If your 2013 forecast has you favoring some sectors more than others or you feel one sector is slightly overvalued and another is undervalued you can choose to overweight or underweight the sector as you're constructing your portfolio but you would still choose your representative stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats list below. For example if you thought Financials were due for a pullback you might only allocate a 13% weighting in your portfolio to Financial stocks and if you thought Industrials were due to excel in 2013 you might apply an overweighting of 13.5% to Industrial names from the list below. You can configure it however you wish, even equal weighting the ten sectors if you prefer simplicity, but the idea I employ is to start with the Dividends Artistocrats as a very selective shopping list of stocks that have proven their dedication to returning capital to shareholders for nearly 3 decades and in many cases much longer than that.