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Other financial assets

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Disclosure Of Other Financial Assets [Abstract]

Other financial assets

20 Other financial assets

	Non-current 2019 US$m		Current 2019 US$m		Total 2019 US$m		Non-current 2018 US$m		Current 2018 US$m		Total 2018 US$m
Derivative financial instruments	308		58		366		468		88		556
Equity shares and quoted funds	52		9		61		53		77		130
Other investments, including loans(a)	236		2,603		2,839		255		2,527		2,782
Loans to equity accounted units	39		—		39		38		—		38
Total	635		2,670		3,305		814		2,692		3,506

(a) Current “Other investments, including loans” includes US$2,584 million (2018: US$2,522 million) of highly liquid financial assets held in managed investment funds classified as held for trading.

Detailed information relating to other financial assets is given in note 30.

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