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497 1 sai497.htm STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 485-b Filing

Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund

6803 South Tucson Way, Centennial, Colorado 80112

1.800.CALL OPP (225.5677)

Statement of Additional Information dated October 23, 2003

This Statement of Additional Information is not a Prospectus. This
document contains additional information about the Fund and supplements
information in the Prospectus dated October 23, 2003. It should be read together
with the Prospectus. You can obtain the Prospectus by writing to the Fund's
Transfer Agent, OppenheimerFunds Services, at P.O. Box 5270, Denver, Colorado
80217, or by calling the Transfer Agent at the toll-free number shown above, or
by downloading it from the OppenheimerFunds Internet website at
www.oppenheimerfunds.com.

Contents
Page
About the Fund
Additional Information About the Fund's Investment Policies and Risks........2
The Fund's Investment Policies...........................................2
Other Investment Techniques and Strategies...............................6
Investment Restrictions..................................................22
How the Fund is Managed .....................................................24
Organization and History.................................................24
Board of Trustees and Oversight Committees...................................25
Trustees and Officers of the Fund........................................26
The Manager..............................................................34
Brokerage Policies of the Fund...............................................37
Distribution and Service Plans...............................................39
Performance of the Fund......................................................43

About Your Account
How To Buy Shares............................................................48
How To Sell Shares...........................................................59
How To Exchange Shares.......................................................63
Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes...........................................67
Additional Information About the Fund........................................71

Financial Information About the Fund
Independent Auditors' Report.................................................72
Financial Statements.........................................................73

Appendix A: Industry Classifications.................................... A-1
Appendix B: Special Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers............... B-1

ABOUT THE FUND

Additional Information About the Fund's Investment Policies and Risks

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

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

Investments in Equity Securities and Metal Investments. The Fund focuses
its investments in equity securities of U.S. and foreign-domiciled companies.
Equity securities include common stocks, preferred stocks, rights and warrants,
and securities convertible into common stock. The Fund's investments primarily
include stocks of companies that are involved in mining or processing gold or
other metals or minerals. These securities are described as "Mining Securities."

The Fund may also invest in gold or silver bullion, in other precious
metals, in metals naturally occurring with precious metals, in certificates
representing an ownership interest in those metals, and in gold or silver coins.
These investments are referred to as "Metal Investments." Under normal market
conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in Mining
Securities and Metal Investments. However, the Fund will invest no more than 10%
of its total assets in Metal Investments.

Current income is not a criterion used to select portfolio securities.
However, certain debt securities can be selected for the Fund's portfolio for
defensive purposes (including debt securities that the Manager believes might
offer some opportunities for capital appreciation when stocks are disfavored).

o Growth Companies. Growth companies are those companies that the Manager
believes are entering into a growth cycle in their business, with the
expectation that their stock will increase in value. They may be established
companies as well as newer companies in the development stage. Growth companies
might have a variety of characteristics that in the Manager's view define them
as "growth" issuers. They might be generating or applying new technologies, new
or improved distribution techniques or new services. In each case, they have
prospects that the Manager believes are favorable for the long term. The
portfolio manager of the Fund looks for growth companies with strong, capable
management, sound financial and accounting policies, successful product
development and marketing and other factors.

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

To determine whether convertible securities should be regarded as "equity
equivalents," the Manager examines the following factors:
(1) whether, at the option of the investor, the convertible security can
be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of common stock of the
issuer,
(2) whether the issuer of the convertible securities has restated its
earnings per share of common stock on a fully diluted basis
(considering the effect of conversion of the convertible securities),
and
(3) the extent to which the convertible security may be a defensive
"equity substitute," providing the ability to participate in any
appreciation in the price of the issuer's common stock.

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

o Rights and Warrants. The Fund may invest up to 5% of its total assets in
warrants or rights. That 5% limit does not apply to warrants and rights the Fund
has acquired as part of units of securities or that are attached to other
securities that the Fund buys. No more than 2% of the Fund's total assets may be
invested in warrants and rights that are not listed on the New York or American
Stock Exchanges. These percentage limitations are fundamental policies. Warrants
basically are options to purchase equity securities at specific prices valid for
a specific period of time. Their prices do not necessarily move parallel to the
prices of the underlying securities. Rights are similar to warrants, but
normally have a short duration and are distributed directly by the issuer to its
shareholders. Rights and warrants have no voting rights, receive no dividends
and have no rights with respect to the assets of the issuer.

Foreign Securities. "Foreign securities" include equity and debt
securities of companies organized under the laws of countries other than the
United States and of governments other than the U.S. government. They also
include securities of companies (including those that are located in the U.S. or
organized under U.S. law) that derive a significant portion of their revenue or
profits from foreign businesses, investments or sales, or that have a
significant portion of their assets abroad. They may be traded on foreign
securities exchanges or in the foreign over-the-counter markets.

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

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

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

o reduction of income by foreign taxes;
o fluctuation in value of foreign investments due to changes in currency
rates or currency control regulations (for example, currency blockage);
o transaction charges for currency exchange;
o lack of public information about foreign issuers;
o lack of uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards
in foreign countries comparable to those applicable to domestic
issuers;
o less volume on foreign exchanges than on U.S. exchanges;
o greater volatility and less liquidity on foreign markets than in the
U.S.;
o less governmental regulation of foreign issuers, stock exchanges and
brokers than in the U.S.;
o greater difficulties in commencing lawsuits;
o higher brokerage commission rates than in the U.S.;
o increased risks of delays in settlement of portfolio transactions or
loss of certificates for portfolio securities;
o possibilities in some countries of expropriation, confiscatory
taxation, political, financial or social instability or adverse
diplomatic developments; and
o unfavorable differences between the U.S. economy and foreign
economies.

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

o Special Risks of Emerging Markets. Emerging and developing markets
abroad may also offer special opportunities for growth investing but have
greater risks than more developed foreign markets, such as those in Europe and
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. There may be even less liquidity in
their stock markets, and settlements of purchases and sales of securities may be
subject to additional delays. They are subject to greater risks of limitations
on the repatriation of income and profits because of currency restrictions
imposed by local governments. Those countries may also be subject to the risk of
greater political and economic instability, which can greatly affect the
volatility of prices of securities in those countries.

Special Risks of Concentrating Investments in Mining Securities and Metal
Investments. Investments in Mining Securities and Metal Investments involve
additional risks and considerations not typically associated with other types of
investments: (1) the risk of substantial price fluctuations of gold and precious
metals; (2) the concentration of gold supply is mainly in five territories
(South Africa, Australia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (the former
Soviet Union), Canada and the United States), and the prevailing economic and
political conditions of these countries may have a direct effect on the
production and marketing of gold and sales of central bank gold holdings; (3)
unpredictable international monetary policies, economic and political
conditions; (4) possible U.S. governmental regulation of Metal Investments, as
well as foreign regulation of such investments; and (5) possible adverse tax
consequences for the Fund in making Metal Investments, if it fails to qualify as
a "regulated investment company" under the Internal Revenue Code.

Because the Fund concentrates its investments in Mining Securities and
Metal Investments, an adverse change with respect to any of these risk factors
could have a significant negative effect on the Fund's net asset value per
share. These risks are discussed in greater detail below.

o Risk of Price Fluctuations. The prices of precious and strategic metals
are affected by various factors such as economic conditions, political events,
governmental monetary and regulatory policies and market events. The prices of
Mining Securities and Metal Investments held by the Fund may fluctuate sharply,
which will affect the value of the Fund's shares.

o Concentration of Source of Gold Supply and Control of Gold Sales.
Currently, the five largest producers of gold are the Republic of South Africa,
Australia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (which includes Russia and
certain other countries that were part of the former Soviet Union), Canada and
the United States. Economic and political conditions in those countries may have
a direct effect on the production and marketing of gold and on sales of central
bank gold holdings. In South Africa, the activities of companies engaged in gold
mining are subject to the policies adopted by the Ministry of Mines. The Reserve
Bank of South Africa, as the sole authorized sales agent for South African gold,
has an influence on the price and timing of sales of South African gold.
Political and social conditions in South Africa are still somewhat unsettled and
may pose certain risks to the Fund (in addition to the risks described below
under the caption "Foreign Securities"), because the Fund may hold a portion of
its assets in securities of South African issuers.

o Unpredictable International Monetary Policies, Economic and Political
Conditions. There is the possibility that unusual international monetary or
political conditions may make the Fund's portfolio assets less liquid, or that
the value of the Fund's assets might be more volatile, than would be the case
with other investments. In particular, the price of gold is affected by its
direct and indirect use to settle net balance of payments deficits and surpluses
between nations. Because the prices of precious or strategic metals may be
affected by unpredictable international monetary policies and economic
conditions, there may be greater likelihood of a more dramatic fluctuation of
the market prices of the Fund's investments than of other investments.

o Commodities Regulations. The trading of Metal Investments in the United
States could become subject to the rules that govern the trading of agricultural
and certain other commodities and commodity futures. In the opinion of the
Fund's counsel, at present the Fund's permitted Metal Investments are either not
subject to regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") or an
exemption from regulation is available. The absence of CFTC regulation may
adversely affect the continued development of an orderly market in Metal
Investments trading in the United States. The development of a regulated futures
market in Metal Investments trading may affect the development of a market in,
and the price of, Metal Investments in the United States.

o Effect on the Fund's Tax Status. By making Metal Investments, the Fund
risks failing to qualify as a regulated investment company under the Internal
Revenue Code. If the Fund should fail to qualify, it would lose the beneficial
tax treatment accorded to qualifying investment companies under Subchapter M of
the Code. Failure to qualify would occur if in any fiscal year the Fund either
(a) derived 10% or more of its gross income (as defined in the Internal Revenue
Code, which disregards losses for this purpose) from sales or other dispositions
of Metal Investments, or (b) held more than 50% of its net assets in the form of
Metal Investments or in securities not meeting certain tests under the Internal
Revenue Code (see "Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes"). Accordingly, the Fund
will endeavor to manage its portfolio within the limitations described above,
and the Fund has adopted an investment restriction limiting the amount of its
total assets that can be invested in Metal Investments. There can be no
assurance that the Fund will qualify in every fiscal year. Furthermore, to
comply with the limitations described above, the Fund may be required to make
investment decisions the Manager would otherwise not make, foregoing the
opportunity to realize gains, if necessary, to permit the Fund to qualify. See
"Investment Restrictions."

Portfolio Turnover. "Portfolio turnover" describes the rate at which the
Fund traded its portfolio securities during its last fiscal year. For example,
if a fund sold all of its securities during the year, its portfolio turnover
rate would have been 100%. The Fund's portfolio turnover rate will fluctuate
from year to year, and the Fund might have a portfolio turnover rate of more
than 100% annually. The Fund's portfolio has been rebalanced due to its recent
change from a diversified fund to a non-diversified fund, which in turn has
caused the portfolio turnover rate in the last two years to increase
substantially. Additionally, an increase in exposure to small capitalization and
exploration companies have also been a factor in the increased portfolio
turnover.

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

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

o Investment in Other Investment Companies. The Fund can also invest in
the securities of other investment companies, which can include open-end funds,
closed-end funds and unit investment trusts, subject to the limits set forth in
the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Investment Company Act") that apply to
those types of investments. For example, the Fund can invest in Exchange-Traded
Funds, which are typically open-end funds or unit investment trusts, listed on a
stock exchange. The Fund might do so as a way of gaining exposure to the
segments of the equity or fixed-income markets represented by the
Exchange-Traded Funds' portfolio, at times when the Fund may not be able to buy
those portfolio securities directly.

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

Investing in Small, Unseasoned Companies. The Fund may invest in
securities of small, unseasoned companies. These are companies that have been in
operation for less than three years, including the operations of any
predecessors. Securities of these companies may be subject to volatility in
their prices. They may have a limited trading market, which may adversely affect
the Fund's ability to dispose of them and can reduce the price the Fund might be
able to obtain for them. Other investors that own a security issued by a small,
unseasoned issuer for which there is limited liquidity might trade the security
when the Fund is attempting to dispose of its holdings of that security. In that
case the Fund might receive a lower price for its holdings than might otherwise
be obtained. The Fund has no limit on the amount of its net assets that may be
invested in those securities.

Debt Securities. While the Fund does not invest for the purpose of seeking
current income, at times certain debt securities (other than convertible debt
securities described above under the description of equity investments) may be
selected for investment by the Fund for defensive purposes, as described below.
For example, when the stock market is volatile, or when the portfolio manager
believes that growth opportunities in stocks are not attractive, certain debt
securities might not only offer defensive opportunities but also some
opportunities for capital appreciation. These investments could include
corporate bonds and notes of foreign or U.S. companies, as well as U.S. and
foreign government securities. It is not expected that this will be a
significant portfolio strategy of the Fund under normal market circumstances.

o Credit Risk. Debt securities are subject to credit risk. Credit risk
relates to the ability of the issuer of a debt security to make interest or
principal payments on the security as they become due. If the issuer fails to
pay interest, the Fund's income may be reduced and if the issuer fails to repay
principal, the value of that bond and of the Fund's shares may be reduced. The
Manager may rely to some extent on credit ratings by nationally recognized
rating agencies in evaluating the credit risk of securities selected for the
Fund's portfolio. It may also use its own research and analysis. Many factors
affect an issuer's ability to make timely payments, and the credit risks of a
particular security may change over time. While the Fund can invest in
higher-yielding lower-grade debt securities (that is, securities below
investment grade), its debt investments will generally be investment grade.
Those are securities rated in the four highest rating categories of Standard &
Poor's Rating Service or Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or equivalent ratings
of other rating agencies or ratings assigned to a security by the Manager.

o Interest Rate Risks. In addition to credit risks, debt securities are
subject to changes in value when prevailing interest rates change. When interest
rates fall, the values of outstanding debt securities generally rise, and the
bonds may sell for more than their face amount. When interest rates rise, the
values of outstanding debt securities generally decline, and the bonds may sell
at a discount from their face amount. The magnitude of these price changes is
generally greater for bonds with longer maturities. Therefore, when the average
maturity of the Fund's debt securities is longer, its share price may fluctuate
more when interest rates change.

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

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

The majority of these transactions run from day to day, and delivery
pursuant to the resale typically occurs within one to five days of the purchase.
Repurchase agreements having a maturity beyond seven days are subject to the
Fund's limits on holding illiquid investments. The Fund will not enter into a
repurchase agreement that causes more than 10% of its net assets to be subject
to repurchase agreements having a maturity beyond seven days. There is no limit
on the amount of the Fund's net assets that may be subject to repurchase
agreements having maturities of seven days or less.

Repurchase agreements, considered "loans" under the Investment Company
Act, are collateralized by the underlying security. The Fund's repurchase
agreements require that at all times while the repurchase agreement is in
effect, the value of the collateral must equal or exceed the repurchase price to
fully collateralize the repayment obligation. However, if the vendor fails to
pay the resale price on the delivery date, the Fund may incur costs in disposing
of the collateral and may experience losses if there is any delay in its ability
to do so. The Manager will monitor the vendor's creditworthiness to confirm that
the vendor is financially sound and will continuously monitor the collateral's
value.

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

Illiquid and Restricted Securities. Under the policies and procedures
established by the Fund's Board of Trustees, the Manager determines the
liquidity of certain of the Fund's investments. To enable the Fund to sell its
holdings of a restricted security not registered under the Securities Act of
1933, the Fund may have to cause those securities to be registered. The expenses
of registering restricted securities may be negotiated by the Fund with the
issuer at the time the Fund buys the securities. When the Fund must arrange
registration because the Fund wishes to sell the security, a considerable period
may elapse between the time the decision is made to sell the security and the
time the security is registered so that the Fund could sell it. The Fund would
bear the risks of any downward price fluctuation during that period.

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

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

Illiquid securities include repurchase agreements maturing in more than
seven days and participation interests that do not have puts exercisable within
seven days.

Loans of Portfolio Securities. To raise cash for liquidity purposes, the
Fund can lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other types of
financial institutions approved by the Fund's Board of Trustees. These loans are
limited to not more than 25% of the value of the Fund's total assets. The Fund
currently does not intend to engage in loans of securities in the coming year,
but if it does so, such loans will not likely exceed 5% of the Fund's total
assets.

There are some risks in connection with securities lending. The Fund might
experience a delay in receiving additional collateral to secure a loan, or a
delay in recovery of the loaned securities if the borrower defaults. The Fund
must receive collateral for a loan. Under current applicable regulatory
requirements (which are subject to change), on each business day the loan
collateral must be at least equal to the value of the loaned securities. It must
consist of cash, bank letters of credit, securities of the U.S. government or
its agencies or instrumentalities, or other cash equivalents in which the Fund
is permitted to invest. To be acceptable as collateral, letters of credit must
obligate a bank to pay amounts demanded by the Fund if the demand meets the
terms of the letter. The terms of the letter of credit and the issuing bank both
must be satisfactory to the Fund.

When it lends securities, the Fund receives amounts equal to the dividends
or interest on loaned securities. It also receives one or more of (a) negotiated
loan fees, (b) interest on securities used as collateral, and (c) interest on
any short-term debt securities purchased with such loan collateral. Either type
of interest may be shared with the borrower. The Fund may also pay reasonable
finders', custodian and administrative fees in connection with these loans. The
terms of the Fund's loans must meet applicable tests under the Internal Revenue
Code and must permit the Fund to reacquire loaned securities on five days'
notice or in time to vote on any important matter.

Borrowing for Leverage. The Fund has the ability to borrow and invest the
borrowed funds in portfolio securities. This speculative technique is known as
"leverage." The Fund may borrow only from banks. Currently, under the Investment
Company Act, absent exemptive relief, a mutual fund may borrow only from banks
and the maximum amount it may borrow is up to one-third of its total assets
(including the amount borrowed) less all liabilities and indebtedness other than
borrowing. If the value of the Fund's assets fails to meet this 300% asset
coverage requirement, the Fund will reduce its bank debt within three days to
meet the requirement. To do so, the Fund might have to sell a portion of its
investments at a disadvantageous time.

The Fund will pay interest on these loans, and that interest expense will
raise the overall expenses of the Fund and reduce its returns. If it does
borrow, its expenses will be greater than comparable funds that do not borrow
for leverage. Additionally, the Fund's net asset value per share might fluctuate
more than that of funds that do not borrow. Currently, the Fund does not
contemplate using this technique, but if it does so, it will not likely do so to
a substantial degree.

Interfund Borrowing and Lending Arrangements. Consistent with its
fundamental policies and pursuant to an exemptive order issued by the SEC, the
Fund may engage in borrowing and lending activities with other funds in the
OppenheimerFunds complex. Borrowing money from affiliated funds may afford the
Fund the flexibility to use the most cost-effective alternative to satisfy its
borrowing requirements. Lending money to an affiliated fund may allow the Fund
to obtain a higher rate of return than it could from interest rates on
alternative short-term investments. Implementation of interfund lending is being
accomplished consistent with applicable regulatory requirements, including the
provisions of the SEC order.

o Interfund Borrowing. The Fund will not borrow from affiliated funds unless the
terms of the borrowing arrangement are at least as favorable as the terms the
Fund could otherwise negotiate with a third party. To assure that the Fund will
not be disadvantaged by borrowing from an affiliated fund, certain safeguards
are being implemented. Examples of these safeguards include the following:
o the Fund will not borrow money from affiliated funds unless the
interest rate is more favorable than available bank loan rates;
o the Fund's borrowing from affiliated funds must be consistent
with its investment objective and investment policies;
o the loan rates will be the average of the overnight repurchase
agreement rate available through the OppenheimerFunds joint
repurchase agreement account and a pre-established formula based
on quotations from independent banks to approximate the lowest
interest rate at which bank loans would be available to the Fund;
o if the Fund has outstanding borrowings from all sources greater
than 10% of its total assets, then the Fund must secure each
additional outstanding interfund loan by segregating liquid
assets of the Fund as collateral;
o the Fund cannot borrow from an affiliated fund in excess of 125%
of its total redemptions for the preceding seven days;
o each interfund loan may be repaid on any day by the Fund; and
o the Trustees will be provided with a report of all interfund loans and
the Trustees will monitor all such borrowings to ensure that the
Fund's participation is appropriate.

There is a risk that a borrowing fund could have a loan called on one
days' notice. In that circumstance, the Fund might have to borrow from a bank at
a higher interest cost if money to lend were not available from another
Oppenheimer fund.

o Interfund Lending. To assure that the Fund will not be disadvantaged by making
loans to affiliated funds, certain safeguards are being implemented. Examples of
these safeguards include the following:

o the Fund will not lend money to affiliated funds unless the interest
rate on such loan is determined to be reasonable under the
circumstances;
o the Fund may not make interfund loans in excess of 15% of its net
assets;
o an interfund loan to any one affiliated fund shall not exceed 5% of the
Fund's net assets;
o an interfund loan may not be outstanding for more than seven days; o each
interfund loan may be called on one business day's notice; and o the Manager
will provide the Trustees reports on all interfund loans
demonstrating that the Fund's participation is appropriate and
that the loan is consistent with its investment objectives and
policies.

When the Fund lends assets to another affiliated fund, the Fund is subject
to the risk that the borrowing fund might fail to repay the loan.

Derivatives. The Fund can invest in a variety of derivative investments to
seek income for liquidity needs or for hedging purposes. Some derivative
investments the Fund can use are the hedging instruments described below in this
Statement of Additional Information. However, the Fund does not use, and does
not currently contemplate using, derivatives or hedging instruments to a
significant degree.

Some of the derivative investments the Fund can use include debt
exchangeable for common stock of an issuer or "equity-linked debt securities" of
an issuer. At maturity, the debt security is exchanged for common stock of the
issuer or it is payable in an amount based on the price of the issuer's common
stock at the time of maturity. Both alternatives present a risk that the amount
payable at maturity will be less than the principal amount of the debt because
the price of the issuer's common stock may not be as high as the Manager
expected.

Hedging. Although the Fund does not anticipate the extensive use of
hedging instruments, the Fund can use hedging instruments. To attempt to protect
against declines in the market value of the Fund's portfolio, to permit the Fund
to retain unrealized gains in the value of portfolio securities which have
appreciated, or to facilitate selling securities for investment reasons, the
Fund could:
o sell futures contracts,
o buy puts on such futures or on securities, or
o write covered calls on securities or futures. Covered calls may also be
used to increase the Fund's income, but the Manager does not expect to
engage extensively in that practice.

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

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

o Futures. The Fund may buy and sell futures contracts that relate to (1)
broadly-based stock indices (these are referred to as "stock index futures"),
and (2) an individual stock ("single stock futures"). This limitation is a
fundamental policy.

A broadly-based stock index is used as the basis for trading stock index
futures. They may in some cases be based on stocks of issuers in a particular
industry or group of industries. A stock index assigns relative values to the
common stocks included in the index and its value fluctuates in response to the
changes in value of the underlying stocks. A stock index cannot be purchased or
sold directly.

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

No money is paid or received by the Fund on the purchase or sale of a
future. Upon entering into a futures transaction, the Fund will be required to
deposit an initial margin payment with the futures commission merchant (the
"futures broker"). Initial margin payments will be deposited with the Fund's
custodian bank in an account registered in the futures broker's name. However,
the futures broker can gain access to that account only under specified
conditions. As the future is marked to market (that is, its value on the Fund's
books is changed) to reflect changes in its market value, subsequent margin
payments, called variation margin, will be paid to or by the futures broker
daily.

At any time prior to expiration of the future, the Fund may elect to close
out its position by taking an opposite position, at which time a final
determination of variation margin is made and any additional cash must be paid
by or released to the Fund. Any loss or gain on the future is then realized by
the Fund for tax purposes. All futures transactions (except forward contracts)
are effected through a clearinghouse associated with the exchange on which the
contracts are traded.

o Put and Call Options. The Fund can buy and sell certain kinds of put
options ("puts") and call options ("calls"). The Fund can buy and sell
exchange-traded and over-the-counter put and call options, including index
options, securities options, currency options, and options on the types of
futures described above. The Fund may buy a call or put only if, after the
purchase, the value of all call and put options held by the Fund will not exceed
10% of the Fund's total assets.

o Writing Covered Call Options. The Fund can write (that is, sell) covered
calls. If the Fund sells a call option, it must be covered. That means the Fund
must own the security subject to the call while the call is outstanding, or, for
certain types of calls, the call may be covered by identifying liquid assets on
the Fund's books to enable the Fund to satisfy its obligations if the call is
exercised. Up to 25% of the Fund's total assets may be subject to calls the Fund
writes. However, the Fund will not write or purchase any call that will cause
the value of the Fund's calls on a particular security to exceed 3% of the
Fund's total assets.

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

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

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

When the Fund writes an over-the-counter ("OTC") option, it will enter
into an arrangement with a primary U.S. government securities dealer which will
establish a formula price at which the Fund will have the absolute right to
repurchase that OTC option. The formula price will generally be based on a
multiple of the premium received for the option, plus the amount by which the
option is exercisable below the market price of the underlying security (that
is, the option is "in the money"). When the Fund writes an OTC option, it will
treat as illiquid (for purposes of its restriction on holding illiquid
securities) the mark-to-market value of any OTC option it holds, unless the
option is subject to a buy-back agreement by the executing broker.

