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Available-for-sale Financial Assets-2017 (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
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Summary of Available-for-sale Financial Assets |
|  | December 31, 2017 |
|  | NT$ |
|  | (In Millions) |
Corporate bonds |  | $ | 40,165.2 |
Agency bonds/Agency mortgage-backed securities |  |  | 29,235.4 |
Asset-backed securities |  |  | 13,459.5 |
Government bonds |  |  | 7,817.7 |
Non-publicly traded equity investments |  |  | 4,874.3 |
Publicly traded stocks |  |  | 2,548.1 |
Commercial paper |  |  | 148.3 |
|  | $ | 98,248.5 |
Current portion |  | $ | 93,374.2 |
Noncurrent portion |  |  | 4,874.3 |
|  | $ | 98,248.5 |

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