IndUS Business Journal columnist Raj Sharma, a Merrill Lynch managing director of investments and a private wealth advisor for the firm’s private banking and investment group in Boston, has been nationally recognized by the firm’s Private Banking and Investment Group as the top financial advisor in Boston.

Sharma was also recognized in Barron magazine’s annual “America’s Top 100 Financial Advisors” list, published on April 16. According to Barron’s, Sharma is No. 26 overall in this list.

Additionally, earlier this year, Sharma was also recognized by Barron’s magazine in its annual ranking of the nation’s top financial advisors on the state level: “America’s Top 1,000 Advisors: State-by-State.”