Financial Assets at Fair Value through Other Comprehensive Income Noncurrent

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Held-to-maturity financial assets [Member]

Disclosure of financial assets [Line Items]

Financial Assets at Fair Value through Other Comprehensive Income Noncurrent

9. FINANCIAL ASSETS AT FAIR VALUE THROUGH OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME - NONCURRENT – 2018

	December 31
	2018
	NT$
	(In Millions)
Domestic investments
Listed stocks	$	2,900
Non-listed stocks		3,901
Foreign investments
Non-listed stocks		132
	$	6,933

The Company holds the above foreign and domestic stocks for medium to long-term strategic purposes and expects to profit from long-term investment.  Accordingly, the management elected to designate these investments in equity instruments at FVOCI as they believe that recognizing short-term fair value fluctuations of these investments in profit or loss is not consistent with the Company’s strategy of holding these investments for long-term purposes.  These investments in equity instruments were classified as available-for-sale financial assets under IAS 39.  Refer to Note s 5 and 10 for information relating to their reclassification and comparative information for 2017.

The Company recognized dividend income of $396 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 from those investments still held on December 31, 2018.