Tom Stelzer
Tom Stelzer focuses on turning professional investing insight into clear, practical stories for everyday investors, with a particular emphasis on ASX-listed equities and portfolio strategy. He works as an editor and writer at Livewire Markets, where he specialises in investing and personal finance coverage and hosts regular video and written features on market themes. His work stands out for its combination of fund manager interviews, valuation-driven stock analysis and accessible explanations of how broader market conditions flow through to individual portfolios.
Buy Hold Sell and ASX stock selection
A core part of Stelzer’s output is his hosting and scripting of Livewire’s Buy Hold Sell series, where fund managers give rapid-fire verdicts on selected ASX names. In episodes such as “5 ASX playmakers making things happen”, he frames companies as on-field playmakers, using sports language around game management and performance to anchor discussions of growth, execution and risk.
Other instalments focus on defensive positioning, such as “4 ASX stocks for playing defence (and 1 to leave on the bench)”, which concentrates on low-volatility names and portfolio protection when valuations are stretched and indices sit near record highs.
His written wires on topics like ASX large-cap funds, including pieces that explore buying back specific tech names while avoiding major banks, extend this stock-selection lens into detailed breakdowns of how professional investors construct and adjust concentrated portfolios. Across these formats he emphasises clear rationales - valuation, earnings quality, balance sheet strength and thematic tailwinds - so readers can understand why a stock is a buy, hold or sell in current conditions.
Guides for younger investors and personal finance
Alongside equity features, Stelzer produces age-based investing guides aimed at younger cohorts building their first portfolios. In “How to invest when you’re under 40”, he organises the piece around timeframe and asset mix, highlighting broad index-based strategies and arguing that most of the portfolio for this group should sit in growth assets given long investment horizons.
“How to invest if you’re 25 and under” narrows the focus further, distilling the priorities for investors at the very start of their careers and stressing low-cost diversification, habit formation and the discipline of regular contributions over stock-picking bravado. These guides blend plain-language explanations of concepts like asset allocation and compounding with practical steps such as reviewing portfolios periodically and adjusting as circumstances change. They fit within a broader personal finance strand of his work, where he uses interviews with professional investors and planners to translate abstract strategy into specific behaviours an individual can adopt.
Macro themes, gold and market bubbles
Stelzer frequently links stock-level decisions to macro narratives, particularly around market cycles, bubbles and alternative assets.
In “The Howard Marks guide to overheated stock markets”, he uses the famed investor’s framework to examine signs of froth, investor psychology and the tensions between valuation discipline and momentum-driven rallies. Pieces like “Why Wednesday is D-day for investors” focus on key calendar moments - typically central bank meetings or major data releases - and spell out why those events matter for equity valuations, currencies and sentiment.
His wire “Is gold now the ultimate growth stock?” takes a traditionally defensive asset and interrogates its role as a potential growth vehicle, weaving together themes of inflation, real rates and mining-sector dynamics. In articles built around portfolio managers such as T. Rowe Price’s Scott Berg, he tackles the notion of being in a stock market bubble while arguing against blanket selling, instead outlining differentiated approaches to risk management and selective exposure.
Across these macro pieces he keeps the focus on practical implications: how to think about positioning, what signals to watch and how to reconcile long-term investing with short-term volatility.
Polls, performance tables and the ASX 200
Data-led stories are another recurring strand in Stelzer’s coverage, especially where they touch on the ASX 200. “4 ASX stocks in the P/E Red Zone” sets out a valuation-driven thesis, spotlighting companies whose price-to-earnings multiples sit at demanding levels and using that as a springboard to discuss earnings expectations and downside risk. In “Poll of the week: Where does the ASX 200 go in 2026?”, he captures investor sentiment by canvassing views on index-level direction and then contextualises those responses against prevailing macro forecasts and market performance. Coverage tied to stock-specific pages, such as his wire on “Where do the ASX 200’s best performers go next?”, focuses on winners within the benchmark and explores whether their drivers - commodity cycles, structural growth themes or turnaround stories - are durable.
These pieces typically combine tables, charts or poll results with narrative analysis to show not only which parts of the market have run hardest, but also how professionals and retail investors are thinking about the next phase. Taken together, they show a journalist who uses numbers not as decoration but as a backbone for arguments about risk, opportunity and timing within the index.
Across his body of work, Stelzer draws on around a decade of experience as a writer and editor focused on investing and personal finance, complemented by earlier roles covering subjects from film to lifestyle and sport. This gives his Livewire Markets coverage a blend of technical rigour and narrative pacing, evident in the way he structures wires around hooks like grand finals, D-days or generational milestones before moving into charts, quotes and clear conclusions. His distinguishing traits are a consistent focus on ASX equities, a willingness to tackle cycles and bubbles head-on, and a commitment to explaining portfolio decisions in language that non-professional investors can act on.
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