital gain realized by a Fund (net of any capital loss carryovers) generally will be distributed once each year and may be distributed more frequently, if necessary, in order to reduce or eliminate federal excise or income taxes on the Fund.

Returns of Capital. Distributions by a Fund that are not paid from earnings and profits will be treated as a return of capital to the extent of (and in reduction of) your tax basis in your Shares; any excess will be treated as gain from the sale of your Shares. Thus, the portion of a distribution that constitutes a return of capital will decrease your tax basis in your Fund Shares (but not below zero), and will result in an increase in the amount of gain (or decrease in the amount of loss) that will be recognized by you for tax purposes on the later sale of such Fund Shares. Return of capital distributions can occur for a number of reasons including, among others, a Fund over-estimates the income to be received from certain investments such as those classified as partnerships or equity real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) (see, “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions – Investments in U.S. REITs” below).

Qualified Dividend Income for Individuals. Ordinary income dividends properly reported by the Fund as derived from qualified dividend income will be taxed in the hands of individuals and other noncorporate shareholders at the rates applicable to long-term capital gain. “Qualified dividend income” means dividends paid to a Fund (a) by domestic corporations, (b) by foreign corporations that are either (i) incorporated in a possession of the United States, or (ii) are eligible for benefits under certain income tax treaties with the United States that include an exchange of information program, or (c) with respect to stock of a foreign corporation that is readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States. Both a Fund and the investor must meet certain holding period and other requirements to qualify Fund dividends for this treatment.

Specifically, a Fund must hold the stock for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before the stock becomes ex- dividend. Similarly, you must hold your Fund Shares for at least 61 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days before a Fund distribution goes ex-dividend. Income derived from investments in derivatives, fixed-income securities, U.S. REITs, PFICs, and income received “in lieu of” dividends in a securities lending transaction generally is not eligible for treatment as qualified dividend income. If the qualifying dividend income received by a Fund is equal to or greater than 95% of the Fund’s gross income (exclusive of net capital gain) in any taxable year, all of the ordinary income dividends paid by the Fund will be treated as qualifying dividend income.

Dividends-Received Deduction for Corporations. For corporate shareholders, a portion of the dividends paid by a Fund may qualify for the 70% corporate dividends-received deduction. The portion of dividends paid by a Fund that so qualifies will be reported by the Fund each year and cannot exceed the gross amount of dividends received by the Fund from domestic (U.S.) corporations. The availability of the dividends-received deduction is subject to certain holding period and debt financing restrictions that apply to both a Fund and the investor. Specifically, the amount that a Fund may report as eligible for the dividends-received deduction will be reduced or eliminated if the Shares on which the dividends earned by the Fund were debt-financed or held by the Fund for less than a minimum period of time, generally 46 days during the 91-day period beginning 45 days before the stock becomes ex-dividend. Similarly, if your Fund Shares are debt-financed or held by you for less than a 46-day period then the dividends-received deduction for Fund dividends on your Shares may also be reduced or eliminated. Even if reported as dividends eligible for the dividends-received deduction, all dividends (including any deducted portion) must be included in your alternative minimum taxable income calculation. Income derived by a Fund from investments in derivatives, fixed-income and foreign securities generally is not eligible for this treatment.

Impact of Realized but Undistributed Income and Gains, and Net Unrealized Appreciation of Portfolio Securities. At the time of your purchase of Shares, the price of Shares may reflect undistributed income, undistributed capital gains, or net unrealized appreciation of portfolio securities held by the Fund. A subsequent distribution to you of such amounts, although economically constituting a return of your investment, would be taxable, and would be taxed as ordinary income (some portion of which may be taxed as qualified dividend income), capital gains, or some combination of both, unless you are investing through a tax-deferred arrangement, such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account. A Fund may be able to reduce the amount of such distributions from capital gains by utilizing its capital loss carryovers, if any.

Pass-Through of Foreign Tax Credits. If more than 50% of a Fund’s total assets at the end of a fiscal year is invested in foreign securities, the Fund may elect to pass through to you your pro rata share of foreign taxes paid by the Fund. If this election is made, shareholders will include in gross income from foreign sources their pro rata share of such taxes paid by the Fund. You will then be entitled either to deduct your share of these taxes in computing your taxable income, or to claim a foreign tax credit for these taxes against your U.S. federal income tax liability (subject to limitations for certain shareholders). A Fund will provide the information necessary to claim this deduction or credit on your personal income tax return if it makes this election. No deduction for foreign tax may be claimed by a noncorporate shareholder who does not itemize deductions or who is subject to the alternative minimum tax. Shareholders may be unable to claim a credit for the full amount of their proportionate shares of the foreign income tax paid by a Fund due to certain limitations that may apply. Each Fund reserves the right not to pass through to its shareholders the amount of foreign income taxes paid by the Fund. Additionally, any foreign tax withheld on payments made “in lieu of” dividends or interest will not qualify for the pass-through of foreign tax credits to shareholders. See “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions – Securities Lending” below.

U.S. Government Securities. Income earned on certain U.S. government obligations is exempt from state and local personal income taxes if earned directly by you. States also grant tax-free status to dividends paid to you from interest earned on direct obligations of the U.S. government, subject in some states to minimum investment or reporting requirements that must be met by a Fund. Income on investments by a Fund in certain other obligations, such as repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. government obligations, commercial paper and federal agency-backed obligations (e.g., GNMA or FNMA obligations), generally does not qualify for tax-free treatment. The rules on exclusion of this income are different for corporations.

Dividends Declared in October, November or December and Paid in January. Ordinarily, shareholders are required to take distributions by a Fund into account in the year in which the distributions are made. However, dividends declared in October, November or December of any year and payable to shareholders of record on a specified date in such a month will be deemed to have been received by the shareholders (and made by the Fund) on December 31 of such calendar year if such dividends are actually paid in January of the following year. Shareholders will be advised annually as to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of distributions made (or deemed made) during the year in accordance with the guidance that has been provided by the IRS.

Medicare Tax. A 3.8% Medicare tax is imposed on net investment income earned by certain individuals, estates and trusts. “Net investment income,” for these purposes, means investment income, including ordinary dividends and capital gain distributions received from the Fund and net gains from redemptions or other taxable dispositions of Fund Shares, reduced by the deductions properly allocable to such income. In the case of an individual, the tax will be imposed on the lesser of (1) the shareholder’s net investment income or (2) the amount by which the shareholder’s modified adjusted gross income exceeds $250,000 (if the shareholder is married and filing jointly or a surviving spouse), $125,000 (if the shareholder is married and filing separately) or $200,000 (in any other case). This Medicare tax, if applicable, is reported by you on, and paid with, your federal income tax return.

Sales, Exchanges and Redemptions of Fund Shares

Sales, exchanges and redemptions (including redemptions in kind) of Fund Shares are taxable transactions for federal and state income tax purposes. If you redeem your Fund Shares, the IRS requires you to report any gain or loss on your redemption. If you held your Shares as a capital asset, the gain or loss that you realize on a sale, exchange, or redemption will be a capital gain or loss and will be long-term or short-term, generally depending on how long you have held your Shares. Any redemption fees you incur on Shares redeemed will decrease the amount of any capital gain (or increase any capital loss) you realize on the redemption. Capital losses in any year are deductible only to the extent of capital gains plus, in the case of a noncorporate taxpayer, $3,000 of ordinary income ($1,500 if the shareholder is married filing separately).

Taxes on Purchase and Redemption of Creation Units. An Authorized Participant who exchanges equity securities for Creation Units generally will recognize a gain or a loss. The gain or loss will be equal to the difference between the market value of the Creation Units at the time of purchase and the exchanger’s aggregate basis in the securities surrendered and the Cash Component paid. A person who exchanges Creation Units for equity securities will generally recognize a gain or loss equal to the difference between the exchanger’s basis in the Creation Units and the aggregate market value of the securities received and the Cash Redemption Amount. The IRS, however, may assert that a loss realized upon an exchange of securities for Creation Units cannot be deducted currently under the rules governing “wash sales,” or on the basis that there has been no significant change in economic position. Persons exchanging securities should consult their own tax advisor with respect to whether wash sale rules apply and when a loss might be deductible.

Under current federal tax laws, any capital gain or loss realized upon redemption of Creation Units is generally treated as long-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for more than one year and as a short-term capital gain or loss if the Shares have been held for one year or less.

If a Fund redeems Creation Units in cash, it may recognize more capital gains than it will if it redeems Creation Units in-kind.

Tax Basis Information. A shareholder’s cost basis information will be provided on the redemption of any of the shareholder’s Shares in the Fund, subject to certain exceptions for exempt recipients. Please contact the broker (or other nominee) that holds your Shares with respect to reporting of cost basis and available elections for your account.

