After emerging as a new hedge fund star in 2008, Peter Thiel has struggled in 2009 as a bearish outlook has left him sitting on the sidelines for this year's stunning rebound.

According to Bloomberg, Thiel's hedge fund Clarium Capital was down -15.8% as of the end of September. Thiel told an investor conference in October, "There was a degree to which the financial economy has been extremely decoupled from the real economy," according to Bloomberg. A failure to recognize that decoupling has been at the center of Clarium's struggles this year.

Nonetheless, investors remain intrigued by Thiel's pedigree as a co-founder of PayPal back in the dot-com era and as a board member of popular social networking website Facebook, where he reportedly owns a 5% stake.

Thiel has generally eschewed his dot-com roots and tended toward blue chip, value-oriented holdings. Clarium's top positions at the end of Q3 show footwear firm Nike (NYSE: NKE - News) as the largest stake. Thiel opened the holding there during Q3. Also new to the Clarium portfolio during Q3 were electronics manufacturing services firm Jabil Circuit (NYSE: JBL - News), lab equipment maker Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX - News), outsourcing firm Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ: ADP - News), bond insurer MBIA (NYSE: MBI - News), and drugstore Walgreen (NYSE: WAG - News)

Thiel also reported stakes in tech blue chips Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ - News) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC - News) and burger giant McDonald's (NYSE: MCD - News).

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