Vanguard Warns Against Early Withdrawals and Suggests Smarter Options

Workers are prematurely tapping their retirement savings, a sign that households are coming under increased financial pressure, a troubling development that’s likely to get worse if the U.S. economy falls into recession in the coming months. According to the Vanguard Investor Expectations Survey, “Investors are feeling more pessimistic about the short-term outlook for financial markets and more of them are having to tap their retirement savings for cash,” based on October 2022 data drawn from 5 million wo ...