To terminate its obligation on a call it has written, the Fund may
purchase a corresponding call in a "closing purchase transaction." The Fund will
then realize a profit or loss, depending upon whether the net of the amount of
the option transaction costs and the premium received on the call the Fund wrote
is more or less than the price of the call the Fund purchases to close out the
transaction. The Fund may realize a profit if the call expires unexercised,
because the Fund will retain the underlying security and the premium it received
when it wrote the call. Any such profits are considered short-term capital gains
for federal income tax purposes, as are the premiums on lapsed calls. When
distributed by the Fund they are taxable as ordinary income. If the Fund cannot
effect a closing purchase transaction due to the lack of a market, it will have
to hold the callable securities until the call expires or is exercised.

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

o Writing Put Options. The Fund can sell put options. A put option on
securities gives the purchaser the right to sell, and the writer the obligation
to buy, the underlying investment at the exercise price during the option
period. The Fund will not write puts if, as a result, more than 25% of the
Fund's total assets would be required to be identified as liquid assets to cover
such put options.

If the Fund writes a put, the put must be covered by liquid assets
identified on the Fund's books. The premium the Fund receives from writing a put
represents a profit, as long as the price of the underlying investment remains
equal to or above the exercise price of the put. However, the Fund also assumes
the obligation during the option period to buy the underlying investment from
the buyer of the put at the exercise price, even if the value of the investment
falls below the exercise price. If a put the Fund has written expires
unexercised, the Fund realizes a gain in the amount of the premium less the
transaction costs incurred. If the put is exercised, the Fund must fulfill its
obligation to purchase the underlying investment at the exercise price. That
price will usually exceed the market value of the investment at that time. In
that case, the Fund may incur a loss if it sells the underlying investment. That
loss will be equal to the sum of the sale price of the underlying investment and
the premium received minus the sum of the exercise price and any transaction
costs the Fund incurred.

When writing a put option on a security, to secure its obligation to pay
for the underlying security the Fund will identify liquid assets on its books
with a value equal to or greater than the exercise price of the underlying
securities. The Fund therefore forgoes the opportunity of investing the
identified liquid assets or writing calls against those assets.

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

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

o Purchasing Calls and Puts. The Fund can purchase calls to protect
against the possibility that the Fund's portfolio will not participate in an
anticipated rise in the securities market. When the Fund buys a call (other than
in a closing purchase transaction), it pays a premium. The Fund then has the
right to buy the underlying investment from a seller of a corresponding call on
the same investment during the call period at a fixed exercise price. The Fund
benefits only if it sells the call at a profit or if, during the call period,
the market price of the underlying investment is above the sum of the call price
plus the transaction costs and the premium paid for the call and the Fund
exercises the call. If the Fund does not exercise the call or sell it (whether
or not at a profit), the call will become worthless at its expiration date. In
that case the Fund will have paid the premium but lost the right to purchase the
underlying investment.

The Fund can buy puts whether or not it holds the underlying investment in
its portfolio. When the Fund purchases a put, it pays a premium and, except as
to puts on indices, has the right to sell the underlying investment to a seller
of a put on a corresponding investment during the put period at a fixed exercise
price. Buying a put on securities or futures the Fund owns enables the Fund to
attempt to protect itself during the put period against a decline in the value
of the underlying investment below the exercise price by selling the underlying
investment at the exercise price to a seller of a corresponding put. If the
market price of the underlying investment is equal to or above the exercise
price and, as a result, the put is not exercised or resold, the put will become
worthless at its expiration date. In that case the Fund will have paid the
premium but lost the right to sell the underlying investment. However, the Fund
may sell the put prior to its expiration. That sale may or may not be at a
profit.

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

When the Fund purchases a call or put on an index or future, it pays a
premium, but settlement is in cash rather than by delivery of the underlying
investment to the Fund. Gain or loss depends on changes in the index in question
(and thus on price movements in the securities market generally) rather than on
price movements in individual securities or futures contracts.

The Fund may buy a call or put only if, after the purchase, the value of
all call and put options held by the Fund will not exceed 10% of the Fund's
total assets. In addition, the Fund will not write or purchase any call that
will cause the value of the Fund's calls on a particular security to exceed 3%
of the Fund's total assets.

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

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

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

The Fund could write a call on a foreign currency to provide a hedge
against a decline in the U.S. dollar value of a security which the Fund owns or
has the right to acquire and which is denominated in the currency underlying the
option. That decline might be one that occurs due to an expected adverse change
in the exchange rate. This is known as a "cross-hedging" strategy. In those
circumstances, the Fund covers the option by identifying on its books cash, U.S.
government securities or other liquid securities in an amount equal to the
exercise price of the option.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Fund will cover its short positions in these cases by identifying on
its books liquid assets having a value equal to the aggregate amount of the
Fund's commitment under forward contracts. The Fund will not enter into forward
contracts or maintain a net exposure to such contracts if the consummation of
the contracts would obligate the Fund to deliver an amount of foreign currency
in excess of the value of the Fund's portfolio securities or other assets
denominated in that currency or another currency that is the subject of the
hedge.

However, to avoid excess transactions and transaction costs, the Fund may
maintain a net exposure to forward contracts in excess of the value of the
Fund's portfolio securities or other assets denominated in foreign currencies if
the excess amount is "covered" by liquid securities denominated in any currency.
The cover identified on the Fund's books must be at least equal at all times to
the amount of that excess. As one alternative, the Fund may purchase a call
option permitting the Fund to purchase the amount of foreign currency being
hedged by a forward sale contract at a price no higher than the forward contract
price. As another alternative, the Fund may purchase a put option permitting the
Fund to sell the amount of foreign currency subject to a forward purchase
contract at a price as high or higher than the forward contact price.

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

The projection of short-term currency market movements is extremely
difficult, and the successful execution of a short-term hedging strategy is
highly uncertain. Forward contracts involve the risk that anticipated currency
movements will not be accurately predicted, causing the Fund to sustain losses
on these contracts and to pay additional transactions costs. The use of forward
contracts in this manner might reduce the Fund's performance if there are
unanticipated changes in currency prices to a greater degree than if the Fund
had not entered into such contracts.

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

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

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

o Regulatory Aspects of Hedging Instruments. When using futures and
options on futures, the Fund is required to operate within certain guidelines
and restrictions with respect to the use of futures as established by the
Commodities Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC"). In particular, the Fund is
exempted from registration with the CFTC as a "commodity pool operator" if the
Fund complies with the requirements of Rule 4.5 adopted by the CFTC. The Rule
does not limit the percentage of the Fund's assets that may be used for futures
margin and related options premiums for a bona fide hedging position. However,
under the Rule, the Fund must limit its aggregate initial futures margin and
related options premiums to not more than 5% of the Fund's net assets for
hedging strategies that are not considered bona fide hedging strategies under
the Rule. Under the Rule, the Fund must also use short futures and options on
futures solely for bona fide hedging purposes within the meaning and intent of
the applicable provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act.

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

Under interpretations of staff members of the Securities and Exchange
Commission regarding applicable provisions of the Investment Company Act, when
the Fund purchases a future, it must segregate cash or readily marketable
short-term debt instruments in an amount equal to the purchase price of the
future, less the margin deposit applicable to it.

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

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

Under the Internal Revenue Code, the following gains or losses are treated
as ordinary income or loss:
(1) gains or losses attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates that
occur between the time the Fund accrues interest or other receivables
or accrues expenses or other liabilities denominated in a foreign
currency and the time the Fund actually collects such receivables or
pays such liabilities, and
(2) gains or losses attributable to fluctuations in the value of a foreign
currency between the date of acquisition of a debt security
denominated in a foreign currency or foreign currency forward
contracts and the date of disposition.

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

Temporary Defensive and Interim Investments. When market conditions are
unstable, or the Manager believes it is otherwise appropriate to reduce holdings
in stocks, the Fund can invest in a variety of debt securities for defensive
purposes. The Fund can also purchase these securities for liquidity purposes to
meet cash needs due to the redemption of Fund shares, or to hold while waiting
reinvest cash received from the sale of other portfolio securities. The Fund can
buy:

o high-quality (rated in the top rating categories of
nationally-recognized rating organizations or deemed by the Manager to
be of comparable quality), short-term money market instruments,
including those issued by the U. S. Treasury or other government
agencies,
o commercial paper (short-term, unsecured, promissory notes of domestic
or foreign companies) rated in the top rating category of a nationally
recognized rating organization,
o debt obligations of corporate issuers, rated investment grade (rated at
least Baa by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or at least BBB by
Standard & Poor's Rating Service, or a comparable rating by another
rating organization), or unrated securities judged by the Manager to be
of a quality comparable to rated securities in those categories,
o preferred stocks,
o certificates of deposit and bankers' acceptances of domestic and
foreign banks and savings and loan associations, and
o repurchase agreements.

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

Investment Restrictions

What Are "Fundamental Policies?" Fundamental policies are those policies
that the Fund has adopted to govern its investments that can be changed only by
the vote of a "majority" of the Fund's outstanding voting securities. Under the
Investment Company Act, a "majority" vote is defined as the vote of the holders
of the lesser of:
o 67% or more of the shares present or represented by proxy at a
shareholder meeting, if the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding
shares are present or represented by proxy, or
o more than 50% of the outstanding shares.

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

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

o The Fund cannot invest in Metal Investments if, as a result, more than
10% of the Fund's total assets would be invested in Metal Investments.

o With the exception of its investments in Mining Securities and Metal
Investments, the Fund cannot concentrate investments. That means it cannot
invest 25% or more of its total assets in any industry other than Mining
Securities, or Mining Securities and Metal Investments.

o The Fund is "non-diversified" under the Investment Company Act.

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

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

o The Fund cannot invest in real estate, physical commodities or commodity
contracts (other than the hedging instruments or Metal Investments permitted by
any of its other investment policies) except to the extent permitted under the
Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption
therefrom, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted
from time to time. It does not matter whether the hedging instrument or Metal
Investment is considered to be a commodity or commodity contract.

o The Fund cannot issue "senior securities," but this does not prohibit
certain investment activities for which assets of the Fund are designated as
segregated, or margin, collateral or escrow arrangements are established, to
cover the related obligations. Examples of those activities include borrowing
money, reverse repurchase agreements, delayed-delivery and when-issued
arrangements for portfolio securities transactions, and contracts to buy or sell
derivatives, hedging instruments, options or futures.

o The Fund cannot underwrite securities of other companies. A permitted
exception is in case it is deemed to be an underwriter under the Securities Act
of 1933 when reselling any securities held in its own portfolio.

As a non-fundamental investment policy, the Fund cannot invest in
securities of other investment companies, except to the extent permitted under
the Investment Company Act, the rules or regulations thereunder or any exemption
therefrom, as such statute, rules or regulations may be amended or interpreted
from time to time.

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

For purposes of the Fund's policy not to concentrate its investments
(other than in Mining Securities, or Mining Securities and Metal Investments),
the Fund has adopted the industry classifications set forth in Appendix A to
this Statement of Additional Information. These industry classifications, with
the exception of Mining Securities and Metal Investments, are not a fundamental
policy.

Non-Diversification of the Fund's Investments. The Fund is
"non-diversified," as defined in the Investment Company Act. Funds that are
diversified have restrictions against investing too much of their assets in the
securities of any one "issuer." That means that the Fund can invest more of its
assets in the securities of a single issuer than a fund that is diversified.

Being non-diversified poses additional investment risks, because if the
Fund invests more of its assets in fewer issuers, the value of its shares is
subject to greater fluctuations from adverse conditions affecting any one of
those issuers. However, the Fund does limit its investments in the securities of
any one issuer to qualify for tax purposes as a "regulated investment company"
under the Internal Revenue Code. By qualifying, it does not have to pay federal
income taxes if more than 90% of its earnings are distributed to shareholders.
To qualify, the Fund must meet a number of conditions. First, not more than 25%
of the market value of the Fund's total assets may be invested in the securities
of a single issuer. Second, with respect to 50% of the market value of its total
assets, (1) no more than 5% of the market value of its total assets may be
invested in the securities of a single issuer, and (2) the Fund must not own
more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of a single issuer.

How the Fund is Managed

Organization and History. The Fund is an open-end, non-diversified management
investment company with an unlimited number of authorized shares of beneficial
interest. The Fund was organized as a Maryland corporation in 1983 but was
reorganized as a Massachusetts business trust in 1985.

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

The Fund currently has four classes of shares: Class A, Class B, Class C
and Class N. All classes invest in the same investment portfolio. Only
retirement plans may purchase Class N shares. Each class of shares: o has its
own dividends and distributions, o pays certain expenses which may be different
for the different classes, o may have a different net asset value, o may have
separate voting rights on matters in which interests of one class are different
from interests of another class, and o votes as a class on matters that affect
that class alone.

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

|X| Meetings of Shareholders. As a Massachusetts business trust, the Fund
is not required to hold, and does not plan to hold, regular annual meetings of
shareholders. The Fund will hold meetings when required to do so by the
Investment Company Act or other applicable law. It will also do so when a
shareholder meeting is called by the Trustees or upon proper request of the
shareholders.

Shareholders have the right, upon the declaration in writing or vote of
two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the Fund, to remove a Trustee. The
Trustees will call a meeting of shareholders to vote on the removal of a Trustee
upon the written request of the record holders of 10% of its outstanding shares.
If the Trustees receive a request from at least 10 shareholders stating that
they wish to communicate with other shareholders to request a meeting to remove
a Trustee, the Trustees will then either make the Fund's shareholder list
available to the applicants or mail their communication to all other
shareholders at the applicants' expense. The shareholders making the request
must have been shareholders for at least six months and must hold shares of the
Fund valued at $25,000 or more or constituting at least 1% of the Fund's
outstanding shares. The Trustees may also take other action as permitted by the
Investment Company Act.

|X| Shareholder and Trustee Liability. The Fund's Declaration of Trust
contains an express disclaimer of shareholder or Trustee liability for the
Fund's obligations. It also provides for indemnification and reimbursement of
expenses out of the Fund's property for any shareholder held personally liable
for its obligations. The Declaration of Trust also states that upon request, the
Fund shall assume the defense of any claim made against a shareholder for any
act or obligation of the Fund and shall satisfy any judgment on that claim.
Massachusetts law permits a shareholder of a business trust (such as the Fund)
to be held personally liable as a "partner" under certain circumstances.
However, the risk that a Fund shareholder will incur financial loss from being
held liable as a "partner" of the Fund is limited to the relatively remote
circumstances in which the Fund would be unable to meet its obligations.

The Fund's contractual arrangements state that any person doing business
with the Fund (and each shareholder of the Fund) agrees under its Declaration of
Trust to look solely to the assets of the Fund for satisfaction of any claim or
demand that may arise out of any dealings with the Fund. Additionally, the
Trustees shall have no personal liability to any such person, to the extent
permitted by law.

Board of Trustees and Oversight Committees. The Fund is governed by a Board of
Trustees, which is responsible for protecting the interests of shareholders
under Massachusetts law. The Trustees meet periodically throughout the year to
oversee the Fund's activities, review its performance, and review the actions of
the Manager. Although the Fund will not normally hold annual meetings of its
shareholders, it may hold shareholder meetings from time to time on important
matters, and shareholders have the right to call a meeting to remove a Trustee
or to take other action described in the Fund's Declaration of Trust.

The Board of Trustees has an Audit Committee, a Regulatory & Oversight
Committee, a Governance Committee, and a Proxy Committee. The Audit Committee is
comprised solely of Independent Trustees. The members of the Audit Committee are
Edward Regan (Chairman), Kenneth Randall and Russell Reynolds. The Audit
Committee held 6 meetings during the Fund's fiscal year ended June 30, 2003. The
Audit Committee provides the Board with recommendations regarding the selection
of the Fund's independent auditor. The Audit Committee also reviews the scope
and results of audits and the audit fees charged, reviews reports from the
Fund's independent auditor concerning the Fund's internal accounting procedures,
and controls and reviews reports of the Manager's internal auditor, among other
duties as set forth in the Committee's charter.

The members of the Regulatory & Oversight Committee are Robert Galli
(Chairman), Joel Motley and Phillip Griffiths. The Regulatory & Oversight
Committee held 6 meetings during the Fund's fiscal year ended June 30, 2003. The
Regulatory & Oversight Committee evaluates and reports to the Board on the
Fund's contractual arrangements, including the Investment Advisory and
Distribution Agreements, transfer and shareholder service agreements and
custodian agreements as well as the policies and procedures adopted by the Fund
to comply with the Investment Company Act and other applicable law, among other
duties as set forth in the Committee's charter.

The members of the Governance Committee are Joel Motley (Acting Chairman),
Phillip Griffiths and Kenneth Randall. The Governance Committee held no meetings
during the Fund's fiscal year ended June 30, 2003. The Governance Committee
reviews the Fund's governance guidelines, the adequacy of the Fund's Codes of
Ethics, and develops qualification criteria for Board members consistent with
the Fund's governance guidelines, among other duties set forth in the
Committee's charter.

The members of the Proxy Committee are Edward Regan (Chairman), Russell
Reynolds and John Murphy. The Proxy Committee held 2 meetings during the Fund's
fiscal year ended June 30, 2003. The Proxy Committee provides the Board with
recommendations for proxy voting and monitors proxy voting by the Fund.

Trustees and Officers of the Fund. Except for Mr. Murphy, each of the
Trustees is an "Independent Trustee," as defined in the Investment Company
Act. Mr. Murphy is an "Interested Trustee," because he is affiliated with the
Manager by virtue of his positions as an officer and director of the Manager,
and as a shareholder of its parent company.

The Fund's Trustees and officers and their positions held with the Fund
and length of service in such position(s) and their principal occupations and
business affiliations during the past five years are listed in the chart below.
The information for the Trustees also includes the dollar range of shares of the
Fund as well as the aggregate dollar range of shares beneficially owned in any
of the Oppenheimer funds overseen by the Trustees. All of the Trustees are also
trustees or directors of the following publicly offered Oppenheimer funds
(referred to as "Board I Funds"):

Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York

Municipals Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund
Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Growth Fund
Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund Oppenheimer International Growth Fund
Oppenheimer International Small Company

Oppenheimer Capital Preservation Fund Fund

Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc.
Oppenheimer Discovery Fund Oppenheimer Multiple Strategies Fund Oppenheimer
Emerging Growth Fund Oppenheimer Multi-Sector Income Trust Oppenheimer Emerging
Technologies Fund Oppenheimer Multi-State Municipal Trust Oppenheimer Enterprise
Fund Oppenheimer Municipal Bond Fund Oppenheimer Global Fund Oppenheimer Series
Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Fund Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust

In addition to being a trustee or director of the Board I Funds, Mr. Galli
is also a director or trustee of 10 other portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds
complex. Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and
their immediate family members) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates, and
retirement plans established by them for their employees are permitted to
purchase Class A shares of the Fund and the other Oppenheimer funds at net asset
value without sales charge. The sales charges on Class A shares is waived for
that group because of the economies of sales efforts realized by the
Distributor.

Messrs. Li, Murphy, Molleur, Vottiero, Wixted and Zack, and Mses.
Bechtolt, Feld and Ives respectively hold the same offices with one or more of
the other Board I Funds as with the Fund. As of September 30, 2003, the Trustees
and officers of the Fund, as a group, owned of record or beneficially less than
1% of each class of shares of the Fund. The foregoing statement does not reflect
ownership of shares of the Fund held of record by an employee benefit plan for
employees of the Manager, other than the shares beneficially owned under the
plan by the officers of the Fund listed above. In addition, each Independent
Trustee, and his or her family members, do not own securities of either the
Manager or Distributor of the Board I Funds or any persons directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Manager
or Distributor.

|X| Affiliated Transactions and Material Business Relationships. Mr.
Reynolds has reported he has a controlling interest in The Directorship Group,
Inc. ("The Directorship Search Group"), a director recruiting firm that provided
consulting services to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (which
controls the Manager) for fees aggregating $247,500 from January 1, 2001 through
December 31, 2002. Mr. Reynolds estimates that The Directorship Search Group
will not provide consulting services to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company during the calendar year 2003.

The Independent Trustees have unanimously (except for Mr. Reynolds, who
abstained) determined that the consulting arrangements between The Directorship
Search Group and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company were not material
business or professional relationships that would compromise Mr. Reynolds'
status as an Independent Trustee. Nonetheless, to assure certainty as to
determinations of the Board and the Independent Trustees as to matters upon
which the Investment Company Act or the rules thereunder require approval by a
majority of Independent Trustees, Mr. Reynolds will not be counted for purposes
of determining whether a quorum of Independent Trustees was present or whether a
majority of Independent Trustees approved the matter.

The address of each Trustee in the chart below is 6803 S. Tucson Way,
Centennial, CO 80112-3924. Each Trustee serves for an indefinite term, until his
or her resignation, retirement, death or removal.

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Independent Trustees
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Name, Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Dollar Aggregate
Dollar
Range Of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned in
Years; Range of Any of the
Position(s) Held Other Trusteeships/Directorships Held Shares Oppenheimer
with Fund, by Trustee; BeneficiallFunds
Length of Service, Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Owned in Overseen
Age Currently Overseen by Trustee the Fund by Trustee
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As of December 31,
2002
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Clayton K. Of Counsel (since 1993), Hogan & $0 $50,001-$100,000
Yeutter, Chairman Hartson (a law firm). Other
of the Board of directorships: Weyerhaeuser Corp.
Trustees since (since 1999) and Danielson Holding
2003; Corp. (since 2002); formerly a director
Trustee since 1991 of Caterpillar, Inc. (1993-December
Age: 72 2002). Oversees 29 portfolios in the
OppenheimerFunds complex.
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Robert G. Galli, A trustee or director of other Over Over
Trustee since 1993 Oppenheimer funds. Formerly Trustee $100,000 $100,000
Age: 69 (May 2000-2002) of Research Foundation
of AIMR (investment research, non-profit) and Vice Chairman
(October 1995-December 1997) of the Manager. Oversees 39
portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
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Phillip A. A director (since 1991) of the $0 Over
Griffiths, Institute for Advanced Study, $100,000
Trustee, since Princeton, N.J., a director (since
1999 2001) of GSI Lumonics, a trustee (since
Age: 64 1983) of Woodward Academy, a Senior
Advisor (since 2001) of The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. A member of: the
National Academy of Sciences (since
1979), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1995),
American Philosophical Society (since 1996) and Council on
Foreign Relations (since 2002). Formerly a director of
Bankers Trust New York Corporation (1994-1999). Oversees 29
portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
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Joel W. Motley, Director (since 2002) Columbia Equity None1 None1
Trustee since 2002 Financial Corp. (privately-held
Age: 51 financial adviser); Managing Director
(since 2002) Carmona Motley, Inc.
(privately-held financial adviser);
Formerly he held the following
positions: Managing Director (January
1998-December 2001), Carmona Motley
Hoffman Inc. (privately-held financial
adviser); Managing Director (January
1992-December 1997), Carmona Motley &
Co. (privately-held financial adviser).
Oversees 29 portfolios in the
OppenheimerFunds complex.
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Kenneth A. A director of Dominion Resources, Inc. Over Over
Randall, Trustee (electric utility holding company) and $10,000 $100,000
since 1983 Prime Retail, Inc. (real estate
Age: 75 investment trust); formerly a director
of Dominion Energy, Inc. (electric
power and oil & gas producer),
President and Chief Executive Officer
of The Conference Board, Inc.
(international economic and business
research) and a director of Lumbermens
Mutual Casualty Company, American
Motorists Insurance Company and
American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance
Company. Oversees 29 portfolios in the
OppenheimerFunds complex.
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Edward V. Regan, President, Baruch College, CUNY; a $1-$10,000 $50,001-$100,000
Trustee since 1993 director of RBAsset (real estate
Age: 72 manager); a director of OffitBank;
formerly Trustee, Financial Accounting Foundation (FASB and
GASB), Senior Fellow of Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Bard
College, Chairman of Municipal Assistance Corporation for the
City of New York, New York State Comptroller and Trustee of
New York State and Local Retirement Fund. Oversees 29
investment companies in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
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Russell S. Chairman (since 1993) of The $0 $10,001-$50,000
Reynolds, Jr., Directorship Search Group, Inc.
Trustee since 1989 (corporate governance consulting and
Age: 71 executive recruiting); a life trustee
of International House (non-profit educational organization),
and a trustee (since 1996) of the Greenwich Historical
Society. Oversees 29 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds
complex.
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Donald W. Spiro, Chairman Emeritus (since January 1991) $0 Over
Vice Chairman of of the Manager. Formerly a director $100,000
the Board of (January 1969-August 1999) of the
Trustees, Manager. Oversees 29 portfolios in the
Trustee since 1985 OppenheimerFunds complex.
Age: 77
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The address of Mr. Murphy in the chart below is Two World Financial
Center, 225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10080. Mr. Murphy
serves for an indefinite term, until his resignation, death or removal.

