Suggest you start with a tiny % in a good book on Investment Planning and train yourself. I can't recommend this strongly enough. Investing the 30k without some kind of personal training is gambling. Putting too much on deposits exposes you to very high inflation risk and concentrating too much in risky assets exposes you to large falls in value. The book will teach you how to inform your thinking before asset selection. Try "Investment Planning for Dummies" by Eric Tyson in the excellent dummies series. You'll get it on Amazon.com.