Wash Sales. All or a portion of any loss that you realize on a redemption of your Fund Shares will be disallowed to the extent that you buy other Shares in the Fund (through reinvestment of dividends or otherwise) within 30 days before or after your Share redemption. Any loss disallowed under these rules will be added to your tax basis in the new Shares.

Redemptions at a Loss Within Six Months of Purchase. Any loss incurred on a redemption or exchange of Shares held for six months or less will be treated as long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term capital gain distributed to you by the Fund on those Shares.

Reportable Transactions. Under Treasury regulations, if a shareholder recognizes a loss with respect to a Fund’s Shares of $2 million or more for an individual shareholder or $10 million or more for a corporate shareholder (or certain greater amounts over a combination of years), the shareholder must file with the IRS a disclosure statement on Form 8886. The fact that a loss is reportable under these regulations does not affect the legal determination of whether the taxpayer’s treatment of the loss is proper. Shareholders should consult their tax advisors to determine the applicability of these regulations in light of their individual circumstances.

Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions

Set forth below is a general description of the tax treatment of certain types of securities, investment techniques and transactions that may apply to a Fund and, in turn, affect the amount, character and timing of dividends and distributions payable by a Fund to its shareholders. This section should be read in conjunction with the discussion above under “Investment Strategies” for a detailed description of the various types of securities and investment techniques that apply to a Fund.

In General. In general, gain or loss recognized by a Fund on the sale or other disposition of portfolio investments will be a capital gain or loss. Such capital gain and loss may be long-term or short-term depending, in general, upon the length of time a particular investment position is maintained and, in some cases, upon the nature of the transaction. Gain or loss recognized on the disposition of property held for more than one year generally will be eligible for long-term capital gain or loss treatment. The application of certain rules described below may serve to alter the manner in which the holding period for a security is determined or may otherwise affect the characterization as long-term or short-term, and also the timing of the realization and/or character, of certain gains or losses.

Options, Futures, Forward Contracts, Swap Agreements and Hedging Transactions. In general, option premiums received by a Fund are not immediately included in the income of the Fund. Instead, the premiums are recognized when the option contract expires, the option is exercised by the holder, or the Fund transfers or otherwise terminates the option (e.g., through a closing transaction). If an option written by a Fund is exercised and the Fund sells or delivers the underlying stock, the Fund generally will recognize capital gain or loss equal to (a) the sum of the strike price and the option premium received by the Fund minus (b) the Fund’s basis in the stock. Such gain or loss generally will be short-term or long-term depending upon the holding period of the underlying stock. If securities are purchased by a Fund pursuant to the exercise of a put option written by it, the Fund generally will subtract the premium received from its cost basis in the securities purchased. The gain or loss with respect to any termination of a Fund’s obligation under an option other than through the exercise of the option and related sale or delivery of the underlying stock generally will be short-term gain or loss depending on whether the premium income received by the Fund is greater or less than the amount paid by the Fund (if any) in terminating the transaction. Thus, for example, if an option written by a Fund expires unexercised, the Fund generally will recognize short-term gain equal to the premium received.

The tax treatment of certain futures contracts entered into by a Fund as well as listed non-equity options written or purchased by the Fund on U.S. exchanges (including options on futures contracts, broad-based equity indices and debt securities) may be governed by section 1256 of the Internal Revenue Code (“section 1256 contracts”). Gains or losses on section 1256 contracts generally are considered 60% long-term and 40% short-term capital gains or losses (“60/40”), although certain foreign currency gains and losses from such contracts may be treated as ordinary in character. Also, any section 1256 contracts held by a Fund at the end of each taxable year (and, for purposes of the 4% excise tax, on certain other dates as prescribed under the Internal Revenue Code) are “marked to market” with the result that unrealized gains or losses are treated as though they were realized and the resulting gain or loss is treated as ordinary or 60/40 gain or loss, as applicable. Section 1256 contracts generally do not include any interest rate swap, currency swap, basis swap, interest rate cap, interest rate floor, commodity swap, equity swap, equity index swap, credit default swap, or similar agreement.

In addition to the special rules described above in respect of options and futures transactions, a Fund’s transactions in other derivative instruments (including options, forward contracts and swap agreements) as well as its other hedging, short sale, or similar transactions, may be subject to one or more special tax rules (including the constructive sale, notional principal contract, straddle, wash sale and short sale rules). These rules may affect whether gains and losses recognized by a Fund are treated as ordinary or capital or as short-term or long-term, accelerate the recognition of income or gains to the Fund, defer losses to the Fund, and cause adjustments in the holding periods of the Fund’s securities. These rules, therefore, could affect the amount, timing and/or character of distributions to shareholders. Moreover, because the tax rules applicable to derivative financial instruments are in some cases uncertain under current law, an adverse determination or future guidance by the IRS with respect to these rules (which determination or guidance could be retroactive) may affect whether a Fund has made sufficient distributions, and otherwise satisfied the relevant requirements, to maintain its qualification as a regulated investment company and avoid a Fund-level tax.

Certain of a Fund’s investments in derivatives and foreign currency-denominated instruments, and a Fund’s transactions in foreign currencies and hedging activities, may produce a difference between its book income and its taxable income. If a Fund’s book income is less than the sum of its taxable income and net tax-exempt income (if any), the Fund could be required to make distributions exceeding book income to qualify as a regulated investment company. If a Fund’s book income exceeds the sum of its taxable income and net tax-exempt income (if any), the distribution of any such excess will be treated as (i) a dividend to the extent of the Fund’s remaining earnings and profits (including current earnings and profits arising from tax-exempt income, reduced by related deductions), (ii) thereafter, as a return of capital to the extent of the recipient’s basis in the Shares, and (iii) thereafter, as gain from the sale or exchange of a capital asset.

Foreign Currency Transactions. A Fund’s transactions in foreign currencies, foreign currency-denominated debt obligations and certain foreign currency options, futures contracts and forward contracts (and similar instruments) may give rise to ordinary income or loss to the extent such income or loss results from fluctuations in the value of the foreign currency concerned. This treatment could increase or decrease a Fund's ordinary income distributions to you, and may (to the extent such fluctuations give rise to net losses) cause some or all of the Fund's previously distributed income to be classified as a return of capital. In certain cases, a Fund may make an election to treat such gain or loss as capital.

PFIC Investments. A Fund may invest in securities of foreign companies that may be classified under the Internal Revenue Code as passive foreign investment companies (“PFICs”). In general, a foreign company is classified as a PFIC if at least one-half of its assets constitute investment-type assets or 75% or more of its gross income is investment-type income. When investing in PFIC securities, each Fund intends to mark-to-market these securities under certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and recognize any unrealized gains as ordinary income at the end of each Fund’s respective taxable year. Deductions for losses are allowable only to the extent of any current or previously recognized gains. These gains (reduced by allowable losses) are treated as ordinary income that a Fund is required to distribute, even though it has not sold or received dividends from these securities. The designation of a foreign security as a PFIC security will cause its income dividends to fall outside of the definition of qualified foreign corporation dividends. These dividends generally will not qualify for the reduced rate of taxation on qualified dividends when distributed to you by a Fund. Foreign companies are not required to identify themselves as PFICs. Due to various complexities in identifying PFICs, a Fund can give no assurances that it will be able to identify portfolio securities in foreign corporations that are PFICs in time for the Fund to make a mark-to-market election. If a Fund is unable to identify an investment as a PFIC and thus does not make a mark-to-market election, the Fund may be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a portion of any “excess distribution” or gain from the disposition of such shares even if such income is distributed as a taxable dividend by the Fund to its shareholders. Additional charges in the nature of interest may be imposed on a Fund in respect of deferred taxes arising from such distributions or gains.

Investments in U.S. REITs. A U.S. REIT is not subject to federal income tax on the income and gains it distributes to shareholders. Dividends paid by a U.S. REIT, other than capital gain distributions, will be taxable as ordinary income up to the amount of the U.S. REIT’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Capital gain dividends paid by a U.S. REIT to a Fund will be treated as long-term capital gains by the Fund and, in turn, may be distributed by the Fund to its shareholders as a capital gain distribution. Because of certain noncash expenses, such as property depreciation, an equity U.S. REIT’s cash flow may exceed its taxable income. The equity U.S. REIT, and in turn a Fund, may distribute this excess cash to shareholders in the form of a return of capital distribution. However, if a U.S. REIT is operated in a manner that fails to qualify as a REIT, an investment in the U.S. REIT would become subject to double taxation, meaning the taxable income of the U.S. REIT would be subject to federal income tax at regular corporate rates without any deduction for dividends paid to shareholders and the dividends would be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income (or possibly as qualified dividend income) to the extent of the U.S. REIT’s current and accumulated earnings and profits. Also, see, “Tax Treatment of Portfolio Transactions — Investment in Taxable Mortgage Pools (Excess Inclusion Income)” and “Non-U.S. Investors — Investment in U.S. Real Property” below with respect to certain other tax aspects of investing in U.S. REITs.