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Interested Trustee and Officer
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Name, Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Dollar Aggregate
Dollar
Range Of
Shares
Years; Range of Beneficially
Position(s) Held Other Trusteeships/Directorships Held by Shares Owned in
with Fund, Trustee; BeneficiallAny of the
Length of Service Number of Portfolios in Fund Complex Owned in Oppenheimer
Age Currently Overseen by Trustee the Fund Funds
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As of December 31,
2002
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John V. Murphy, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and $0 Over
President and director (since June 2001) and President $100,000
Trustee, (since September 2000) of the Manager;
Trustee since 2001 President and a director or trustee of
Age: 54 other Oppenheimer funds; President and a
director (since July 2001) of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.
(the Manager's parent holding company) and of Oppenheimer
Partnership Holdings, Inc. (a holding company subsidiary of
the Manager); a director (since November 2001) of
OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (a subsidiary of the
Manager); Chairman and a director (since July 2001) of
Shareholder Services, Inc. and of Shareholder Financial
Services, Inc. (transfer agent subsidiaries of the Manager);
President and a director (since July 2001) of
OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program (a charitable trust program
established by the Manager); a director of the investment
advisory subsidiaries of the Manager: OFI Institutional
Asset Management, Inc. and Centennial Asset Management
Corporation (since November 2001), HarbourView Asset
Management Corporation and OFI Private Investments, Inc.
(since July 2001); President (since November 1, 2001) and a
director (since July 2001) of Oppenheimer Real Asset
Management, Inc.; a director (since November 2001) of
Trinity Investment Management Corp. and Tremont Advisers,
Inc. (investment advisory affiliates of the Manager);
Executive Vice President (since February 1997) of
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (the Manager's
parent company); a director (since June 1995) of DLB
Acquisition Corporation (a holding company that owns the
shares of David L. Babson & Company, Inc.); formerly, Chief
Operating Officer (September 2000-June 2001) of the Manager;
President and trustee (November 1999-November 2001) of MML
Series Investment Fund and MassMutual Institutional Funds
(open-end investment companies); a director (September
1999-August 2000) of C.M. Life Insurance Company; President,
Chief Executive Officer and director (September 1999-August
2000) of MML Bay State Life Insurance Company; a director
(June 1989-June 1998) of Emerald Isle Bancorp and Hibernia
Savings Bank (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emerald Isle
Bancorp). Oversees 73 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds
complex.
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The address of the Officers in the chart below is as follows: for
Messrs. Li, Molleur and Zack and Ms. Feld, Two World Financial Center, 225
Liberty Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10080, for Messrs. Vottiero and
Wixted and Mses. Bechtolt and Ives, 6803 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, CO
80112-3924. Each Officer serves for an annual term or until his or her
earlier resignation, death or removal.

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Officers of the Fund
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Name, Principal Occupation(s) During Past 5 Years
Position(s) Held with
Fund, Length of
Service,
Age
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Shanquan Li, Vice Vice President of the Manager (since November 1998); an
President and officer of 1 portfolio in the OppenheimerFunds complex;
Portfolio Manager formerly Assistant Vice President of the Manager (January
since 1997 1997 - November 1998).
Age: 48
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Brian W. Wixted, Senior Vice President and Treasurer (since March 1999) of
Treasurer since 1999 the Manager; Treasurer (since March 1999) of HarbourView
Age: 43 Asset Management Corporation, Shareholder Services, Inc.,

Oppenheimer Real Asset Management Corporation, Shareholder
Financial Services, Inc., Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings,
Inc., OFI Private Investments, Inc. (since March 2000),
OppenheimerFunds International Ltd. and OppenheimerFunds
plc (since May 2000) and OFI Institutional Asset
Management, Inc. (since November 2000) (offshore fund
management subsidiaries of the Manager); Treasurer and
Chief Financial Officer (since May 2000) of Oppenheimer
Trust Company (a trust company subsidiary of the Manager);
Assistant Treasurer (since March 1999) of Oppenheimer
Acquisition Corp. and OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program
(since April 2000); formerly Principal and Chief Operating
Officer (March 1995-March 1999), Bankers Trust
Company-Mutual Fund Services Division. An officer of 91
portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

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Connie Bechtolt, Assistant Vice President of the Manager (since September
Assistant Treasurer 1998); formerly Manager/Fund Accounting (September
since 2002 1994-September 1998) of the Manager. An officer of 91
Age: 40 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

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Philip Vottiero, Vice President/Fund Accounting of the Manager (since March
Assistant Treasurer 2002); formerly Vice President/Corporate Accounting of the
since 2002 Manager (July 1999-March 2002) prior to which he was Chief
Age: 40 Financial Officer at Sovlink Corporation (April 1996-June

1999). An officer of 91 portfolios in the
OppenheimerFunds complex.

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Robert G. Zack, Senior Vice President (since May 1985) and General Counsel
Secretary since 2001 (since February 2002) of the Manager; General Counsel and a
Age: 55 director (since November 2001) of OppenheimerFunds

Distributor, Inc.; Senior Vice President and General
Counsel (since November 2001) of HarbourView Asset
Management Corporation; Vice President and a director
(since November 2000) of Oppenheimer Partnership Holdings,
Inc.; Senior Vice President, General Counsel and a director
(since November 2001) of Shareholder Services, Inc.,
Shareholder Financial Services, Inc., OFI Private
Investments, Inc., Oppenheimer Trust Company and OFI
Institutional Asset Management, Inc.; General Counsel
(since November 2001) of Centennial Asset Management
Corporation; a director (since November 2001) of
Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.; Assistant
Secretary and a director (since November 2001) of
OppenheimerFunds International Ltd.; Vice President (since
November 2001) of OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program;
Secretary (since November 2001) of Oppenheimer Acquisition
Corp.; formerly Acting General Counsel (November
2001-February 2002) and Associate General Counsel (May
1981-October 2001) of the Manager; Assistant Secretary of
Shareholder Services, Inc. (May 1985-November 2001),
Shareholder Financial Services, Inc. (November
1989-November 2001); OppenheimerFunds International Ltd.
and Oppenheimer Millennium Funds plc (October 1997-November
2001). An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds
complex.

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Katherine P. Feld, Vice President and Senior Counsel (since July 1999) of the
Assistant Secretary Manager; Vice President (since June 1990) of
since 2001 OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.; Director, Vice
Age: 45 President and Assistant Secretary (since June 1999) of

Centennial Asset Management Corporation; Vice President
(since 1997) of Oppenheimer Real Asset Management, Inc.;
formerly Vice President and Associate Counsel of the
Manager (June 1990-July 1999). An officer of 91
portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

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Kathleen T. Ives, Vice President and Assistant Counsel (since June 1998) of
Assistant Secretary the Manager; Vice President (since 1999) of
since 2001 OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.; Vice President and
Age: 37 Assistant Secretary (since 1999) of Shareholder Services,

Inc.; Assistant Secretary (since December 2001) of
OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program and Shareholder Financial
Services, Inc.; formerly Assistant Vice President and
Assistant Counsel of the Manager (August 1997-June 1998);
Assistant Counsel of the Manager (August 1994-August 1997).
An officer of 91 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.

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Denis R. Molleur, Vice President and Senior Counsel of the Manager (since
Assistant Secretary July 1999); formerly a Vice President and Associate Counsel
since 2001 of the Manager (September 1995-July 1999). An officer of 82
Age: 45 portfolios in the OppenheimerFunds complex.
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|X|Remuneration of Trustees. The officers of the Fund and one of the Trustees
of the Fund (Mr. Murphy) who are affiliated with the Manager receive no salary
or fee from the Fund. The remaining Trustees of the Fund received the
compensation shown below from the Fund with respect to the Fund's fiscal year
ended June 30, 2003. The compensation from all 31 of the Board I Funds
(including the Fund) represents compensation received for serving as a director
or trustee and member of a committee (if applicable) of the boards of those
funds during the calendar year ended December 31, 2002.

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Trustee Name and Aggregate Retirement Estimated Total
Compensation
From All
Annual Oppenheimer
Benefits Retirement Funds For Which
Other Fund Accrued as Benefits to be Individual
Position(s) Compensation Part of Fund Paid Upon Serves As
(as applicable) From Fund1 Expenses2 Retirement3 Trustee/Director
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Clayton K. Yeutter8 $8244 $0 $36,372 $71,792
Chairman of the
Board

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Robert G. Galli $878 $0 $55,6785 $198,3866

Regulatory &
Oversight Committee
Chairman
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Phillip Griffiths

Regulatory &
Oversight Committee $5237 $0 $10,256 $60,861
Member and Governance
Committee Member

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Leon Levy8 $1,082 $0 $133,352 $173,700

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Benjamin Lipstein8 $1,247 $0 $115,270 $150,152

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Joel W. Motley $2539 $0 $0 $14,453
Governance Committee
Acting Chairman and

Regulatory &
Oversight Committee
Member
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Elizabeth Moynihan8 $878 $0 $57,086 $105,760

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Kenneth A. Randall $806 $0 $74,471 $97,012
Audit Committee
Member and Governance
Committee Member

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Edward V. Regan $797 $0 $46,313 $95,960
Proxy Committee
Chairman, Audit
Committee Chairman

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Russell S. Reynolds, $596 $0 $48,991 $71,792

Jr.

Proxy Committee
Member and Audit
Committee Member

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Donald Spiro $532 $0 $9,39610 $64,080

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

2. No retirement benefit expenses were accrued by the Fund during its fiscal
year ended June 30, 2003 due to a reallocation retirement plan benefit
previously accrued for a deceased Trustee.
3. Estimated Annual Retirement Benefits to be Paid Upon Retirement is based on a
straight life payment plan election with the assumption that a Trustee will
retire at the age of 75 and is eligible (after 7 years of service) to receive
retirement plan benefits as described below under "Retirement Plan for
Trustees."
4. Includes $206 deferred by Mr. Yeutter under the Deferred Compensation Plan
described below.

5. Includes $24,989 estimated to be paid to Mr. Galli for serving as a trustee
or director of 10 other Oppenheimer funds that are not Board I Funds.
6. Includes $92,626 paid to Mr. Galli for serving as trustee or director of 10
other Oppenheimer funds that are not Board I Funds.

7. Includes $523 deferred by Mr. Griffiths under the Deferred Compensation Plan
described below.
8. Messrs. Levy and Lipstein and Ms. Moynihan retired as Trustees from the Board I
Funds effective January 1, 2003, March 31, 2003 and July 31, 2003,
respectively.
9. Includes $25 deferred by Mr. Motley under the Deferred Compensation Plan
described below.
10.The amount for Mr. Spiro is based on the assumption that he will retire at
age 82, when he will become eligible to receive retirement plan benefits
(after 7 years of service).

|X| Retirement Plan for Trustees. The Fund has adopted a retirement plan that
provides for payments to retired Independent Trustees. Payments are up to 80% of
the average compensation paid during a Trustee's five years of service in which
the highest compensation was received. A Trustee must serve as trustee for any
of the Board I Funds for at least seven years in order to be eligible for
retirement plan benefits and must serve for at least 15 years to be eligible for
the maximum benefit. Each Trustee's retirement benefits will depend on the
amount of the Trustee's future compensation and length of service.

|X| Deferred Compensation Plan for Trustees. The Board of Trustees has
adopted a Deferred Compensation Plan for disinterested trustees that enables
them to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of the annual fees they are
entitled to receive from the Fund. Under the plan, the compensation deferred by
a 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 is determined based upon the
performance of the selected funds.

Deferral of Trustees' fees under the plan will not materially affect the
Fund's assets, liabilities or net income per share. The plan will not obligate
the Fund to retain the services of any Trustee or to pay any particular level of
compensation to any Trustee. Pursuant to an Order issued by the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the 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 fee account.

|X| Major Shareholders. As of September 30, 2003, the only persons who
owned of record or were known by the Fund to own of record 5% or more of any
class of the Fund's outstanding shares were the following:

MLPF & S FBO Sole Benefit of its customers, Attn: Fund Admin. #97007, 4800
Deer Lake Drive E. Floor 3, Jacksonville, Florida 32246-6484, which owned
490,859.906 Class A shares (5.21% of the Class A shares then outstanding)
for the benefit of its customers.

Reliance Trust Co. Cust., Fairfield Emergency Physicians, P.O. Box
48529, Atlanta, Georgia 30362-1529, which owned 21,460.837 Class N
shares (19.94% of the Class N shares then outstanding) for the benefit
of its customers.

Reliance Trust Co. Cust. United Clinics of North Texas, 401K Plan, P.O.
Box 48529, Atlanta, Georgia 30362-1529, which owned 15,873.451 Class N
shares (14.74% of the Class N shares then outstanding) for the benefit
of its customers.

L. Thomas Atwood TR, Flagstaff Design & Construction PSP, 2900 N. West
Street, Suite 5, Flagstaff, Arizona 86004-1931, which owned 7,057.714 Class N
shares (6.55% of the Class N shares then outstanding) for the benefit of its
customers.

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

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

The Code of Ethics is an exhibit to the Fund's registration statement
filed with the SEC and can be reviewed and copied at the SEC's Public
Reference Room in Washington, D.C. You can obtain information about the
hours of operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at
1.202.942.8090. The Code of Ethics can also be viewed as part of the Fund's
registration statement on the SEC's EDGAR database at the SEC's Internet
website at WWW.SEC.GOV. Copies may be obtained, after paying a duplicating
fee, by electronic request at the following E-mail address:
PUBLICINFO@SEC.GOV., or by writing to the SEC's Public Reference Section,
Washington, D.C. 20549-0102.

|X| Portfolio Proxy Voting. The Fund has adopted Portfolio Proxy
Voting Policies and Procedures under which the Fund votes proxies relating
to securities ("portfolio proxies") held by the Fund. The Fund's primary
consideration in voting portfolio proxies is the financial interests of the
Fund and its shareholders. The Fund has retained an unaffiliated third-party
as its agent to vote portfolio proxies in accordance with the Fund's
Portfolio Proxy Voting Guidelines and to maintain records of such portfolio
proxy voting. The Proxy Voting Guidelines include provisions to address
conflicts of interest that may arise between the Fund and OFI where an OFI
directly-controlled affiliate manages or administers the assets of a pension
plan of the company soliciting the proxy. The Fund's Portfolio Proxy
Guidelines on routine and non-routine proxy proposals are summarized below:

o The Fund votes with the recommendation of the issuer's management on
routine matters, including election of directors nominated by management and
ratification of auditors, unless circumstances indicate otherwise. o In general,
the Fund opposes anti-takeover proposals and supports elimination of
anti-takeover proposals, absent unusual circumstances. o The Fund supports
shareholder proposals to reduce a super-majority vote requirement, and opposes
management proposals to add a super-majority vote requirement. o The Fund
opposes proposals to classify the board of directors. o The Fund supports
proposals to eliminate cumulative voting. o The Fund opposes re-pricing of stock
options. o The Fund generally considers executive compensation questions such as
stock option plans and bonus plans to be ordinary business activity. The Fund
analyzes stock option plans, paying particular attention to their dilutive
effect. While the Fund generally supports management proposals, the Fund opposes
plans it considers to be excessive.

The Fund will be required to file new Form N-PX, with its complete proxy
voting record for the 12 months ended June 30th, no later than August 31st of
each year. The first such filing is due no later than August 31, 2004, for the
twelve months ended June 30, 2004. Once filed, the Fund's Form N-PX filing will
be available (i) without charge, upon Management Fees Paid to OppenheimerFunds,
request, by calling the Inc. Fund toll-free at 1.800.225.5677, and (ii) on the
SEC's website at WWW.SEC.GOV.

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

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

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

Fiscal Year ended 6/30:

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2001 $566,405

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2002 $828,649

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2003 $1,415,223

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The investment advisory agreement states that in the absence of willful
misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence in the performance of its duties or
reckless disregard of its obligations and duties under the investment advisory
agreement, the Manager is not liable for any loss the Fund sustains for any
investment, adoption of any investment policy, or the purchase, sale or
retention of any security.

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

|X| Annual Approval of Investment Advisory Agreement. Each year, the
Board of Trustees, including a majority of the Independent Trustees, is required
to approve the renewal of the investment advisory agreement. The Investment
Company Act requires that the Board request and evaluate and the Manager provide
such information as may be reasonably necessary to evaluate the terms of the
investment advisory agreement. The Board employs an independent consultant to
prepare a report that provides such information as the Board requests for this
purpose.

The Board also receives information about the 12b-1 distribution fees the
Fund pays. These distribution fees are reviewed and approved at a different time
of the year.

The Board reviewed the foregoing information in arriving at its decision
to renew the investment advisory agreement. Among other factors, the Board
considered:
o The nature, cost, and quality of the services provided to the Fund and
its shareholders;
o The profitability of the Fund to the Manager;
o The investment performance of the Fund in comparison to regular market
indices
o Economies of scale that may be available to the Fund from the Manager; o Fees
paid by other mutual funds for similar services; o The value and quality of any
other benefits or services received by the
Fund from its relationship with the Manager, and
o The direct and indirect benefits the Manager received from its
relationship with the Fund. These included services provided by the
Distributor and the Transfer Agent, and brokerage and soft dollar
arrangements permissible under Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange
Act.

The Board considered that the Manager must be able to pay and retain high
quality personnel at competitive rates to provide services to the Fund. The
Board also considered that maintaining the financial viability of the Manager is
important so that the Manager will be able to continue to provide quality
services to the Fund and its shareholders in adverse times. The Board also
considered the investment performance of other mutual funds advised by the
Manager. The Board is aware that there are alternatives to the use of the
Manager.

These matters were also considered by the Independent Trustees, meeting
separately from the full Board with experienced Counsel to the Fund who assisted
the Board in its deliberations. The Fund's Counsel is independent of the Manager
within the meaning and intent of the SEC Rules regarding the independence of
counsel.

After careful deliberation, the Board, including the Independent Trustees,
concluded that it was in the best interest of shareholders to continue the
investment advisory agreement for another year. In arriving at a decision, the
Board did not single out any one factor or group of factors as being more
important than other factors, but considered all factors together. The Board
judged the terms and conditions of the investment advisory agreement, including
the investment advisory fee, in light of all of the surrounding circumstances.

Brokerage Policies of the Fund

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

Under the investment advisory agreement, the Manager may select brokers
(other than affiliates) that provide brokerage and/or research services for the
Fund and/or the other accounts over which the Manager or its affiliates have
investment discretion. The commissions paid to such brokers may be higher than
another qualified broker would charge, if the Manager makes a good faith
determination that the commission is fair and reasonable in relation to the
services provided. Subject to those considerations, as a factor in selecting
brokers for the Fund's portfolio transactions, the Manager may also consider
sales of shares of the Fund and other investment companies for which the Manager
or an affiliate serves as investment advisor.

Brokerage Practices Followed by the Manager. Most securities purchases made by
the Fund are in principal transactions at net prices. The Fund usually deals
directly with the selling or purchasing principal or market maker without
incurring charges for the services of a broker on its behalf unless the Manager
determines that a better price or execution may be obtained by using the
services of a broker. Therefore, the Fund does not incur substantial brokerage
costs. Portfolio securities purchased from underwriters include a commission or
concession paid by the issuer to the underwriter in the price of the security.
Portfolio securities purchased from dealers include a spread between the bid and
asked price. The Fund seeks to obtain prompt execution of these orders at the
most favorable net price.

The Manager allocates brokerage for the Fund subject to the provisions of
the investment advisory agreement and the procedures and rules described above.
Generally, the Manager's portfolio traders allocate brokerage based upon
recommendations from the Manager's portfolio managers. In certain instances,
portfolio managers may directly place trades and allocate brokerage. In either
case, the Manager's executive officers supervise the allocation of brokerage.

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

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

In an option transaction, the Fund ordinarily uses the same broker for the
purchase or sale of the option and any transaction in the securities to which
the option relates. When possible, the Manager tries to combine concurrent
orders to purchase or sell the same security by more than one of the accounts
managed by the Manager or its affiliates. The transactions under those combined
orders are averaged as to price and allocated in accordance with the purchase or
sale orders actually placed for each account.

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

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

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

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

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Fiscal Year Ended 6/30: Total Brokerage Commissions Paid by the Fund1
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2001 $121,814
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2002 $685,002

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20032 $1,671,904

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1. Amounts do not include spreads or commissions on principal transactions on a
net trade basis.
2. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003, the amount of transactions directed
to brokers for research services was $1,086,194 and the amount of the
commissions paid to broker-dealers for those services was $2,026.

Distribution and Service Plans

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

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

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Fiscal Aggregate Class A
Front-End

Year Front-End Sales Sales Charges
Ended Charges on Retained by
6/30: Class A Shares Distributor1

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2001 $84,163 $18,231
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2002 $378,792 $91,895
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2003 $733,463 $137,696
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1. Includes amounts retained by a broker-dealer that is an affiliate or a
parent of the Distributor.

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Fiscal Concessions on Concessions on Concessions on Concessions on
Year Class A Shares Class B Shares Class C Shares Class N Shares
Ended Advanced by Advanced by Advanced by Advanced by
6/30: Distributor1 Distributor1 Distributor1 Distributor1
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2001 $28,548 $124,747 $20,639 $02

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2002 $18,805 $527,097 $120,818 $3,208
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2003 $137,358 $576,012 $152,019 $25,935
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1. The Distributor advances concession payments to dealers for certain sales of
Class A shares and for sales of Class B, Class C and Class N shares from its
own resources at the time of sale.

2. The inception date of Class N shares was March 1, 2001.

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Fiscal Class A Class B Class C Class N
Year Contingent Contingent Contingent Contingent
Ended Deferred Sales Deferred Sales Deferred Sales Deferred Sales
6/30: Charges Retained Charges Retained Charges Retained Charges Retained
by Distributor by Distributor by Distributor By Distributor
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2001 $0 $86,527 $3,245 $0
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2002 $0 $103,742 $23,927 $0
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2003 $25,010 $171,483 $25,057 $16,446
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Distribution and Service Plans. The Fund has adopted a Service Plan for Class A
shares and Distribution and Service Plans for Class B, Class C and Class N
shares under Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act. Under those plans the
Fund pays the Distributor for all or a portion of its costs incurred in
connection with the distribution and/or servicing of the shares of the
particular class. Each plan has been approved by a vote of the Board of
Trustees, including a majority of the Independent Trustees2, cast in person at a
meeting called for the purpose of voting on that plan.

Under the plans, the Manager and the Distributor may make payments to
affiliates and in their sole discretion, from time to time, may use their own
resources (at no direct cost to the Fund) to make payments to brokers, dealers
or other financial institutions for distribution and administrative services
they perform. The Manager may use its profits from the advisory fee it receives
from the Fund. In their sole discretion, the Distributor and the Manager may
increase or decrease the amount of payments they make from their own resources
to plan recipients.

Unless a plan is terminated as described below, the plan continues in
effect from year to year but only if the Fund's Board of Trustees and its
Independent Trustees specifically vote annually to approve its continuance.
Approval must be by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting on continuing the plan. A plan may be terminated at any time by the vote
of a majority of the Independent Trustees or by the vote of the holders of a
"majority" (as defined in the Investment Company Act) of the outstanding shares
of that class.

The Board of Trustees and the Independent Trustees must approve all
material amendments to a plan. An amendment to increase materially the amount of
payments to be made under a plan must be approved by shareholders of the class
affected by the amendment. Because Class B shares of the Fund automatically
convert into Class A shares 72 months after purchase, the Fund must obtain the
approval of both Class A and Class B shareholders for a proposed material
amendment to the Class A Plan that would materially increase payments under the
Plan. That approval must be by a "majority" (as defined in the Investment
Company Act) of the shares of each Class, voting separately by class.

While the Plans are in effect, the Treasurer of the Fund shall provide
separate written reports on the plans to the Board of Trustees at least
quarterly for its review. The Reports shall detail the amount of all payments
made under a plan and the purpose for which the payments were made. Those
reports are subject to the review and approval of the Independent Trustees.

Each Plan states that while it is in effect, the selection and nomination
of those Trustees of the Fund who are not "interested persons" of the Fund is
committed to the discretion of the Independent Trustees. This does not prevent
the involvement of others in the selection and nomination process as long as the
final decision as to selection or nomination is approved by a majority of the
Independent Trustees.

Under the plans, no payment will be made to any recipient in any quarter
in which the aggregate net asset value of all Fund shares held by the recipient
for itself and its customers does not exceed a minimum amount, if any, that may
be set from time to time by a majority of the Independent Trustees. The Board of
Trustees has set no minimum amount of assets to qualify for payments under the
plans.

Class A Service Plan Fees. Under the Class A service plan, the Distributor
currently uses the fees it receives from the Fund to pay brokers, dealers and
other financial institutions (they are referred to as "recipients") for personal
services and account maintenance services they provide for their customers who
hold Class A shares. The services include, among others, answering customer
inquiries about the Fund, assisting in establishing and maintaining accounts in
the Fund, making the Fund's investment plans available and providing other
services at the request of the Fund or the Distributor. The Class A service plan
permits reimbursements to the Distributor at a rate of up to 0.25% of average
annual net assets of Class A shares. The Board has set the rate at that level.
While the plan permits the Board to authorize payments to the Distributor to
reimburse itself for services under the plan, the Board has not yet done so,
except in the case of the special arrangement described below. The Distributor
makes payments to plan recipients quarterly at an annual rate not to exceed
0.25% of the average annual net assets consisting of Class A shares held in the
accounts of the recipients or their customers.

