Arthur Jensen

Arthur P. Jensen is a CPA and Senior Tax Director at Custom Structured Settlements, LLC, a Carmel, Indiana firm focused on structured settlements of taxable transactions, capital-gains deferral, asset protection, wealth preservation, and legacy planning. Public company descriptions identify Jensen and tax attorney James W. Smyth as the firm’s co-founders, with Custom Structured Settlements founded in 2015.

Before Custom Structured Settlements, Jensen worked in advanced tax, financial, business, and estate planning. A 2017 company announcement says Jensen had experience in KPMG’s national Washington, D.C. tax office, and another states he had spent fifteen years focused on custom structured settlements.

Custom Structured Settlements was formerly tied to The Family Trust Institute. The structured-settlement business was spun from The Family Trust Institute into FTI Property Investments, LLC, which then became Custom Structured Settlements, LLC. The firm’s public materials describe its work as helping clients structure taxable transactions so more sale proceeds remain invested or protected rather than immediately lost to tax.

Although the provided stub labels Jensen as an angel investor, I did not find reliable public evidence of a conventional seed-stage angel-investing track record, check size, or venture portfolio. The verifiable public record points instead to tax-driven transaction structuring and non-controlling equity or partner-style solutions for profitable businesses and appreciated-asset sellers.

• Custom Structured Settlements describes its model as partnering with “wealth builders” to enhance asset preservation and growth, including investing expertise in profitable businesses for “non-controlling slivers of equity.”
• The firm focuses on taxable transactions where installment-sale planning, structured-settlement techniques, and related trust or asset-protection structures may defer or reduce capital-gains exposure.
• Jensen’s public comments emphasize keeping more sale proceeds working after a transaction. In one 2017 release, he said the firm’s structured-settlement work centers on “leverage to save money faster and more efficiently.”
• The firm’s stated target appears to be owners selling businesses or real estate, particularly where capital gains, depreciation recapture, 1031-exchange risk, or intellectual-property allocation issues affect after-tax proceeds.
• No verified public check-size range or standard seed-stage investment terms were found.