Investment in Non-U.S. REITs. While non-U.S. REITs often use complex acquisition structures that seek to minimize taxation in the source country, an investment by a Fund in a non-U.S. REIT may subject the Fund, directly or indirectly, to corporate taxes, withholding taxes, transfer taxes and other indirect taxes in the country in which the real estate acquired by the non-U.S. REIT is located. A Fund’s pro rata share of any such taxes will reduce the Fund’s return on its investment. A Fund’s investment in a non-U.S. REIT may be considered an investment in a PFIC, as discussed above in “PFIC Investments.” Additionally, foreign withholding taxes on distributions from the non-U.S. REIT may be reduced or eliminated under certain tax treaties, as discussed above in “Taxation of the Fund — Foreign Income Tax.” Also, a Fund in certain limited circumstances may be required to file an income tax return in the source country and pay tax on any gain realized from its investment in the non-U.S. REIT under rules similar to those in the United States which tax foreign persons on gain realized from dispositions of interests in U.S. real estate.

Investment in Taxable Mortgage Pools (Excess Inclusion Income). Under a Notice issued by the IRS, the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury regulations to be issued but that may apply retroactively, a portion of a Fund’s income from a U.S. REIT that is attributable to the REIT’s residual interest in a real estate mortgage investment conduit (“REMIC”) or equity interests in a “taxable mortgage pool” (referred to in the Internal Revenue Code as an excess inclusion) will be subject to federal income tax in all events. The excess inclusion income of a regulated investment company, such as a Fund, will be allocated to shareholders of the regulated investment company in proportion to the dividends received by such shareholders, with the same consequences as if the shareholders held the related REMIC residual interest or, if applicable, taxable mortgage pool directly. In general, excess inclusion income allocated to shareholders (i) cannot be offset by net operating losses (subject to a limited exception for certain thrift institutions), (ii) will constitute unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”) to entities (including qualified pension plans, individual retirement accounts, 401(k) plans, Keogh plans or other tax-exempt entities) subject to tax on UBTI, thereby potentially requiring such an entity that is allocated excess inclusion income, and otherwise might not be required to file a tax return, to file a tax return and pay tax on such income, and (iii) in the case of a foreign stockholder, will not qualify for any reduction in U.S. federal withholding tax. In addition, if at any time during any taxable year a “disqualified organization” (which generally includes certain cooperatives, governmental entities, and tax- exempt organizations not subject to UBTI) is a record holder of a share in a regulated investment company, then the regulated investment company will be subject to a tax equal to that portion of its excess inclusion income for the taxable year that is allocable to the disqualified organization, multiplied by the highest federal income tax rate imposed on corporations. The Notice imposes certain reporting requirements upon regulated investment companies that have excess inclusion income. There can be no assurance that a Fund will not allocate to shareholders excess inclusion income.

These rules are potentially applicable to a Fund with respect to any income it receives from the equity interests of certain mortgage pooling vehicles, either directly or, as is more likely, through an investment in a U.S. REIT. It is unlikely that these rules will apply to a Fund that has a non-REIT strategy.

Investments in Partnerships. For purposes of the Income Requirement, income derived by a Fund from a partnership that is not a QPTP will be treated as qualifying income only to the extent such income is attributable to items of income of the partnership that would be qualifying income if realized directly by the Fund.

Securities Lending. While securities are loaned out by a Fund, the Fund generally will receive from the borrower amounts equal to any dividends or interest paid on the borrowed securities. For federal income tax purposes, payments made “in lieu of” dividends are not considered dividend income. These distributions will neither qualify for the reduced rate of taxation for individuals on qualified dividends nor the 70% dividends-received deduction for corporations. Also, any foreign tax withheld on payments made “in lieu of” dividends or interest will not qualify for the pass-through of foreign tax credits to shareholders.

Investments in Securities of Uncertain Tax Character. A Fund may invest in securities the U.S. federal income tax treatment of which may not be clear or may be subject to recharacterization by the IRS. To the extent the tax treatment of such securities or the income from such securities differs from the tax treatment expected by a Fund, it could affect the amount, timing or character of income recognized by the Fund, requiring the Fund to purchase or sell securities, or otherwise change its portfolio, in order to comply with the tax rules applicable to regulated investment companies under the Internal Revenue Code.

Backup Withholding

By law, a portion of your taxable dividends and sales proceeds may be withheld unless you:

·provide your correct social security or taxpayer identification number,
·certify that this number is correct,
·certify that you are not subject to backup withholding, and
·certify that you are a U.S. person (including a U.S. resident alien).

Withholding is also imposed if the IRS requires it. When withholding is required, the amount will be imposed at a rate of 28% on any distributions or proceeds paid. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld may be credited against the shareholder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, provided the appropriate information is furnished to the IRS. Certain payees and payments are exempt from backup withholding and information reporting. The special U.S. tax certification requirements applicable to non-U.S. investors to avoid backup withholding are described under the “Non-U.S. Investors” heading below.

Non-U.S. Investors

Non-U.S. investors (shareholders who, as to the United States, are nonresident alien individuals, foreign trusts or estates, foreign corporations, or foreign partnerships) may be subject to U.S. withholding and estate tax and are subject to special U.S. tax certification requirements. Non-U.S. investors should consult their tax advisors about the applicability of U.S. tax withholding and the use of the appropriate forms to certify their status.

In General. If a foreign shareholder fails to provide a properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status (using the applicable IRS Form W-8), a Fund will be required to withhold U.S. tax on ordinary income dividends, capital gains distributions and the proceeds of the redemption of shares. Provided a Fund obtains a proper certification of foreign status, ordinary income dividends that are paid by the Fund to foreign shareholders and that are not “effectively connected income,” will be subject to a U.S. withholding tax. The tax rate may be reduced if the foreign shareholder’s country of residence has an income tax treaty with the United States allowing for a reduced tax rate on ordinary income dividends paid by a Fund. If the ordinary income dividends from a Fund are effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business or the distributions are attributable to gain that is treated as effectively connected with the conduct by the foreign shareholder of a trade or business within the United States under special rules regarding the disposition of U.S. real property interests as described below, then the foreign shareholder may claim an exemption from the U.S. withholding tax described above provided the Fund obtains a properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status. Any tax withheld by a Fund is remitted to the U.S. Treasury and all income and any tax withheld is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in the early part of each year with a copy sent to the IRS. Capital gain dividends are not subject to U.S. withholding tax unless the recipient is a nonresident alien who is present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year in which the dividends are received. A foreign individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more generally loses his or her status as a nonresident alien.

Properly reported dividends will generally be exempt from U.S. federal withholding tax on foreign persons provided such dividends (i) are derived from a Fund’s “qualified net interest income” (generally, a Fund’s U.S. source interest income, other than certain contingent interest and interest from obligations of a corporation or partnership in which the Fund is a 10% or greater shareholder, reduced by expenses that are allocable to such income) or (ii) are derived from a Fund’s “qualified short-term capital gains” (generally, the excess of a Fund’s net short-term capital gain over the Fund’s net long-term capital loss for such taxable year) unless such short-term gains are attributable to gain that is treated as effectively connected with the conduct by the foreign shareholder of a trade or business within the United States under special rules regarding the disposition of U.S. real property interests as described below. In order to qualify for this exemption from withholding, a shareholder that is a foreign person must comply with applicable certification requirements relating to its non-U.S. status. However, depending on its circumstances, a Fund may report some, all, or none of its potentially eligible dividends as interest-related dividends or as short-term capital gain dividends, and/or treat such dividends, in whole or in part, as ineligible for this exemption from withholding on foreign persons. In the case of shares held through a financial intermediary, the intermediary may withhold even if a Fund reports the payment as qualified net interest income or qualified short-term capital gain. Shareholders that are foreign persons should contact their intermediaries with respect to the application of these rules to their accounts.

The tax consequences to foreign persons entitled to claim the benefits of an applicable income tax treaty may be different from those described in this SAI. Foreign shareholders are urged to consult their tax advisers with respect to the particular tax consequences of an investment in a Fund, including the applicability of the U.S. withholding taxes described above and, as further discussed below, the possible applicability of U.S. estate tax.

Special rules would apply if a Fund were a qualified investment entity (“QIE”) because it is either a “U.S. real property holding corporation” (“USRPHC”) or would be a USRPHC but for the operation of certain exceptions to the definition of USRPIs described below. Very generally, a USRPHC is a domestic corporation that holds USRPIs the fair market value of which equals or exceeds 50% of the sum of the fair market values of the corporation’s USRPIs, interests in real property located outside the United States, and other trade or business assets. USRPIs generally are defined as any interest in U.S. real property and any interest (other than solely as a creditor) in a USRPHC or, very generally, an entity that has been a USRPHC in the last five years. A Fund that holds, directly or indirectly, significant interests in REITs may be a USRPHC. Interests in domestically controlled QIEs, including REITs and RICs that are QIEs, not-greater-than-10% interests in publicly traded classes of stock in REITs and not-greater-than-5% interests in publicly traded classes of stock in RICs generally are not USRPIs, but these exceptions do not apply for purposes of determining whether a Fund is a QIE.