With respect to purchases of Class A shares subject to a contingent
deferred sales charge by certain retirement plans that purchased such shares
prior to March 1, 2001 ("grandfathered retirement accounts"), the Distributor
currently intends to pay the service fee to Recipients in advance for the first
year after the shares are purchased. During the first year the shares are sold,
the Distributor retains the service fee to reimburse itself for the costs of
distributing the shares. After the first year shares are outstanding, the
Distributor makes service fee payments to Recipients quarterly on those shares.
The advance payment is based on the net asset value of shares sold. Shares
purchased by exchange do not qualify for the advance service fee payment. If
Class A shares purchased by grandfathered retirement accounts are redeemed
during the first year after their purchase, the Recipient of the service fees on
those shares will be obligated to repay the Distributor a pro rata portion of
the advance payment of the service fee made on those shares.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003, payments under the Class A Plan
totaled $302,067 of which $2,230 was retained by the Distributor under the
arrangement described above, and included $78,581 paid to an affiliate of the
Distributor's parent company. Any unreimbursed expenses the Distributor incurs
with respect to Class A shares in any fiscal year cannot be recovered in
subsequent years. The Distributor may not use payments received under the Class
A Plan to pay any of its interest expenses, carrying charges, or other financial
costs, or allocation of overhead.

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

Each Plan permits the Distributor to retain both the asset-based sales
charges and the service fees or to pay recipients the service fee on a quarterly
basis, without payment in advance. However, the Distributor currently intends to
pay the service fee to recipients in advance for the first year after Class B,
Class C and Class N shares are purchased. After the first year Class B, Class C
or Class N shares are outstanding, after their purchase, the Distributor makes
service fee payments quarterly on those shares. The advance payment is based on
the net asset value of shares sold. Shares purchased by exchange do not qualify
for the advance service fee payment. If Class B, Class C or Class N shares are
redeemed during the first year after their purchase, the recipient of the
service fees on those shares will be obligated to repay the Distributor a pro
rata portion of the advance payment of the service fee made on those shares. In
cases where the Distributor is the broker of record for Class B, Class C and
Class N shares, i.e. shareholders without the services of a broker directly
invest in the Fund, the Distributor will retain the asset-based sales charge and
service fee for Class B, Class C and Class N shares.

The asset-based sales charge and service fees increase Class B and Class C
expenses by 1.00% and the asset-based sales charge and service fees increases
Class N expenses by 0.50% of the net assets per year of the respective class.

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

The asset-based sales charges on Class B, Class C and Class N shares allow
investors to buy shares without a front-end sales charge while allowing the
Distributor to compensate dealers that sell those shares. The Fund pays the
asset-based sales charges to the Distributor for its services rendered in
distributing Class B, Class C and Class N shares. The payments are made to the
Distributor in recognition that the Distributor:
pays sales concessions to authorized brokers and dealers at the time of
sale and pays service fees as described above,
may finance payment of sales concessions and/or the advance of the service
fee payment to recipients under the plans, or may provide such
financing from its own resources or from the resources of an affiliate,

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

bears the costs of sales literature, advertising and prospectuses (other
than those furnished to current shareholders) and state "blue sky"
registration fees and certain other distribution expenses,
may not be able to adequately compensate dealers that sell Class B, Class
C and Class N shares without receiving payment under the plans and
therefore may not be able to offer such Classes for sale absent the
plans,
receives payments under the plans consistent with the service fees and
asset-based sales charges paid by other non-proprietary funds that
charge 12b-1 fees,
may use the payments under the plan to include the Fund in various
third-party distribution programs that may increase sales of Fund
shares,
may experience increased difficulty selling the Fund's shares if payments
under the plan are discontinued because most competitor funds have
plans that pay dealers for rendering distribution services as much or
more than the amounts currently being paid by the Fund, and
may not be able to continue providing, at the same or at a lesser cost,
the same quality distribution sales efforts and services, or to obtain
such services from brokers and dealers, if the plan payments were to be
discontinued.

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

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Distribution Fees Paid to the Distributor in the Fiscal Year Ended 6/30/03
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Distributor's Distributor's
Aggregate Unreimbursed
Total Amount Unreimbursed Expenses as %
Payments Retained by Expenses of Net Assets
Class Under Plan Distributor Under Plan of Class
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Class B Plan $382,304 $327,6971 $1,422,459 3.43%
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Class C Plan $216,513 $115,3482 $471,975 1.82%
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Class N Plan $3,856 $3,2723 $31,689 2.23%
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1 Includes $16,657 paid to an affiliate of the Distributor's parent company.
2 Includes $8,183 paid to an affiliate of the Distributor's parent company.
3 Includes $193 paid to an affiliate of the Distributor's parent company.

All payments under the Class B, Class C and Class N plans are subject to
the limitations imposed by the Conduct Rules of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. on payments of asset-based sales charges and service
fees.

Performance of the Fund

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

The Fund's illustrations of its performance data in advertisements must
comply with rules of the SEC. Those rules describe the types of performance data
that may be used and how it is to be calculated. In general, any advertisement
by the Fund of its performance data must include the average annual total
returns for the advertised class of shares of the Fund. Those returns must be
shown for the 1-, 5- and 10-year periods (or the life of the class, if less)
ending as of the most recently ended calendar quarter prior to the publication
of the advertisement (or its submission for publication).

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

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

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

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

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

When an investor's shares are redeemed, they may be worth more or less
than their original cost.
Total returns for any given past period represent historical performance
information and are not, and should not be considered, a prediction of
future returns.

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

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

In calculating total returns for Class A shares, the current maximum
sales charge of 5.75% (as a percentage of the offering price) is deducted from
the initial investment ("P" in the formula below) (unless the return is shown
without sales charge, as described below). For Class B shares, payment of the
applicable contingent deferred sales charge is applied, depending on the period
for which the return is shown: 5.0% in the first year, 4.0% in the second year,
3.0% in the third and fourth years, 2.0% in the fifth year, 1.0% in the sixth
year and none thereafter. For Class C shares, the 1.0% contingent deferred sales
charge is deducted for returns for the one-year period. For Class N shares, the
1.0% contingent deferred sales charge is deducted for returns for the one-year
period, and total returns for the periods prior to 03/01/01 (the inception date
for Class N shares) is based on the Fund's Class A returns, adjusted to reflect
the higher Class N 12b-1 fees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ERV - P = Total Return
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P

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

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The Fund's Total Returns for the Periods Ended 06/30/03
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Cumulative Total
Return Average Annual Total Returns

Class
of Shares
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(10 Years or life
of class) 1-Year 5-Year or Life 10-Year or Life
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After Without After Without After Without After Without
Sales Sales Sales Sales Sales Sales Sales Sales
Charge Charge Charge Charge Charge Charge Charge Charge
(MOP) (NAV) (MOP) (NAV) (MOP) (NAV) (MOP) (NAV)
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Class A 19.94%(1)27.26%(1) -1.65% 4.35% 10.45% 11.77% 1.84% 2.44%
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Class B 19.79%(2)19.79%(2) -1.44% 3.57% 10.65% 10.92% 2.38%(2)2.38%(2)
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Class C 18.68%(3)18.68%(3) 2.63% 3.63% 10.94% 10.94% 2.26%(3)2.26%(3)
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Class N 59.43%(4)59.43%(4) 3.17% 4.17% 22.16%(4)22.16%(4) N/A N/A
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(1) Inception of Class A: 07/19/83 (2) Inception of Class B: 11/01/95 (3)
Inception of Class C: 11/01/95 (4) Inception of Class N: 03/01/01

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Average Annual Total Returns for Class A Shares (After Taxes)
For the Periods Ended 6/30/03
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1-Year 5-Year 10-Year

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------------------------- -2.09% 9.53% 1.37%1
After Taxes on
Distributions
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After Taxes on -1.14% 8.45% 1.26%1
Distributions and
Redemption of Fund Shares
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1. Inception of Class A shares: 7/19/83.

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

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

o Morningstar Ratings. From time to time the Fund may publish the star
rating of the performance of its classes of shares by Morningstar, Inc., an
independent mutual fund monitoring service. Morningstar rates mutual funds in
their specialized market sector. The Fund is rated among specialty-precious
metals funds.

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

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

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

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

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

markets or segments of those markets,
o information about the performance of the economies of particular
countries or regions,
o the earnings of companies included in segments of particular
industries, sectors, securities markets, countries or regions,
o the availability of different types of securities or offerings of
securities,
o information relating to the gross national or gross domestic product of
the United States or other countries or regions,
o comparisons of various market sectors or indices to demonstrate
performance, risk, or other characteristics of the Fund.

ABOUT your account

How to Buy Shares

Additional information is presented below about the methods that can be used to
buy shares of the Fund. Appendix B contains more information about the special
sales charge arrangements offered by the Fund, and the circumstances in which
sales charges may be reduced or waived for certain classes of investors.

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

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

|X| Right of Accumulation. To qualify for the lower sales charge rates
that apply to larger purchases of Class A shares, you and your spouse can add
together:
o Class A and Class B shares you purchase for your individual accounts
(including IRAs and 403(b) plans), or for your joint accounts, or
for trust or custodial accounts on behalf of your children who are
minors, and
o Current purchases of Class A and Class B shares of the Fund and
other Oppenheimer funds to reduce the sales charge rate that applies
to current purchases of Class A shares, and
o Class A and Class B shares of Oppenheimer funds you previously
purchased subject to an initial or contingent deferred sales charge
to reduce the sales charge rate for current purchases of Class A
shares, provided that you still hold your investment in one of the
Oppenheimer funds.

A fiduciary can count all shares purchased for a trust, estate or other
fiduciary account (including one or more employee benefit plans of the same
employer) that has multiple accounts. The Distributor will add the value, at
current offering price, of the shares you previously purchased and currently own
to the value of current purchases to determine the sales charge rate that
applies. The reduced sales charge will apply only to current purchases. You must
request it when you buy shares.

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

Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipals Oppenheimer Main Street Fund
Oppenheimer Bond Fund Oppenheimer Main Street Opportunity Fund Oppenheimer
California Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Main Street Small Cap Fund Oppenheimer
Capital Appreciation Fund Oppenheimer MidCap Fund Oppenheimer Capital
Preservation Fund Oppenheimer Multiple Strategies Fund Oppenheimer Capital
Income Fund Oppenheimer Municipal Bond Fund Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund
Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund
Oppenheimer Pennsylvania Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main
Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund Street Fund
Oppenheimer Disciplined Allocation Fund Oppenheimer Quest Balanced Value Fund
Oppenheimer Quest Capital Value Fund,
Oppenheimer Discovery Fund Inc.
Oppenheimer Quest International Value
Oppenheimer Emerging Growth Fund Fund, Inc.
Oppenheimer Emerging Technologies Fund Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund
Oppenheimer Enterprise Fund Oppenheimer Quest Value Fund, Inc.
Oppenheimer Equity Fund, Inc. Oppenheimer Real Asset Fund
Oppenheimer Global Fund Oppenheimer Real Estate Fund
Oppenheimer Rochester National
Oppenheimer Global Opportunities Fund Municipals
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund
Oppenheimer Growth Fund Oppenheimer Small Cap Value Fund Oppenheimer High Yield
Fund Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund Oppenheimer International Bond Fund
Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund Oppenheimer International Growth Fund
Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust Oppenheimer International Small Company Fund
Oppenheimer Value Fund Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund Limited-Term New
York Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Fund Rochester Fund
Municipals

And the following money market funds:

Oppenheimer Cash Reserves Centennial Government Trust
Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. Centennial Money Market Trust
Centennial America Fund, L. P. Centennial New York Tax Exempt Trust
Centennial California Tax Exempt Trust Centennial Tax Exempt Trust

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

Letters of Intent. Under a Letter of Intent ("Letter"), if you purchase Class A
shares or Class A and Class B shares of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds
during a 13-month period, you can reduce the sales charge rate that applies to
your purchases of Class A shares. The total amount of your intended purchases of
both Class A and Class B shares will determine the reduced sales charge rate for
the Class A shares purchased during that period. You can include purchases made
up to 90 days before the date of the Letter. Letters do not consider Class C or
Class N shares you purchase or may have purchased.

A Letter is an investor's statement in writing to the Distributor of the
intention to purchase Class A shares or Class A and Class B shares of the Fund
(and other Oppenheimer funds) during a 13-month period (the "Letter period"). At
the investor's request, this may include purchases made up to 90 days prior to
the date of the Letter. The Letter states the investor's intention to make the
aggregate amount of purchases of shares which, when added to the investor's
holdings of shares of those funds, will equal or exceed the amount specified in
the Letter. Purchases made by reinvestment of dividends or distributions of
capital gains and purchases made at net asset value without sales charge do not
count toward satisfying the amount of the Letter.

A Letter enables an investor to count the Class A and Class B shares
purchased under the Letter to obtain the reduced sales charge rate on purchases
of Class A shares of the Fund (and other Oppenheimer funds) that applies under
the Right of Accumulation to current purchases of Class A shares. Each purchase
of Class A shares under the Letter will be made at the offering price (including
the sales charge) that applies to a single lump-sum purchase of shares in the
amount intended to be purchased under the Letter.

In submitting a Letter, the investor makes no commitment to purchase
shares. However, if the investor's purchases of shares within the Letter period,
when added to the value (at offering price) of the investor's holdings of shares
on the last day of that period, do not equal or exceed the intended purchase
amount, the investor agrees to pay the additional amount of sales charge
applicable to such purchases. That amount is described in "Terms of Escrow,"
below (those terms may be amended by the Distributor from time to time). The
investor agrees that shares equal in value to 5% of the intended purchase amount
will be held in escrow by the Transfer Agent subject to the Terms of Escrow.
Also, the investor agrees to be bound by the terms of the Prospectus, this
Statement of Additional Information and the application used for a Letter. If
those terms are amended, as they may be from time to time by the Fund, the
investor agrees to be bound by the amended terms and that those amendments will
apply automatically to existing Letters.

If the total eligible purchases made during the Letter period do not equal
or exceed the intended purchase amount, the concessions previously paid to the
dealer of record for the account and the amount of sales charge retained by the
Distributor will be adjusted to the rates applicable to actual total purchases.
If total eligible purchases during the Letter period exceed the intended
purchase amount and exceed the amount needed to qualify for the next sales
charge rate reduction set forth in the Prospectus, the sales charges paid will
be adjusted to the lower rate. That adjustment will be made only if and when the
dealer returns to the Distributor the excess of the amount of concessions
allowed or paid to the dealer over the amount of concessions that apply to the
actual amount of purchases. The excess concessions returned to the Distributor
will be used to purchase additional shares for the investor's account at the net
asset value per share in effect on the date of such purchase, promptly after the
Distributor's receipt thereof.

The Transfer Agent will not hold shares in escrow for purchases of shares
of the Fund and other Oppenheimer funds by OppenheimerFunds prototype 401(k)
plans under a Letter. If the intended purchase amount under a Letter entered
into by an OppenheimerFunds prototype 401(k) plan is not purchased by the plan
by the end of the Letter period, there will be no adjustment of concessions paid
to the broker-dealer or financial institution of record for accounts held in the
name of that plan.

In determining the total amount of purchases made under a Letter, shares
redeemed by the investor prior to the termination of the Letter period will be
deducted. It is the responsibility of the dealer of record and/or the investor
to advise the Distributor about the Letter when placing any purchase orders for
the investor during the Letter period. All of such purchases must be made
through the Distributor.

|X| Terms of Escrow That Apply to Letters of Intent.

1. Out of the initial purchase (or subsequent purchases if necessary) made
pursuant to a Letter, shares of the Fund equal in value up to 5% of the intended
purchase amount specified in the Letter shall be held in escrow by the Transfer
Agent. For example, if the intended purchase amount is $50,000, the escrow shall
be shares valued in the amount of $2,500 (computed at the offering price
adjusted for a $50,000 purchase). Any dividends and capital gains distributions
on the escrowed shares will be credited to the investor's account.

2. If the total minimum investment specified under the Letter is completed
within the 13-month Letter period, the escrowed shares will be promptly released
to the investor.

3. If, at the end of the 13-month Letter period the total purchases
pursuant to the Letter are less than the intended purchase amount specified in
the Letter, the investor must remit to the Distributor an amount equal to the
difference between the dollar amount of sales charges actually paid and the
amount of sales charges which would have been paid if the total amount purchased
had been made at a single time. That sales charge adjustment will apply to any
shares redeemed prior to the completion of the Letter. If the difference in
sales charges is not paid within twenty days after a request from the
Distributor or the dealer, the Distributor will, within sixty days of the
expiration of the Letter, redeem the number of escrowed shares necessary to
realize such difference in sales charges. Full and fractional shares remaining
after such redemption will be released from escrow. If a request is received to
redeem escrowed shares prior to the payment of such additional sales charge, the
sales charge will be withheld from the redemption proceeds.

4. By signing the Letter, the investor irrevocably constitutes and
appoints the Transfer Agent as attorney-in-fact to surrender for redemption any
or all escrowed shares.

5. The shares eligible for purchase under the Letter (or the holding of which
may be counted toward completion of a Letter) include: (a) Class A shares sold
with a front-end sales charge or subject to a Class
A contingent deferred sales charge,
(b) Class B shares of other Oppenheimer funds acquired subject to a
contingent deferred sales charge, and
(c) Class A or Class B shares acquired by exchange of either (1) Class A
shares of one of the other Oppenheimer funds that were acquired
subject to a Class A initial or contingent deferred sales charge or
(2) Class B shares of one of the other Oppenheimer funds that were
acquired subject to a contingent deferred sales charge.

6. Shares held in escrow hereunder will automatically be exchanged for
shares of another fund to which an exchange is requested, as described in the
section of the Prospectus entitled "How to Exchange Shares" and the escrow will
be transferred to that other fund.

Asset Builder Plans. As explained in the Prospectus, you must initially
establish your account with $500. Subsequently, you can establish an Asset
Builder Plan to automatically purchase additional shares directly from a bank
account for as little as $50. For those accounts established prior to November
1, 2002 and which have previously established Asset Builder Plans, additional
purchases will remain at $25. Shares purchased by Asset Builder Plan payments
from bank accounts are subject to the redemption restrictions for recent
purchases described in the Prospectus. Asset Builder Plans are available only if
your bank is an ACH member. Asset Builder Plans may not be used to buy shares
for OppenheimerFunds employer-sponsored qualified retirement accounts. Asset
Builder Plans also enable shareholders of Oppenheimer Cash Reserves to use their
fund account to make monthly automatic purchases of shares of up to four other
Oppenheimer funds.

If you make payments from your bank account to purchase shares of the
Fund, your bank account will be debited automatically. Normally the debit will
be made two business days prior to the investment dates you selected on your
application. Neither the Distributor, the Transfer Agent nor the Fund shall be
responsible for any delays in purchasing shares that result from delays in ACH
transmissions.

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

Retirement Plans. Certain types of retirement plans are entitled to purchase
shares of the Fund without sales charge or at reduced sales charge rates, as
described in Appendix B o this Statement of Additional Information. Certain
special sales charge arrangements described in that Appendix apply to retirement
plans whose records are maintained on a daily valuation basis by Merrill Lynch
Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. ("Merrill Lynch") or an independent record keeper
that has a contract or special arrangement with Merrill Lynch. If on the date
the plan sponsor signed the Merrill Lynch record keeping service agreement the
plan has less than $3 million in assets (other than assets invested in money
market funds) invested in applicable investments, then the retirement plan may
purchase only Class B shares of the Oppenheimer funds. Any retirement plans in
that category that currently invest in Class B shares of the Fund will have
their Class B shares converted to Class A shares of the Fund when the plan's
applicable investments reach $5 million. OppenheimerFunds has entered into
arrangements with certain record keepers whereby the Transfer Agent compensates
the record keeper for its record keeping and account servicing functions that it
performs on behalf of the participant level accounts of a retirement plan. While
such compensation may act to reduce the record keeping fees charged by the
retirement plan's record keeper, that compensation arrangement may be terminated
at any time, potentially affecting the record keeping fees charged by the
retirement plan's record keeper.

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

Classes of Shares. Each class of shares of the Fund represents an interest in
the same portfolio of investments of the Fund. However, each class has different
shareholder privileges and features. The net income attributable to Class B,
Class C or Class N shares and the dividends payable on Class B, Class C or Class
N shares will be reduced by incremental expenses borne solely by that class.
Those expenses include the asset-based sales charges to which Class B, Class C
and Class N shares are subject.

The availability of different classes of shares permits an investor to
choose the method of purchasing shares that is more appropriate for the
investor. That may depend on the amount of the purchase, the length of time the
investor expects to hold shares, and other relevant circumstances. Class A
shares normally are sold subject to an initial sales charge. While Class B,
Class C and Class N shares have no initial sales charge, the purpose of the
deferred sales charge and asset-based sales charge on Class B, Class C and Class
N shares is the same as that of the initial sales charge on Class A shares - to
compensate the Distributor and brokers, dealers and financial institutions that
sell shares of the Fund. A salesperson who is entitled to receive compensation
from his or her firm for selling Fund shares may receive different levels of
compensation for selling one class of shares rather than another.

The Distributor will not accept any order in the amount of $500,000 or
more for Class B shares or $1 million or more for Class C shares on behalf of a
single investor (not including dealer "street name" or omnibus accounts). That
is because generally it will be more advantageous for that investor to purchase
Class A shares of the Fund.

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

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

|X| Availability of Class N Shares. In addition to the description of the
types of retirement plans which may purchase Class N shares contained in the
prospectus, Class N shares also are offered to the following: o to all rollover
IRAs (including SEP IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs), o to all rollover contributions made
to Individual 401(k) plans, Profit-Sharing Plans and Money Purchase Pension Plans,
o to all direct rollovers from OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Pinnacle and
Ascender retirement plans,
o to all trustee-to-trustee IRA transfers,
o to all 90-24 type 403(b) transfers,
o to Group Retirement Plans (as defined in Appendix B to this
Statement of Additional Information) which have entered into a
special agreement with the Distributor for that purpose,
o to Retirement Plans qualified under Sections 401(a) or 401(k) of the
Internal Revenue Code, the recordkeeper or the plan sponsor for
which has entered into a special agreement with the Distributor,
o to Retirement Plans of a plan sponsor where the aggregate assets of
all such plans invested in the Oppenheimer funds is $500,000 or
more,
o to OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Ascender 401(k) plans that pay for the
purchase with the redemption proceeds of Class A shares of one or
more Oppenheimer funds, and
o to certain customers of broker-dealers and financial advisors that
are identified in a special agreement between the broker-dealer or
financial advisor and the Distributor for that purpose.

The sales concession and the advance of the service fee, as described in
the Prospectus, will not be paid to dealers of record on sales of Class N shares
on:
purchases of Class N shares in amounts of $500,000 or more by a
retirement plan that pays for the purchase with the redemption
proceeds of Class A shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds (other
than rollovers from an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Pinnacle or
Ascender 401(k) plan to any IRA invested in the Oppenheimer funds),
purchases of Class N shares in amounts of $500,000 or more by a
retirement plan that pays for the purchase with the redemption
proceeds of Class C shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds held by
the plan for more than one year (other than rollovers from an
OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Pinnacle or Ascender 401(k) plan to any
IRA invested in the Oppenheimer funds), and
on purchases of Class N shares by an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored
Pinnacle or Ascender 401(k) plan made with the redemption proceeds
of Class A shares of one or more Oppenheimer funds.

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

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

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

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

Account Fees. As stated in the Prospectus, a $12 annual fee is assessed on
any account valued at less than $500. This fee will not be assessed on the
following accounts:
o Accounts that have balances below $500 due to the automatic conversion of
shares from Class B to Class A shares;
o Accounts with an active Asset Builder Plan, payroll deduction plan or a
military allotment plan;
o OppenheimerFunds-sponsored group retirement accounts that are making
continuing purchases;
o Certain accounts held by broker-dealers through the National Securities
Clearing Corporation; and
o Accounts that fall below the $500 threshold due solely to market
fluctuations within the 12-month period preceding the date the fee is
deducted.

The fee is automatically deducted from qualifying accounts annually on or
about the second to last business day of September. This annual fee is waived
for any shareholders who elect to access their account documents through
electronic document delivery rather than in paper copy and who elect to utilize
the Internet or PhoneLink as their primary source for their general servicing
needs. To sign up to access account documents electronically via eDocs Direct,
please visit the Service Center on our website at WWW.OPPENHEIMERFUNDS.COM or
call 1.888.470.0862 for instructions.

Determination of Net Asset Values Per Share. The net asset values per share of
each class of shares of the Fund are determined as of the close of business of
the Exchange on each day that the Exchange is open. The calculation is done by
dividing the value of the Fund's net assets attributable to a class by the
number of shares of that class that are outstanding. The Exchange normally
closes at 4:00 P.M., Eastern time, but may close earlier on some other days (for
example, in case of weather emergencies or on days falling before a U.S.
holiday). All references to time in this Statement of Additional Information
mean "Eastern time." The Exchange's most recent annual announcement (which is
subject to change) states that it will close on New Year's Day, Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. It may also close on other days.

Dealers other than Exchange members may conduct trading in certain
securities on days on which the Exchange is closed (including weekends and
holidays) or after 4:00 P.M. on a regular business day. Because the Fund's net
asset values will not be calculated on those days, the Fund's net asset values
per share may be significantly affected on such days when shareholders may not
purchase or redeem shares. Additionally, trading on European and Asian stock
exchanges and over-the-counter markets normally is completed before the close of
the Exchange.

