What happened to Paul Mampilly is a guru-departure story with a paper trail. Mampilly’s contract with Banyan Hill Publishing ended in September 2022. His own LinkedIn is specific: “Founder - Profits Unlimited - Banyan Hill Publishing, Jan 2016 - Sep 2022 (6 years and 8 months).” His Substack is blunter: “In September 2022, Banyan Hill terminated my contract.”
If you arrived here searching for what happened to your Paul Mampilly subscription, that is the short version. The longer version involves Banyan Hill’s flagship editor, a stack of lifetime-subscription products that did not outlive the editor, and a set of substitute services that — for lifetime members in particular — did not go the way the sales page implied.
The Timeline of What Happened to Paul Mampilly
Paul Mampilly joined Banyan Hill in January 2016 as the founding editor of Profits Unlimited. The newsletter grew to a reported peak of 160,000-plus subscribers, an unusually large paid base for a single-editor financial letter. Over the next six years Mampilly launched a stable of higher-tier services: Rapid Profit Trader, True Momentum, Paul’s Secret Portfolio, Extreme Fortunes, and others. These were the products Banyan Hill sold “lifetime” memberships to.
The departure came in September 2022. The Stock Gumshoe Ian King archive pins the date more precisely: “Paul Mampilly left Banyan Hill around August 2022. Ian King took over the portfolio and since then it is merging into his Strategic Fortunes newsletter.” Mampilly’s own account, on his LinkedIn and Substack, frames it as a contract decision by the publisher rather than a retirement: “Banyan Hill declined to negotiate a renewal,” he writes on the Substack about page. Banyan Hill’s responses in the BBB review thread, written by customer service, variously describe him as having “retired” — a phrasing the BBB complaints from subscribers directly contradict.
The distinction matters. A retirement is a choice; a non-renewal is a business decision by the publisher. The lifetime subscribers who paid thousands for access to Mampilly’s specific picks were not consulted about either one.
Where Paul Mampilly Went
Mampilly founded ATG Digital in September 2022, immediately after the Banyan Hill contract ended. The entity is self-described on his Substack as “a community driven enterprise” with a goal of making “financial freedom accessible to everyday people.” ATG Digital publishes through Substack and a standalone site at atgdigital.media, with paid plans starting at $9.99 per month and a tiered structure (Silver, Gold, Platinum, Crown) that Mampilly has explicitly mapped to his old Banyan Hill services in subscriber Q&A posts.
The Substack as of 2026 reports more than 6,000 subscribers. A January 2026 livestream and a February 2026 “2026 Market Outlook” event confirm the operation is active and currently publishing. ATG Digital is not a Banyan Hill successor; it is an independent venture Mampilly owns. If you followed Mampilly’s work and want his current picks, that is where he is.
What Happened to the Banyan Hill Services
Banyan Hill did not retire the Mampilly products. It transferred them. Ian King, already a Banyan Hill editor, took over the Profits Unlimited portfolio and folded it into his own Strategic Fortunes newsletter. The Green Bull Research review of Strategic Fortunes confirms the lineage: “Automatic Fortunes and Strategic Fortunes are the same” service, rebranded, with King as editor.
Other Mampilly services were distributed across the Banyan Hill roster. BBB review responses from Banyan Hill customer service confirm the pattern: Profits Unlimited subscriptions were “merged into a lifetime subscription to Strategic Fortunes,” and the higher-tier Mampilly products were replaced with Ian King’s Extreme Fortunes and Charles Mizrahi’s 8 Figure Fortunes. The Bauman Letter (Ted Bauman) and Alpha Investor (Charles Mizrahi) remained separate Banyan Hill products.
The mechanism is the same one documented in the other Agora-network wind-downs: the audience stays, the brand is retired, and the lifetime obligation is settled in credits or substitute services rather than cash refunds.
