impact tracking
impact investing dashboard apps for australians.
Most investment apps show a number going up or down. A dashboard for impact should also show what that number is doing in the real world. Here is what to expect from one, and what to ask for.
A product guide. Updated March 2026. About a six minute read.
what an impact dashboard should actually show you
Every investment app shows your balance. That is the bare minimum. A dashboard built for impact should do two more things: show you which companies your money is in, and show you what those companies are doing in the world.
Plenty of platforms manage one and skip the other. Broking apps show the financial side only. Some ethical managers publish genuinely good impact reports, but as an annual PDF filed in a documents section rather than something you can open on the app you check every week. The gap between a platform that calls itself impact and a platform that reports impact is wider than it should be, and it is a fair thing to ask about before you invest.
the two sides of an impact dashboard
financial performance
This is the part every app already does: the value of your holding over time, the contributions you have made, and the fees you have paid. For a managed investment schemeA fund where your money is pooled with other investors and run to a published strategy, regulated by ASIC. You hold units in the fund. you should also be able to see the unit priceWhat one unit of the fund is worth. Your holding is the number of units you own multiplied by the unit price. and the total value of your holding whenever you look. Nothing exotic, just an honest record of what went in and what it is worth now.
impact outcomes
This is where most platforms fall short. Impact measures worth reporting include:
- carbon emissions avoided by portfolio companies
- renewable energy generated or enabled
- healthcare access expanded
- waste diverted from landfill
- sustainable food production supported
The difficulty is that impact is harder to measure than money. A return is a number. An outcome is a story with a number inside it, and the story only means something when it is tied to a named company. The dashboards worth having connect a specific outcome to a specific holding, and say which framework they used. inaam assesses impact against the Impact Management ProjectA shared framework for measuring impact across five dimensions: what, who, how much, contribution and risk. and Impact Frontiers frameworks.
how to judge one
four questions to ask any impact dashboard
Ask these of every platform you are considering, including this one. The answers are usually findable in five minutes.
1in the app, or in a pdf?
Reporting filed as an annual document is still reporting, and some of it is excellent. It is just not something you will read. Check whether impact sits next to the balance or in a separate library.
2per company, or per portfolio?
A single portfolio-level score is easy to publish and hard to check. Company-level reporting tells you which holding did what, which is the only version you can hold anyone to.
3how often is it updated?
Annual, quarterly, ongoing. More frequent is not automatically better if the numbers thin out, so look at frequency and depth together.
4can you read the holdings by name?
Impact reporting you cannot check against a holdings list is a claim, not a report. If the full list is published, you can go and look the companies up yourself.
side by side
how inaam answers each one
Our answer in one column. The question worth putting to any other dashboard in the other.
| inaam | what to ask any other dashboard | |
|---|---|---|
| where impact lives | In the app, beside the financial view, not in a separate documents library. | Is impact reporting inside the app, or published separately? |
| how detailed it gets | Per holding.Every company the fund holds is visible by name, with the reason it is held. | Is it reported per company, or as one portfolio-level score? |
| how often it updates | Ongoing, as company reporting and portfolio changes come through. | Annual, quarterly, or continuous?And dated how? |
| what the financial view shows | The value of your holding, your contributions, the unit priceWhat one unit of the fund is worth. Your holding is the number of units you own multiplied by the unit price. and the fees you have paid. | Can you see contributions and fees paid, not only the headline balance? |
| the method behind it | Three pillars for every company: financial robustness, purposeful impact and leadership calibre.Impact assessed against the Impact Management ProjectA shared framework for measuring impact across five dimensions: what, who, how much, contribution and risk. and Impact Frontiers frameworks. | Is the method published, and does it name a recognised framework? |
| what it costs to get it | $10 a month, flat, $120 a year.The minimum to start in the fund is $100, and that is a separate number from the subscription. | Is the reporting included, or does it sit behind a higher tier? |
Reporting moves. Platforms add and improve impact features, so check each one for what it offers now rather than what a page like this said in March 2026. That includes us.
an honest read
the reporting models, and what each gives up
Nobody has all of this at once. Knowing which trade a platform has made tells you what its dashboard is for.
deep, and annual
Some established ethical managers publish comprehensive, well-sourced impact reports covering specific outcomes across the portfolio. On depth they are hard to beat. The trade is frequency and format: a document once a year, not a screen you open when you feel like it.
regular, and portfolio-level
Some funds, including in super, send quarterly member updates alongside an annual report. More frequent than most, and the reporting tends to be about the portfolio as a whole rather than about any one company in it.
strong financials, thin impact
Plenty of apps have excellent real-time financial dashboards and little or no impact reporting. They are investing tools rather than impact tools, and that is a reasonable thing to be. It just will not answer the question you came with.
in-app, per company, newer
inaam puts impact data next to the financial view, and because the portfolio is concentrated the team can report on each holding rather than on an average. As far as we know it is the only impact fund in the world open to retail investors where you can choose how you want to invest and see the impact reported that way. The honest trade is history: inaam is a newer platform, with less reporting behind it than managers who have been publishing for decades.
the three pillarsquestions about tracking impact.
what should an impact investing dashboard track?
Two things. Financial performance: the value of your holding over time, contributions made, fees paid, and for a managed fund the unit price. And impact outcomes: what the companies you are invested in are actually doing. Impact measures might include carbon emissions avoided, renewable energy generated or enabled, healthcare access expanded, waste diverted from landfill, or sustainable food production supported. The useful dashboards connect those outcomes to specific holdings rather than reporting one portfolio score.
can I track financial performance and social impact in one app?
Yes, though the options are limited. The inaam app is built to show both in one place. Many investment platforms show financial metrics only. Some ethical managers publish impact reports separately, typically as an annual PDF rather than something you can open on a Tuesday night. If consolidated tracking matters to you, look for impact reporting built into the app rather than filed beside it.
how does inaam report impact?
At the company level. The portfolio is deliberately concentrated and every company is individually selected against three pillars: financial robustness, purposeful impact and leadership calibre. That means outcomes can be reported holding by holding rather than as an aggregate across hundreds of names. Impact is assessed against the Impact Management Project and Impact Frontiers frameworks, and the whole method is written up on how it works. inaam is a newer platform, so there is less reporting history behind it than behind managers who have been publishing for decades.
what is the difference between esg scores and impact reporting?
An ESGEnvironmental, social and governance. A framework for scoring how a company behaves, usually applied to an otherwise ordinary portfolio. score rates how a company behaves, and it is usually applied across an otherwise ordinary portfolio. Impact reporting describes what a company produced in the world: energy generated, waste diverted, care delivered. A score can be averaged across hundreds of holdings and still tell you very little about any of them. An outcome tied to a named company can be checked.
where do I sign up?
In the app. Download it on iOS or Android, follow the steps, and customise your five themes from the start. There is no web sign-up, the minimum to start in the fund is $100, and the subscription is $10 a month.
General information only. It does not take your objectives or circumstances into account. Consider the PDS and TMD, and we recommend independent advice, before investing.
This page describes categories of reporting, for general education. inaam is not affiliated with any other platform, and nothing here is a recommendation about anyone else’s product. Feature information was accurate in March 2026.
keep reading
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The holdings are named in the app, the method is written down, and the impact reporting sits next to the money rather than in a filing cabinet. Read it before you download anything.
the only asterisk* of investing with inaam is a better planet.
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