If an interest in a Fund were a USRPI, the Fund would be required to withhold U.S. tax on the proceeds of a share redemption by a greater-than-5% foreign shareholder, in which case such foreign shareholder generally would also be required to file U.S. tax returns and pay any additional taxes due in connection with the redemption.

If a Fund were a QIE, under a special “look through” rule, any distributions by the Fund to a foreign shareholder (including, in certain cases, distributions made by the Fund in redemption of its shares) attributable directly or indirectly to (i) distributions received by the Fund from a lower-tier RIC or REIT that the Fund is required to treat as USRPI gain in its hands and (ii) gains realized on the disposition of USRPIs by the Fund would retain their character as gains realized from USRPIs in the hands of the Fund’s foreign shareholders and would be subject to U.S. tax withholding. In addition, such distributions could result in the foreign shareholder being required to file a U.S. tax return and pay tax on the distributions at regular U.S. federal income tax rates. The consequences to a foreign shareholder, including the rate of such withholding and character of such distributions (e.g., as ordinary income or USRPI gain), would vary depending upon the extent of the foreign shareholder’s current and past ownership of the Fund.

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”). Under legislation known as “FATCA” (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), ordinary dividends the Fund pays and, after December 31, 2018, the gross proceeds of share redemptions and certain capital gains dividends it pays to “foreign financial institutions” and certain other foreign entities will be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a rate of 30% unless various certification, information reporting, due diligence and other applicable requirements (different from, and in addition to, those described above) are satisfied. In general, no such withholding will occur with respect to a U.S. person or non-U.S. individual that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-9 or IRS Form W-8BEN, respectively. No such withholding will occur with respect to a non-U.S. entity that timely provides the Fund with a valid IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or other applicable Form W-8) indicating the entity’s compliance with, or exemption from, FATCA. Payments that are taken into account as effectively connected income are not subject to these withholding rules. Foreign shareholders should consult their own tax advisors as to the applicability and consequences of this legislation to them.

Non-U.S. investors should consult their own tax advisors regarding the impact of these requirements on their investment in a Fund. The requirements imposed by FATCA are different from, and in addition to, the U.S. tax certification rules to avoid backup withholding described above. Shareholders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the application of these requirements to their own situation.

Effect of Future Legislation; Local Tax Considerations

The foregoing general discussion of U.S. federal income tax consequences is based on the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations issued thereunder as in effect on the date of this SAI. Future legislative or administrative changes, including provisions of current law that sunset and thereafter no longer apply, or court decisions may significantly change the conclusions expressed herein, and any such changes or decisions may have a retroactive effect with respect to the transactions contemplated herein. Rules of state and local taxation of ordinary income, qualified dividend income and capital gain dividends may differ from the rules for U.S. federal income taxation described above. Distributions may also be subject to additional state, local and foreign taxes depending on each shareholder’s particular situation. Non-U.S. shareholders may be subject to U.S. tax rules that differ significantly from those summarized above. Shareholders are urged to consult their tax advisors as to the consequences of these and other state and local tax rules affecting investment in a Fund.

DETERMINATION OF NET ASSET VALUE

The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section in the Prospectus entitled “Net Asset Value.”

The NAV per Share of each Fund is computed by dividing the value of the net assets of the Fund (i.e., the value of its total assets less total liabilities) by the total number of Shares of the Fund outstanding, rounded to the nearest cent. Expenses and fees including, without limitation, the management and administration fees, are accrued daily and taken into account for purposes of determining NAV. The NAV per Share is calculated by the Funds’ administrator and determined as of the close of the regular trading session on the NYSE (ordinarily 4:00 p.m., Eastern time) on each day that such exchange is open. Foreign securities, currencies and other assets denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate of such currencies against the U.S. dollar deemed appropriate by a Fund.

In computing each Fund’s NAV, the Fund’s securities holdings traded on a national securities exchange are valued based on their closing price. Price information on listed securities is taken from the exchange where the security is primarily traded. Other portfolio securities and assets for which market quotations are not readily available are valued based on fair value as determined in good faith in accordance with procedures adopted by the Board.

DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The following information supplements and should be read in conjunction with the section in the Prospectus entitled “Dividends, Distributions and Taxes.”

General Policies. Dividends from net investment income, if any, are declared and paid quarterly. Distributions of net realized capital gains, if any, generally are declared and paid once a year, but the Trust may make distributions on a more frequent basis. The Trust reserves the right to declare special distributions if, in its reasonable discretion, such action is necessary or advisable to preserve the status of each Fund as a regulated investment company under the Internal Revenue Code, or to avoid imposition of income or excise taxes on undistributed income.

Dividends and other distributions on Fund Shares are distributed, as described below, on a pro rata basis to Beneficial Owners of the Shares. Dividend payments are made through DTC Participants and Indirect Participants to Beneficial Owners with proceeds received from a Fund.

Dividend Reinvestment Service. No reinvestment service is provided by the Trust. Broker-dealers may make available the DTC book entry Dividend Reinvestment Service for use by Beneficial Owners of the Fund for reinvestment of their dividend distributions. Beneficial Owners should contact their broker to determine the availability and costs of the service and the details of participation therein. Brokers may require Beneficial Owners to adhere to specific procedures and timetables.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

As of the date of this SAI, the Funds have not yet commenced operations. Accordingly, no financial statements are provided for the Funds.

 

Appendix A

VTL Associates, LLC

Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures

I.       General

VTL Associates, LLC (the "Advisor") recognizes its obligation to vote proxies for investments held by clients over which it exercises discretionary voting authority in the clients' best interest. Unless a client specifically reserves the right, in writing, to vote its own proxies, the Advisor will vote all proxies and act on all other corporate actions in a timely manner in accordance with these Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures (the "Proxy Voting Policies"). The Advisor will notify clients in writing if it declines the responsibility of voting proxies and will make provisions for its clients to receive proxy information.

II.        Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies

A.        General Requirements of Rule 206(4)-6

Pursuant to the requirements of Rule 206( 4 )-6 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act"), the Advisor: (i) has adopted these Proxy Voting Policies that are reasonably designed to ensure that the Advisor votes client securities in the best interest of such clients; (ii) will disclose to clients how they may obtain information on how the Advisor voted their proxies; and (iii) will describe to clients its Proxy Voting Policies and, upon their request, provide copies to clients upon request.

B.        Disclosure of Proxy Voting Policies and Voting Information

The Advisor's Proxy Voting Procedures will be described in Part 2A of its Form ADV. The disclosure will state that a client may obtain a copy of the complete Proxy Voting Policies upon request. The Advisor's Form ADV, Part 2A will also indicate that clients may obtain information from the Advisor on how their securities were voted.

III.        Proxy Voting Policies- Procedures and Guidelines

A.        Procedures

The Advisor's portfolio managers are ultimately responsible for ensuring that all proxies received by Advisor are voted in a timely manner and in a manner consistent with the Advisor's determination of the client's best interests.

B.        Guidelines

The following guidelines summarize the Advisor's positions on various issues and give a general indication as to how the Advisor will vote shares on each issue. Although the Advisor will usually vote proxies in accordance with these guidelines, the Advisor reserves the right to vote certain issues counter to the guidelines if, after a thorough review of the matter, the Advisor determines that a client's best interests would be served by such a vote. The Advisor, in good faith, shall consider such additional factors as it determines relevant, depending on current issues and issues particular to any company. Moreover, the list of guidelines below may not include all potential voting issues. To the extent that the guidelines do not cover potential voting issues, the Advisor will vote on such issues in a manner that is consistent with the spirit of these guidelines and that promotes the best interests of the client.

1.        Routine Matters. Routine proposals are those that do not change the structure, bylaws or operations of a corporation. Given the routine nature of these proposals, proxies will normally be voted with management. Traditionally, these issues include:

•        Election of auditors recommended by management, unless seeking to replace auditors due to a dispute over policies.

•        Date and place of annual meeting.

•        Ratification of directors' actions on routine matters since previous annual meeting.

•        Reasonable Employee Stock Purchase Plans.

•        Establishing reasonable 401(k) Plans.

2.        Board of Directors. If a company's performance has been poor over a period of time or other negative factors exist, such as unusual litigation, the Advisor may consider withholding its proxy in favor of any incumbent members of board of directors or voting against an incumbent member. The Advisor also considers it important that publicly held companies maintain a board of directors independent from management and qualified in their own respect. Board of directors should also be independent from influence and otherwise from any investment consulting or banking firm for the company. Subject to the foregoing, the Advisor will generally vote in favor of the incumbent Board's share.

