Hi Neko For AIM investing go to this board. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=949 and this site www.aim-users.com Also realize that AIM buys as a security goes down, you buy more. If it goes to zero you lose everything that was allocated to that security. If you use funds or ETFs you avoid that one risk of AIMing If you want a diversified portfolio of Large Cap, Small Cap, Foreign, REIT, Bond, you could use for instance IVE, IWN, EFA, ICF, SHY For energy you could add IYE and for materials you could add IYM but you would then have some overlap with the funds above. You could also just diversify by industry. Check out the AIM ETF board also. and don't forget to buy the book all this is based on. Just a starting point Toofuzzy