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

|X| Securities Valuation. The Fund's Board of Trustees has established
procedures for the valuation of the Fund's securities. In general those
procedures are as follows:
o Equity securities traded on a U.S. securities exchange or on Nasdaq(R)
are valued as follows:
(1) if last sale information is regularly reported, they are valued at the
last reported sale price on the principal exchange on which
they are traded or on Nasdaq, as applicable, on that day, or
(2) if last sale information is not available on a valuation date,
they are valued at the last reported sale price preceding the
valuation date if it is within the spread of the closing "bid"
and "asked" prices on the valuation date or, if not, at the
closing "bid" price on the valuation date.
o Equity securities traded on a foreign securities exchange generally are valued
in one of the following ways: (1) at the last sale price available to the
pricing service approved by the
Board of Trustees, or
(2) at the last sale price obtained by the Manager from the report of
the principal exchange on which the security is traded at its
last trading session on or immediately before the valuation date,
or
(3) at the mean between the "bid" and "asked" prices obtained from
the principal exchange on which the security is traded or, on the
basis of reasonable inquiry, from two market makers in the
security.
o Long-term debt securities having a remaining maturity in excess of 60 days are
valued based on the mean between the "bid" and "asked" prices determined by a
portfolio pricing service approved by the Fund's Board of Trustees or obtained
by the Manager from two active market makers in the security on the basis of
reasonable inquiry.
o The following securities are valued at the mean between the "bid" and "asked"
prices determined by a pricing service approved by the Fund's Board of Trustees
or obtained by the Manager from two active market makers in the security on the
basis of reasonable inquiry:
(1) debt instruments that have a maturity of more than 397 days when
issued,
(2) debt instruments that had a maturity of 397 days or less when
issued and have a remaining maturity of more than 60 days, and
(3) non-money market debt instruments that had a maturity of 397 days
or less when issued and which have a remaining maturity of 60
days or less.
o The following securities are valued at cost, adjusted for amortization of
premiums and accretion of discounts: (1) money market debt securities held by a
non-money market fund that had a
maturity of less than 397 days when issued that have a remaining
maturity of 60 days or less, and
(2) debt instruments held by a money market fund that have a
remaining maturity of 397 days or less.
o Securities (including restricted securities) not having readily-available
market quotations are valued at fair value determined under the Board's
procedures. If the Manager is unable to locate two market makers willing to give
quotes, a security may be priced at the mean between the "bid" and "asked"
prices provided by a single active market maker (which in certain cases may be
the "bid" price if no "asked" price is available).

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

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

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

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

How to Sell Shares

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

Reinvestment Privilege. Within six months of a redemption, a shareholder may
reinvest all or part of the redemption proceeds of:
o Class A shares purchased subject to an initial sales charge or Class A
shares on which a contingent deferred sales charge was paid, or o Class
B shares that were subject to the Class B contingent deferred
sales charge when redeemed.

The reinvestment may be made without sales charge only in Class A shares
of the Fund or any of the other Oppenheimer funds into which shares of the Fund
are exchangeable as described in "How to Exchange Shares" below. Reinvestment
will be at the net asset value next computed after the Transfer Agent receives
the reinvestment order. The shareholder must ask the Transfer Agent for that
privilege at the time of reinvestment. This privilege does not apply to Class C
and Class N shares. The Fund may amend, suspend or cease offering this
reinvestment privilege at any time as to shares redeemed after the date of such
amendment, suspension or cessation.

Any capital gain that was realized when the shares were redeemed is
taxable, and reinvestment will not alter any capital gains tax payable on that
gain. If there has been a capital loss on the redemption, some or all of the
loss may not be tax deductible, depending on the timing and amount of the
reinvestment. Under the Internal Revenue Code, if the redemption proceeds of
Fund shares on which a sales charge was paid are reinvested in shares of the
Fund or another of the Oppenheimer funds within 90 days of payment of the sales
charge, the shareholder's basis in the shares of the Fund that were redeemed may
not include the amount of the sales charge paid. That would reduce the loss or
increase the gain recognized from the redemption. However, in that case the
sales charge would be added to the basis of the shares acquired by the
reinvestment of the redemption proceeds.

Payments "In Kind". The Prospectus states that payment for shares tendered for
redemption is ordinarily made in cash. However, under certain circumstances, the
Board of Trustees of the Fund may determine that it would be detrimental to the
best interests of the remaining shareholders of the Fund to make payment of a
redemption order wholly or partly in cash. In that case, the Fund may pay the
redemption proceeds in whole or in part by a distribution "in kind" of liquid
securities from the portfolio of the Fund, in lieu of cash.

The Fund has elected to be governed by Rule 18f-1 under the Investment
Company Act. Under that rule, the Fund is obligated to redeem shares solely in
cash up to the lesser of $250,000 or 1% of the net assets of the Fund during any
90-day period for any one shareholder. If shares are redeemed in kind, the
redeeming shareholder might incur brokerage or other costs in selling the
securities for cash. The Fund will value securities used to pay redemptions in
kind using the same method the Fund uses to value its portfolio securities
described above under "Determination of Net Asset Values Per Share." That
valuation will be made as of the time the redemption price is determined.

Involuntary Redemptions. The Fund's Board of Trustees has the right to cause the
involuntary redemption of the shares held in any account if the aggregate net
asset value of those shares is less than $200 or such lesser amount as the Board
may fix. The Board will not cause the involuntary redemption of shares in an
account if the aggregate net asset value of such shares has fallen below the
stated minimum solely as a result of market fluctuations. If the Board exercises
this right, it may also fix the requirements for any notice to be given to the
shareholders in question (not less than 30 days). The Board may alternatively
set requirements for the shareholder to increase the investment, or set other
terms and conditions so that the shares would not be involuntarily redeemed.

Transfers of Shares. A transfer of shares to a different registration is not an
event that triggers the payment of sales charges. Therefore, shares are not
subject to the payment of a contingent deferred sales charge of any class at the
time of transfer to the name of another person or entity. It does not matter
whether the transfer occurs by absolute assignment, gift or bequest, as long as
it does not involve, directly or indirectly, a public sale of the shares. When
shares subject to a contingent deferred sales charge are transferred, the
transferred shares will remain subject to the contingent deferred sales charge.
It will be calculated as if the transferee shareholder had acquired the
transferred shares in the same manner and at the same time as the transferring
shareholder.

If less than all shares held in an account are transferred, and some but
not all shares in the account would be subject to a contingent deferred sales
charge if redeemed at the time of transfer, the priorities described in the
Prospectus under "How to Buy Shares" for the imposition of the Class B, Class C
and Class N contingent deferred sales charge will be followed in determining the
order in which shares are transferred.

Distributions From Retirement Plans. Requests for distributions from
OppenheimerFunds-sponsored IRAs, SEP-IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs, 403(b)(7) custodial
plans, 401(k) plans or pension or profit-sharing plans should be addressed to
"Trustee, OppenheimerFunds Retirement Plans," c/o the Transfer Agent at its
address listed in "How To Sell Shares" in the Prospectus or on the back cover of
this Statement of Additional Information. The request must: (1) state the reason
for the distribution; (2) state the owner's awareness of tax penalties if the
distribution is premature; and (3) conform to the requirements of the plan and
the Fund's other redemption requirements.

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

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

Special Arrangements for Repurchase of Shares from Dealers and Brokers. The
Distributor is the Fund's agent to repurchase its shares from authorized dealers
or brokers on behalf of their customers. Shareholders should contact their
broker or dealer to arrange this type of redemption. The repurchase price per
share will be the net asset value next computed after the Distributor receives
an order placed by the dealer or broker. However, if the Distributor receives a
repurchase order from a dealer or broker after the close of the Exchange on a
regular business day, it will be processed at that day's net asset value if the
order was received by the dealer or broker from its customers prior to the time
the Exchange closes. Normally, the Exchange closes at 4:00 P.M., but may do so
earlier on some days. Additionally, the order must have been transmitted to and
received by the Distributor prior to its close of business that day (normally
5:00 P.M.).

Ordinarily, for accounts redeemed by a broker-dealer under this procedure,
payment will be made within three business days after the shares have been
redeemed upon the Distributor's receipt of the required redemption documents in
proper form. The signature(s) of the registered owners on the redemption
documents must be guaranteed as described in the Prospectus.

Automatic Withdrawal and Exchange Plans. Investors owning shares of the Fund
valued at $5,000 or more can authorize the Transfer Agent to redeem shares
(having a value of at least $50) automatically on a monthly, quarterly,
semi-annual or annual basis under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan. Shares will be
redeemed three business days prior to the date requested by the shareholder for
receipt of the payment. Automatic withdrawals of up to $1,500 per month may be
requested by telephone if payments are to be made by check payable to all
shareholders of record. Payments must also be sent to the address of record for
the account and the address must not have been changed within the prior 30 days.
Required minimum distributions from OppenheimerFunds-sponsored retirement plans
may not be arranged on this basis.

Payments are normally made by check, but shareholders having AccountLink
privileges (see "How To Buy Shares") may arrange to have Automatic Withdrawal
Plan payments transferred to the bank account designated on the account
application or by signature-guaranteed instructions sent to the Transfer Agent.
Shares are normally redeemed pursuant to an Automatic Withdrawal Plan three
business days before the payment transmittal date you select in the account
application. If a contingent deferred sales charge applies to the redemption,
the amount of the check or payment will be reduced accordingly.

The Fund cannot guarantee receipt of a payment on the date requested. The
Fund reserves the right to amend, suspend or discontinue offering these plans at
any time without prior notice. Because of the sales charge assessed on Class A
share purchases, shareholders should not make regular additional Class A share
purchases while participating in an Automatic Withdrawal Plan. Class B, Class C
and Class N shareholders should not establish automatic withdrawal plans,
because of the potential imposition of the contingent deferred sales charge on
such withdrawals (except where the Class B, Class C or Class N contingent
deferred sales charge is waived as described in Appendix B to this Statement of
Additional Information).

By requesting an Automatic Withdrawal or Exchange Plan, the shareholder
agrees to the terms and conditions that apply to such plans, as stated below.

These provisions may be amended from time to time by the Fund and/or the
Distributor. When adopted, any amendments will automatically apply to existing
Plans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To use Class A shares held under the Plan as collateral for a debt, the
Planholder may request issuance of a portion of the shares in certificated form.
Upon written request from the Planholder, the Transfer Agent will determine the
number of shares for which a certificate may be issued without causing the
withdrawal checks to stop. However, should such uncertificated shares become
exhausted, Plan withdrawals will terminate.

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

How to Exchange Shares

As stated in the Prospectus, shares of a particular class of Oppenheimer funds
having more than one class of shares may be exchanged only for shares of the
same class of other Oppenheimer funds. Shares of Oppenheimer funds that have a
single class without a class designation are deemed "Class A" shares for this
purpose. You can obtain a current list showing which funds offer which classes
of shares by calling the Distributor.

o All of the Oppenheimer funds currently offer Class A, B, C, N and Y shares
with the following exceptions:

The following funds only offer Class A shares:
Centennial America Fund, L.P. Centennial New York Tax Exempt
Trust
Centennial California Tax Exempt Centennial Tax Exempt Trust
Trust
Centennial Government Trust Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc.
Centennial Money Market Trust

The following funds do not offer Class N shares:
Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Oppenheimer Pennsylvania Municipal
Municipals Fund
Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Rochester National
Municipals
Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate
Fund Fund
Oppenheimer Municipal Bond Fund Limited Term New York Municipal Fund
Oppenheimer New Jersey Municipal Fund Rochester Fund Municipals

The following funds do not offer Class Y shares:

Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Oppenheimer Limited Term Municipal Fund
Municipals Oppenheimer California Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Multiple
Strategies Fund Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund Oppenheimer New Jersey
Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Cash Reserves Oppenheimer Pennsylvania
Municipal Fund Oppenheimer Champion Income Fund Oppenheimer Principal
Protected Main
Street Fund
Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Oppenheimer Quest Capital Value Fund,
Fund Inc.
Oppenheimer Disciplined Allocation Oppenheimer Quest International Value
Fund Fund, Inc.
Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund Oppenheimer Rochester National
Municipals
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund
Fund Oppenheimer International Bond Fund Oppenheimer Small Cap Value Fund
Oppenheimer International Growth Fund Oppenheimer Total Return Bond Fund
Oppenheimer International Small Limited Term New York Municipal Fund
Company Fund o Class Y shares of Oppenheimer Real Asset Fund may not be
exchanged for shares of any other fund.

o Class B, Class C and Class N shares of Oppenheimer Cash Reserves are
generally available only by exchange from the same class of shares of
other Oppenheimer funds or through OppenheimerFunds-sponsored 401(k)
plans.
o Class M shares of Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund may be exchanged
only for Class A shares of other Oppenheimer funds. They may not be
acquired by exchange of shares of any class of any other Oppenheimer funds
except Class A shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund or Oppenheimer Cash
Reserves acquired by exchange of Class M shares.
o Class X shares of Limited Term New York Municipal Fund may be exchanged
only for Class B shares of other Oppenheimer funds and no exchanges may be
made to Class X shares.
o Shares of Oppenheimer Capital Preservation Fund may not be exchanged for
shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc., Oppenheimer Cash Reserves
or Oppenheimer Limited-Term Government Fund. Only participants in certain
retirement plans may purchase shares of Oppenheimer Capital Preservation
Fund, and only those participants may exchange shares of other Oppenheimer
funds for shares of Oppenheimer Capital Preservation Fund.
o Class A shares of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund are not available
by exchange of shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund or Class A shares
of Oppenheimer Cash Reserves.
o Class A shares of Oppenheimer funds may be exchanged at net asset value
for shares of any money market fund offered by the Distributor. Shares of
any money market fund purchased without a sales charge may be exchanged
for shares of Oppenheimer funds offered with a sales charge upon payment
of the sales charge. They may also be used to purchase shares of
Oppenheimer funds subject to an early withdrawal charge or contingent
deferred sales charge.
o Shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. purchased with the
redemption proceeds of shares of other mutual funds (other than funds
managed by the Manager or its subsidiaries) redeemed within the 30 days
prior to that purchase may subsequently be exchanged for shares of
other Oppenheimer funds without being subject to an initial sales
charge or contingent deferred sales charge. To qualify for that
privilege, the investor or the investor's dealer must notify the
Distributor of eligibility for this privilege at the time the shares of
Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc. are purchased. If requested, they
must supply proof of entitlement to this privilege.
o Shares of the Fund acquired by reinvestment of dividends or distributions
from any of the other Oppenheimer funds or from any unit investment trust
for which reinvestment arrangements have been made with the Distributor
may be exchanged at net asset value for shares of any of the Oppenheimer
funds.

o Shares of Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main Street Fund may be
exchanged at net asset value for shares of any of the Oppenheimer funds.
However, shareholders are not permitted to exchange share of other
Oppenheimer funds for shares of Oppenheimer Principal Protected Main
Street Fund until after the expiration of the warranty period (8/5/2010).

The Fund may amend, suspend or terminate the exchange privilege at any
time. Although the Fund may impose these changes at any time, it will provide
you with notice of those changes whenever it is required to do so by applicable
law. It may be required to provide 60 days' notice prior to materially amending
or terminating the exchange privilege. That 60 day notice is not required in
extraordinary circumstances.

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

o When Class A shares of any Oppenheimer fund (other than Rochester National
Municipals and Rochester Fund Municipals) acquired by exchange of Class A shares
of any Oppenheimer fund purchased subject to a Class A contingent deferred sales
charge are redeemed within 18 months measured from the beginning of the calendar
month of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class A shares, the Class A
contingent deferred sales charge is imposed on the redeemed shares.

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

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

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

o With respect to Class B shares, the Class B contingent deferred sales charge
is imposed on Class B shares acquired by exchange if they are redeemed within
six years of the initial purchase of the exchanged Class B shares.

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

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

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

Shareholders owning shares of more than one class must specify which class
of shares they wish to exchange.

|X| Limits on Multiple Exchange Orders. The Fund reserves the right to
reject telephone or written exchange requests submitted in bulk by anyone on
behalf of more than one account. The Fund may accept requests for exchanges of
up to 50 accounts per day from representatives of authorized dealers that
qualify for this privilege.

|X| Telephone Exchange Requests. When exchanging shares by telephone, a
shareholder must have an existing account in the fund to which the exchange is
to be made. Otherwise, the investors must obtain a prospectus of that fund
before the exchange request may be submitted. If all telephone lines are busy
(which might occur, for example, during periods of substantial market
fluctuations), shareholders might not be able to request exchanges by telephone
and would have to submit written exchange requests.

Processing Exchange Requests. Shares to be exchanged are redeemed on the
regular business day the Transfer Agent receives an exchange request in proper
form (the "Redemption Date"). Normally, shares of the fund to be acquired are
purchased on the Redemption Date, but such purchases may be delayed by either
fund up to five business days if it determines that it would be disadvantaged by
an immediate transfer of the redemption proceeds. The Fund reserves the right,
in its discretion, to refuse any exchange request that may disadvantage it. For
example, if the receipt of multiple exchange requests from a dealer might
require the disposition of portfolio securities at a time or at a price that
might be disadvantageous to the Fund, the Fund may refuse the request.

When you exchange some or all of your shares from one fund to another, any
special account feature such as an Asset Builder Plan or Automatic Withdrawal
Plan, will be switched to the new fund account unless you tell the Transfer
Agent not to do so. However, special redemption and exchange features such as
Automatic Exchange Plans and Automatic Withdrawal Plans cannot be switched to an
account in Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund.

In connection with any exchange request, the number of shares exchanged
may be less than the number requested if the exchange or the number requested
would include shares subject to a restriction cited in the Prospectus or this
Statement of Additional Information, or would include shares covered by a share
certificate that is not tendered with the request. In those cases, only the
shares available for exchange without restriction will be exchanged.

The different Oppenheimer funds available for exchange have different
investment objectives, policies and risks. A shareholder should assure that the
fund selected is appropriate for his or her investment and should be aware of
the tax consequences of an exchange. For federal income tax purposes, an
exchange transaction is treated as a redemption of shares of one fund and a
purchase of shares of another. "Reinvestment Privilege," above, discusses some
of the tax consequences of reinvestment of redemption proceeds in such cases.
The Fund, the Distributor, and the Transfer Agent are unable to provide
investment, tax or legal advice to a shareholder in connection with an exchange
request or any other investment transaction.

Dividends, Capital Gains and Taxes

Dividends and Distributions. The Fund has no fixed dividend rate and there can
be no assurance as to the payment of any dividends or the realization of any
capital gains. The dividends and distributions paid by a class of shares will
vary from time to time depending on market conditions, the composition of the
Fund's portfolio, and expenses borne by the Fund or borne separately by a class.
Dividends are calculated in the same manner, at the same time, and on the same
day for each class of shares. However, dividends on Class B, Class C and Class N
shares are expected to be lower than dividends on Class A shares. That is
because of the effect of the asset-based sales charge on Class B, Class C and
Class N shares. Those dividends will also differ in amount as a consequence of
any difference in the net asset values of the different classes of shares.

Dividends, distributions and proceeds of the redemption of Fund shares
represented by checks returned to the Transfer Agent by the Postal Service as
undeliverable will be invested in shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund, Inc.
Reinvestment will be made as promptly as possible after the return of such
checks to the Transfer Agent, to enable the investor to earn a return on
otherwise idle funds. Unclaimed accounts may be subject to state escheatment
laws, and the Fund and the Transfer Agent will not be liable to shareholders or
their representatives for compliance with those laws in good faith.

Tax Status of the Fund's Dividends, Distributions and Redemptions of Shares. The
federal tax treatment of the Fund's dividends and capital gains distributions is
briefly highlighted in the Prospectus. The following is only a summary of
certain additional tax considerations generally affecting the Fund and its
shareholders.

The tax discussion in the Prospectus and this Statement of Additional
Information is based on tax law in effect on the date of the Prospectus and this
Statement of Additional Information. Those laws and regulations may be changed
by legislative, judicial, or administrative action, sometimes with retroactive
effect. State and local tax treatment of ordinary income dividends and capital
gain dividends from regulated investment companies may differ from the treatment
under the Internal Revenue Code described below. Potential purchasers of shares
of the Fund are urged to consult their tax advisers with specific reference to
their own tax circumstances as well as the consequences of federal, state and
local tax rules affecting an investment in the Fund.

Qualification as a Regulated Investment Company. The Fund has elected to
be taxed as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. As a regulated investment company, the Fund is
not subject to federal income tax on the portion of its net investment income
(that is, taxable interest, dividends, and other taxable ordinary income, net of
expenses) and capital gain net income (that is, the excess of net long-term
capital gains over net short-term capital losses) that it distributes to
shareholders. That qualification enables the Fund to "pass through" its income
and realized capital gains to shareholders without having to pay tax on them.
This avoids a "double tax" on that income and capital gains, since shareholders
normally will be taxed on the dividends and capital gains they receive from the
Fund (unless their Fund shares are held in a retirement account or the
shareholder is otherwise exempt from tax).

The Internal Revenue Code contains a number of complex tests relating to
qualification that the Fund might not meet in a particular year. If it did not
qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund would be treated for tax
purposes as an ordinary corporation and would receive no tax deduction for
payments made to shareholders.

To qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund must distribute at
least 90% of its investment company taxable income (in brief, net investment
income and the excess of net short-term capital gain over net long-term capital
loss) for the taxable year. The Fund must also satisfy certain other
requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, some of which are described below.
Distributions by the Fund made during the taxable year or, under specified
circumstances, within 12 months after the close of the taxable year, will be
considered distributions of income and gains for the taxable year and will
therefore count toward satisfaction of the above-mentioned requirement.

To qualify as a regulated investment company, the Fund must derive at
least 90% of its gross income from dividends, interest, certain payments with
respect to securities loans, gains from the sale or other disposition of stock
or securities or foreign currencies (to the extent such currency gains are
directly related to the regulated investment company's principal business of
investing in stock or securities) and certain other income.

In addition to satisfying the requirements described above, the Fund must
satisfy an asset diversification test in order to qualify as a regulated
investment company. Under that test, at the close of each quarter of the Fund's
taxable year, at least 50% of the value of the Fund's assets must consist of
cash and cash items (including receivables), U.S. government securities,
securities of other regulated investment companies, and securities of other
issuers. As to each of those issuers, the Fund must not have invested more than
5% of the value of the Fund's total assets in securities of each such issuer and
the Fund must not hold more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of
each such issuer. No more than 25% of the value of its total assets may be
invested in the securities of any one issuer (other than U.S. government
securities and securities of other regulated investment companies), or in two or
more issuers which the Fund controls and which are engaged in the same or
similar trades or businesses. For purposes of this test, obligations issued or
guaranteed by certain agencies or instrumentalities of the U.S. government are
treated as U.S. government securities.

Excise Tax on Regulated Investment Companies. Under the Internal Revenue
Code, by December 31 each year, the Fund must distribute 98% of its taxable
investment income earned from January 1 through December 31 of that year and 98%
of its capital gains realized in the period from November 1 of the prior year
through October 31 of the current year. If it does not, the Fund must pay an
excise tax on the amounts not distributed. It is presently anticipated that the
Fund will meet those requirements. To meet this requirement, in certain
circumstances the Fund might be required to liquidate portfolio investments to
make sufficient distributions to avoid excise tax liability. However, the Board
of Trustees and the Manager might determine in a particular year that it would
be in the best interests of shareholders for the Fund not to make such
distributions at the required levels and to pay the excise tax on the
undistributed amounts. That would reduce the amount of income or capital gains
available for distribution to shareholders.

Taxation of Fund Distributions. The Fund anticipates distributing
substantially all of its investment company taxable income for each taxable
year. Those distributions will be taxable to shareholders as ordinary income and
treated as dividends for federal income tax purposes.

Special provisions of the Internal Revenue Code govern the eligibility of
the Fund's dividends for the dividends-received deduction for corporate
shareholders. Long-term capital gains distributions are not eligible for the
deduction. The amount of dividends paid by the Fund that may qualify for the
deduction is limited to the aggregate amount of qualifying dividends that the
Fund derives from portfolio investments that the Fund has held for a minimum
period, usually 46 days. A corporate shareholder will not be eligible for the
deduction on dividends paid on Fund shares held for 45 days or less. To the
extent the Fund's dividends are derived from gross income from option premiums,
interest income or short-term gains from the sale of securities or dividends
from foreign corporations, those dividends will not qualify for the deduction.

The Fund may either retain or distribute to shareholders its net capital
gain for each taxable year. The Fund currently intends to distribute any such
amounts. If net long term capital gains are distributed and designated as a
capital gain distribution, it will be taxable to shareholders as a long-term
capital gain and will be properly identified in reports sent to shareholders in
January of each year. Such treatment will apply no matter how long the
shareholder has held his or her shares or whether that gain was recognized by
the Fund before the shareholder acquired his or her shares.

If the Fund elects to retain its net capital gain, the Fund will be
subject to tax on it at the 35% corporate tax rate. If the Fund elects to retain
its net capital gain, the Fund will provide to shareholders of record on the
last day of its taxable year information regarding their pro rata share of the
gain and tax paid. As a result, each shareholder will be required to report his
or her pro rata share of such gain on their tax return as long-term capital
gain, will receive a refundable tax credit for his/her pro rata share of tax
paid by the Fund on the gain, and will increase the tax basis for his/her shares
by an amount equal to the deemed distribution less the tax credit.