3.        Management Compensation. The Advisor generally votes in favor of proposals to align management compensation with the interests of stockholders. However, the Advisor considers excessive compensation to be against the best interest of stockholders. It may also consider such compensation as a factor to vote against any incumbent director.

4.        Change of Control Provisions. The Advisor disfavors change of control provisions in whatever format, and will generally vote against these provisions absent good reasons to the contrary. The Advisor generally votes against any management proposal that is not deemed to be in the shareholders' best interests as entrenching management. Proposals in this category include issues regarding the issuer's board or management entrenchment and antitakeover measures such as the following:

•        Proposals to stagger board members' terms;

•        Proposals to limit the ability of shareholders to call special meetings;

•        Proposals to require super majority votes;

•        Proposals requesting excessive increases in authorized common or preferred shares where management provides no explanation for the use or need of these additional shares;

•        Proposals regarding "poison pill" provisions;

•        Permitting "green mail"; and

•        Providing cumulative voting rights.

5.        Capital Structures. The Advisor votes on capital structure proposals according to the reasons for the proposals and in a manner to increase stockholder value. For example, proposals to increase the number of authorized shares of stock for acquisitions or to raise capital are favored over proposals to increase the number of authorized shares for management compensation. Proposals to buy back shares of common stock are generally favored. Proposals to issue shares in such a manner to prevent a change of control are generally disfavored.

6.        Auditor Approval. In determining whether to ratify the appointment of outside auditors, the Advisor considers the integrity, qualifications, and disciplinary history of the proposed accounting firm. Any firm with a significant amount of disciplinary history or legal claims against it is disfavored. The Advisor does not necessarily consider the size of the accounting firm to be one of the more important factors. A qualified, independent, and active audit committee's recommendation is given deference in ratifying the appointed independent auditors.

7.        Corporate Governance. Any provisions furthering good corporate governance, integrity and informed decisions by the board of directors, management or otherwise are endorsed by the Advisor.

8.        Shareholder Action. If proxy materials relate to shareholder action, the Advisor shall review the matter with regard to the best interests of the client and to recover the most value possible or to maintain the highest value of the investment. Within the consideration of the recovery of an investment with respect to a lawsuit, the time value of money and the risks and nature of the lawsuit shall be considered.

9.        Director Management Retirement and Compensation. The Advisor reviews director/management mandatory retirement policy; option and stock grants to management and directors, pay and retirement packages to management and directors each issue in this category on a case-by-case basis. Voting decisions will be made based on clients' long-term financial interest.

10.        Shareholder Proposals. The Advisor reviews shareholder proposals individually and determines each proposal on its own individual merits. The Advisor balances the needs of the company to maintain flexibility in its business operations against other considerations proposed by shareholders.

C.        Limitations.

In certain circumstances, in accordance with a client's investment advisory contract (or other written directive) or where the Advisor has determined that it is in the client's best interest, the Advisor will not vote proxies received. The following are circumstances in which the Advisor may limit its role in voting proxies:

1.        Client Maintains Proxy Voting Authority. Where client specifies in writing that it will maintain the authority to vote proxies itself or that it has delegated the right to vote proxies to a third party, the Advisor will not vote the securities and will direct the relevant custodian to send the proxy material directly to the client. If any proxy material is received by the Advisor, it will promptly be forwarded to the client or specified third party.

2.        Terminated Account. Once a client account has been terminated with the Advisor in accordance with its investment advisory agreement, the Advisor will not vote any proxies received after the termination. However, the client may specify in writing that proxies should be directed to the client or a specified third party for action.

3.        Limited Value. If the Advisor determines that the value of a client's economic interest or the value of the portfolio holding is indeterminable or insignificant, the Advisor may abstain from voting a client's proxies. The Advisor also will not vote proxies received for securities which are no longer held by the client's account. In addition, the Advisor may determine in its discretion not to vote securities where the economic value of the securities in the client account is less than $10,000.

4.        Securities Lending Programs. When securities are out on loan, they are transferred into the borrower's name and are voted by the borrower, in its discretion. However, where the Advisor determines that a proxy vote, or other shareholder action, is materially important to the client's account, the Advisor will recall the security for purposes of voting.

5.        Unjustifiable Costs. In certain circumstances, after doing a cost-benefit analysis, the Advisor may abstain from voting where the cost of voting a client's proxy would exceed any anticipated benefits to the client of the proxy proposal.

D.        Conflict of Interest.

If a potential conflict of interest exists between a client and the interest of the Advisor in voting proxies, any of the following procedures may be followed to resolve the conflict:

1.        Vote in Accordance with the Guidelines. The Advisor may address its potential conflict of interest by voting in accordance with the pre-determined guidelines set forth by these Proxy Voting Policies.

2.        Obtain Consent of Clients. The Advisor may address its potential conflict by disclosing the conflict to the relevant clients and obtaining their consent to the proposed vote prior to voting the proxy. The disclosure to the client will include sufficient detail regarding the matter to be voted on and the nature of the Advisor's conflict so that the client is able to make an informed decision regarding the vote. If a client does not respond to such a conflict disclosure request or denies the request, the Advisor will abstain from voting the securities held by that client's account.

E.        Client Directions

The Advisor follows and adheres to any policies, procedures and directions of clients regarding the voting of proxies. Such directions must be in writing, duly authorized by the client and delivered to the Advisor sufficiently in advance to vote the proxies as directed.

F.        Third Party

If the Advisor determines to use a third party service provider to vote proxies, the Advisor must assure that the third party complies with Rule 206(4)-6, these Proxy Voting Policies and maintains required records.

IV.        Record Keeping

A.        Maintenance

The Advisor maintains:

•        these Proxy Voting Policies, and all amendments thereto;

•        all proxy statements received regarding client securities; provided, however, that the Advisor may rely on the proxy statement filed on EDGAR as its records;

•        a record of all votes cast on behalf of clients;

•        records of all client requests for proxy voting information;

•        any documents prepared by the Advisor that were material to making a decision how to vote or that memorialized the basis for the decision; and

•        all records relating to requests made to clients regarding conflicts of interest in voting the
proxy.

B.        Form N-PX

The Advisor will coordinate with any exchange-traded fund ("ETF") it advises or subadvises to assist it in the provision of all information required to be filed by the ETF on Form NPX.

 

 

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust

Website 
www.oppenheimerfunds.com

Investment Adviser 
VTL Associates, LLC
2005 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Distributor 
OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
225 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281-1008

Custodian Bank 
The Bank of New York Mellon
One Wall Street
New York, NY 10286

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 
Cohen & Company, Ltd
1350 Euclid Avenue, Suite 800
Cleveland, OH 44115

Legal Counsel 
Ropes & Gray LLP
191 North Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OPPENHEIMER REVENUE WEIGHTED ETF TRUST

FORM N-1A

PART C

OTHER INFORMATION

Item 28. Exhibits.

(a)            (i)  Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust (December 23, 2016) is incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on December 22, 2016.
  (ii)  Amendment to Schedule A, of Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust effective October 3, 2017 (filed herewith).
  (iii)  Certificate of Trust (December 11, 2006) is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Initial Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on December 20, 2006.
  (iv)  Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust (December 14, 2007) is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on February 13, 2008.
  (v)  Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust (October 12, 2010) is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on October 21, 2016.
  (vi)  Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Trust (December 16, 2015) is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on October 21, 2016.
(b)            (i)  Amended and Restated By-Laws (October 12, 2007) are incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on February 13, 2008.
  (ii)  Amendment No. 1, dated September 21, 2015, to the Amended and Restated By-Laws is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on October 28, 2015.
(c)            (i)  Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust. Articles III and V of the Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust (December 23, 2016) are incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on December 22, 2016.
  (ii)  Amended and Restated By-Laws. Article II of the Amended and Restated By-Laws (October 12, 2007) is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on February 13, 2008.
  (iii)  Amendment No. 1 to Article II of the Amended and Restated By-Laws (September 21, 2015) is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on October 28, 2015.
(d)            (i)  Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement between the Registrant and VTL Associates, LLC effective September 30, 2017 (filed herewith).
(e)            (i)  General Distributor’s Agreement between the Registrant and OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., effective December 2, 2015 is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on October 21, 2016.
  (ii)  Amended Exhibit A to the General Distributor’s Agreement effective October 3, 2017 (filed herewith).
  (iii)  Form of Authorized Participant Agreement is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on February 13, 2008.
(f)               Not applicable.
(g)            (i)  Custody Agreement between the Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on August 19, 2008.
  (ii)  Amendment to the Custody Agreement effective August 28, 2017 (filed herewith).
(h)            (i)  Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between the Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on August 19, 2008.
  (ii)  Amendment to the Transfer Agency and Service Agreement effective August 28, 2017 (filed herewith).
  (iii)  Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement between the Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on August 19, 2008.
  (iv)  Amendment to the Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement effective August 28, 2017 (filed herewith).
  (v)  Securities Lending Authorization Agreement between the Registrant and The Bank of New York Mellon is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on October 26, 2012.
  (vi)  Amendment to the Securities Lending Authorization Agreement effective August 28, 2017 (filed herewith).
(i)             (i) Legal Opinion of Ropes & Gray LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF (filed herewith).
  (ii)

Legal Opinion of Ropes & Gray LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF (filed herewith).

