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Available-for-sale Financial Assets
 12 Months Ended
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.