Investment income that may be received by the Fund from sources within
foreign countries may be subject to foreign taxes withheld at the source. The
United States has entered into tax treaties with many foreign countries which
entitle the Fund to a reduced rate of, or exemption from, taxes on such income.

Distributions by the Fund that do not constitute ordinary income dividends
or capital gain distributions will be treated as a return of capital to the
extent of the shareholder's tax basis in their shares. Any excess will be
treated as gain from the sale of those shares, as discussed below. Shareholders
will be advised annually as to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of
distributions made (or deemed made) during the year. If prior distributions made
by the Fund must be re-characterized as a non-taxable return of capital at the
end of the fiscal year as a result of the effect of the Fund's investment
policies, they will be identified as such in notices sent to shareholders.

Distributions by the Fund will be treated in the manner described above
regardless of whether the distributions are paid in cash or reinvested in
additional shares of the Fund (or of another fund). Shareholders receiving a
distribution in the form of additional shares will be treated as receiving a
distribution in an amount equal to the fair market value of the shares received,
determined as of the reinvestment date.

The Fund will be required in certain cases to withhold 28% of ordinary
income dividends, capital gains distributions and the proceeds of the redemption
of shares, paid to any shareholder (1) who has failed to provide a correct
taxpayer identification number or to properly certify that number when required,
(2) who is subject to backup withholding for failure to report the receipt of
interest or dividend income properly, or (3) who has failed to certify to the
Fund that the shareholder is not subject to backup withholding or is an "exempt
recipient" (such as a corporation). All income and any tax withheld by the Fund
is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and is identified in reports mailed
to shareholders in January of each year.

Tax Effects of Redemptions of Shares. If a shareholder redeems all or a
portion of his/her shares, the shareholder will recognize a gain or loss on the
redeemed shares in an amount equal to the difference between the proceeds of the
redeemed shares and the shareholder's adjusted tax basis in the shares. All or a
portion of any loss recognized in that manner may be disallowed if the
shareholder purchases other shares of the Fund within 30 days before or after
the redemption.

In general, any gain or loss arising from the redemption of shares of the
Fund will be considered capital gain or loss, if the shares were held as a
capital asset. It will be long-term capital gain or loss if the shares were held
for more than one year. However, any capital loss arising from the redemption of
shares held for six months or less will be treated as a long-term capital loss
to the extent of the amount of capital gain dividends received on those shares.
Special holding period rules under the Internal Revenue Code apply in this case
to determine the holding period of shares and there are limits on the
deductibility of capital losses in any year.

Foreign Shareholders. Under U.S. tax law, taxation of a shareholder who is
a foreign person (to include, but not limited to, a nonresident alien
individual, a foreign trust, a foreign estate, a foreign corporation, or a
foreign partnership) primarily depends on whether the foreign person's income
from the Fund is effectively connected with the conduct of a U.S. trade or
business. Typically, ordinary income dividends paid from a mutual fund are not
considered "effectively connected" income.

Ordinary income dividends that are paid by the Fund (and are deemed not
"effectively connected income") to foreign persons will be subject to a U.S. tax
withheld by the Fund at a rate of 30%, provided the Fund obtains a properly
completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status. The tax rate may be reduced
if the foreign person's country of residence has a tax treaty with the U.S.
allowing for a reduced tax rate on ordinary income dividends paid by the Fund.
All income and any tax withheld by the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S.
Treasury and is identified in reports mailed to shareholders in March of each
year.

If the ordinary income dividends from the Fund are effectively connected
with the conduct of a U.S. trade or business, then the foreign person may claim
an exemption from the U.S. tax described above provided the Fund obtains a
properly completed and signed Certificate of Foreign Status. If the foreign
person fails to provide a certification of his/her foreign status, the Fund will
be required to withhold U.S. tax at a rate of 28% on ordinary income dividends,
capital gains distributions and the proceeds of the redemption of shares, paid
to any foreign person. All income and any tax withheld (in this situation) by
the Fund is remitted by the Fund to the U.S. Treasury and is identified in
reports mailed to shareholders in January of each year.

The tax consequences to foreign persons entitled to claim the benefits of
an applicable tax treaty may be different from those described herein. Foreign
shareholders are urged to consult their own tax advisors or the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service with respect to the particular tax consequences to them of an
investment in the Fund, including the applicability of the U.S. withholding
taxes described above.

Dividend Reinvestment in Another Fund. Shareholders of the Fund may elect to
reinvest all dividends and/or capital gains distributions in shares of the same
class of any of the other Oppenheimer funds listed above. Reinvestment will be
made without sales charge at the net asset value per share in effect at the
close of business on the payable date of the dividend or distribution. To elect
this option, the shareholder must notify the Transfer Agent in writing and must
have an existing account in the fund selected for reinvestment. Otherwise the
shareholder first must obtain a prospectus for that fund and an application from
the Distributor to establish an account. Dividends and/or distributions from
shares of certain other Oppenheimer funds (other than Oppenheimer Cash Reserves)
may be invested in shares of this Fund on the same basis.

Additional Information About the Fund

The Distributor. The Fund's shares are sold through dealers, brokers and other
financial institutions that have a sales agreement with OppenheimerFunds
Distributor, Inc., a subsidiary of the Manager that acts as the Fund's
Distributor. The Distributor also distributes shares of the other Oppenheimer
funds and is sub-distributor for funds managed by a subsidiary of the Manager.

The Transfer Agent. OppenheimerFunds Services, the Fund's Transfer Agent, is a
division of the Manager. It is responsible for maintaining the Fund's
shareholder registry and shareholder accounting records, and for paying
dividends and distributions to shareholders. It also handles shareholder
servicing and administrative functions. It serves as the Transfer Agent for an
annual per account fee. It also acts as shareholder servicing agent for the
other Oppenheimer funds. Shareholders should direct inquiries about their
accounts to the Transfer Agent at the address and toll-free numbers shown on the
back cover.

The Custodian. Citibank, N.A. is the custodian of the Fund's assets. The
custodian's responsibilities include safeguarding and controlling the Fund's
portfolio securities and handling the delivery of such securities to and from
the Fund. It is the practice of the Fund to deal with the custodian in a manner
uninfluenced by any banking relationship the custodian may have with the Manager
and its affiliates. The Fund's cash balances with the custodian in excess of
$100,000 are not protected by federal deposit insurance. Those uninsured
balances at times may be substantial.

Independent Auditors. KPMG LLP are the independent auditors of the Fund. They
audit the Fund's financial statements and perform other related audit services.
They also act as auditors for certain other funds advised by the Manager and its
affiliates.

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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
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The Board of Trustees and Shareholders of
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund, including the statement of
investments, as of June 30, 2003, and the related statement of operations for
the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the
two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of
the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and
financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund's management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and
financial highlights based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally
accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan
and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements and financial highlights are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures
included confirmation of securities owned as of June 30, 2003, by
correspondence with the custodian and brokers or by other appropriate auditing
procedures where replies from brokers were not received. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred
to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund as of June 30, 2003, the results of
its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each
of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for
each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

/s/ KPMG LLP
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KPMG LLP

Denver, Colorado
July 22, 2003

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STATEMENT OF INVESTMENTS June 30, 2003
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Market Value
Shares See Note 1
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Common Stocks--99.1%
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Industrials--0.4%
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Machinery--0.4%
Trans Hex Group Ltd. 310,100 $ 850,607
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Materials--98.7%
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Metals & Mining--98.7%
Aber Diamond Corp. 1 187,300 3,807,342
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Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. 392,000 4,547,200
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Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. 290,000 3,318,859
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Alcan, Inc. 81,100 2,537,619
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Anglo American
Platinum Corp. Ltd. 280,600 8,836,471
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AngloGold Ltd.,
Sponsored ADR 283,807 9,053,443
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Apex Silver Mines Ltd. 1 270,000 3,982,500
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ASA Ltd. 70,000 2,642,500
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Ashanti Goldfields
Co. Ltd.,
Sponsored GDR 1 1,581,220 12,602,323
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Avgold Ltd. 1 100,000 101,864
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Barrick Gold Corp. 531,900 9,521,010
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Cambior, Inc. 1 2,188,900 2,931,958
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Compania de Minas
Buenaventura SA,
Sponsored ADR,
B Shares 260,000 7,823,400
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Durban Roodeport
Deep Ltd.,
Sponsored ADR1 770,000 1,940,400
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Glamis Gold Ltd. 1 262,300 3,008,581
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Gold Fields Ltd.,
Sponsored ADR 890,000 10,840,200
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Goldcorp, Inc. 860,000 10,320,000
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Golden Star
Resources Ltd. 1 560,000 1,463,110
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Harmony Gold
Mining Co. Ltd.,
Sponsored ADR 762,000 10,264,140

Market Value
Shares See Note 1
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Metals & Mining Continued
Hecla Mining Co. 1 729,700 $ 3,086,631
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IAMGOLD Corp. 1,292,400 6,277,711
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Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. 1 1,140,000 2,802,282
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JFE Holdings, Inc. 150,000 2,248,595
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Johnson Matthey plc 140,000 2,039,915
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Kinross Gold Corp. 1 745,290 5,030,708
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Lihir Gold Ltd. 2,310,300 2,014,224
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LionOre Mining
International Ltd. 1 301,700 1,232,335
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Meridian Gold, Inc. 1 817,100 9,388,479
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Newcrest Mining Ltd. 1,008,997 5,176,631
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Newmont Mining
Corp. (Holding Co.) 671,605 21,800,298
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Northgate Exploration Ltd. 1 1,350,000 1,390,984
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Placer Dome, Inc. 1,140,000 13,987,800
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Randgold Resources
Ltd., ADR 1 240,800 4,093,600
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Sons of Gwalia Ltd. 1,868,400 2,881,998
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SouthernEra Resources
Ltd. 1 243,200 946,847
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Wheaton River
Minerals Ltd. 1 2,739,700 3,427,776
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197,369,734
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Total Common Stocks
(Cost $179,562,289) 198,220,341

Units
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Rights, Warrants and Certificates--0.1%

Goldcorp, Inc. Wts.,
Exp. 4/30/07 1 7,500 59,925
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Wheaton River Minerals
Ltd. Wts., Exp. 5/30/07 1 125,000 57,037
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Total Rights, Warrants
and Certificates
(Cost $95,520) 116,962

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Principal Market Value
Amount See Note 1
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Joint Repurchase Agreements--0.4%

Undivided interest of 0.32% in joint repurchase agreement
(Principal Amount/Market Value $259,526,000,
with a maturity value of $259,533,642) with Banc
One Capital Markets, Inc., 1.06%, dated 6/30/03, to
be repurchased at $830,024 on 7/1/03, collateralized
by U.S. Treasury Nts., 4.75%--5.875%, 2/15/04, with
a value of $117,973,141 and U.S. Treasury Bonds,
1.75%--3.375%, 4/30/04--12/31/04, with a
value of $146,937,726
(Cost $830,000) $830,000 $ 830,000

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Total Investments,
at Value
(Cost $180,487,809) 99.6% 199,167,303
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Other Assets
Net of Liabilities 0.4 759,052
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Net Assets 100.0% $ 199,926,355
=========================

Footnotes to Statement of Investments
1. Non-income producing security.

Outstanding written put options are as follows:

Contract Expiration Exercise Premium Market Value
Subject to Put Date Price Received See Note 1
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Barrick Gold Corp. 1,700 7/21/03 $15.00 $72,599 $--

Distribution of investments representing geographic holdings, as a percentage
of total investments at value, is as follows:

Geographic Holdings Market Value Percent
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Canada $ 76,669,084 38.5%
South Africa 57,131,948 28.7
United States 39,199,008 19.7
Australia 10,072,853 5.1
Peru 7,823,400 3.9
Cayman Islands 3,982,500 2.0
Japan 2,248,595 1.1
Great Britain 2,039,915 1.0
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Total $ 199,167,303 100.0%
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See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES June 30, 2003
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Assets

Investments, at value (cost $180,487,809)--see accompanying statement $199,167,303
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Receivables and other assets:
Investments sold 4,312,961
Shares of beneficial interest sold 571,828
Interest and dividends 101,178
Other 3,624
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Total assets 204,156,894

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Liabilities

Bank overdraft 282,970
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Options written, at value (premiums received $72,599)--see accompanying statement --
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Payables and other liabilities:
Shares of beneficial interest redeemed 2,248,312
Investments purchased 1,426,493
Distribution and service plan fees 117,561
Shareholder reports 57,358
Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees 52,125
Trustees' compensation 19,299
Other 26,421
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Total liabilities 4,230,539

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Net Assets $199,926,355
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Composition of Net Assets

Paid-in capital $184,629,857
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Overdistributed net investment income (3,911,504)
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Accumulated net realized gain on investments and foreign currency transactions 462,024
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Net unrealized appreciation on investments and translation of assets and liabilities
denominated in foreign currencies 18,745,978
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Net Assets $199,926,355
==============

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Net Asset Value Per Share

Class A Shares:
Net asset value and redemption price per share (based on net assets of
$131,182,975 and 9,509,729 shares of beneficial interest outstanding) $13.79
Maximum offering price per share (net asset value plus sales charge of 5.75% of
offering price) $14.63
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Class B Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred
sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $41,425,724
and 3,067,736 shares of beneficial interest outstanding) $13.50
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Class C Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred
sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $25,898,579
and 1,917,524 shares of beneficial interest outstanding) $13.51
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Class N Shares:
Net asset value, redemption price (excludes applicable contingent deferred
sales charge) and offering price per share (based on net assets of $1,419,077
and 103,752 shares of beneficial interest outstanding) $13.68

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS for the Year Ended June 30, 2003
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Investment Income

Dividends (net of foreign withholding taxes of $131,750) $ 3,467,114
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Interest 48,475
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Total investment income 3,515,589

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Expenses

Management fees 1,415,223
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Distribution and service plan fees:
Class A 302,067
Class B 382,304
Class C 216,513
Class N 3,856
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Transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees:
Class A 378,316
Class B 119,126
Class C 56,486
Class N 3,357
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Shareholder reports 109,782
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Custodian fees and expenses 72,418
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Trustees' compensation 7,474
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Other 41,680
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Total expenses 3,108,602
Less reduction to custodian expenses (1,271)
Less voluntary waiver of transfer and shareholder servicing agent fees--Class N (864)
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Net expenses 3,106,467

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Net Investment Income 409,122

Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)

Net realized gain (loss) on:
Investments (including premiums on options exercised) 13,483,168
Closing and expiration of option contracts written (92,001)
Foreign currency transactions 1,384,431
Net increase from payment by affiliate and net gains (losses)
realized on the disposal of investments in violation of investment restrictions 265,013
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Net realized gain 15,040,611
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Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on:
Investments (21,422,949)
Translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies 10,820,436
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Net change in unrealized depreciation (10,602,513)
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Net Increase in Net Assets Resulting from Operations $ 4,847,220
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See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
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Year Ended June 30, 2003 2002
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Operations

Net investment income $ 409,122 $ 102,632
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Net realized gain 15,040,611 3,850,413
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Net change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation) (10,602,513) 31,363,713
---------------------------------
Net increase in net assets resulting from operations 4,847,220 35,316,758

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Dividends and/or Distributions to Shareholders

Dividends from net investment income:
Class A (1,502,583) (2,919,810)
Class B (183,324) (757,411)
Class C (107,362) (375,330)
Class N (7,661) (117)

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Beneficial Interest Transactions

Net increase in net assets resulting from beneficial interest transactions:
Class A 11,194,743 38,946,250
Class B 4,444,731 12,864,587
Class C 7,990,546 6,206,870
Class N 1,215,483 123,549

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Net Assets

Total increase 27,891,793 89,405,346
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Beginning of period 172,034,562 82,629,216
---------------------------------
End of period [including overdistributed net investment
income of $3,911,504 and $4,106,959, respectively] $199,926,355 $172,034,562
=================================

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Class A Year Ended June 30, 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999
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Per Share Operating Data

Net asset value, beginning of period $13.37 $ 9.91 $ 8.80 $ 9.85 $ 8.81
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Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income .07 .19 .14 .06 .06
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) .50 3.74 1.20 (.91) 1.00
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Total from investment operations .57 3.93 1.34 (.85) 1.06
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Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income (.15) (.47) (.23) (.20) (.02)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Total dividends and/or distributions
to shareholders (.15) (.47) (.23) (.20) (.02)
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Net asset value, end of period $13.79 $13.37 $9.91 $8.80 $9.85
=============================================================

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Total Return, at Net Asset Value 1 4.35% 2 41.56% 15.60% (8.83)% 12.03%

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Ratios/Supplemental Data

Net assets, end of period (in thousands) $131,183 $117,794 $57,294 $61,298 $78,514
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Average net assets (in thousands) $128,266 $ 76,482 $54,347 $72,512 $78,932
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Ratios to average net assets: 3
Net investment income 0.46% 0.34% 1.82% 0.66% 0.62%
Expenses, gross 1.40% 1.45% 1.34% 1.41% 1.62%
Expenses, net 1.40% 4 1.45% 4,5 1.34% 4 1.41% 4 1.62% 4
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Portfolio turnover rate 134% 60% 25% 36% 45%

1. Assumes an investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal
period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on
the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the
last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the
total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full
year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.
2. For the year ended June 30, 2003, 0% of the Fund's total return consists of a
voluntary reimbursement by the Manager for a realized loss on investments not
meeting the Fund's investment restrictions, and another 0.07% consists of a gain
on investments not meeting the Fund's investment restrictions. Excluding these
items, the total return would have been 4.28%.
3. Annualized for periods of less than one full year. 4. Reduction to custodian
expenses less than 0.01%. 5. Voluntary waiver of transfer agent fees less than
0.01%.

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

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Class B Year Ended June 30, 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999
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Per Share Operating Data

Net asset value, beginning of period $13.10 $ 9.73 $ 8.63 $ 9.67 $ 8.70
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Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss) (.01) .16 .09 .01 --
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) .47 3.62 1.16 (.92) .97
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Total from investment operations .46 3.78 1.25 (.91) .97
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Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income (.06) (.41) (.15) (.13) --
-------------------------------------------------------------
Total dividends and/or distributions
to shareholders (.06) (.41) (.15) (.13) --
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Net asset value, end of period $13.50 $13.10 $ 9.73 $ 8.63 $ 9.67
=============================================================

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Total Return, at Net Asset Value 1 3.57% 2 40.46% 14.76% (9.52)% 11.15%

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Ratios/Supplemental Data

Net assets, end of period (in thousands) $41,426 $36,585 $16,990 $15,907 $14,528
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Average net assets (in thousands) $38,243 $23,133 $14,554 $16,624 $12,369
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Ratios to average net assets: 3
Net investment income (loss) (0.34)% (0.51)% 0.98% (0.17)% (0.22)%
Expenses, gross 2.18% 2.22% 2.11% 2.19% 2.41%
Expenses, net 2.18% 4 2.22% 4,5 2.11% 4 2.19% 4 2.41% 4
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Portfolio turnover rate 134% 60% 25% 36% 45%

1. Assumes an investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal
period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on
the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the
last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the
total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full
year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.
2. For the year ended June 30, 2003, 0% of the Fund's total return consists of a
voluntary reimbursement by the Manager for a realized loss on investments not
meeting the Fund's investment restrictions, and another 0.07% consists of a gain
on investments not meeting the Fund's investment restrictions. Excluding these
items, the total return would have been 3.50%.
3. Annualized for periods of less than one full year. 4. Reduction to custodian
expenses less than 0.01%. 5. Voluntary waiver of transfer agent fees less than
0.01%.

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Continued
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Class C Year Ended June 30, 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Per Share Operating Data
Net asset value, beginning of period $13.11 $ 9.74 $ 8.66 $ 9.69 $ 8.72
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Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss) .09 .15 .13 .01 (.02)
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) .38 3.63 1.12 (.91) .99
-------------------------------------------------------------
Total from investment operations .47 3.78 1.25 (.90) .97
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Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income (.07) (.41) (.17) (.13) --
-------------------------------------------------------------
Total dividends and/or distributions
to shareholders (.07) (.41) (.17) (.13) --
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Net asset value, end of period $13.51 $13.11 $ 9.74 $ 8.66 $ 9.69
=============================================================

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Total Return, at Net Asset Value 1 3.63% 2 40.46% 14.71% (9.42)% 11.12%

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Ratios/Supplemental Data

Net assets, end of period (in thousands) $25,899 $17,526 $8,344 $6,279 $5,900
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Average net assets (in thousands) $21,672 $11,090 $6,714 $6,579 $5,276
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Ratios to average net assets: 3
Net investment income (loss) (0.26)% (0.38)% 1.01% (0.13)% (0.22)%
Expenses, gross 2.13% 2.22% 2.11% 2.19% 2.40%
Expenses, net 2.13% 4 2.22% 4,5 2.11% 4 2.19% 4 2.40% 4
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Portfolio turnover rate 134% 60% 25% 36% 45%

1. Assumes an investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal
period, with all dividends and distributions reinvested in additional shares on
the reinvestment date, and redemption at the net asset value calculated on the
last business day of the fiscal period. Sales charges are not reflected in the
total returns. Total returns are not annualized for periods less than one full
year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of taxes that a shareholder would pay
on Fund distributions or the redemption of Fund shares.
2. For the year ended June 30, 2003, 0% of the Fund's total return consists of a
voluntary reimbursement by the Manager for a realized loss on investments not
meeting the Fund's investment restrictions, and another 0.07% consists of a gain
on investments not meeting the Fund's investment restrictions. Excluding these
items, the total return would have been 3.56%.
3. Annualized for periods of less than one full year. 4. Reduction to custodian
expenses less than 0.01%. 5. Voluntary waiver of transfer agent fees less than
0.01%.

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

18 OPPENHEIMER GOLD & SPECIAL MINERALS FUND

Class N Year Ended June 30, 2003 2002 2001 1
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Per Share Operating Data

Net asset value, beginning of period $13.31 $ 9.89 $ 9.11
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Income (loss) from investment operations:
Net investment income (loss) .01 .47 (.06)
Net realized and unrealized gain .53 3.40 .84
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Total from investment operations .54 3.87 .78
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dividends and/or distributions to shareholders:
Dividends from net investment income (.17) (.45) --
-------------------------------
Total dividends and/or distributions to shareholders (.17) (.45) --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Net asset value, end of period $13.68 $13.31 $9.89
===============================

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Total Return, at Net Asset Value 2 4.17% 3 40.97% 8.56%

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Ratios/Supplemental Data

Net assets, end of period (in thousands) $1,419 $130 $1
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Average net assets (in thousands) $ 775 $ 34 $1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ratios to average net assets: 4
Net investment income (loss) 0.13% 1.87% (2.09)%
Expenses, gross 1.80% 1.69% 1.11%
Expenses, net 1.69% 5,6 1.69% 5,7 1.11% 5
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Portfolio turnover rate 134% 60% 25%

1. For the period from March 1, 2001 (inception of offering) to June 30, 2001.
2. Assumes an investment on the business day before the first day of the fiscal
period (or inception of offering), with all dividends and distributions
reinvested in additional shares on the reinvestment date, and redemption at the
net asset value calculated on the last business day of the fiscal period. Sales
charges are not reflected in the total returns. Total returns are not annualized
for periods of less than one full year. Returns do not reflect the deduction of
taxes that a shareholder would pay on Fund distributions or the redemption of
Fund shares.
3. For the year ended June 30, 2003, 0% of the Fund's total return consists of a
voluntary reimbursement by the Manager for a realized loss on investments not
meeting the Fund's investment restrictions, and another 0.07% consists of a gain
on investments not meeting the Fund's investment restrictions. Excluding these
items, the total return would have been 4.10%.
4. Annualized for periods of less than one full year. 5. Reduction to custodian
expenses less than 0.01%. 6. Net of voluntary waiver of transfer agent fees. 7.
Voluntary waiver of transfer agent fees less than 0.01%.

See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements.

19 OPPENHEIMER GOLD & SPECIAL MINERALS FUND

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL Statements
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1. Significant Accounting Policies
Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund (the Fund) is registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as a non-diversified, open-end
management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek
capital appreciation. The Fund's investment advisor is OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
(the Manager).
The Fund offers Class A, Class B, Class C and Class N shares. Class A shares
are sold at their offering price, which is normally net asset value plus a
front-end sales charge. Class B, Class C and Class N shares are sold without a
front-end sales charge but may be subject to a contingent deferred sales charge
(CDSC). Class N shares are sold only through retirement plans. Retirement plans
that offer Class N shares may impose charges on those accounts. All classes of
shares have identical rights and voting privileges. Earnings, net assets and
net asset value per share may differ by minor amounts due to each class having
its own expenses directly attributable to that class. Classes A, B, C and N
have separate distribution and/or service plans. Class B shares will
automatically convert to Class A shares six years after the date of purchase.
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies consistently
followed by the Fund.
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Securities Valuation. Securities listed or traded on National Stock Exchanges
or other domestic or foreign exchanges are valued based on the last sale price
of the security traded on that exchange prior to the time when the Fund's
assets are valued. Securities traded on NASDAQ are valued based on the closing
price provided by NASDAQ prior to the time when the Fund's assets are valued.
In the absence of a sale, the security is valued at the last sale price on the
prior trading day, if it is within the spread of the closing bid and asked
prices, and if not, at the closing bid price. Securities (including restricted
securities) for which quotations are not readily available are valued primarily
using dealer-supplied valuations, a portfolio pricing service authorized by the
Board of Trustees, or at their fair value. Fair value is determined in good
faith using consistently applied procedures under the supervision of the Board
of Trustees. Short-term "money market type" debt securities with remaining
maturities of sixty days or less are valued at amortized cost (which
approximates market value).
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Foreign Currency Translation. The Fund's accounting records are maintained in
U.S. dollars. Prices of securities denominated in foreign currencies are
translated into U.S. dollars at the closing rates of exchange. Amounts related
to the purchase and sale of foreign securities and investment income are
translated at the rates of exchange prevailing on the respective dates of such
transactions.
The effect of changes in foreign currency exchange rates on investments is
separately identified from the fluctuations arising from changes in market
values of securities held and reported with all other foreign currency gains
and losses in the Fund's Statement of Operations.

