Good question.  The six really depend, but here are some I would choose from - some I own, some that others I know own.  I personally own four.  A good friend who is in his 70s and retired when he was early 40s owns three.  The point is that you should only own what you can follow.  My so-called "advisor" (and I say it like this, because I refused years of his efforts to have him advisor; rather, just needed him to buy or sell as needed, until I transferred to an online account as it was still costing me $100 a trade with him) always wanted me in 30 stocks that some computer that Merrill Lynch picked.  He tried to talk me out of the good stocks I had (like V and MA) and into stocks that while good, did not return a lot.

So some picks for the six would be:
For capital growth: V, MA, Google, APPL
For dividends: BP, RDSA, XOM, AT&T, Verizon

Or you could just get an S&P index fund and be done with it.

Good point re: the fees just that the advisor gets!  MF have no ends of fees.