 

  (iii) Legal Opinion of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF (filed herewith).
  (iv) Legal Opinion of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF (filed herewith).
(j)               Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (filed herewith).
(k)              Not applicable.
(l)               Not applicable.
(m)          (i) Registrant’s Amended Distribution and Service Plan is incorporated herein by reference to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A as filed with the SEC via EDGAR on October 21, 2016.
  (ii) Amended and Restated Schedule I to the Amended Distribution and Service Plan dated October 3, 2017 (filed herewith).
(n)              Not applicable.
(o)            (i) Power of Attorney dated August 22, 2017 for all Trustees and Officers: Previously filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 7 to the Registration Statement of Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund (Reg. No. 333-186810), (August 25, 2017), and incorporated herein by reference.
(p)            (i)  Code of Ethics of the Oppenheimer Funds, Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust, OFI Global Asset Management, Inc. OFI SteelPath, Inc., VTL Associates, LLC, OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (including certain other affiliates and subsidiaries) and OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., effective as of May 26, 2016, under Rule 17j-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 is incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement on Form N-1A of Oppenheimer Portfolio Series, as filed via EDGAR on May 25, 2016.

Item 29. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with Registrant.

None.

Item 30. Indemnification.

Reference is made to the provisions of Article VII of Registrant’s Agreement and Declaration of Trust filed as Exhibit 28(a) to the Registration Statement and incorporated herein by reference.

Insofar as indemnification for certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to trustees, officers and controlling persons of Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a trustee, officer or controlling person of Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such trustee, officer or controlling person, Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

Item 31. Business and Other Connections of the Investment Adviser.

VTL Associates, LLC (the “Adviser”)

The Adviser is the investment adviser to each of the Registrant’s series, which currently consist of: Oppenheimer Consumer Discretionary Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Consumer Staples Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Energy Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer ESG Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Financials Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Global ESG Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Global Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Health Care Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Industrials Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Information Technology Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer International Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Large Cap Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Materials Sector Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Mid Cap Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Size Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Value Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000® Yield Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 2000® Dynamic Multifactor ETF, Oppenheimer Small Cap Revenue ETF, Oppenheimer Utilities Sector Revenue ETF, and Oppenheimer Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF (each a “Fund” and collectively, the “Funds”). The principal business address of the Adviser is One Commerce Square, 2005 Market Street, Suite 2020, Philadelphia, PA 19103. The Adviser is an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”). Additional information as to the Adviser and the members and officers of the Adviser is included in the Adviser’s Form ADV filed with the Commission (File No. 801-63618), which is incorporated herein by reference and sets forth the officers and members of the Adviser and information as to any business, profession, vocation or employment of a substantial nature engaged in by those officers and members during the past two years.

Item 32. Principal Underwriter.

(a)OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. is the Distributor of the Registrant's shares. It is also the Distributor of each of the registered open-end investment companies listed below and for MassMutual Institutional Funds.

Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund

Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund

Oppenheimer Corporate Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund

Oppenheimer Discovery Fund

Oppenheimer Discovery Mid Cap Growth Fund

Oppenheimer Dividend Opportunity Fund

Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Innovators Fund

Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund

Oppenheimer Equity Income Fund

Oppenheimer Global Fund

Oppenheimer Global High Yield Fund

Oppenheimer Global Multi-Alternatives Fund

Oppenheimer Global Multi-Asset Growth Fund

Oppenheimer Global Multi-Asset Income Fund

Oppenheimer Global Multi Strategies Fund

Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Fund

Oppenheimer Global Real Estate Fund

Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund

Oppenheimer Global Value Fund

Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund

Oppenheimer Government Cash Reserves

Oppenheimer Government Money Market Fund

Oppenheimer Institutional Government Money Market Fund

Oppenheimer International Bond Fund

Oppenheimer International Diversified Fund

Oppenheimer International Equity Fund

Oppenheimer International Growth and Income Fund

Oppenheimer International Growth Fund

Oppenheimer International Small-Mid Company Fund

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Bond Fund

Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund

Oppenheimer Macquarie Global Infrastructure Fund

Oppenheimer Main Street All Cap Fund

Oppenheimer Main Street Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Main Street Funds)

Oppenheimer Main Street Mid Cap Fund

Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund

Oppenheimer Master Event-Linked Bond Fund, LLC

Oppenheimer Master Inflation Protected Securities Fund, LLC

Oppenheimer Master Loan Fund, LLC

Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust (3 series):

Oppenheimer Rochester High Yield Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester New Jersey Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Pennsylvania Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Portfolio Series (4 series):

Active Allocation Fund

Conservative Investor Fund

Equity Investor Fund

Moderate Investor Fund

Oppenheimer Quest For Value Funds (3 series):

Oppenheimer Fundamental Alternatives Fund

Oppenheimer Global Allocation Fund

Oppenheimer Mid Cap Value Fund

Oppenheimer Real Estate Fund

Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust (10 series):

Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer ESG Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Financials Sector Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Global ESG Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Global Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer International Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Large Cap Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Mid Cap Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Small Cap Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF

Oppenheimer Rising Dividends Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester AMT-Free Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester AMT-Free New York Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Arizona Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Fund Municipals

Oppenheimer Rochester Intermediate Term Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Limited Term California Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Limited Term New York Municipal Fund (a series of Rochester Portfolio Series)

Oppenheimer Rochester Maryland Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Massachusetts Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Michigan Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Minnesota Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester North Carolina Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Ohio Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Short Duration High Yield Municipal Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Municipal Fund)

Oppenheimer Rochester Short Term Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Rochester Virginia Municipal Fund

Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund

Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Plus Fund

Oppenheimer Small Cap Value Fund

Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Funds Trust (4 series):

Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Select 40 Fund

Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Alpha Fund

Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Income Fund

Oppenheimer SteelPath MLP Alpha Plus Fund

Oppenheimer SteelPath Panoramic Fund

Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Integrity Funds)

Oppenheimer Ultra-Short Duration Fund

Oppenheimer Value Fund (a series of Oppenheimer Series Fund)

Oppenheimer Variable Account Funds (11 series):

Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Conservative Balanced Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Discovery Mid Cap Growth Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Global Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Global Multi-Alternatives Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Government Money Fund/VA

Oppenheimer International Growth Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Main Street Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund/VA

Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund/VA

 

(b)The directors and officers of the Registrant’s principal underwriter are:

 