20 OPPENHEIMER GOLD & SPECIAL MINERALS FUND

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Joint Repurchase Agreements. Pursuant to an Exemptive Order issued by the
Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fund, along with other affiliated funds
advised by the Manager, may transfer uninvested cash balances into joint
trading accounts on a daily basis. Secured by U.S. government securities, these
balances are invested in one or more repurchase agreements. Securities pledged
as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the
agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the
collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal. In the
event of default by the other party to the agreement, retention of the
collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.
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Allocation of Income, Expenses, Gains and Losses. Income, expenses (other than
those attributable to a specific class), gains and losses are allocated on a
daily basis to each class of shares based upon the relative proportion of net
assets represented by such class. Operating expenses directly attributable to a
specific class are charged against the operations of that class.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Federal Taxes. The Fund intends to comply with provisions of the Internal
Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment companies and to distribute
substantially all of its investment company taxable income, including any net
realized gain on investments not offset by capital loss carryforwards, if any,
to shareholders, therefore, no federal income or excise tax provision is
required.

The tax components of capital shown in the table below represent distribution
requirements the Fund must satisfy under the income tax regulations, losses the
Fund may be able to offset against income and gains realized in future years
and unrealized appreciation or depreciation of investment for federal income
tax purposes.
Net Unrealized
Appreciation
Undistributed Undistributed Accumulated Based on Cost of
Net Investment Long-Term Loss Securities for Federal
Income Gains Carryforward 1,2,3 Income Tax Purposes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$-- $950,922 $205,585 $14,568,571

1. During the fiscal year the Fund utilized $11,403,409 of capital loss
carryforward to offset capital gains realized in the current fiscal year. 2.
The Fund had approximately $99,000 of post-October foreign currency losses
which were deferred.
3. The Fund had approximately $106,000 of straddle losses which were deferred.

Net investment income (loss) and net realized gain (loss) may differ for
financial statement and tax purposes. The character of dividends and
distributions made during the fiscal year from net investment income or net
realized gains may differ from their ultimate characterization for federal
income tax purposes. Also, due to timing of dividends and distributions, the
fiscal year in which amounts are distributed may differ from the fiscal year in
which the income or net realized gain was recorded by the Fund.

21 OPPENHEIMER GOLD & SPECIAL MINERALS FUND

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Continued
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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1. Significant Accounting Policies Continued

To From Net
Ordinary Capital Tax Return Investment
Income Gains 3 of Capital Loss
-------------------------------------------------------
$1,587,263 $859,538 $-- $1,372,012

3. $644,287, all of which was long-term capital gain, was distributed in
connection with Fund share redemptions.

The tax character of distributions paid during the years ended June 30, 2003
and June 30, 2002 were as follows:
Year Ended Year Ended
June 30, 2003 June 30, 2002
-------------------------------------------------------
Distributions paid from:
Ordinary income $1,800,930 $4,052,668

The aggregate cost of investments and the composition of unrealized
appreciation and depreciation of investments for federal income tax purposes as
of June 30, 2003 are noted below. The primary difference between book and tax
appreciation or depreciation of investments, if applicable, is attributable to
the tax deferral of losses or tax realization of financial statement unrealized
gain or loss.

Federal Tax Cost $184,665,215
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Gross unrealized appreciation $ 19,880,628
Gross unrealized depreciation (5,312,057)
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Net unrealized appreciation $ 14,568,571
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Trustees' Compensation. The Fund has adopted an unfunded retirement plan for
the Fund's independent trustees. Benefits are based on years of service and
fees paid to each trustee during the years of service. During the year ended
June 30, 2003, the Fund's projected benefit obligations were decreased by $941
and payments of $4,032 were made to retired trustees, resulting in an
accumulated liability of $17,412 as of June 30, 2003.
The Board of Trustees has adopted a deferred compensation plan for
independent trustees that enables trustees to elect to defer receipt of all or
a portion of the annual compensation they are entitled to receive from the
Fund. Under the plan, deferred amounts are treated as though equal dollar
amounts had been invested in shares of the Fund or are invested in other
selected Oppenheimer funds. Deferral of trustees' fees under the plan will not
affect the net assets of the Fund, and will not materially affect the Fund's
assets, liabilities or net investment income per share. Amounts will be
deferred until distributed in accordance to the Plan.
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Dividends and Distributions to Shareholders. Dividends and distributions to
shareholders, which are determined in accordance with income tax regulations,
are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Capital gain distributions, if any, are
declared and paid annually.
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Investment Income. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or upon
ex-dividend notification in the case of certain foreign dividends where the
ex-dividend date may have passed. Non-cash dividends included in dividend
income, if any, are recorded at

22 OPPENHEIMER GOLD & SPECIAL MINERALS FUND

the fair market value of the securities received. Interest income, which
includes accretion of discount and amortization of premium, is accrued as
earned.
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Expense Offset Arrangement. The reduction of custodian fees represents earnings
on cash balances maintained by the Fund.
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Security Transactions. Security transactions are recorded on the trade date.
Realized gains and losses on securities sold are determined on the basis of
identified cost.
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Other. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires
management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts
of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities
at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of income and
expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those
estimates.

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2. Shares of Beneficial Interest
The Fund has authorized an unlimited number of no par value shares of
beneficial interest of each class. Transactions in shares of beneficial
interest were as follows:

Year Ended June 30, 2003 Year Ended June 30, 2002
Shares Amount Shares Amount
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Class A
Sold 12,695,881 $ 162,153,290 8,322,140 $100,331,213
Dividends and/or
distributions reinvested 97,913 1,224,902 267,270 2,541,740
Redeemed (12,093,039) (152,183,449) (5,561,982) (63,926,703)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Net increase 700,755 $ 11,194,743 3,027,428 $ 38,946,250
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Class B
Sold 2,918,264 $ 37,034,790 3,660,475 $ 41,852,656
Dividends and/or
distributions reinvested 12,921 158,928 62,421 584,267
Redeemed (2,655,129) (32,748,987) (2,677,452) (29,572,336)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Net increase 276,056 $ 4,444,731 1,045,444 $ 12,864,587
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Class C
Sold 2,514,063 $ 32,027,347 1,579,176 $ 19,362,036
Dividends and/or
distributions reinvested 7,322 90,069 33,318 311,857
Redeemed (1,940,814) (24,126,870) (1,132,516) (13,467,023)
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Net increase 580,571 $ 7,990,546 479,978 $ 6,206,870
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Class N
Sold 225,369 $ 2,872,002 28,371 $ 370,114
Dividends and/or
distributions reinvested 615 7,642 7 67
Redeemed (132,004) (1,664,161) (18,716) (246,632)
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Net increase 93,980 $ 1,215,483 9,662 $ 123,549
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3. Purchases and Sales of Securities
The aggregate cost of purchases and proceeds from sales of securities, other
than short-term obligations, for the year ended June 30, 2003, were
$268,919,442 and $246,818,228, respectively.

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4. Fees and Other Transactions with Affiliates
Management Fees. Management fees paid to the Manager were in accordance with
the investment advisory agreement with the Fund which provides for a fee at an
annual rate of 0.75% of the first $200 million of average annual net assets,
0.72% of the next $200 million, 0.69% of the next $200 million, 0.66% of the
next $200 million, and 0.60% of average annual net assets in excess of $800
million.
For the year ended June 30, 2003, the Manager voluntarily agreed to
reimburse the Fund in the amount of $37,779 for an investment restriction
violation. As a result of the investment restriction violation, the Fund sold
certain securities resulting in realized gains of $265,013 and realized losses
of $37,779.
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Transfer Agent Fees. OppenheimerFunds Services (OFS), a division of the
Manager, acts as the transfer and shareholder servicing agent for the Fund. The
Fund pays OFS a $19.75 per account fee.
OFS has voluntarily agreed to limit transfer and shareholder servicing agent
fees for all classes, up to an annual rate of 0.35% of average net assets per
class. This undertaking may be amended or withdrawn at any time.
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Distribution and Service Plan (12b-1) Fees. Under its General Distributor's
Agreement with the Manager, OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. (the
Distributor) acts as the Fund's principal underwriter in the continuous public
offering of the different classes of shares of the Fund.

The compensation paid to (or retained by) the Distributor from the sale of
shares or on the redemption of shares is shown in the table below for the
period indicated.

Aggregate Class a Concessions Concessions Concessions Concessions
Front-end Front-End On Class A On Class B On Class C On Class N
Sales Charges Sales Charges Shares Shares Shares Shares
On Class A Retained by Advanced by Advanced by Advanced by Advanced by
Year Ended Shares Distributor Distributor 1 Distributor 1 Distributor 1 Distributor 1
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June 30, 2003 $733,463 $137,696 $137,358 $576,012 $152,019 $25,935

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

Class A Class B Class C Class N
Contingent Contingent Contingent Contingent
Deferred Deferred Deferred Deferred
Sales Charges Sales Charges Sales Charges Sales Charges
Retained by Retained by Retained by Retained by
Year Ended Distributor Distributor Distributor Distributor
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June 30, 2003 $25,010 $171,483 $25,057 $16,446

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Service Plan for Class A Shares. The Fund has adopted a Service Plan for Class
A Shares. It reimburses the Distributor for a portion of its costs incurred for
services provided to accounts that hold Class A shares. Reimbursement is made
quarterly at an annual rate of up to 0.25% of the average annual net assets of
Class A shares of the Fund. For the year ended June 30, 2003, expense under the
Class A Plan totaled $302,067, all of which were paid by the Distributor to
recipients, which includes $2,230 retained by the Distributor and $78,581 which
was paid to an affiliate of the Manager. Any unreimbursed expenses the
Distributor incurs with respect to Class A shares in any fiscal year cannot be
recovered in subsequent years.
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Distribution and Service Plans for Class B, Class C and Class N Shares. The
Fund has adopted Distribution and Service Plans for Class B, Class C and Class
N shares. Under the plans, the Fund pays the Distributor an annual asset-based
sales charge of 0.75% per year on Class B shares and on Class C shares and the
Fund pays the Distributor an annual asset-based sales charge of 0.25% per year
on Class N shares. The Distributor also receives a service fee of 0.25% per
year under each plan.

Distribution fees paid to the Distributor for the year ended June 30, 2003,
were as follows:

Distributor's
Distributor's Aggregate
Aggregate Unreimbursed
Unreimbursed Expenses as %
Total Payments Amount Retained Expenses of Net Assets
Under Plan by Distributor Under Plan of Class
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Class B Plan $382,304 $327,697 $1,422,459 3.43%
Class C Plan 216,513 115,348 471,975 1.82
Class N Plan 3,856 3,272 31,689 2.23

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5. Foreign Currency Contracts
A foreign currency contract is a commitment to purchase or sell a foreign
currency at a future date, at a negotiated rate. The Fund may enter into
foreign currency contracts to settle specific purchases or sales of securities
denominated in a foreign currency and for protection from adverse exchange rate
fluctuation. Risks to the Fund include the potential inability of the
counterparty to meet the terms of the contract.
The net U.S. dollar value of foreign currency underlying all contractual
commitments held by the Fund and the resulting unrealized appreciation or
depreciation are determined using prevailing foreign currency exchange rates.
Unrealized appreciation and depreciation on foreign currency contracts are
reported in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as a receivable or payable
and in the Statement of Operations with the change in unrealized appreciation
or depreciation.
The Fund may realize a gain or loss upon the closing or settlement of the
foreign transaction. Contracts closed or settled with the same broker are
recorded as net realized gain or loss. Such realized gains and losses are
reported with all other foreign currency gains and losses in the Statement of
Operations.
As of June 30, 2003, the Fund had no outstanding foreign currency contracts.

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6. Option Activity
The Fund may buy and sell put and call options, or write put and covered call
options on portfolio securities in order to produce incremental earnings or
protect against changes in the value of portfolio securities.
The Fund generally purchases put options or writes covered call options to
hedge against adverse movements in the value of portfolio holdings. When an
option is written, the Fund receives a premium and becomes obligated to sell or
purchase the underlying security at a fixed price, upon exercise of the option.
Options are valued daily based upon the last sale price on the principal
exchange on which the option is traded and unrealized appreciation or
depreciation is recorded. The Fund will realize a gain or loss upon the
expiration or closing of the option transaction. When an option is exercised,
the proceeds on sales for a written call option, the purchase cost for a
written put option, or the cost of the security for a purchased put or call
option is adjusted by the amount of premium received or paid.
Securities designated to cover outstanding call options are noted in the
Statement of Investments where applicable. Shares subject to call, expiration
date, exercise price, premium received and market value are detailed in a note
to the Statement of Investments. Options written are reported as a liability in
the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Realized gains and losses are reported
in the Statement of Operations.
The risk in writing a call option is that the Fund gives up the opportunity
for profit if the market price of the security increases and the option is
exercised. The risk in writing a put option is that the Fund may incur a loss
if the market price of the security decreases and the option is exercised. The
risk in buying an option is that the Fund pays a premium whether or not the
option is exercised. The Fund also has the additional risk of not being able to
enter into a closing transaction if a liquid secondary market does not exist.

Written option activity for the year ended June 30, 2003 was as follows:

Call Options Put Options
----------------------- ------------------------
Number of Amount of Number of Amount of
Contracts Premiums Contracts Premiums
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Options outstanding as of
June 30, 2002 -- $ -- -- $ --
Options written 1,030 121,608 2,200 87,099
Options closed or expired (500) (75,999) (500) (14,500)
Options exercised (530) (45,609) -- --
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Options outstanding as of
June 30, 2003 -- $ -- 1,700 $ 72,599
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7. Borrowing and Lending Arrangements
The Fund entered into an "interfund borrowing and lending arrangement" with
other funds in the Oppenheimer funds complex, to allow funds to borrow for
liquidity purposes. The arrangement was initiated pursuant to exemptive relief
granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow these affiliated
funds to lend money to, and borrow money from, each other, in an attempt to
reduce borrowing costs below those of bank loan facilities. Under the
arrangement the Fund may lend money to other Oppenheimer funds and may borrow
from other Oppenheimer funds at a rate set by the Fund's Board of Trustees,
based upon a recommendation by the Manager. The Fund's borrowings, if any, are
subject to asset coverage requirements under the Investment Company Act and the
provisions of the SEC order and other applicable regulations. If the Fund
borrows money, there is a risk that the loan could be called on one day's
notice, in which case the Fund might have to borrow from a bank at higher rates
if a loan were not available from another Oppenheimer fund. If the Fund lends
money to another fund, it will be subject to the risk that the other fund might
not repay the loan in a timely manner, or at all.
The Fund had no interfund borrowings or loans outstanding during the year
ended or at June 30, 2003.

Appendix A

Industry Classifications

Aerospace & Defense Household Products
Air Freight & Couriers Industrial Conglomerates
Airlines Insurance
Auto Components Internet & Catalog Retail
Automobiles Internet Software & Services
Beverages IT Services
Biotechnology Leisure Equipment & Products
Building Products Machinery
Chemicals Marine
Consumer Finance Media
Commercial Banks Metals & Mining
Commercial Services & Supplies Multiline Retail
Communications Equipment Multi-Utilities
Computers & Peripherals Office Electronics
Construction & Engineering Oil & Gas
Construction Materials Paper & Forest Products
Containers & Packaging Personal Products
Distributors Pharmaceuticals
Diversified Financial Services Real Estate
Diversified Telecommunication Road & Rail
Services
Electric Utilities Semiconductors and Semiconductor

Equipment

Electrical Equipment Software
Electronic Equipment & Instruments Specialty Retail
Energy Equipment & Services Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods
Food & Staples Retailing Thrifts & Mortgage Finance
Food Products Tobacco
Gas Utilities Trading Companies & Distributors
Health Care Equipment & Supplies Transportation Infrastructure
Health Care Providers & Services Water Utilities
Hotels Restaurants & Leisure Wireless Telecommunication Services
Household Durables

Appendix B

OppenheimerFunds Special Sales Charge Arrangements and Waivers

In certain cases, the initial sales charge that applies to purchases of Class A
shares3 of the Oppenheimer funds or the contingent deferred sales charge that
may apply to Class A, Class B or Class C shares may be waived.4 That is because
of the economies of sales efforts realized by OppenheimerFunds Distributor,
Inc., (referred to in this document as the "Distributor"), or by dealers or
other financial institutions that offer those shares to certain classes of
investors.

Not all waivers apply to all funds. For example, waivers relating to Retirement
Plans do not apply to Oppenheimer municipal funds, because shares of those funds
are not available for purchase by or on behalf of retirement plans. Other
waivers apply only to shareholders of certain funds.

For the purposes of some of the waivers described below and in the Prospectus
and Statement of Additional Information of the applicable Oppenheimer funds, the
term "Retirement Plan" refers to the following types of plans:
1) plans qualified under Sections 401(a) or 401(k) of the Internal
Revenue Code,
2) non-qualified deferred compensation plans, 3) employee benefit
plans5
4) Group Retirement Plans6 5) 403(b)(7) custodial plan accounts
6) Individual Retirement Accounts ("IRAs"), including traditional IRAs,
Roth IRAs, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs or SIMPLE plans

The interpretation of these provisions as to the applicability of a special
arrangement or waiver in a particular case is in the sole discretion of the
Distributor or the transfer agent (referred to in this document as the "Transfer
Agent") of the particular Oppenheimer fund. These waivers and special
arrangements may be amended or terminated at any time by a particular fund, the
Distributor, and/or OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (referred to in this document as the
"Manager").

Waivers that apply at the time shares are redeemed must be requested by the
shareholder and/or dealer in the redemption request. I.

Applicability of Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charges in Certain Cases
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Purchases of Class A Shares of Oppenheimer Funds That Are Not Subject to Initial
Sales Charge but May Be Subject to the Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge
(unless a waiver applies).

There is no initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares of any of
the Oppenheimer funds in the cases listed below. However, these purchases may be
subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge if redeemed within 18
months (24 months in the case of Oppenheimer Rochester National Municipals and
Rochester Fund Municipals) of the beginning of the calendar month of their
purchase, as described in the Prospectus (unless a waiver described elsewhere in
this Appendix applies to the redemption). Additionally, on shares purchased
under these waivers that are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales
charge, the Distributor will pay the applicable concession described in the
Prospectus under "Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge."7 This waiver
provision applies to: |_| Purchases of Class A shares aggregating $1 million or
more. |_| Purchases of Class A shares by a Retirement Plan that was permitted to
purchase such shares at net asset value but subject to a contingent
deferred sales charge prior to March 1, 2001. That included plans
(other than IRA or 403(b)(7) Custodial Plans) that: 1) bought shares
costing $500,000 or more, 2) had at the time of purchase 100 or more
eligible employees or total plan assets of $500,000 or more, or 3)
certified to the Distributor that it projects to have annual plan
purchases of $200,000 or more.
|_| Purchases by an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Rollover IRA, if the
purchases are made:
1) through a broker, dealer, bank or registered investment adviser
that has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those
purchases, or
2) by a direct rollover of a distribution from a qualified Retirement
Plan if the administrator of that Plan has made special arrangements
with the Distributor for those purchases.
|_| Purchases of Class A shares by Retirement Plans that have any of the
following record-keeping arrangements: 1) The record keeping is
performed by Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner &
Smith, Inc. ("Merrill Lynch") on a daily valuation basis for the
Retirement Plan. On the date the plan sponsor signs the
record-keeping service agreement with Merrill Lynch, the Plan must
have $3 million or more of its assets invested in (a) mutual funds,
other than those advised or managed by Merrill Lynch Investment
Management, L.P. ("MLIM"), that are made available under a Service
Agreement between Merrill Lynch and the mutual fund's principal
underwriter or distributor, and (b) funds advised or managed by MLIM
(the funds described in (a) and (b) are referred to as "Applicable
Investments").
2) The record keeping for the Retirement Plan is performed on a daily
valuation basis by a record keeper whose services are provided under
a contract or arrangement between the Retirement Plan and Merrill
Lynch. On the date the plan sponsor signs the record keeping service
agreement with Merrill Lynch, the Plan must have $3 million or more
of its assets (excluding assets invested in money market funds)
invested in Applicable Investments.
3) The record keeping for a Retirement Plan is handled under a service
agreement with Merrill Lynch and on the date the plan sponsor signs
that agreement, the Plan has 500 or more eligible employees (as
determined by the Merrill Lynch plan conversion manager).
II.

Waivers of Class A Sales Charges of Oppenheimer Funds
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A. Waivers of Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges for Certain
Purchasers.

Class A shares purchased by the following investors are not subject to any Class
A sales charges (and no concessions are paid by the Distributor on such
purchases):
|_| The Manager or its affiliates.
|_| Present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees (and
their "immediate families") of the Fund, the Manager and its
affiliates, and retirement plans established by them for their
employees. The term "immediate family" refers to one's spouse,
children, grandchildren, grandparents, parents, parents-in-law,
brothers and sisters, sons- and daughters-in-law, a sibling's
spouse, a spouse's siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews;
relatives by virtue of a remarriage (step-children, step-parents,
etc.) are included.
|_| Registered management investment companies, or separate accounts of
insurance companies having an agreement with the Manager or the
Distributor for that purpose.
|_| Dealers or brokers that have a sales agreement with the Distributor, if
they purchase shares for their own accounts or for retirement plans for
their employees.
|_| Employees and registered representatives (and their spouses) of dealers
or brokers described above or financial institutions that have
entered into sales arrangements with such dealers or brokers (and
which are identified as such to the Distributor) or with the
Distributor. The purchaser must certify to the Distributor at the
time of purchase that the purchase is for the purchaser's own
account (or for the benefit of such employee's spouse or minor
children).
|_| Dealers, brokers, banks or registered investment advisors that have
entered into an agreement with the Distributor providing specifically
for the use of shares of the Fund in particular investment products
made available to their clients. Those clients may be charged a
transaction fee by their dealer, broker, bank or advisor for the
purchase or sale of Fund shares.
|_| Investment advisors and financial planners who have entered into an
agreement for this purpose with the Distributor and who charge an
advisory, consulting or other fee for their services and buy shares for
their own accounts or the accounts of their clients.
|_| "Rabbi trusts" that buy shares for their own accounts, if the purchases
are made through a broker or agent or other financial intermediary that
has made special arrangements with the Distributor for those purchases.
|_| Clients of investment advisors or financial planners (that have entered
into an agreement for this purpose with the Distributor) who buy
shares for their own accounts may also purchase shares without sales
charge but only if their accounts are linked to a master account of
their investment advisor or financial planner on the books and
records of the broker, agent or financial intermediary with which
the Distributor has made such special arrangements . Each of these
investors may be charged a fee by the broker, agent or financial
intermediary for purchasing shares.
|_| Directors, trustees, officers or full-time employees of OpCap Advisors
or its affiliates, their relatives or any trust, pension, profit
sharing or other benefit plan which beneficially owns shares for those
persons.
|_| Accounts for which Oppenheimer Capital (or its successor) is the
investment advisor (the Distributor must be advised of this
arrangement) and persons who are directors or trustees of the company
or trust which is the beneficial owner of such accounts.
|_| A unit investment trust that has entered into an appropriate agreement
with the Distributor.
|_| Dealers, brokers, banks, or registered investment advisers that have
entered into an agreement with the Distributor to sell shares to
defined contribution employee retirement plans for which the dealer,
broker or investment adviser provides administration services.
|-|

Retirement Plans and deferred compensation plans and trusts used to fund
those plans (including, for example, plans qualified or created under
sections 401(a), 401(k), 403(b) or 457 of the Internal Revenue Code),
in each case if those purchases are made through a broker, agent or
other financial intermediary that has made special arrangements with
the Distributor for those purchases.
|_| A TRAC-2000 401(k) plan (sponsored by the former Quest for Value
Advisors) whose Class B or Class C shares of a Former Quest for Value
Fund were exchanged for Class A shares of that Fund due to the
termination of the Class B and Class C TRAC-2000 program on November
24, 1995.
|_| A qualified Retirement Plan that had agreed with the former Quest for
Value Advisors to purchase shares of any of the Former Quest for Value
Funds at net asset value, with such shares to be held through
DCXchange, a sub-transfer agency mutual fund clearinghouse, if that
arrangement was consummated and share purchases commenced by December
31, 1996.

