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Available-for-sale Financial Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
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Available-for-sale Financial Assets |
9. | AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE FINANCIAL ASSETS
|  | December 31, 2016 |  |  | December 31, 2017 |
|  | NT$ |  |  | NT$ |
|  | (In Millions) |  |  | (In Millions) |
Corporate bonds |  | $ | 29,999.5 |  |  | $ | 40,165.2 |
Agency bonds/Agency mortgage-backed securities |  |  | 14,880.5 |  |  |  | 29,235.4 |
Asset-backed securities |  |  | 11,254.7 |  |  |  | 13,459.5 |
Government bonds |  |  | 8,457.4 |  |  |  | 7,817.7 |
Publicly traded stocks |  |  | 3,196.7 |  |  |  | 2,548.1 |
Non-publicly traded stocks |  |  | 2,944.9 |  |  |  | 2,532.3 |
Mutual funds |  |  | 1,157.6 |  |  |  | 2,342.0 |
Commercial paper |  |  | — |  |  |  | 148.3 |
|  | $ | 71,891.3 |  |  | $ | 98,248.5 |
Current portion |  | $ | 67,788.8 |  |  | $ | 93,374.2 |
Noncurrent portion |  |  | 4,102.5 |  |  |  | 4,874.3 |
|  | $ | 71,891.3 |  |  | $ | 98,248.5 |
Since there is a wide range of estimated fair values of the Company’s investments in non-publicly traded stocks, the Company concludes that the fair value cannot be reliably measured and therefore should be measured at the cost less any impairment.

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