Name & Principal
Business Address
Position & Office
with Underwriter
Position and Office
with Registrant
Rina M. Aligaen(2) Assistant Vice President None
Anthony P. Allocco(2) Assistant Vice President None
Joseph M. Allyn(1) Vice President None
Nicole Andersen(2) Assistant Vice President None
Charles F. Anderson(1) Vice President None
Matthew J. Auer(2) Vice President None
Kevin K. Babikian(2) Assistant Secretary None
Anthony E. Bamonte(2) Vice President None
James P. Barker(2) Vice President None
Todd M. Barney(1) Vice President None
Marina O. Barskaya(2) Assistant Vice President None
Leslie A. Bednar(2) Assistant Vice President None
Kathleen M. Beichert(1) Senior Vice President None
Kimberly A. Belsole(2) Vice President None
Rocco Benedetto(2) Senior Vice President None
Emanuele S. Bergagnini(2) Vice President None
Christopher E. Bergeron(2) Vice President None
Rhea M. Berglund(1) Vice President None
Rick D. Bettridge(2) Vice President None
Kamal Bhatia(2) Senior Vice President None
Adam L. Bilmes(2) Vice President None
Paul G. Blease(2) Senior Vice President None
Carolyn Boccaccio(2) Vice President None
Maria T. Boingeanu(2) Assistant Vice President None
Nancy S. Bong(2) Vice President None
Christina G. Boris(2) Vice President None
David A. Borrelli(2) Senior Vice President None
Jeffrey R. Botwinick(2) Vice President None
Sarah M. Bourgraf(1) Vice President None
Matthew Brady(2) Assistant Vice President None
Reginald J. Breaux(1) Vice President None
Joshua H. Broad(2) Vice President None
Kenneth S. Brodsky(2) Senior Vice President None
Garrett Brookes(1) Assistant Vice President None
Gregory L. Brown(2) Vice President None
Matthew G. Brown(1) Vice President None
Paul T. Brunswick(2) Vice President None
Ryan M. Buckley(2) Vice President None
Megan R. Byrne(2) Assistant Vice President None
Jason A. Campisi(2) Vice President None
Tara Carbonneau(1) Vice President None
Sean T. Carey(2) Vice President None
Robert M. Caruso(2) Vice President None
Rick A. Casagrande(2) Assistant Vice President None
Thomas M. Caulfield(1) Vice President None
Stephane C. Chevrier(2) Vice President None
Michael G. Chewning(1) Vice President None
Donelle L. Chisolm(2) Vice President None
Andrew S. Chonofsky(2) Senior Vice President None
Angelanto L. Ciaglia(2) Vice President None
Steven F. Cinquino(2) Assistant Vice President None
Nicholas A. Cirbo(1) Vice President None
John S. Clark(2) Senior Vice President None
Adam M. Cohen(2) Assistant Vice President None
Ryan J. Coleman(1) Vice President None
Ellen L. Comisar(2) Vice President None
Serina Copanas(2)  Vice President None
John H. Corcoran(2) Vice President None
Cameron T. Cowden(2) Vice President None
Neev Crane(2) Vice President None
Michael Daley(2) Vice President None
Amanda J. Dampier(2) Assistant Vice President None
Edward Dane(2) Senior Vice President None
Jeffrey N. Davis(3) Vice President None
Stephen D. Degnan(2) Vice President None
Ivan A. DelRio(2) Vice President None
Richard E. DeMarco(2) Assistant Vice President None
Michael R. Dennehy(2) Vice President None
Michelle D. DeWitt(2) Assistant Vice President None
Christine A. Dinolfo(2) Assistant Vice President None
Robert U. Duffey(2) Vice President None
Cameron F. Dunford(1) Vice President None
Robert B. Dunphy(2) Vice President None
Peter G. Egginton(2) Vice President None
Wendy Hetson Ehrlich(2) Vice President None
Paul F. Eisenhardt(2) Senior Vice President None
Kyle C. Elliott(2) Vice President None
Rickey C. Ernzen(3) Vice President None
Michael J. Eustic(2) Vice President None
Thomas E. Evans(2) Vice President None
Gregg A. Everett(2) Vice President None
George R. Fahey(1) Senior Vice President None
Jason E. Farrell(2)  Vice President None
Kristie M. Feinberg(2) Assistant Treasurer None
Jessica M. Fernandez(2) Vice President None
Josean Y. Fernandez(2) Vice President None
Michael A. Ferrer(2) Vice President None
Jonathan Ferris(4) Assistant Vice President None
Nicole Filingeri(2) Vice President None
Tristan A. Fischer(2) Vice President None
John Fortuna(2) Senior Vice President None
Mark D. Foster(1) Vice President None
Valeri L. Fox(2) Vice President None
Jennifer L. Foxson(2)

Senior Vice President and

Secretary

Vice President and Chief Business Officer
George P. Fraser(1) Vice President None
Victoria K. Frey(1) Assistant Vice President None
Alice K. Fricke(2) Vice President None
William L. Friebel(2) Vice President None
Joseph T. Friedman(1) Vice President None
Kellen G. Frye(2) Vice President None
Kathryn T. Gallo(2) Vice President None
Charlotte A. Gardner(1) Vice President None
Christopher R. Gaudio(2) Vice President None
Jay Gentry(1) Senior Vice President None
Dina Ghanbarzadeh(2) Assistant Vice President None
Nancy J. Girondo(2) Vice President None
Jill E. Glazerman(2) Senior Vice President None
Emily R. Glotzer(2) Assistant Vice President None
Jack E. Goldin(2) Vice President None
Justin A. Goldstein(2) Vice President None
Michael H. Gottesman(2) Senior Vice President None
Raquel Granahan(2) Senior Vice President None
Justin P. Grant(2) Assistant Vice President None
Anthony Greco(2) Assistant Vice President None
Samuel J. Groban(2) Vice President None
Vincent E. Grogan(2) Senior Vice President None
Eric M. Grossjung(2) Vice President None
Seth E. Guenther(1) Assistant Vice President None
Michael D. Guman(2) Vice President None
Joseph B. Gunderson(2) Assistant Vice President None
Mahrukh Hameed(2) Assistant Vice President None
LeaAnna M. Hartman(1) Vice President None
Stacia E. Hatfield(2) Vice President None
Alexander D. Hayes(2) Vice President None
Petter A. Hellstrom-Bialek(1) Vice President None
Richard N. Henn(2) Senior Vice President None
Nicholas M. Henry(2) Vice President None
Nicole M. Pretzel Holahan(2) Vice President None
Heather L. Holliday-Smith(1) Assistant Vice President None
Eric D. Holquist(2) Vice President None
Timothy B. Horsburgh(2) Assistant Vice President None
Brian F. Husch(2) Vice President None
Keith P. Hylind(2) Vice President None
Vincent R. Iacono(2) Vice President None
Omar Z. Idilby(2) Assistant Vice President None
Jason F. Israel(2) Assistant Vice President None
Christopher Ivezic(2) Vice President None
Michael C. Jamison(1) Vice President None
Nickie J. Jacobs(1) Assistant Vice President None
Shonda R. Jaquez(2) Vice President None
Allyson M. Jarecky-Freitag(2) Vice President None
Daniel C. Jarema(1) Vice President None
Robert T. Jason(1) Assistant Vice President None
Ryan O. Johann(2) Assistant Vice President None
Eric K. Johnson(1) Senior Vice President None
Sarah J. Joyce(2) Assistant Vice President None
Sachin Kambli(2) Assistant Vice President None
Annie V. Kang(2) Vice President None
Assaf Kedem (2) Assistant Vice President None
Geoffrey M. Keller(1) Vice President None
Scott R. Kelley(1) Vice President None
Brian P. Kiley(2) Senior Vice President None
Susan Kim(2) Assistant Vice President None
Elena Kirova(2) Assistant Vice President None
Matthew J. Kissane(4) Assistant Vice President None
Melissa M. Kretschmer(2) Assistant Vice President None
Eric J. Kristenson(2) Vice President None
Lamar V. Kunes(2) Senior Vice President None
Stanford L. Kutler(2) Senior Vice President None
David T. Kuzia(1) Vice President None
Michael S. La Tona(2) Vice President None
Lisa Lamentino(2) Vice President None
Thomas M. Landhauser(2) Vice President None
Brian Landy(2) Assistant Vice President None
Laura L. Lawson(2) Vice President None
Daniel J. Lee(2) Vice President None
Eric Lee(2) Assistant Vice President None
Talley D. Leger(2) Vice President None
John P. Leonard(2) Vice President None
Brian S. Levitt(2) Senior Vice President None
Jesse E. Levitt(2) Vice President None
Craig M. Lieb(2) Vice President None
Lorna A. Lindquist(2) Vice President None
Malissa B. Lischin(2) Vice President None
Susan List(2) Assistant Vice President None
Terrie P. Liu(1) Assistant Vice President None
Cynthia Lo Bessette(2) Chief Legal Officer Secretary and Chief Legal Officer
Gordon C. Loetz(2) Vice President None
Christina J. Loftus(2) Senior Vice President None
David P. Lolli(2) Assistant Vice President None
Thomas Loncar(2) Vice President None
Inna London-Ikhilov(2) Assistant Vice President None
David A. Long(1) Assistant Vice President None
John Luiz(2) Vice President None
Joseph M. Macaluso(2) Assistant Vice President None
John W. Mackey(2) Vice President None
Peter K. Maddox(2) Vice President None
Salvatore Maia(2) Assistant Vice President None
Michael J. Malik(2) Vice President None
Joseph C. Marich(2) Vice President None
Natalie Marin(2) Vice President None
Michael A. Marino(4) Assistant Vice President None
Todd A. Marion(2) Vice President None
Sheila M. Masley(1) Assistant Vice President None
Katarina Maxianova(2) Vice President None
Clare C. Mazur(2) Vice President None
Peter J. McCarthy(1) Vice President None
Robert D. McClure(2) Vice President None
Ryan McCormack(2) Assistant Vice President None
John C. McDonough(2)