B. Waivers of Initial and Contingent Deferred Sales Charges in Certain
Transactions.

Class A shares issued or purchased in the following transactions are not subject
to sales charges (and no concessions are paid by the Distributor on such
purchases):
|_| Shares issued in plans of reorganization, such as mergers, asset
acquisitions and exchange offers, to which the Fund is a party.
|_| Shares purchased by the reinvestment of dividends or other
distributions reinvested from the Fund or other Oppenheimer funds
(other than Oppenheimer Cash Reserves) or unit investment trusts for
which reinvestment arrangements have been made with the Distributor.
|_| Shares purchased through a broker-dealer that has entered into a
special agreement with the Distributor to allow the broker's
customers to purchase and pay for shares of Oppenheimer funds using
the proceeds of shares redeemed in the prior 30 days from a mutual
fund (other than a fund managed by the Manager or any of its
subsidiaries) on which an initial sales charge or contingent
deferred sales charge was paid. This waiver also applies to shares
purchased by exchange of shares of Oppenheimer Money Market Fund,
Inc. that were purchased and paid for in this manner. This waiver
must be requested when the purchase order is placed for shares of
the Fund, and the Distributor may require evidence of qualification
for this waiver.
|_| Shares purchased with the proceeds of maturing principal units of any
Qualified Unit Investment Liquid Trust Series.
|_| Shares purchased by the reinvestment of loan repayments by a
participant in a Retirement Plan for which the Manager or an affiliate
acts as sponsor.

C. Waivers of the Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge for Certain
Redemptions.

The Class A contingent deferred sales charge is also waived if shares that would
otherwise be subject to the contingent deferred sales charge are redeemed in the
following cases:
|_| To make Automatic Withdrawal Plan payments that are limited annually to
no more than 12% of the account value adjusted annually.
|_| Involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law or involuntary
redemptions of small accounts (please refer to "Shareholder Account
Rules and Policies," in the applicable fund Prospectus).
|_| For distributions from Retirement Plans, deferred compensation plans or
other employee benefit plans for any of the following purposes: 1)
Following the death or disability (as defined in the Internal
Revenue Code) of the participant or beneficiary. The death or
disability must occur after the participant's account was
established.
2) To return excess contributions.
3) To return contributions made due to a mistake of fact. 4) Hardship
withdrawals, as defined in the plan.8 5) Under a Qualified Domestic
Relations Order, as defined in the
Internal Revenue Code, or, in the case of an IRA, a divorce or
separation agreement described in Section 71(b) of the Internal
Revenue Code.
6) To meet the minimum distribution requirements of the Internal
Revenue Code.
7) To make "substantially equal periodic payments" as described in
Section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code.
8) For loans to participants or beneficiaries. 9) Separation from
service.9
10)Participant-directed redemptions to purchase shares of a mutual
fund (other than a fund managed by the Manager or a subsidiary of
the Manager) if the plan has made special arrangements with the
Distributor.
11)Plan termination or "in-service distributions," if the redemption
proceeds are rolled over directly to an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored
IRA.
|_| For distributions from 401(k) plans sponsored by broker-dealers that
have entered into a special agreement with the Distributor allowing
this waiver.
|_| For distributions from retirement plans that have $10 million or more
in plan assets and that have entered into a special agreement with the
Distributor.
|_| For distributions from retirement plans which are part of a retirement
plan product or platform offered by certain banks, broker-dealers,
financial advisors, insurance companies or record keepers which have
entered into a special agreement with the Distributor.
III. Waivers of Class B, Class C and Class N Sales Charges of Oppenheimer
Funds
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charges will not be
applied to shares purchased in certain types of transactions or redeemed in
certain circumstances described below.

A. Waivers for Redemptions in Certain Cases.

The Class B, Class C and Class N contingent deferred sales charges will be
waived for redemptions of shares in the following cases: |_| Shares redeemed
involuntarily, as described in "Shareholder Account
Rules and Policies," in the applicable Prospectus.
|_| Redemptions from accounts other than Retirement Plans following the
death or disability of the last surviving shareholder. The death or
disability must have occurred after the account was established, and
for disability you must provide evidence of a determination of
disability by the Social Security Administration.
|_| The contingent deferred sales charges are generally not waived
following the death or disability of a grantor or trustee for a
trust account. The contingent deferred sales charges will only be
waived in the limited case of the death of the trustee of a grantor
trust or revocable living trust for which the trustee is also the
sole beneficiary. The death or disability must have occurred after
the account was established, and for disability you must provide
evidence of a determination of disability by the Social Security
Administration.
|_| Distributions from accounts for which the broker-dealer of record has
entered into a special agreement with the Distributor allowing this
waiver.
|_| Redemptions of Class B shares held by Retirement Plans whose records
are maintained on a daily valuation basis by Merrill Lynch or an
independent record keeper under a contract with Merrill Lynch.
|_| Redemptions of Class C shares of Oppenheimer U.S. Government Trust from
accounts of clients of financial institutions that have entered into a
special arrangement with the Distributor for this purpose.
|_| Redemptions requested in writing by a Retirement Plan sponsor of Class
C shares of an Oppenheimer fund in amounts of $500,000 or more and made
more than 12 months after the Retirement Plan's first purchase of Class
C shares, if the redemption proceeds are invested in Class N shares of
one or more Oppenheimer funds.
|_| Distributions10 from Retirement Plans or other employee benefit plans
for any of the following purposes: 1) Following the death or disability
(as defined in the Internal
Revenue Code) of the participant or beneficiary. The death or
disability must occur after the participant's account was
established in an Oppenheimer fund.
2) To return excess contributions made to a participant's account. 3)
To return contributions made due to a mistake of fact. 4) To make
hardship withdrawals, as defined in the plan.11 5) To make
distributions required under a Qualified Domestic
Relations Order or, in the case of an IRA, a divorce or separation
agreement described in Section 71(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.
6) To meet the minimum distribution requirements of the Internal
Revenue Code.
7) To make "substantially equal periodic payments" as described in
Section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code.
8) For loans to participants or beneficiaries.12 9) On account of the
participant's separation from service.13 10) Participant-directed
redemptions to purchase shares of a
mutual fund (other than a fund managed by the Manager or a
subsidiary of the Manager) offered as an investment option in a
Retirement Plan if the plan has made special arrangements with the
Distributor.
11)Distributions made on account of a plan termination or "in-service"
distributions, if the redemption proceeds are rolled over directly
to an OppenheimerFunds-sponsored IRA.
12)For distributions from a participant's account under an Automatic
Withdrawal Plan after the participant reaches age 59 1/2, as long as
the aggregate value of the distributions does not exceed 10% of the
account's value, adjusted annually.
13)Redemptions of Class B shares under an Automatic Withdrawal Plan
for an account other than a Retirement Plan, if the aggregate value
of the redeemed shares does not exceed 10% of the account's value,
adjusted annually.
14)For distributions from 401(k) plans sponsored by broker-dealers
that have entered into a special arrangement with the Distributor
allowing this waiver.
|_| Redemptions of Class B shares or Class C shares under an Automatic
Withdrawal Plan from an account other than a Retirement Plan if the
aggregate value of the redeemed shares does not exceed 10% of the
account's value annually.

B. Waivers for Shares Sold or Issued in Certain Transactions.

The contingent deferred sales charge is also waived on Class B and Class C
shares sold or issued in the following cases: |_| Shares sold to the Manager or
its affiliates.
|_| Shares sold to registered management investment companies or separate
accounts of insurance companies having an agreement with the Manager or
the Distributor for that purpose.
|_| Shares issued in plans of reorganization to which the Fund is a party. |_|
Shares sold to present or former officers, directors, trustees or
employees (and their "immediate families" as defined above in
Section I.A.) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates and
retirement plans established by them for their employees.
IV. Special Sales Charge Arrangements for Shareholders of Certain
Oppenheimer Funds Who Were Shareholders of Former Quest for Value Funds
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The initial and contingent deferred sales charge rates and waivers for Class A,
Class B and Class C shares described in the Prospectus or Statement of
Additional Information of the Oppenheimer funds are modified as described below
for certain persons who were shareholders of the former Quest for Value Funds.
To be eligible, those persons must have been shareholders on November 24, 1995,
when OppenheimerFunds, Inc. became the investment advisor to those former Quest
for Value Funds. Those funds include:

Oppenheimer Quest Value Fund, Inc. Oppenheimer Small Cap Value
Fund
Oppenheimer Quest Balanced Value Fund Oppenheimer Quest
International Value Fund, Inc.

Oppenheimer Quest Opportunity Value Fund

These arrangements also apply to shareholders of the following funds when
they merged (were reorganized) into various Oppenheimer funds on November 24,
1995:

Quest for Value U.S. Government Income Fund Quest for Value New York
Tax-Exempt Fund
Quest for Value Investment Quality Income Fund Quest for Value
National Tax-Exempt Fund
Quest for Value Global Income Fund Quest for Value California
Tax-Exempt Fund

All of the funds listed above are referred to in this Appendix as the
"Former Quest for Value Funds." The waivers of initial and contingent deferred
sales charges described in this Appendix apply to shares of an Oppenheimer fund
that are either:
|_| acquired by such shareholder pursuant to an exchange of shares of an
Oppenheimer fund that was one of the Former Quest for Value Funds, or
|_| purchased by such shareholder by exchange of shares of another
Oppenheimer fund that were acquired pursuant to the merger of any of
the Former Quest for Value Funds into that other Oppenheimer fund on
November 24, 1995.

A. Reductions or Waivers of Class A Sales Charges.

Reduced Class A Initial Sales Charge Rates for Certain Former Quest for
Value Funds Shareholders.

Purchases by Groups and Associations. The following table sets forth the initial
sales charge rates for Class A shares purchased by members of "Associations"
formed for any purpose other than the purchase of securities. The rates in the
table apply if that Association purchased shares of any of the Former Quest for
Value Funds or received a proposal to purchase such shares from OCC Distributors
prior to November 24, 1995.

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Initial Sales Initial Sales Charge Concession as
Number of Eligible Charge as a % of as a % of Net Amount % of Offering
Employees or Members Offering Price Invested Price
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9 or Fewer 2.50% 2.56% 2.00%
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At least 10 but not 2.00% 2.04% 1.60%
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For purchases by Associations having 50 or more eligible employees or
members, there is no initial sales charge on purchases of Class A shares, but
those shares are subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales charge
described in the applicable fund's Prospectus.

Purchases made under this arrangement qualify for the lower of either the
sales charge rate in the table based on the number of members of an Association,
or the sales charge rate that applies under the Right of Accumulation described
in the applicable fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information.
Individuals who qualify under this arrangement for reduced sales charge rates as
members of Associations also may purchase shares for their individual or
custodial accounts at these reduced sales charge rates, upon request to the
Distributor.

Waiver of Class A Sales Charges for Certain Shareholders. Class A shares
purchased by the following investors are not subject to any Class A initial or
contingent deferred sales charges:
Shareholders who were shareholders of the AMA Family of Funds on
February 28, 1991 and who acquired shares of any of the Former Quest
for Value Funds by merger of a portfolio of the AMA Family of Funds.
Shareholders who acquired shares of any Former Quest for Value Fund by
merger of any of the portfolios of the Unified Funds.

Waiver of Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge in Certain
Transactions. The Class A contingent deferred sales charge will not apply to
redemptions of Class A shares purchased by the following investors who were
shareholders of any Former Quest for Value Fund:

Investors who purchased Class A shares from a dealer that is or was not
permitted to receive a sales load or redemption fee imposed on a shareholder
with whom that dealer has a fiduciary relationship, under the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and regulations adopted under that law.

B. Class A, Class B and Class C Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers.

Waivers for Redemptions of Shares Purchased Prior to March 6, 1995. In the
following cases, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for
redemptions of Class A, Class B or Class C shares of an Oppenheimer fund. The
shares must have been acquired by the merger of a Former Quest for Value Fund
into the fund or by exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Quest
for Value Fund or into which such fund merged. Those shares must have been
purchased prior to March 6, 1995 in connection with:
withdrawals under an automatic withdrawal plan holding only either
Class B or Class C shares if the annual withdrawal does not exceed
10% of the initial value of the account value, adjusted annually,
and
liquidation of a shareholder's account if the aggregate net asset value
of shares held in the account is less than the required minimum
value of such accounts.

Waivers for Redemptions of Shares Purchased on or After March 6, 1995 but
Prior to November 24, 1995. In the following cases, the contingent deferred
sales charge will be waived for redemptions of Class A, Class B or Class C
shares of an Oppenheimer fund. The shares must have been acquired by the merger
of a Former Quest for Value Fund into the fund or by exchange from an
Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Quest For Value Fund or into which such
Former Quest for Value Fund merged. Those shares must have been purchased on or
after March 6, 1995, but prior to November 24, 1995:
redemptions following the death or disability of the shareholder(s)
(as evidenced by a determination of total disability by the U.S.
Social Security Administration);
withdrawals under an automatic withdrawal plan (but only for Class B or
Class C shares) where the annual withdrawals do not exceed 10% of
the initial value of the account value; adjusted annually, and
liquidation of a shareholder's account if the aggregate net asset value
of shares held in the account is less than the required minimum
account value.

A shareholder's account will be credited with the amount of any contingent
deferred sales charge paid on the redemption of any Class A, Class B or Class C
shares of the Oppenheimer fund described in this section if the proceeds are
invested in the same Class of shares in that fund or another Oppenheimer fund
within 90 days after redemption.
V. Special Sales Charge Arrangements for Shareholders of Certain
Oppenheimer Funds Who Were Shareholders of Connecticut Mutual
Investment Accounts, Inc.
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The initial and contingent deferred sale charge rates and waivers for Class A
and Class B shares described in the respective Prospectus (or this Appendix) of
the following Oppenheimer funds (each is referred to as a "Fund" in this
section):
Oppenheimer U. S. Government Trust,
Oppenheimer Bond Fund,
Oppenheimer Value Fund and
Oppenheimer Disciplined Allocation Fund
are modified as described below for those Fund shareholders who were
shareholders of the following funds (referred to as the "Former Connecticut
Mutual Funds") on March 1, 1996, when OppenheimerFunds, Inc. became the
investment adviser to the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds:
Connecticut Mutual Liquid Account Connecticut Mutual Total Return Account
Connecticut Mutual Government Securities Account CMIA LifeSpan Capital
Appreciation Account Connecticut Mutual Income Account CMIA LifeSpan Balanced
Account Connecticut Mutual Growth Account CMIA Diversified Income Account

A. Prior Class A CDSC and Class A Sales Charge Waivers.

Class A Contingent Deferred Sales Charge. Certain shareholders of a Fund
and the other Former Connecticut Mutual Funds are entitled to continue to make
additional purchases of Class A shares at net asset value without a Class A
initial sales charge, but subject to the Class A contingent deferred sales
charge that was in effect prior to March 18, 1996 (the "prior Class A CDSC").
Under the prior Class A CDSC, if any of those shares are redeemed within one
year of purchase, they will be assessed a 1% contingent deferred sales charge on
an amount equal to the current market value or the original purchase price of
the shares sold, whichever is smaller (in such redemptions, any shares not
subject to the prior Class A CDSC will be redeemed first).

Those shareholders who are eligible for the prior Class A CDSC are: 1)
persons whose purchases of Class A shares of a Fund and other
Former Connecticut Mutual Funds were $500,000 prior to March 18,
1996, as a result of direct purchases or purchases pursuant to the
Fund's policies on Combined Purchases or Rights of Accumulation, who
still hold those shares in that Fund or other Former Connecticut
Mutual Funds, and
2) persons whose intended purchases under a Statement of Intention
entered into prior to March 18, 1996, with the former general
distributor of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds to purchase
shares valued at $500,000 or more over a 13-month period entitled
those persons to purchase shares at net asset value without being
subject to the Class A initial sales charge

Any of the Class A shares of a Fund and the other Former Connecticut
Mutual Funds that were purchased at net asset value prior to March 18, 1996,
remain subject to the prior Class A CDSC, or if any additional shares are
purchased by those shareholders at net asset value pursuant to this arrangement
they will be subject to the prior Class A CDSC.

Class A Sales Charge Waivers. Additional Class A shares of a Fund may be
purchased without a sales charge, by a person who was in one (or more) of the
categories below and acquired Class A shares prior to March 18, 1996, and still
holds Class A shares:
1) any purchaser, provided the total initial amount invested in the
Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds
totaled $500,000 or more, including investments made pursuant to the
Combined Purchases, Statement of Intention and Rights of
Accumulation features available at the time of the initial purchase
and such investment is still held in one or more of the Former
Connecticut Mutual Funds or a Fund into which such Fund merged;
2) any participant in a qualified plan, provided that the total initial
amount invested by the plan in the Fund or any one or more of the
Former Connecticut Mutual Funds totaled $500,000 or more;
3) Directors of the Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut
Mutual Funds and members of their immediate families;
4) employee benefit plans sponsored by Connecticut Mutual Financial
Services, L.L.C. ("CMFS"), the prior distributor of the Former
Connecticut Mutual Funds, and its affiliated companies;
5) one or more members of a group of at least 1,000 persons (and
persons who are retirees from such group) engaged in a common
business, profession, civic or charitable endeavor or other
activity, and the spouses and minor dependent children of such
persons, pursuant to a marketing program between CMFS and such
group; and
6) an institution acting as a fiduciary on behalf of an individual or
individuals, if such institution was directly compensated by the
individual(s) for recommending the purchase of the shares of the
Fund or any one or more of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds,
provided the institution had an agreement with CMFS.

Purchases of Class A shares made pursuant to (1) and (2) above may be
subject to the Class A CDSC of the Former Connecticut Mutual Funds described
above.

Additionally, Class A shares of a Fund may be purchased without a sales
charge by any holder of a variable annuity contract issued in New York State by
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company through the Panorama Separate Account
which is beyond the applicable surrender charge period and which was used to
fund a qualified plan, if that holder exchanges the variable annuity contract
proceeds to buy Class A shares of the Fund.

B. Class A and Class B Contingent Deferred Sales Charge Waivers.

In addition to the waivers set forth in the Prospectus and in this Appendix,
above, the contingent deferred sales charge will be waived for redemptions of
Class A and Class B shares of a Fund and exchanges of Class A or Class B shares
of a Fund into Class A or Class B shares of a Former Connecticut Mutual Fund
provided that the Class A or Class B shares of the Fund to be redeemed or
exchanged were (i) acquired prior to March 18, 1996 or (ii) were acquired by
exchange from an Oppenheimer fund that was a Former Connecticut Mutual Fund.
Additionally, the shares of such Former Connecticut Mutual Fund must have been
purchased prior to March 18, 1996:
1) by the estate of a deceased shareholder;
2) upon the disability of a shareholder, as defined in Section 72(m)(7) of
the Internal Revenue Code;
3) for retirement distributions (or loans) to participants or beneficiaries
from retirement plans qualified under Sections 401(a) or 403(b)(7)of the
Code, or from IRAs, deferred compensation plans created under Section 457
of the Code, or other employee benefit plans;
4) as tax-free returns of excess contributions to such retirement or employee
benefit plans;
5) in whole or in part, in connection with shares sold to any state, county,
or city, or any instrumentality, department, authority, or agency thereof,
that is prohibited by applicable investment laws from paying a sales
charge or concession in connection with the purchase of shares of any
registered investment management company;
6) in connection with the redemption of shares of the Fund due to a
combination with another investment company by virtue of a merger,
acquisition or similar reorganization transaction;
7) in connection with the Fund's right to involuntarily redeem or liquidate
the Fund;
8) in connection with automatic redemptions of Class A shares and Class B
shares in certain retirement plan accounts pursuant to an Automatic
Withdrawal Plan but limited to no more than 12% of the original value
annually; or
9) as involuntary redemptions of shares by operation of law, or under
procedures set forth in the Fund's Articles of Incorporation, or as
adopted by the Board of Directors of the Fund.
VI. Special Reduced Sales Charge for Former Shareholders of Advance
America Funds, Inc.
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Shareholders of Oppenheimer Municipal Bond Fund, Oppenheimer U.S. Government
Trust, Oppenheimer Strategic Income Fund and Oppenheimer Capital Income Fund
who acquired (and still hold) shares of those funds as a result of the
reorganization of series of Advance America Funds, Inc. into those
Oppenheimer funds on October 18, 1991, and who held shares of Advance America
Funds, Inc. on March 30, 1990, may purchase Class A shares of those four
Oppenheimer funds at a maximum sales charge rate of 4.50%.
VII. Sales Charge Waivers on Purchases of Class M Shares of Oppenheimer
Convertible Securities Fund
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Oppenheimer Convertible Securities Fund (referred to as the "Fund" in this
section) may sell Class M shares at net asset value without any initial sales
charge to the classes of investors listed below who, prior to March 11, 1996,
owned shares of the Fund's then-existing Class A and were permitted to purchase
those shares at net asset value without sales charge: |_| the Manager and its
affiliates, |_| present or former officers, directors, trustees and employees
(and
their "immediate families" as defined in the Fund's Statement of
Additional Information) of the Fund, the Manager and its affiliates,
and retirement plans established by them or the prior investment
advisor of the Fund for their employees,
|_| registered management investment companies or separate accounts of
insurance companies that had an agreement with the Fund's prior
investment advisor or distributor for that purpose,
|_| dealers or brokers that have a sales agreement with the Distributor, if
they purchase shares for their own accounts or for retirement plans for
their employees,
|_| employees and registered representatives (and their spouses) of dealers
or brokers described in the preceding section or financial institutions
that have entered into sales arrangements with those dealers or brokers
(and whose identity is made known to the Distributor) or with the
Distributor, but only if the purchaser certifies to the Distributor at
the time of purchase that the purchaser meets these qualifications,

|_| dealers, brokers, or registered investment advisors that had entered
into an agreement with the Distributor or the prior distributor of
the Fund specifically providing for the use of Class M shares of the
Fund in specific investment products made available to their
clients, and|_| dealers, brokers or registered investment
advisors that had entered into an agreement with the Distributor or
prior distributor of the Fund's shares to sell shares to defined
contribution employee retirement plans for which the dealer, broker,
or investment advisor provides administrative serviceB-1 |_| s.

Oppenheimer Gold & Special Minerals Fund

Internet Website
WWW.OPPENHEIMERFUNDS.COM

Investment Advisor

OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
Two World Financial Center
225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor
New York, New York 10080

Distributor

OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc.
Two World Financial Center
225 Liberty Street, 11th Floor
New York, New York 10080

Transfer Agent
OppenheimerFunds Services
P.O. Box 5270 Denver, Colorado 80217 1.800.CALLOPP(225.5677)

Custodian Bank
Citibank, N.A.
111 Wall Street
New York, New York 10005

Independent Auditors
KPMG LLP
707 Seventeenth Street
Denver, Colorado 80202

Legal Counsel
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP
1675 Broadway
New York, New York 10019

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1 Mr. Motley was elected as Trustee to the Board I Funds effective October 10,
2002.
2 In accordance with Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act, the term
"Independent Trustees" in this Statement of Additional Information refers to
those Trustees who are not "interested persons" of the Fund and who do not have
any direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the distribution
plan or any agreement under the plan.
3 Certain waivers also apply to Class M shares of Oppenheimer Convertible
Securities Fund.
4 In the case of Oppenheimer Senior Floating Rate Fund, a
continuously-offered closed-end fund, references to contingent deferred sales
charges mean the Fund's Early Withdrawal Charges and references to "redemptions"
mean "repurchases" of shares.
5 An "employee benefit plan" means any plan or arrangement, whether or not it is
"qualified" under the Internal Revenue Code, under which Class N shares of an
Oppenheimer fund or funds are purchased by a fiduciary or other administrator
for the account of participants who are employees of a single employer or of
affiliated employers. These may include, for example, medical savings accounts,
payroll deduction plans or similar plans. The fund accounts must be registered
in the name of the fiduciary or administrator purchasing the shares for the
benefit of participants in the plan.
6 The term "Group Retirement Plan" means
any qualified or non-qualified retirement plan for employees of a corporation or
sole proprietorship, members and employees of a partnership or association or
other organized group of persons (the members of which may include other
groups), if the group has made special arrangements with the Distributor and all
members of the group participating in (or who are eligible to participate in)
the plan purchase shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds through a single
investment dealer, broker or other financial institution designated by the
group. Such plans include 457 plans, SEP-IRAs, SARSEPs, SIMPLE plans and 403(b)
plans other than plans for public school employees. The term "Group Retirement
Plan" also includes qualified retirement plans and non-qualified deferred
compensation plans and IRAs that purchase shares of an Oppenheimer fund or funds
through a single investment dealer, broker or other financial institution that
has made special arrangements with the Distributor.
7 However, that concession will not be paid on purchases of shares in amounts of
$1 million or more (including any right of accumulation) by a Retirement Plan
that pays for the purchase with the redemption proceeds of Class C shares of one
or more Oppenheimer funds held by the Plan for more than one year.
8 This provision does not apply to IRAs.
9 This provision does not apply to 403(b)(7) custodial plans if the participant
is less than age 55, nor to IRAs.
10 The distribution must be requested prior to Plan termination or the
elimination of the Oppenheimer funds as an investment option under the Plan.
11 This provision does not apply to IRAs.
12 This provision does not apply to loans from 403(b)(7) custodial plans and
loans from the OppenheimerFunds-sponsored Single K retirement plan.
13 This provision does not apply to 403(b)(7) custodial plans if the participant
is less than age 55, nor to IRAs.