What Subscribers Should Know Now
If you were a Paul Mampilly subscriber at Banyan Hill and were migrated to Ian King’s Strategic Fortunes or another substitute service, check your credit card statements. The billing descriptor should have changed from the Mampilly-branded service to the replacement product. If you did not want the replacement, you were entitled to cancel, and Banyan Hill’s refund policy — not the one advertised on the original Mampilly sales page — applies.
If you are looking for Mampilly’s current work, he is at ATG Digital, publishing on Substack at paulmampilly.substack.com and on the site at atgdigital.media. The Banyan Hill services that carried his name no longer exist under those names; the picks now come from Ian King, Charles Mizrahi, or whichever editor inherited the portfolio.
For former subscribers of the higher-tier products — Rapid Profit Trader, True Momentum, Paul’s Secret Portfolio — the practical question is whether the substitute service you were moved to is the one you actually want. The BBB complaint thread for Banyan Hill carries multiple grievances from lifetime members who paid four-figure sums for Mampilly products that lasted less than a year after purchase.
The Lifetime Subscription Question
The BBB complaint profile for Banyan Hill Publishing carries the documented grievance in plain language: “I paid thousands of dollars for lifetime subscriptions to four Paul Mampilly products. Paul left Banyan Hill just three years after I purchased the first, lowest price subscription, Profits Unlimited. Three high dollar subscriptions to Rapid Profit Trader, True Momentum, and Paul’s Secret Portfolio didn’t last a year. In fact, I had access to the highest price service, Paul’s Secret Portfolio for less than 6 months. Not much of a lifetime.”
Banyan Hill’s response in the same thread does not dispute the substitution. It disputes the characterization: “Upon Mampilly’s departure, Banyan Hill substituted two services, Extreme Fortunes by Ian King, and 8 Figure Fortunes by Charles Mizrahi.” The company frames the replacements as equitable; the subscribers who paid for Mampilly-specific products frame them as bait-and-switch. The Trustpilot reviews for banyanhill.com carry the same pattern: a subscriber who paid for both Profits Unlimited and Strategic Fortunes reports being “rolled” into Strategic Fortunes and denied a refund because they now had “two” of the same service.
This is the same pattern documented in the Legacy Research Group wind-down (a MarketWise publisher that closed in February 2024) and the Money Map Press closure (May 2024). The lesson is durable and applies to every publisher in this vertical: “lifetime” in financial publishing means the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the subscriber. When the editor leaves, the product ends, and the publisher decides what — if anything — to offer in return. The subscriber who paid for a specific guru’s specific picks is now a subscriber to a different guru’s different picks, whether they wanted that or not.
The Broader Pattern
Paul Mampilly is one of several high-profile Banyan Hill editors to depart in recent years. Ted Bauman, another Banyan Hill editor, is also no longer with the publisher — his departure is a separate story. The Banyan Hill roster has turned over substantially since the 2016-2021 peak, and the publisher, now part of the Money & Markets / Agora structure, continues to operate with a reshuffled editor lineup.
The Mampilly story is also a case study in what happens when a publisher’s flagship guru leaves and the lifetime subscribers are left holding contracts the publisher no longer honors on the original terms. What happened to Money Map Press covers the same pattern at a different Agora imprint. What happened to Teeka Tiwari covers the parallel at Legacy Research Group, a MarketWise (not Agora) publisher that wound down the same month Mampilly’s Banyan Hill contract ended. What happened to Manward Press covers the same lifetime-subscription gap at a third publisher. The three stories share a structure: editor departs, brand is retired or reassigned, lifetime obligations are settled in credits or substitutes, and the subscriber is the one who absorbs the difference.
Paul Mampilly has been at ATG Digital for nearly four years. The Banyan Hill services that carried his name are gone or rebranded. If you are arriving here in 2026 wondering what happened to a Mampilly service you paid for, the editor you followed is publishing independently at atgdigital.media, the product you bought no longer exists under that name, and the question of what you are owed depends on what Banyan Hill or its successor offered you when the change happened. Check your statements and find the current billing descriptor. If you want Mampilly’s work, go to his new site. If you want to argue about the lifetime contract, the company you are arguing with is the one currently charging you, not the one that used to.
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