Chairman, Chief Executive

Officer, President & Director

None
Matthew S. McGee(1) Vice President None
Kent C. McGowan(2) Vice President None
Simon A. McKay(2) Vice President None
Philip J. McKeon(4) Assistant Vice President None
William J. McNamara(2) Vice President None
Christopher S. Mechem(2) Vice President None
Brian F. Medina(1) Vice President None
Gregory E. Mehok(2) Vice President None
Daniel P. Melehan(2) Vice President None
Izaak Mendelson(2) Assistant Vice President None
Ariella Menegon(2) Assistant Vice President None
Debbie S. Michaelson(1) Vice President None
David B. Miller(2) Assistant Vice President None
Toller C. Miller(1) Vice President None
Peter L. Mintzberg(2) Executive Vice President None
Clint T. Modler(1) Senior Vice President None
Thomas J. Montefinise(2) Assistant Vice President None
Rian Morrissey(1) Vice President None
James F. Mugno(2) Vice President None
Matthew D. Mulcahy(2) Vice President None
Wendy J. Murray(2) Vice President None
Keith D. Myers(1) Assistant Vice President None
Kyle Najarian(1) Vice President None
Christina M. Nasta(2) Senior Vice President None
Kevin R. Neznek(2) Senior Vice President None
Nichola L. Noriega(2) Vice President None
Peter J. Novak(2) Senior Vice President None
Ryan P. O’Carroll(2) Vice President None
James B. O’Connell(2) Vice President None
Timothy J. O’Connell(2) Vice President None
Patricia O’Connor(2) Vice President None
Tony D. Oh(1) Treasurer None
Ronald M. Ongaro(2) Assistant Vice President None
Leonard J. Oremland(2) Senior Vice President None
Steven W. Paddon(2) Senior Vice President None
Leonar G. Palao(2) Assistant Vice President None
Bruce Palm(2) Vice President None
Alan I. Panzer(2) Vice President None
Andrew Y. Park(1) Vice President None
Maria Paster(2) Vice President None
Ashley B. Patten(1) Vice President None
Lori L. Penna (2) Vice President None
Daniel J. Petter(2) Vice President None
Charles K. Pettit(2) Vice President None
David M. Pfeffer(2) Director & Chief Financial Officer None
Patrick Phalon(2) Vice President None
Andrew W. Phillips(1) Vice President None
Piers A. Platt(2) Vice President None
Scott A. Porter(2) Assistant Vice President None
Yunchang Qiu(2) Senior Vice President None
Michael E. Quinn(2) Vice President None
Michael A. Radon(2) Assistant Vice President None
Richard E. Rath(2) Vice President None
William J. Raynor(2) Vice President None
Brenna D. Rhone(2) Assistant Vice President None
James T. Robinson(1) Vice President None
Ian M. Roche(2) Vice President None
Jason D. Roche(2) Vice President None
Adam T. Rochlin(2) Senior Vice President None
Michael A. Rock(2) Vice President None
Rachel S. Rodgers(2) Assistant Vice President None
Philip Rolleri(2) Assistant Vice President None
Michael J. Roman(2) Assistant Vice President None
Megan P. Rosenblum(2) Vice President None
Francis W. Ross(1) Vice President None
Jonathan J. Ross(2) Vice President None
Kristen M. Ross(2) Assistant Vice President None
Adrienne M. Ruffle(2) Vice President None
Thomas F. Sabow(2) Vice President None
Gary Salerno(2) Assistant Vice President None
Gary J. Sanchez(1) Vice President None
John C. Saunders(2) Senior Vice President None
Kurt R. Savallo(2) Assistant Vice President None
Alex C. Schardt(2) Vice President None
Thomas J. Schmitt(2) Vice President None
Erik M. Schneberger (2) Senior Vice President None
William A. Schories(2) Vice President None
Patrick L. Scorzelli(2) Vice President None
Uri C. Shanske(2) Vice President None
Jeffrey D. Sharon(2) Vice President None
Rahul N. Shah(2) Assistant Vice President None
James B. Shields(1) Assistant Vice President None
Faiza Sikander(2) Assistant Vice President None
Bryant B. Smith(2) Vice President None
Timothy F. Smith(2) Assistant Vice President None
Mark C. Sokoloff(2) Assistant Vice President None
Haley M. Sorenson(1) Vice President None
John A. Spensley(2) Vice President None
Timothy J. Spitz(2) Vice President None
Alfred O. St. John(2) Vice President None
Michael N. Staples(2) Vice President None
Keith S. Stecker(2) Assistant Vice President None
Bryan D. Stein(2) Vice President None
Joseph D. Stellato(2) Vice President None
Benjamin A. Stewart(2) Senior Vice President None
Wayne C. Strauss(2) Vice President None
Matthew C. Straut(2) Senior Vice President None
Ryan P. Sullivan(2) Assistant Vice President None
Brian C. Summe(2) Vice President None
Michael E. Sussman(2) Vice President None
George T. Sweeney(2) Senior Vice President None
Adam L. Tabor(2) Vice President None
Leo P. Tallon(2) Vice President None
Laura B. Taylor (1) Senior Vice President None
Paul E. Temple(2) Senior Vice President None
Jay S. Therrien(2) Vice President None
Anil K. Thomas(2) Vice President None
David G. Thomas(2) Vice President None
John B. Thorpe(1) Vice President None
Luz V. Touma(2) Vice President None
Matthew R. Trimble(2) Assistant Vice President None
Catherine L. Tulley(1) Assistant Vice President None
David C. Van Hellemont(2) Vice President None
Wesley R. Vance(2) Vice President None
Daniel T. Veith(2) Assistant Vice President None
Vincent C. Vermette(2) Vice President None
Alyse S. Vishnick(2) Vice President None
Rohit Vohra(2) Vice President None
Richard Walsh(2) Vice President None
Teresa M. Ward(2)  Vice President None
Keith R. Watts(1) Vice President None
Taylor Watts(1) Vice President None
Michael J. Weigner(2) Vice President None
Kimberly W. Weinrick(2) Vice President None
Christopher G. Werner(2) Vice President None
Donna M. White (2) Chief Compliance Officer None
Ryan C. Wilde(1) Vice President None
Timothy A. Wilkinson(1) Vice President None
Thomas Winnick(2) Vice President None
Patrick J. Wisneski(1) Vice President None
Kevin P. Woodson(1) Assistant Vice President None
Ryan J. Woolhiser(1) Vice President None
Cary P. Wozniak(2) Vice President None
Theodore J. Young(1) Assistant Vice President None
David T. Zicchinella(2) Vice President None
Steven L. Zito(1) Vice President None
Zhanyi Zhu(2) Assistant Vice President None

 

(1) 6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112-3924

(2) 225 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281-1008

(3) 2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1401, Dallas, TX 75201

(4) 2005 Market Street, Suite 2020, Philadelphia, PA 19103

(c)       Not applicable.

Item 33. Location of Accounts and Records.

The accounts, books and other documents required to be maintained by Registrant pursuant to Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and rules promulgated thereunder are in the possession of OFI Global Asset Management, Inc., OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and Shareholder Services, Inc., as applicable, at each entity’s offices at 6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112-3924 and also maintained at One Commerce Square, 2005 Market Street, Suite 2020, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 and One Wall Street, New York, New York 10286.

Item 34. Management Services.

Not applicable.

Item 35. Undertakings.

Not applicable.

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York and State of New York on the 18th day of October, 2017.

 

  Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted  ETF Trust
   
By:   Arthur P. Steinmetz*
 

Arthur P. Steinmetz

Trustee, President and Principal Executive Officer

   
   

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities on the dates indicated:

 

Signatures   Title Date
       
Robert J. Malone*   Chairman of the

October 18, 2017

 

Robert J. Malone*   Board of Trustees  
       
Arthur P. Steinmetz*   Trustee, President and

October 18, 2017

 

Arthur P. Steinmetz   Principal Executive Officer  
       
Brian S. Petersen*   Treasurer, Principal

October 18, 2017

 

Brian S. Petersen   Financial & Accounting Officer  
       
Andrew Donohue*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

Andrew Donohue      
       
Jon S. Fossel*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

Jon S. Fossel      
       
Richard F. Grabish*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

Richard F. Grabish      
       
Beverly L. Hamilton*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

Beverly L. Hamilton      
       
Victoria J. Herget*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

Victoria J. Herget      
       
F. William Marshall, Jr.*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

F. William Marshall, Jr.      
       
Karen L. Stuckey*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

Karen L. Stuckey      
       
James D. Vaughn*   Trustee

October 18, 2017

 

James D. Vaughn      
       
       

 

*By: /s/ Taylor V. Edwards    
 

Taylor V. Edwards,

Attorney-in-Fact

   

 

 

OPPENHEIMER REVENUE WEIGHTED ETF TRUST

 

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 49

 

Registration No. 333-139501

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

Exhibit No. Description
28(a)(ii) Amendment to Schedule A of Third Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust
28(d)(i) Amended and Restated Investment Advisory Agreement
28(e)(ii) Amended Exhibit A to the General Distributor’s Agreement
28(g)(ii) Amendment to the Custody Agreement
28(h)(ii) Amendment to the Transfer Agency and Service Agreement
28(h)(iv) Amendment to the Fund Administration and Accounting Agreement
28(h)(vi) Amendment to the Securities Lending Authorization Agreement
28(i)(i) Legal Opinion of Ropes & Gray LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF
28(i)(ii) Legal Opinion of Ropes & Gray LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF
28(i)(iii) Legal Opinion of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Low Volatility Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Momentum Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Quality Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Size Factor ETF, Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Value Factor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Yield Factor ETF
28(i)(iv) Legal Opinion of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP regarding Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF and Oppenheimer Russell 2000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF
28(j) Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Consent
28(m)(ii) Amended and Restated Schedule I to the Amended Distribution and Service Plan